Hummus fills you up. You are really voting for avocado w guacamole here.
― Opus Gai (I M Losted), Saturday, 20 September 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
nothing wrong with voting for avocadoes
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 20 September 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
I had warm hummus in a home in rural Morocco (/braggin) that was like soup and it was like the best thing I've ever eaten. I think the soupy texture was from beaucoup d'olive oil which was so fresh you could taste the feet on it.
this is the thing - I think most people haven't had good hummus. it's rarer, unless you're in the middle east or are really scoping out the good spots in NY or London or wherever. but proper everything-at-its-freshest hummus...nothing compares, it's incredible.
another thing hummus has going for it is good variations - not yr whole foods "this hummus has roasted red peppers!" (heresy) but masabacha (with whole chickpeas and spices) or Egyptian style (with fava beans & hardboiled egg)...these, got at the right places, are sublime
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 20 September 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
i will commit live murder itt
― imago, Saturday, 20 September 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
they are both sublime. one's much much easier both to make & to get right (guacamole); one's more abundant in the supermarket but a rarer find at its best.
at its best I think hummus absolutely can't be beat. but getting it just right is much much harder than making a life-of-the-party level guacamole.
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, September 20, 2014 1:08 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
Was gonna type this exact post before I found you somehow read my mind?
― 龜, Saturday, 20 September 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
i feel like the gulf between store bought guacamole & home-made guacamole is so much vaster than between home-hummus & store-hummus. hummus never really got that transcendent for me; i feel like the kind of granular, $4, anonymously-tupperwared hummus you can get at a health food store is pretty much as good as what i can make, whenever i made it at home. whereas with guacamole you are obviously participating in heresy when you buy into an avocado product that masquerades as fresh in spite of its intrinsic weird murky production history.
― schlump, Saturday, September 20, 2014 1:51 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
See the kind of health food granular hummus is the kind that I absolutely cannot abide and if you bring that to my house for a dinner party it is going to be the last thing you ever bring to my house
Without trading in claims of authenticity I think this post sums up my feelings about hummus
http://desertcandy.blogspot.com/2007/07/hummus-dilettante.html
― 龜, Saturday, 20 September 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
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
― 龜, Saturday, 20 September 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
really really good hummus (to my tastes, at least) is a huge fucking pain in the ass to make and requires starting with good quality dried chickpeas, soaking/cooking them with the right seasonings, skinning each and every one of the motherfuckers which GOD is a right pain in the ass, and then having at the very least a Vitamix-level power blender and exceptional olive oil to make it wonderful.
Great guac means just being able to distinguish between ripe and unripe avocados, then treating them with salt, lime, a little minced onion and jalapeno. Easier to do, harder to fuck up.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 20 September 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
Next time any ILXor is in Cleveland I will take you to lunch at Nate's Deli, an authentic Middle Eastern place on W. 25th St. that's been there for decades, where you will have hummus so good you will forget how to even PRONOUNCE "guacamole." I love good guacamole, but a really, really good hummus is like seeing the face of god and then eating that face.
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Saturday, 20 September 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
I hate sabra hummus so much
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
Executive chapters of Scientology in the consumer-grade hummusphere: An ILX investigation
― schlump, Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
i dunno i just take whatever's mashed up and i can put on shit
it's all good bro
― j., Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
Have to go guac. Some good avos, a bit of cilantro, diced onion (dehydrated with paper towel bc smdh @ soupy guac), and a serrano. So refreshing.
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
my dad sometimes mentions a piece of cheese he ate, once, forever ago, while he was somewhere as replete with saudade as the spaces people call hummus-hotbeds in this thread. it comes up when he talks about going to buy cheese, everyday cheese, like at the cheese shop on the high street we grew up near, trips i can remember being party to, & how these transactions are occasionally alive with anticipation, unexpectant but irrepressibly hopeful that the inevitable variety in cheese making preparation could make this brie - i think it was brie - of equal significance. & it never is, i don't think, either owing to declining artisanal facility among cheesemakers or else to the synesthetic aura that permeates the memory cheese. & i feel philistinic repping for such attainable hummuses in this thread, like those books that for some reason collate four star movies you might want to watch, but at least i know i perhaps sleep more soundly than those who have tasted the sweeter fruit. i eat hummus & forget about it; if i make it probably some of it yellows around the dish before i've reached it. can anybody rep for dependable, unpilgrimaged hummus over everyday guacamole? i understand that maybe there's something more elemental about the hummus that is made well, something of how disproportionately meaningful it can be to enjoy unaccompanied bread or tomatoes, sometimes, but that guacamole is at once attainable & still just so welcome makes it more important to me, i think.
― schlump, Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
I haven't had good hummus in a long time so that's what I'm voting for.
― brimstead, Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
Banana guacamole vs banana hummus
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
Banana edamame hummus on grappa fajita kebabs
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
guac is a million miles than the best hummus y'all are tripping. hummus is still good but come on.
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
*better than, obv
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
schlump's post brings the Horne brothers with their Brie sandwiches to mind
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
i am sherilyn fenn in this scenario, right
― schlump, Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
haha
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
I think guacamole's name really works against it. It's hard to get excited about something with such an unpleasant clump of vowels in its first consonant.
Gwak. It's such a wet, unpleasant sound.
I got gwakked the other night. With guacamole. Yuck!
― Aphex T (wins) (Branwell with an N), Saturday, 20 September 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
Oh great. Now I've got "I got mole but I'm not guacamole" running round and round in my head WTF.
― Aphex T (wins) (Branwell with an N), Saturday, 20 September 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Muhammara is incredibly good, i agree. I'll take guacamole over hummus but this thread is making me think i've never had real hummus so i admit i could be wrong.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Saturday, 20 September 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
I was eating Sahadi's hummus AS I READ THIS and I think I still vote guac just for the variety of intense flavors in it. Whereas hummus is kind of a comfort food?
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Saturday, 20 September 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
comfort is cool
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 September 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Bbbbut it's 'wakka' which is a beloved sound to fozzy bears and flocka flames alike
Xp to branwell
― owe me the shmoney (m bison), Saturday, 20 September 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
the amazing avocado & friends v bean pudding
― when you call my name it's like a prickly pear (Crabbits), Saturday, 20 September 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
i love hummus, and i've never developed a taste for guacamole even though i've lived in southern california for eight years. (although i'd say hummus, or middle eastern food in general, is as much a part of the l.a. landscape as avocados.)
― replacements gustafsson (get bent), Saturday, 20 September 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
I think I love guacamole now more than I ever have at any other time in my life, it's just so lovely. but hummus, as observed, is a comfort food - to me it's the only comfort food that also has these moments of "holy fuck, greatest food I've ever had in my life." at its best, guacamole makes me go "fuck, this is good, this is really really really fucking good." I would be shocked if it ever gave me that "you will remember this meal on your deathbed" feeling I've gotten at least three times while eating hummus.
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 20 September 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
pointless foods both imo
― fedora, wherever it may find her (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 September 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
you have your standard guacamole. but then you can change it up. add some radish and cojita. add some fruit! (dodges thrown tomatoes)
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 20 September 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
this is a tough choice because the enjoyment of either depends strongly on what you are eating each with, though
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 20 September 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
Chips and pita lol
― B.L.A.P. (rip van wanko), Sunday, 21 September 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
FRITOS SCOOPS! (TM)
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 21 September 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
Love them both, but chickpeas make me fart like a goddamn cannon.
― how's life, Sunday, 21 September 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
there's a lot of crap guac out there but on the other end it's not only so easy to make yourself, it's so easy to make DELICIOUS
i like hummus but there's also a lot of shit store-bought hummus and i have no idea how to make it myself. i wouldn't make it good. restaurants are expensive.
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
otoh i am terrible at determining the ripeness of avocados
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/8nKUqOq.png
― 龜, Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
that right there is a bullshit hummus
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link
"fusion"
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:41 (nine years ago) link
of the endothermic variety. Takes all your energy not to barf.
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:43 (nine years ago) link
i like both goddammit
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
at the same time?
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 21 September 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
I love them both but I wouldn't really put them in the same category. Guac is not a meal, it's an appetizer or a side. Whereas you can make a perfectly satisfactory lunch of nothing but good hummus and pita, or you can use it as the base for a vegetable-laden sandwich. (Toasted cheese with hummus is good, too.) So I voted hummus for its versatility.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 21 September 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
Also, bad hummus is not as disgusting as bad guacamole.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 21 September 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
this thread is making me think i've never had real hummus
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Saturday, September 20, 2014 5:19 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^is what i'm thinking tbh
i think hummus might take it for me anyway because guac is so transient (which maybe the romantic would argue is a virtue), whereas hummus can, eg, be put in a backpack and enjoyed with pita many days into the backcountry and there is not a single thing more joyful and satisfying than pita and hummus by a waterfall imo
― gbx, Sunday, 21 September 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link
itt: hummus serving suggestions like "a waterfall", "a rustic moroccan farmhouse"
― schlump, Sunday, 21 September 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
kinda inspired by this thread i've really been enjoying this hummus recipe blog, it has some really neat ideas. i know everybody's expressed some hesitation about fusion hummuses but it seems like it sticks pretty closely to the core hummus concept, like tipsy said, just having some delicious hummus on its own as a meal maybe just with some bread & a comprehensive spread of vegetables on the side & maybe with cheese & pita by a waterfall.
― schlump, Sunday, 21 September 2014 03:10 (nine years ago) link
don't know what to believe anymore.
― ian, Sunday, 28 September 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
i made the best fucking guac ever tonight. ever. but i voted hummus.
― chemical aioli (Hunt3r), Sunday, 28 September 2014 04:08 (nine years ago) link
I really hate the way some british people pronounce houmous so it sounds like they eat soil
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/british/hummusthat is the way it is pronounced in Israel. there is no short "u" sound in Hebrew (and i'm guessing Arabic either).
xxxxpost
― Tom Waits for no one (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 28 September 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
good for israel
― j., Sunday, 28 September 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
Savages!
― Quis ut Deus (Michael White), Sunday, 28 September 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
hoomoos
― ⌘-B (mh), Sunday, 28 September 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
aka the tahinidriver
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Sunday, 28 September 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
ban
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Sunday, 28 September 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
حمّص
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 28 September 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Arabic looks so badass
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 28 September 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
this was a tight race, almost some bush-gore level ish. i went with hummus and am glad to see that my vote counted.
― syro gyra (get bent), Sunday, 28 September 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
so did both of my votes!
― it's taco science, but it works like taco magic (WilliamC), Sunday, 28 September 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
i've made a terrible mistake
― ciderpress, Monday, 29 September 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
guac's happening here?
hummust be dreaming
― ∞, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link
Cedar's is generally pretty good for supermarket hummus, but jfc:
http://i.imgur.com/BhPvS50.jpg
― GYBE ALFOTHAD download from mediafire - Type: .rar Size: 53.25 MB (unregistered), Saturday, 22 November 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
GF
― j., Saturday, 22 November 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
The bandwagon for pumpkin spice foodstuffs is awesome to behold. I am using 'awesome' in its earlier sense of 'immensely frightening'.
― oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Saturday, 22 November 2014 04:15 (nine years ago) link
i know man, "hommus"
― schlump, Saturday, 22 November 2014 05:31 (nine years ago) link
hass avocados have been ridiculously cheap for months, it's been like guac erry day
― dog people (rip van wanko), Saturday, 22 November 2014 08:15 (nine years ago) link
pumpkin spice avocados
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 22 November 2014 09:43 (nine years ago) link
Ay you know what I don't even understand is that pumpkins are not even spicy
― resting waterface (m bison), Saturday, 22 November 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
Cedar's is a local brand guys, please show some respect
― GYBE ALFOTHAD download from mediafire - Type: .rar Size: 53.25 MB (unregistered), Saturday, 22 November 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
is it possible to buy fresh chickpeas in the US? and is hummus appreciably better when it's made from fresh beans as opposed to canned/dried?
― GYBE ALFOTHAD download from mediafire - Type: .rar Size: 53.25 MB (unregistered), Saturday, 22 November 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/wesleyan-university-dumps-sabra-hummus-after-student-campaign
“It’s totally gone now — their guacamole, hummus, everything is gone,” Wesleyan Sophomore, Yael Horowitz told The Electronic Intifada. “It happened really quickly once the dining service committee decided.”
― j., Friday, 5 December 2014 05:05 (nine years ago) link
Woah. My cafeteria just started carrying Sabra.
― how's life, Friday, 5 December 2014 10:20 (nine years ago) link
I've seen fresh chickpeas at the Dekalb and Buford Hwy Farmers Mkts in Atlanta, but never anywhere else.
― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Friday, 5 December 2014 14:15 (nine years ago) link
I hope the Wesleyan students find an alternative source for hummus and guacamole!
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 5 December 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
I think even the best hummus you'll find anywhere is made from dried chickpeas that've been soaked and cooked, not fresh-from-the-vine ones
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Friday, 5 December 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
If you gotta go with storebought instead of homemade hummus, it turns out that Boar's Head is really good.
― phở intellectual (WilliamC), Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
Sounds like a welcome addition to the hummus racket!
― how's life, Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link
this stuff is dangerous: http://www.rootsfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Roots-Mango-Sriracha-Hummus.jpg
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
i am pro-wacky humus flavors; recently i had some rosemary sea salt hummus that was insane.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2015 23:03 (eight years ago) link
yeah, I am generally in favor, but the Thai coconut curry flavor from Roots is also good but impossible to eat more than a small amount. So it takes the right amount of wacky. I also love black bean "hummus".
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 November 2015 23:11 (eight years ago) link