ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round Two - West Bracket

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.

chicken is underrated imo, hipster chickenhaters have had their decade and the backlash is on the way

pasta: the depressed-saggy-japanese-salaryman of carbohydrates

Go to Europe more.

But you're right about the other two.

love that sentence

"who i probably should be if i want to start shitting on the reg"

man these threads are just rotten with great album titles

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/11/22/article-1088543-0043EF5800000258-729_468x458.jpg

d-mac with the cover art

ladies and gentlemen, I think we have the presentation on the new aerosmith album all sorted out

fuck cheese btw

definitely their 'return to form'

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.

― Cold Poutine, So Hard To Eat (Will M.), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:16 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

see the thing is will

you are right most of the time - these are easy foods for ppl to fuck up, and they do it on the reg all the time

but these things

when done right

are sublime.

eat a chicken in france or pasta in italy (or a good italian restaurant) sometime

and you'll see why everyone has fallen over themselves to make inifnitely inferior versions of these things

I guess we're going to say goodbye to curry. My feeling is it hasn't permeated the culinary consciousness in the US anywhere near as much as it has in the UK.

or we just call indian dishes by their individual names, like we would any other food

I voted curry though because I basically get "all Indian food" in - plus, Indian is my favorite cuisine bar none

and basically I will be quite bummed if I never get pasta again, but if I can't have Indian food again, then I'm just going to kill myself

or we just call indian dishes by their individual names, like we would any other food

Like pasta or salad.

actually in america we just refer to all pasta as 'tomato sauce'

@s1ocki that is fair -- i have not tried the best of the best (i think the best chicken i have had is probs romados (i had portugalia's and tbh i didn't like it as much) and the best pasta i had is n/a because i have just had junk pasta) but the two of them are just so maligned in my mind by the imitators that i can't separate the great from the swaths of junk out there. especially chicken. for every delicious bird there are 500 pieces of crap that are like "well, we need to put a meat in-- how about chicken cos it kinda just feels like meat in the mouth and tastes like water with a little dirt in it" dishes. i'm scarred.

plus, i love indian food.

but actually like if you have a pasta recco in the city let me know (esp. if it doesn't cost 1 arm+1 leg) because i am open to repoening communication with this dish from which i am estranged.

Bacon, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Pizza

^ a good meal selection

Bacon, Cheese, Curry, Pizza

PASTA IS JUST A PROP TO PLONK FLAVOUR ONTO

yeah i eat pasta as much as anything else, but i mean it's basically just an edible container for actual food

itt people who don't 'get' pasta

yeah tbf all the pasta voters know a lot about curry

nah i get pasta tbh but it's not curry

and are choosing the more varied and flavoursome dish

Tenterhooks