TAKING SIDES: HUMMUS VS. GUACAMOLE

worldsters voting for secret unobtainable hummus you can only procure from a discrete magical location.... nice...

'spazzmatazz' volunteering for live murder I see

ftr I love guacamole but

also I've never mistaken wasabi for houmous before stuffing a whole load in my mouth. great day that was

wait what location is not discrete? tubs of hummus 'orbiting' my refrigerator in a probability cloud?

As a vegetarian these are two of my most favorite foods. Oh. So hard!!

Jalepeno cilantro hummus? That seems like a compromise but still. I hate this poll.

i like these about equally really, but for whatever reason i treat guac as more of a delicacy whereas hummus always exists in my fridge and therefore loses cachet

i have an israeli friend who wisely distinguishes real houmous from hippie houmous. this post gets at the difference between smooth, delicious houmous and chunky, dry hippie houmous: http://desertcandy.blogspot.com/2007/07/hummus-dilettante.html

― marcos, Monday, September 15, 2014 12:47 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

posted this on some poll thread about beans last week

both store-bought varieties are terrible. both are best served fresh and at room temperature (or warmer for houmous)

also i think both are best served in their traditional ways. houmous as a sandwich spread or wrap spread is kind of gross imo (except for maybe falafel, and even then i prefer baba ghanoush on it) but served with warm quality pita it is amazing

I think hummus if I have to chose but I hate that this is a choice I have been made to make.

this is where i had the best hummus

Abu Shaker, 29 Hameginim St., Haifa

^^ want to be there right now

quality hummus as a condiment for shawarma on warm, fresh pita is heavenly.

damn this thread, starving now.

I could eat hummus daily and never tire of it. I cannot say the same of guacamole.

No option for "they're both disgusting"?

― emil.y, Saturday, September 20, 2014 10:05 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agree with emil.y 100% - ban this sick filth imo

― john wahey (NickB), Saturday, 20 September 2014 17:37 (2 days ago) Permalink

Thread valuable for uncovering disgusting savages.

the best guacamole is better than the best hummus, but generally hummus is better. Like if you were to randomly select some guacamole and hummus that is produced on Earth, there's a 90% chance that the hummus would be better but if you were to rank all the guacamole and hummus produced on Earth, the top spots would be occupied by guacamole.

That is my theory. It's basically the same thing as pie vs cake or the Beatles vs the Rolling Stones.

worldsters voting for secret unobtainable hummus you can only procure from a discrete magical location.... nice...

― sleepingbag, Monday, September 22, 2014 2:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

*Stuffs your mouth with white bread* Go back to America

silverfish, i feel that way about tortillas. the best tortillas are corn, but there's also way more room for error w/ corn, and flour is way more consistent.

龜 otmfm

There are two salient points here:

1) Hummus stores better. Any guac that is worth anything doesn't. Any "guac" that does...isn't guac.
2) One could live on hummus much more easily than guac.

Those said, there is a far greater chance that I'm drinking something good while consuming guac than there is with hummus.

Shit. I have no idea.

i'm only starting to get vision and sensation back on left side of my body after descriptions of mayo additives to guac way upthread.

i enjoy great guac slightly more than great hummus, but i could basically subsist on good hummus much longer than i could subsist on good guac. /weird metrics

ha xp

Yeah, I totally ignored the whole mayonnaise portion of this discussion. #notguac

The ideal guac (for me) is avocados, Roma tomatoes, red onion, cilantro, salt, lime juice, and Mexican style hot sauce (Cholula or Tapatio, most likely). Garlic has no place in it.

I would be very upset if I actually had to make this decision for myself irl. #both

that's a busy guac

although i've had versions with bullion powder mixed in that were pretty good

or chile powder, or three kinds of chopped peppers etc

yea xp minimalist guacamoles are better. and it should not be a smooth paste, just barely mashed so the texture and color range of the avocado remains

Totally agree on the barely chopped thing. The chunkier, the better.

In mine, the salt, lime juice and hot sauce are very small in amount, and are pretty much subsumed into the rest. The cilantro is key for that green fresh flavor.

agree with minimalism, but chopped peppers are important. serrano chilies are perfect heat imo.

i like salt + (small amount of) pepper, lime juice, cilantro, bare amount of white onion, avocado.

speaking of peppers, i just bought a 1/2 bushel of roasted hatch, froze most, but have some fresh at the ready. need to make some guac asap.

although i've had versions with bullion powder mixed in that were pretty good

― the late great, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:53 Bookmark

hmm not sure i get why this would work

unless u did actually mean gold dust in which case yum

i think they just mixed a bit in with the lime juice to make everything more savory

I could eat hummus daily and never tire of it. I cannot say the same of guacamole.

― Aimless, Monday, September 22, 2014 11:31 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, otm.

can we go back to this because I feel like the words echoed through my soul:

In terms of store bought hummus

It's kinda like well are you a Tribes dude or a Sabra dude

A Sabra dude is welcome to take their shoes off in my house any day of the week while a Tribes dude is welcome to miss my door and keep on walking

I think we usually buy Cedars.

xp yeah I want no part of either

yea cedars is better than sabra.

store bought hummus is typically too thick in my experience. perhaps oil is the expensive component?

lucky to have a "middle eastern" restaurant that makes p good hummus i think.

guacamole all the way though.

Voted for America, the nahuatl part

Aguacate por vida

yea cedars is better than sabra.

― marcos, Monday, September 22, 2014 4:44 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

Is it regional? Haven't seen it along the Atlantic Seaboard

I bought a tub of Wegman's a few weeks ago given the general aura of quality Wegman's exudes and it was pretty bad

I think TJ's has okay hummus but it usually comes in such wacky flavors I don't remember much about the texture

a Tribes dude is welcome to miss my door and keep on walking

Is this anti-semitism?

They have big tubs of non wacky flavor hummus xp

p sure cedar's is available up here in VT/NH

so this just happened

http://i.imgur.com/mO1fVRF.jpg