best sex - easy - there were/are far more intricacies and variables involved - vs best meal - the only variable really required is having the money or going w/someone who has the money to pay for it.
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
my best meals have invariably ended up with me overindulging and having a food hangover for days and days afterwards.
― dayo, Friday, 15 October 2010 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link
the only variable really required is having the money or going w/someone who has the money to pay for it.
no way! good meals require a lot of stuff--good company, good setting, etc. thomas keller can cook a delicious meal but he cant make it the best ever unless thats where yr head is at.
― max, Friday, 15 October 2010 06:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i'm a lot less picky when it comes to meals.
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
This isn't even a question.
I'm the least food-based human I've ever met. I mean, I like good food a lot, but when I put it up next to sex, it's not even close.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Friday, 15 October 2010 06:42 (fourteen years ago) link
something that's never been fulfilling vs. something that was tastily filling
― gay nerd fuel (Eric H.), Friday, 15 October 2010 06:47 (fourteen years ago) link
meal
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2010 06:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Solitary threads that effortlessly sum up the spirit of ILX.
― Ain't Too Proud to Neg (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 October 2010 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i hope said meal didn't come from subway, dude!
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link
clean hit
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 October 2010 06:53 (fourteen years ago) link
no, but the sex did
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2010 06:58 (fourteen years ago) link
6 inches or 12?
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 07:00 (fourteen years ago) link
More importantly, did you hold the cheese?
― Ain't Too Proud to Neg (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 October 2010 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link
was it good for the coke dispenser machine too?
― dayo, Friday, 15 October 2010 07:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Best meal, easily. Food is way more consistent.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 15 October 2010 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
but the thread question specifically ignores consistency. It's about best one example of each.
― Ain't Too Proud to Neg (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 October 2010 07:35 (fourteen years ago) link
sexsexsex
― borad.crutial.org (crüt), Friday, 15 October 2010 07:37 (fourteen years ago) link
xp still food then tbh
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 15 October 2010 07:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah sex for me. Far more emotion invested in good sex than good food.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Friday, 15 October 2010 08:03 (fourteen years ago) link
years ago, before facebook opened up to the broader public, i saw in my primitive "newfeed" this girl joined the group MEAT OR SEX??? and she chose sex
and i have been thinking about this question ever since
― some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 15 October 2010 08:07 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― borad.crutial.org (crüt), Friday, 15 October 2010 08:09 (fourteen years ago) link
lonely hoos just thinkin baout things
― borad.crutial.org (crüt), Friday, 15 October 2010 08:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i got very teary when i went to a fucking amazing produce stand last week!
(so: FOOD)
― once a remy bean always a (remy bean), Friday, 15 October 2010 10:32 (fourteen years ago) link
(in Dudley-Moore-as-Arthur voice) "Both involved a 1961 Chateau Margaux."
― ok we are pals (Eazy), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I love food but the pinnacles of the most intimate sex would be worth starving to death for
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
For the orig. thread question, specifically the best I've had -- probably sex, but it's close.
Changing the question up a little and thinking "from this point forward" -- I'd say best meal. To achieve at 47 what I managed in my 20s sexually, I'd have to go into some rigorous training. But I could meet or beat the best meal I've ever had tomorrow, and keep finding new highs until I'm 80, without having to get in shape for it. (Heart attack worries would apply to both sex and food, I guess.)
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
thread really got me thinking about what my best of each was, and the memories of the food are far, far more vivid.
http://www.thefatduck.co.uk/The-Menus/Tasting-Menu/
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
can i just
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/215/526693529_f73e690f1f_z.jpg
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1051/526693523_80dab055bd_z.jpg
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
it's really not close, for me - the best food I love, a lot, I mean I talk about food so much people comment on it, but with real intimacy, being that close to another human being, being able to feel as vulnerable and alive and unmasked as you do when you really get to that point
well I mean I don't like to over-tmi tmi but I think truly great sex is as close to the concept of the divine as I can really understand, that communion with a greater self into which one's petty narcissistic self collapses: that's true-life-peak stuff
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.foodnut.com/i/The-Fat-Duck/Fat-Duck-Bray-UK-Nitro-Scrambled-Eggs.jpg
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
^that's true life peak stuff
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
but with real intimacy, being that close to another human being, being able to feel as vulnerable and alive and unmasked as you do when you really get to that point
People unmasked are enough to make me lose my appetite.
― gay nerd fuel (Eric H.), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I love food and cooking but I can't even see how this is a question.
― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Best meal vs. best dump, now that would be a contest.
― ok we are pals (Eazy), Friday, 15 October 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha, i literally thought of that same joke like two min ago
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i totally remember mine too :/
http://www.effettonotteonline.com/news/images/stories/09_12/bleak_moments_xl_01-film-b.jpg
― Ain't Too Proud to Neg (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 October 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I can go back and have the best meal I've ever had whenever I want, and have done so several times.
I have been trying to have the best sex I ever had for years and have not recreated it yet.
Best sex.
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Friday, 15 October 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
where's your best meal?
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I think the best ever meal would involve some pretty awesome sex at some point and vice versa.
― A Reclaimer Hewn With (Michael White), Friday, 15 October 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I have more than one, actually.
Two can't be recreated because the restaurants don't exist anymore (RIP Maison Robert and Aujourd'hui) but I will ride eternally for:
the fusion dim sum at Ginger Park in Back Bay Bostonthe lobster rolls at this hole-in-the-wall in Maine that I'm blanking on the name of, but is on the outskirts of Kennebunkportthe 10-course prix fixe menu at Graham Elliot in Chicagoribs in Tennessee; it doesn't really matter where
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Friday, 15 October 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
as much I love food I've never finished dinner and gone "well, everything's changed now, I'm now in touch with places in my heart/spirit that I didn't even know existed"
I mean I do say things like "holy fucking Christ thank God for Paris, who'd have thought a round loaf of bread filled with runny cheese could be that fucking good" but if you'd have asked me, right then, "how many years of your life would you trade to have gotten a meal this good?" I'd say "years? forget it, maybe I'd suffer two weeks for this meal" whereas I would do prison time for the smoldering star-gone-nova change-yr-life type of sex I'm talking about
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 15 October 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
aerosmith is like seconds away from posting pictures
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't even get what point Whiney's pics are supposed to be making
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
those were from my $300 meal at Fat Duck
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O0v1GNzrYvA/SuQsaBZlLEI/AAAAAAAAAZk/NRK1t-gTo_Y/s400/best-i-ever-had.jpg
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
the first one looks like bubbling soap with garnish
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I have to say, the Graham Elliot meal was a trip and a half and I am considering a trip to Chicago solely to eat there again.
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Friday, 15 October 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
was just waiting for the prompt, this press photo got shot down by three different labels
http://www.suzi9mm.com/photo/i-cry-after-giving-head.jpg
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 15 October 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
prix fixe
Do Americans pronounce it "pricks fix"? Because I would really love that.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 15 October 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
for some best sex ever and best meal ever may be the same answer
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 March 2017 20:34 (seven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/vLKhJnKrf9M
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 20 March 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link
https://youtu.be/vLKhJnKrf9M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Monday, 20 March 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link
idk if it's sad or not that I already know who that is without even opening the article
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 March 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
While in prison, Meiwes has since become a vegetarian.
<3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 20 March 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link
best Rich Tea vs best Chocolate Digestive
― well the bitter comes out better on a stolen Switch cartridge (snoball), Monday, 20 March 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
Out yacuncha
― The night before all about day (darraghmac), Monday, 20 March 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
oh I see, you're a Chocolate Hob-nob kind of person
― well the bitter comes out better on a stolen Switch cartridge (snoball), Monday, 20 March 2017 21:08 (seven years ago) link
There's probably the Heston Blumenthal of sex out there, sea-shell with an iPod inside and half-month's-rent to enter and all.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 1 July 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
And then the flipside of that, having lived with a gal who was a great cook and worked at Whole Foods (employee discount!), and the homemade meals were, on the right night, as transcendent as anything, and homemade with love.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 1 July 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
ok, some people in this thread have obviously had way better sex than i have
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 1 July 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
i am no longer the true least food-obsessed human
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
i still don't think it's even close, though
it isnt
i stand by the excellent points i made upthread
― the last famous poster you were surprised to discover was actually (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
food < sex < shitting
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
I feel aerosmith's posts itt
― k3vin k., Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
dlh doing at least two of the big three all wrong imo
― the last famous poster you were surprised to discover was actually (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
put something in my digestive system and my only thought is how quickly it can be gotten out tbh
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
speaking of, but still slightly off-topic, it would be neat to route a loop of string through the mouth, down the esophagus, through the digestive system, and out the ass, then all the way back again - like a pulley system. then, finally, it would be possible to "eat food" by attaching it to the string, pulling it into the digestive system, then pulling it out whenever you want, either out the back end or through the mouth. could be sexy too
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
imagine stringing up some pearl onions, or shit kebabs
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
karl,,,,, thanks
― k3vin k., Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
hieronymous nosh
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
:D
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
16 people make me feel sad for them but that’s patronizing and it takes all kinds
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link
i got my wish
― the last famous poster you were surprised to discover was actually (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/zJW5Ywx_d.jpg
― rb (soda), Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
― El Tomboto
if it helps i find the notion of "good sex" literally incomprehensible, it's not a question of "regret" at this point, more like "sure, if you say so dad"
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 1 July 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
soda gets the fiver
― the last famous poster you were surprised to discover was actually (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 July 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
like
i can imagine me eating the best meal ever and its a nice thought, lovely, ill have what hes having type of thing
i can just about imagine me having the best sex ever and no matter the prospective partner in this scenario the fact remains that itll include me and it ruins it rly
― NAGL usa (darraghmac), Saturday, 15 September 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
Common denominator fellaBut also youve given yr guy a rest which is all well and goodDo the same with this subject srsly
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 16 September 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
As specific as my fantasies get, I can’t actually imagine having any real life sex be as memorable as, say, frying and eating an egg.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
I find ppl who are really into sex slightly less tedious than ppl who are really into weed. It’s like, okay, chill already, we’ve all heard of both sex and weed.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
It pleases me that if asked two years ago I would have chosen “meal”, but not now.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
would have said sex no contest til I tried nashville hot chicken pringles
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:24 (six years ago) link
AttaboyAlso ppl i know who are super into sex are p low key abt itNot sure what infidels youre hanging w silbs
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:24 (six years ago) link
That attaboy was to ma77ykin5 obvs
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:25 (six years ago) link
i've reversed my opinion on this
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 16 September 2018 05:00 (six years ago) link
a really great meal is super fun but it doesn't give me the same high as after really great sex
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 16 September 2018 05:01 (six years ago) link
Distressing discovery: what would have been a really great self-indulgent meal just a couple of years ago now tends to just leave me bloated and disgusted. It's probably a function of age.
― Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Friday, 21 September 2018 02:16 (six years ago) link
That is terrible news. Anytime something you love isn't fun anymore, yes, probably age, but maybe the silver lining is there's something else out there that you'll be able to enjoy now you're seasoned enough.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 September 2018 03:46 (six years ago) link
i like almost everything better than food
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 September 2018 07:09 (six years ago) link