ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round Two - West Bracket

not even my salad

although my salad is generally tomato salad and a vote against salad is the final nail in the Solanaceae coffin

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

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

Man, that sounds great!

hahaha dude I say some batshit stuff about food now and then but seriously a green-leaf-covered pizza can be an absolute joy

sounds like a horrible calzone

couldn't you cut up a pizza into tiny bite size bits and dump it into a salad?

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brb

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

oh god yeah the great Rocket On Pizza debates we used to have

criminy

I would get more angry about pizza vs. salad but there's no way pizza is losing to salad w/ the ilx demographic

ilx demographic = fat internet people + like 3 nutrition nazis

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!

prosciutto, buffalo mozarella, rocket is a quality pizza topping I enjoyed tonight

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.

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.

things I have learned from this poll: british people call arugula 'rocket'

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.

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?

I dunno peanut butter put up a pretty good fight against bacon

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

things I have learned from this poll: british people call arugula 'rocket'

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"

truly a culinary explosion

WWII really left its mark on london

If you ask for arugula here, you just get given the first MIA album.

arugula on pizza is a total 'thing'

Bacon, Chicken, Curry, Salad

^^^ sounds like a dish

at applebee's or something

curried chicken salad is a thing, not sure if it would be good with bacon in it though

chicken curry salad is fine, not with bacon tho you are correct

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.

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?

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.

darraghmac there is an irish bakery near me with irish soda bread, wtf is it and should I try it

YES

There's a thread somewhere where everyone piles on the OMG BACON people, isn't there?

"do you ever feel like some people are fronting with this whole OMG I LOVE RIBS/BACON/CORNDOGS/FRIED CHICKEN shit nowadays"

xp yes you should try it, try it with real butter, strong tea- good marmalade if that's your thing.

if you 'do' a fry, then you need this.

So glad Pizza and Bacon will meet relatively early. IF Bacon beats Pastries and Cheese/Chicken, which it shouldn't.

Haha, Onimo just said that!

xp to onimo, and yeah iirc it did just turn into MMM OMG BACON anyway :)

soda bread also good for open faced sandwiches- yr soft cheeses & smoked salmon, what have you

a MUST with a hearty soup

great with strong red cheddar & good smoky hams.

now i'm getting some on the way home.

so it's not sweet? it looked like it had something that was maybe powdered sugar on top but I guess that was flour?

but should look like this:

http://www.worldonaplate.org/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/17/sodabread.jpg

and not this:

http://dailypostal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bread_soda.jpg

ok that's all about soda bread

xp yeah, get it brown, and it should prob have dusting of flour- not sweet.

okay I will try it soon, maybe w/ dinner tonight. it's good that I know that it's not sweet cause I was thinking of taking it for dessert.

it's pretty easy to make

it's very easy to make, yeah. all of the best ones i get are gifts and not bought tbh

it's good with vegemite

i went for pastries over bacon

Easiest one ever, bacon & chicken & pasta are on my BOYCOTT list because shits are well overrated (bacon: the most irritatingly overused cut of pork, chicken: the boringest and most misused of birds, pasta: the depressed-saggy-japanese-salaryman of carbohydrates). Others win on default. Salad vs. pizza however is brutal because it confronts me with the "who i am" vs. "who i probably should be if i want to start shitting on the reg" dichotomy.

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.

consequently permabanned that IP

Presumably a shared IP with a big chunk of the campus, ruling out a new generation of budding acoleuthics :(

A biryani can be considered a curry too

why are you trying to take my biryani???

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...

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

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

omg the pizza/salad margin is epic

and bacon 61 pastries 60 by my count

CURRY

wait what happens now

98 - 23 pizza salad

69 - 52 curry pasta

and 80 - 41 hard cheese chicken

kinda disappointed salad didn't get more love. a good salad is such a wonderful thing.

Rooting hard for curry and cheese now.

Especially as they represent actually delicious stuff that veggies and carnivores can unite behind.

Bacon 61 > Pastries 60
Hard Cheeses 80 > Chicken 41
Curry 69 > Pasta 52
Pizza 98 > Salad 23

Didn't pizza have the largest margin of victory in rd. 1 also?

Wait, eggs > fondue also has a 75 vote margin.

doesn't count cause I mean...fondue

Bacon 61 > Pastries 60

ok this is my fucking limit, FUCK YOU ILX, FUCK YOU WITH ALL SINCERITY AND RIGHTEOUS RAGE

what the hell is wrong with you

the occasional tendency to flamboyantly post very much in character, and split infinitives

darraghmac there is an irish bakery near me with irish soda bread, wtf is it and should I try it

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