PICK A STARCH: Pasta/Noodles vs Potatoes vs Rice

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I don't think we've had this specific question before, and ILE is due another food fight. What's your go-to starchy side dish?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Potatoes	37
Pasta	31
Rice	16

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, 15 September 2011 20:57 (fourteen years ago)

p'daydo

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 15 September 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

Don't much but when I do it's far more likely to be noodles.

― em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Thursday, 15 September 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

pasta, especially if we're including noodles in there.

― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 15 September 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)

gnocchi, the best of both pasta and rice!

― JacobSanders, Thursday, 15 September 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)

um potato rather

― JacobSanders, Thursday, 15 September 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)

but seriously I eat more rice than either of the two.

― JacobSanders, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

brown rice

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1ddrT7HPc

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:01 (fourteen years ago)

Oh please, potato in the twinkling of an eye (and half a stick of butter).

― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

i hate potatoes.

― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CvmWwMISlO4/TIuxK3LZSwI/AAAAAAAACUA/Q9y0Iy76Nz8/s1600/605a6401b435151b_Paula_deen_quiz.xlarger.jpg

^^^favorite ingredient is the potato

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:06 (fourteen years ago)

she is also made of potatoes iirc

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:06 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOTapJYlawU

― Gred The Flopson (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:07 (fourteen years ago)

cant choose wont choose

― Scream, Fistula, Scream! (jjjusten), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:07 (fourteen years ago)

potatoes can be many things and eaten at every meal

how is this even a contest

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:09 (fourteen years ago)

i have an entire cookbook devoted to potatoes fyi

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:09 (fourteen years ago)

i agree but rice

― Scream, Fistula, Scream! (jjjusten), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:14 (fourteen years ago)

gotta be taters imo.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:14 (fourteen years ago)

I did cook these potatoes once that we're very tasty, this is harder the more I think about it.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dbn91hwsi7Q/TiHd6dUaoVI/AAAAAAAABMQ/Ofni_B1ixqs/s1600/5938982647_8f34a6474d.jpg

― JacobSanders, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:15 (fourteen years ago)

RFI: delicious ways to cook potatoes that don't involve frying

― dayo, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:16 (fourteen years ago)

bread > pasta > potatoes > rice

― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:17 (fourteen years ago)

rice can be many things too fyi

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:18 (fourteen years ago)

Noodles are definitely included in the pasta category, selfheadslap for not mentioning that.

I don't know why I started a poll question that I can't answer, but this is impossible.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:18 (fourteen years ago)

like who drinks potato milk? NOBODY

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:19 (fourteen years ago)

I think I eat all 3 about equally? I am eating (halal cart-ified) rice right now but I think that's the easiest to rule out. pasta makes better dishes, but potatoes in their various greasy brunch forms = voting potatoes

― iatee, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:19 (fourteen years ago)

for nutritional soundness & overall utility: rice
for TEXTURE & just b/c I really enjoy cooking w/ it: pasta
for sheer deliciousness (when fried & heavily salted): potatoes

I'm torn.

― the island badger is an ageless pirate (Pillbox), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:20 (fourteen years ago)

I would imagine either the russians or the irish have invented potato milk and still occasionally drink it

― iatee, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:20 (fourteen years ago)

dyao:

mashed
roasted
au gratin
scalloped

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:20 (fourteen years ago)

but rice milk is terrible!

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:21 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.oocities.org/athens/academy/1974/pictures/pictures/moloko.jpg

^potato milk, in a fashion

― dayo, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:21 (fourteen years ago)

Congee, rice balls, rice pudding, that ball of sticky rice I put at the bottom of a bowl of tom kha
Baked potatoes, home fries, french fries, garlic mashed taters
luscious slurpy noodles in chicken soup, pad thai, fettucine with clam sauce

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:21 (fourteen years ago)

where do rice noodles fit into this equation?

― the island badger is an ageless pirate (Pillbox), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:21 (fourteen years ago)

rice milk is awesome you mad

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:23 (fourteen years ago)

it is, how you say, a DREAM

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:23 (fourteen years ago)

rice noodles fall under 'potato'

― iatee, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:23 (fourteen years ago)

where do rice noodles fit into this equation?

excellent question btw

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:24 (fourteen years ago)

God I love all of them. f I HAD to pick one it would be pasta. I love pasta a lot. I could probably eat it every day and never get sick of it. Mmmmmmm. Glorious pasta.

― your mom the burrito (ENBB), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:25 (fourteen years ago)

I'd say rice noodles are more noodle than rice, but the floor is open to arguments

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

Starches are the best.

― your mom the burrito (ENBB), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

QUINOA

― caek, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

would have chosen bread if that was an option; failing that, rice (which has breakfast capacities unfairly overlooked by many)

― bentelec, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

which one of these can also make a delicious cereal AND desert

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:27 (fourteen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3105/2394065351_f84cc9d60d.jpg

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

potatoes have breakfast capacities far beyond what rice can offer

― iatee, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

rice, easy

― runaway (Matt P), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

I am way into potatoes and have at two points in my life practically lived on them, they're marvelously versatile and a joy to cook with. So useful - water from boiling potatoes can be used in bread or in stock - one could spend all day listing the uses for the potato.

But rice is greater. Voted rice

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:29 (fourteen years ago)

Hoping for a 3-way tie tbh

Rice pudding, home fries, bowl of pho with noodles all valid breakfast options

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:30 (fourteen years ago)

I don't think we've had this specific question before

not quite:
Rice Vs Noodles

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:31 (fourteen years ago)

RFI: delicious ways to cook potatoes that don't involve frying

― dayo, Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:16 PM (13 minutes ago)

almost all of the good ways fyi

― Scream, Fistula, Scream! (jjjusten), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:31 (fourteen years ago)

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Aimless, you philistine! Different pasta shapes affect the taste and the way they carry sauces and other add-ons!

― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:54 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

I would really like a study done on this. spaghetti-o's win, right?

― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:32 (fourteen years ago)

voting pasta cause its my favorite starch for eating AND cooking

i make a mean rice pilaf but otherwise am woefully inconsistent. pasta is easier imo

― worship someone who actively despises you (m coleman), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:32 (fourteen years ago)

Depends on the sauce or what you're putting in it, dayo

― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:33 (fourteen years ago)

what's the best pasta shape for picking up chunky tomato sauce?

― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:38 (fourteen years ago)

but I consider that the various add ons and sauces are not inherent, but exigient, phenomena

Rice maybe served plain but it is almost always eaten in conjuction w/something else, like bread to a Frenchman. Potatoes may be eaten unadorned if need be, but I have never seen a potato loving ppl serve them that way if they have their druthers and whether it's broth or sauce or meatballs or whatever, if we're going to platonize pasta/noodles, they should be considered with and not without whatever inevitable else they'll be served with even if it's just salt and butter.

― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:38 (fourteen years ago)

dayo, maybe penne or orrechiete; some kind of pasta where the chunks can snuggle. Finer sauces are better with finer noodles like spaghetti or fettucine. I'm very far from being an expert and most of my Italian cooking is vegetables.

― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

Which is funny, because every mom in the USA for the last 50 years has put chunky tomato sauce and/or bolognese sauce over spaghetti.

― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:41 (fourteen years ago)

In the interests of full disclosure, M. White and I have "a past" and philistine is not the worst he has called me. (scowls at M. White, bares teeth, growls)

Furthermore, I am quite happy eating plain brown basmati rice as a side dish and do so fairly often.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:43 (fourteen years ago)

chunky tomato sauce w/ spaghetti is such a lose. I'm always left with a big puddle of sawce.

― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

I would eat a plain baked or roasted fingerling with just salt if it was of good stock to begin with

― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

Real bolognese isn't very chunky and as with their pizza, Americans sauce too much.

― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:45 (fourteen years ago)

I would eat a plain baked or roasted fingerling with just salt

Did this last weekend. It was delectable.

― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:46 (fourteen years ago)

That puddle of sauce is the payoff, if you have a nice garlicky crust of bread for dipping/wiping.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

Real bolognese isn't very chunky and as with their pizza, Americans sauce too much.

otm x 3

― Aimless, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:54 (fourteen years ago)

if you have sauce left other you either had too much sauce or not enough bread

― max, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:03 (fourteen years ago)

man it is rare that I have spaghetti with bread

― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:06 (fourteen years ago)

this is a relevant thread btw

PASTA SANDWICH

― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:07 (fourteen years ago)

I like sauce better than pasta. The sauce (plus cheese) is the GOOD part, the pasta is just a vehicle for it.

― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:09 (fourteen years ago)

Dayo, maybe use a potato?

― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:09 (fourteen years ago)

mashed potatoes and tomato sauce... with pasta. has this been attempted before??

― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:10 (fourteen years ago)

I like to like my pasta and I mistrust any dish where its so smothered that it's just a vehicle. I've been eating a lot more whole wheat pasta and soba recently, too.

― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:11 (fourteen years ago)

mashed potatoes and tomato sauce... with pasta. has this been attempted before??

Some college dorm, surely

― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:11 (fourteen years ago)

More than any of these, though, I eat bread (for cheese) and I'm really liking farro a lot these days.

― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:12 (fourteen years ago)

can pasta handle sweet as well as rice can? never fond of pasta in ice cream/jelly.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:16 (fourteen years ago)

There's no need for any sweet starches, that's what ice cream is for.

― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:17 (fourteen years ago)

sweet noodle kugel

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:20 (fourteen years ago)

The very idea of it repulses me.

― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:20 (fourteen years ago)

sweet noodle kegels

― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:21 (fourteen years ago)

There's no need for any sweet starches

my coconut rice pudding disagrees completely

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:23 (fourteen years ago)

Rice pudd totally grosses me out. So does flan, for that matter, so does that classic French dessert with carmelized sugar on top, so does any vanilla-and-egg flavored smushy thing.

― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:24 (fourteen years ago)

http://epicute.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/oeufs_costarde.jpg

― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:26 (fourteen years ago)

i did the pasta tasting menu at babbo once and they had an amazing pastry-like sweet pasta dessert dish

― max, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:28 (fourteen years ago)

i didn't think that jimmy fallon ice cream with potato chip balls in it would be yummy, but it was. but spaghetti in my horchata...? nope.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:29 (fourteen years ago)

Fuck I don't want to be all Cpt Lorax and try and make a choice in this poll 10 mins too late, so have to choose now.

It's potatoes vs rice/risotto for me here. Rice/risotto is the food of Gods, and I couldn't choose between those two as a mere eating commodity. So, thinking of my grandparents who busted their asses during famine trying to cultivate and reap potatoes, I will vote that, in honor of them.

(but no man ever take away my risotto from me...)

― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:46 (fourteen years ago)

Hoping for a 3-way tie tbh

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, September 15, 2011 4:30 PM (1 week ago)

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:48 (fourteen years ago)

me too. i think i voted for pasta but i literally live off of all 3.

― some dude, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:53 (fourteen years ago)

so wrong

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 23:00 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

huh that was weird. I saw the results before the System posted.

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

it's obviously the potato

― conrad, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 23:02 (fourteen years ago)

Slightly surprised.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 23:02 (fourteen years ago)

tubers 4 lyfe

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 01:48 (fourteen years ago)

http://images.wikia.com/marvel_dc/images/3/31/Swamp_Thing_Vol_2_43.jpg

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 01:51 (fourteen years ago)

I'm a potato partisan but but this showing for rice is ridiculous

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 02:03 (fourteen years ago)

It got my vote.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 02:05 (fourteen years ago)

WmC: Coconut rice pudding sounds really yummy. That is one thing I forgot, you can make sweets from rice but not potatoes, unless it's that sweet potato, brown sugar thing I am not a fan of.

― *tera, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 02:08 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah WMC I know you posted the coconut rice pudding recipe once before but I don't remember where. Pls link again?

― will eat pudding (ENBB), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 02:10 (fourteen years ago)

weird i thought ilx would go for rice big

― some dude, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 02:14 (fourteen years ago)

I think I started from this one --

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Coconut-Rice-Pudding-109236

-- but fiddled with it and made it a bit easier. Basically I use 2 cups of cooked rice, 4 cups of milk, and a can of Coco Lopez cream of coconut, with a pinch of salt. Simmer together low and slow for 30-40 minutes until it's thick, add the vanilla at the end, as well as a bit of cinnamon if you like. Looking at some other recipes online, I might leave out the cinnamon and throw in a small chunk of fresh ginger while it's cooking next time.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 02:24 (fourteen years ago)

potatoes (not good plain)

― remy bean

this is some crazy talk! you are obviously not putting enough salt in your boiling water. plain rice/pasta, even salted, doesn't have the depth of flavour that a plain potato has.

― just1n3, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 03:53 (fourteen years ago)

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