but yeah I predict this poll will have the best LOSING four of any
um curry and pasta can be healthy you know? and pastries aren't exactly bad for you?
― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
pasta vs. curry is a crime
― chuck entertainment cheese (crüt), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
can we please have "curry" defined?
I've been processing the options by asking to myself 'If you walked into a local restaurant and could speak no word other than 'curry', what would you end up with?'.
― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
curry pasta
― chuck entertainment cheese (crüt), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Pastries are definitely not good for you, man. Lots of butter and sugar and shit.
And yeah, curry and pasta don't have to be unhealthy, but they're not exactly paragons of food virtue.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
(Also, the best ones are the unhealthiest ones)
― emil.y, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I think a healthy pastry completely bypasses everything that makes people want to eat pastries
― measuring of the waist (HI DERE), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Pastries, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Pizza
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty shocked to find myself considering a vote for salad over pizza but I had a greens mix with gorgonzola and candied pecans the other night as an appetizer for a pizza and guess which was better the salad or the pizza here I'll relieve the suspense, it was the salad, the salad was better than the pizza, it was the salad
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
the salad do you hear
key word: 'here'
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Couldn't you have just had that salad on the pizza and called it a pizza?
― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, pizza can contain salad, salad can't contain pizza
― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
not even my salad
although my salad is generally tomato salad and a vote against salad is the final nail in the Solanaceae coffin
― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, this fucken poll ;_;
yeah, pizza can contain salad
see this is why I just think of you as a court jester or a Punch & Judy character and not a real person
winkie-face I'm-mostly-kidding emoticon
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
it is factually true, though; you could dump a salad on a pizza and then roll it up into a gigantic pizza-salad burrito
I don't know why you'd want to do that, but it's physically possible
― measuring of the waist (HI DERE), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, that sounds great!
― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha dude I say some batshit stuff about food now and then but seriously a green-leaf-covered pizza can be an absolute joy
― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds like a horrible calzone
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
couldn't you cut up a pizza into tiny bite size bits and dump it into a salad?
― peter in montreal, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
...
brb
― measuring of the waist (HI DERE), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link
basil leaves only thx
actually I think I saw a pizza once that was finished with some rocket, but please, just put that on the side for me and leave greens off the pizza
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link
oh god yeah the great Rocket On Pizza debates we used to have
criminy
― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I would get more angry about pizza vs. salad but there's no way pizza is losing to salad w/ the ilx demographic
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
ilx demographic = fat internet people + like 3 nutrition nazis
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
btw, all the food-indifferent people who think the purpose of a meal is just to keep you alive for another day and to make turds to push out yesterday's turds --- HAHAHAHA, SUCKS TO BE YOU!
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
prosciutto, buffalo mozarella, rocket is a quality pizza topping I enjoyed tonight
― sonderborg, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Predicting this poll will finally kill off the whole Internet Loves Bacon nonsense (even though I do love bacon, it can't compete with the variety of options the word pastries allows).
Going pastries/chicken/pasta/pizza & feeling bad for poor old salad who didn't stand a chance and was just trying to help people.
― we won't make a darraghmac out of a crisis (onimo), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i love greens on pizza, so i voted pizza
but otherwise i voted flavor density: BACON, HARD CHEESES, CURRY, PIZZA
please note: that was on the assumption that curry = all dishes containing a blend known as curry. if it's that nasty brown sauce thrown on fries at bars, i regret my choice. esp. since i have forsaken my ultimate comfort food: pasta with nothing but parmesan.
― ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
things I have learned from this poll: british people call arugula 'rocket'
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
The other three are easy, but pastries vs. bacon is a murderous choice. I'll probably wait until the last minute and then just flip a coin.
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
onimo, bacon's going to win this tournament. the power of the "MMM BACON OMG" sentiment runs strong. how do you think bacon made it this far?
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno peanut butter put up a pretty good fight against bacon
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
that was hard for me too, but i decided on the flavor density ticket. pastries are just not as intensely flavorful as bacon. now i am having regrets because they are -- they ARE! -- they're just more subtly flavorful.
i think pizza will win
― ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
it's kind of a shame you had to learn it from this poll - I was at a restaurant during my 1st or 2nd trip to England trying to figure out what to eat and half the stuff on it contained "rockets" and I thought "man oh man what the hell is goin on"
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
truly a culinary explosion
― measuring of the waist (HI DERE), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
WWII really left its mark on london
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
If you ask for arugula here, you just get given the first MIA album.
― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
arugula on pizza is a total 'thing'
― titchyschneiderhouserules (s1ocki), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Bacon, Chicken, Curry, Salad
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ sounds like a dish
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
at applebee's or something
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
curried chicken salad is a thing, not sure if it would be good with bacon in it though
― It's like normal life except you power up by peeing (ciderpress), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
chicken curry salad is fine, not with bacon tho you are correct
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
hard cheese vs nearly anything else would have put up a fight, maybe.
no real qualms over any of the rest.
irish pastry vs irish bacon is quite a different proposition than the respective choices you may face in other countries maybe.
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Even if it beat pastries, which would be wrong, I can't see it getting out of a bracket with pizza in it. It's time for the bacon backlash.
There's a thread somewhere where everyone piles on the OMG BACON people, isn't there? Maybe it turned into another OMG BACON thread, I can't remember.
― we won't make a darraghmac out of a crisis (onimo), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
darraghmac there is an irish bakery near me with irish soda bread, wtf is it and should I try it
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
YES
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xk-PkZrmeos/SckZCTcnwYI/AAAAAAAACOU/ZpEh-R6ILRM/s320/Kraft-Seven-Seas-Green-Goddess-salad-dressing.jpg
― Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
There are decent curry places on Brick Lane but I've stopped going because of the guys that try to flag you down with coupons to their place. And then there is the Shampan, which is serious about being Bangladeshi. These days I go to Green Street in East Ham for South Asian things.
― stoic newington (suzy), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
dan did you post that to say "this one's good" or "lol @ kraft salad dressing"
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
also I feel obligated to do this
These days I go...Ham...for South Asian things.
ok sorry danxxp
― cozen, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://forums.reebosak.net/images/smilies/emot-iiam.gif
― Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/foodfightbracket2.jpg
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
good dry-cured ham for a start
― flashing drill + penis fan (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 16:20 (Yesterday)
I saw this earlier at uni where I am banned and it was a fucking massive truthbomb - cured meats are incredible, especially this - the Spanish know what they're bloody doing with ham - also I didn't consider saucisson and salami amid 'sausages' - different thing IMO, the cured stuff is obviously godhead
― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
lol y u banned from a uni homes
― pies. (gbx), Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I asked to be ILX banned so I'd finish my course, and I was temp-banned on my home ISP but perma-banned at uni...just how it went
― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i....i don't get it
― pies. (gbx), Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone temp-banned me at home (forksclovetofu, in fact, in his first act as site mod, at my bidding), but someone else heard my pleas for ILX separation while I was posting from university and consequently permabanned that IP (not ISP, wtf), a decision which I have never seen fit to reverse
high quality dry-cured ham is unbelievable
― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
you made it sound like the university banned you, which made us wonder about your IRL activities
― sarahel, Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone temp-banned me at home (forksclovetofu, in fact, in his first act as site mod, at my bidding), but someone else heard my pleas for ILX separation while I was posting from university and consequently permabanned that IP (not ISP, wtf), a decision which I have never seen fit to reversehigh quality dry-cured ham is unbelievable― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:22 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark
― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:22 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark
incredible finish, a true competitor
― pies. (gbx), Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
taking pasta over curry cuz i eat it more often and i can still order biryani.
A biryani can be considered a curry too (I'm looking at a menu at the moment that has it so classed). Not that I want to get into an argument about the (non?)definition of curries, just saying.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Thursday, 29 July 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
consequently permabanned that IP
Presumably a shared IP with a big chunk of the campus, ruling out a new generation of budding acoleuthics :(
― we won't make a darraghmac out of a crisis (onimo), Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link
A biryani can be considered a curry too
why are you trying to take my biryani???
― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:25 (thirteen years ago) link
plus all kinds of people on all kinds of money re cured meats. proscuitto, salumi, etc. man, that is what gives SAUSIDGE. the edge over whateverthefuk it happens to be up against. not the dried ham so much. but the dried sausidge. dude in town makes the most insane finochionna and MOLE SALAMI you has ever put in your mouth. worth overturning the likes of broccoli, crab, pasta or peaches for, just sayin...
― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i like a biryani but it kind of needs a sauce-based curry to go with it imo
(in the uk it tends to come with a vegetable curry by default, but i'm sure we can take it as read that in the US - quite possibly south asia too but that would be irrelevant to an ILX fight about south asian food anyway i guess - this would be the height of disgusting savagery without needing the 3000 angry posts about bad teeth)
goodbye bacon, you are nice but way overrated, wd have voted for ham over pretty much everything, but here i'm going pastries, ???, curry, pizza - why yes i am pretty fat, thank you for asking - just need to work out whether something versatile but not very exciting on its own (chicken) beats the occasional treat of delicious hard cheese
― rah rah rah wd smash the oiks (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 29 July 2010 11:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ok, I made my pastry/bacon choice.
Bacon, Hard Cheeses, Curry, Pizza
The most important vote here (to me) is for good parmesan, and occasionally Parmigiano Reggiano when I'm feeling rich.
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Thursday, 29 July 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 31 July 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
omg the pizza/salad margin is epic
― iatee, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
and bacon 61 pastries 60 by my count
― iatee, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
CURRY
― Vlad the Inhaler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
wait what happens now
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
98 - 23 pizza salad
― iatee, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
69 - 52 curry pasta
― iatee, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
and 80 - 41 hard cheese chicken
― iatee, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda disappointed salad didn't get more love. a good salad is such a wonderful thing.
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Rooting hard for curry and cheese now.
― Vlad the Inhaler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Especially as they represent actually delicious stuff that veggies and carnivores can unite behind.
Bacon 61 > Pastries 60Hard Cheeses 80 > Chicken 41Curry 69 > Pasta 52Pizza 98 > Salad 23
Didn't pizza have the largest margin of victory in rd. 1 also?
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, eggs > fondue also has a 75 vote margin.
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
doesn't count cause I mean...fondue
― iatee, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Bacon 61 > Pastries 60
ok this is my fucking limit, FUCK YOU ILX, FUCK YOU WITH ALL SINCERITY AND RIGHTEOUS RAGE
― she vajazzled....and forgot! (acoleuthic), Monday, 2 August 2010 11:04 (thirteen years ago) link
what the hell is wrong with you
― eddie mcguire suppression ring (electricsound), Monday, 2 August 2010 11:08 (thirteen years ago) link
the occasional tendency to flamboyantly post very much in character, and split infinitives
― she vajazzled....and forgot! (acoleuthic), Monday, 2 August 2010 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:05 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
???
― "It's far from 'loi' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Monday, 16 August 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Tenterhooks
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