TAKING SIDES: HUMMUS VS. GUACAMOLE

i wouldn't want to add sour cream, but at least the guac would still be edible. was objecting to equating mayo with sour cream as calmly as possible.

tahini w/ lamb or beef is glorious. the full scope of guac possibilities remains unknown to me but I am v content in the reality of my hummus lifestyle

My mom's standard homemade guacamole growing up was half mayo/half avocado with Lawry's seasoned salt stirred in.

I ...am not nostalgic for it.

woah

sounds like a southern pimento cheese type deal

sounds like I woulda called CPS

there are some restaurants that thin out their hummus with mayo. i can always tell (and i am firmly in the anti-mayo camp).

yeah this is disgusting savagery

this is a thing in sf taquerias. not mayo, but they dilute guac with crema (Mexican sour cream)

i enjoy this kind of guacamole (they call it "american guacamole" around here) on occasion. in fact i think it because it's extra-creamy it might go better than "mexican guacamole" on some dishes, like rolled tacos.

My mom's standard homemade guacamole growing up was half mayo/half avocado with Lawry's seasoned salt stirred in.

― when you call my name it's like a prickly pear (Crabbits), Sunday, September 21, 2014 1:37 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dear god

My mom's standard homemade guacamole growing up was half mayo/half avocado with Lawry's seasoned salt stirred in.

― when you call my name it's like a prickly pear (Crabbits), Sunday, September 21, 2014 1:37 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

This almost feels like a Lutheran church recipe if I were not certain that the word avocado has never been featured in a Lutheran church recipe book

blandness is underrated

not that i'm saying i prefer bland guacamole but that sometimes bland is more appropriate if it's a side player in the dish

This almost feels like a Lutheran church recipe if I were not certain that the word avocado has never been featured in a Lutheran church recipe book

― 龜, Sunday, September 21, 2014 9:26 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

T-bomb

If I'd have to do without one I wouldn't miss guacamole that much. I've also eaten some incredible and memorable hommus, not really so with guac. As mentioned hommus can be a whole meal with just some bread or an addition. Guac is a side or an additive.

blandness is underrated

i agree! american cuisine is becoming very flavor-forward, which is great, but subtlety is important too.

currently doing this:
http://media.fooducate.com/products/images/180x180/50EEEB05-AA95-BEF2-41AE-93555210E8CD.jpeg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51k%2BDMOMRtL._SL500_SS100_.jpg

it is delicious and counting as a meal, but it probably costs double what some good avocados and cheap totopos would run. then again, this will probably last a few meals. hummus storage is definitely superior to guacamole storage.

blandness is underrated
i agree! american cuisine is becoming very flavor-forward, which is great, but subtlety is important too.

― replacements gustafsson (get bent), Sunday, September 21, 2014 10:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dear lord

You must be fucking kidding me. Guac

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