ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round Two - West Bracket

ok maybe i can't back that up, looking at these options tbh

I guess tho people voting pasta are voting for the variety of pasta-based dishes whereas I'm just thinking of plain unsauced pasta.

I made my decision assuming pasta meant all pasta-based dishes. Voted curry. Wasn't an easy decision tbh cos I love italian food.

i am eating a piece of toast in honor of my fallen homie

pastries/cheese/curry/salad

pastries/cheese/curry/pizza

but, i have to say, i v v nearly went for salad just cuz:

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, July 28, 2010 8:24 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

^^^this has happened enough times in my life to know that certain kinds of salads are way more reliable than pizza. like i know we have all had some ~bad salads~ (i am looking at YOU, the hospital!), but generally speaking you can look at the list of ingredients of a salad on a menu, and have a pretty decent idea of what you're getting. and then you can order any old slice of pizza and it's like who fucking knows, maybe this place has shitty pizza

tho granted the worst salad is probably not as bad as the worst pizza, and i have had pizza in england! made in a curry shop!

also srsly looking for bacon to go down in this, they are the England of this particular world cup, ~if you catch my drift~

a world without salad is a world without salad dressing, don't try to say it's not because it is OK

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Bacon, Chicken, Curry, Pizza

FWIW I figured curry wasn't just limited to the Anglo-Indian curries which are the staple of Brit diets but included other yummy dishes like Beef Panaeng, Katsu Curry, Curried Goat etc.

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this on salad mmmm mmmmmmmmmm

Bacon, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Salad

but my heart isn't in any of it. how can i sacrifice all pastries just for bacon? and chicken such a crucial link in so many wonderful things (just broth alone). taking pasta over curry cuz i eat it more often and i can still order biryani. but jeez. leaving pizza vs. salad, utterly impossible choice. took salad only cuz i know it will lose.

salad dressing does not come from stores. = olive oil, balsamic vinegar, minced garlic, lots of dijon, s&p. unbeatable. almost as good as pizza....

salad dressing does not come from stores. = olive oil, balsamic vinegar, minced garlic, lots of dijon, s&p.

actually agree with this, far superior to store stuff and have to travel at least 50m less to get.

all bottled salad dressing is horrifying, what is wrong with you guys

pasta v. curry and salad v. pizza made me want to cry but i went pasta/salad. obv didn't for for the pigs or chicks.

okay dude seriously, there is a lot to lol at in British food but one thing that is almost unilaterally impeccable and better than what you can get in the US is Indian food

I will take you to London and we will go to Brick Lane and you will be amazed

huge truthbomb

try the curry mile in Manchester, the food I had there last time was mind-meltingly good

if curry wins the whole tourney, I am 100% happy with that result

realest of talk

Pastries
I'm going to take a controversial stance on pastries to encompass anything made with pastry - including both savoury and sweet pies! even though both were voted out by a bunch of disgusting savages. I'm going to continue to mentally put pies in extant categories right to the end. So if this thing ends up being won by soup or w/e, for me this will be "soup, including savoury pies". it's the only way to get justice.

Hard Cheeses - would miss slightly more than chicken. Although at the moment I'm supposed to be keeping away from cheese to stop me from being a fattay. Actually, wait, just thinking about what fits into the hard cheese category - cheddar. cheshire. stilton. emmenthal. gouda. manchego. paneer. - cheese a clearer winner than I first thought

Curry - brit definition, no contest . Pasta just tends to get in the way of nice food, and for me its a myth that its somehow elevated in the hands of good italian chefs. the price gets elevated, definitely, they must make some fucking profit on pasta dishes, but it's always disappointingly close to something I could cook easily at home. And I'm a terrible cook.

Salad. from the garden is fresh and lovely. a good restaurant caesar salad is one of lifes joys and go-to for wanting to feel healthier after a night out. I'm not going to knock pizza, can be great, but good salad is eating pure sunshine.

My vote for 'pasta' is a vote for plain penne with pesto, feel like that's the default pasta somehow? Sauces are represented in the poll I guess.

ok ok, i will try yer brit curry the next time i am there sheesh

until then tho im not giving it the nod because a grouping that would be based on "stuff w/curry in it" would be all-encompassing madness

i will back hard cheeses as my personal #1 in it to win it choice (which is not going to happen)

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tomofthenest builds a compelling case. have no regrets re my pasta vote, but fuck bacon imo, pie crust = pastry

I'm going to take a controversial stance on pastries to encompass anything made with pastry - including both savoury and sweet pies! even though both were voted out by a bunch of disgusting savages. I'm going to continue to mentally put pies in extant categories right to the end. So if this thing ends up being won by soup or w/e, for me this will be "soup, including savoury pies". it's the only way to get justice

tomofthenest for president or uk equiv

emperor iirc

Pastries, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Salad

I had a chausson aux pommes the other day that was the butteriest thing I have ever experienced (& I liked it)

btw I'm gonna vote against pizza all the way until the end because of the atrocities committed in its name (as discussed on another thread)

Pastries, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Pizza

Pastries, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Salad

what euler said. tho pizza is damn hard to deny. you could put some arugula on it after it comes out the oven and call it a salat

salad seems such an arbitrary designation. like, most of the things i like that come in a salad also come on a pizza. except for beets. but i could have roasted beets and consider them "beets" and not "salad" - so, pizza.

Also: pastries, hard cheese, curry (though it was a tough call against pasta)

could you not make beet pizza with similar stuffs that people put on potato pizza? like chevre & walnuts, or gorg & rosemary? something like that...

if pastries go down tom is gonna find a way to classify savory pies as 'sushi' or something

beets are kinda maybe too sweet tho

yeah - i can imagine a pizza with roasted beets - i'm pretty sure i could go somewhere within a 10 mile radius and find one - but i think they are a bit too sweet and i like them separate from other things, except for maybe with some other sweet but tangy fruit or vegetable and a bit of chevre or soft cheese. (RIP soft cheeses)

are there even actually any decent curry places on brick lane?!

all bottled salad dressing is horrifying, what is wrong with you guys
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 6:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ur wrong and ur a grotesquely ugly freak

I mean - no doubt britain is great for curry but at least give us credit for the amazing stuff not just the sub-par (I might just have been unlucky but I never had even a 3/10 curry the 5 times I've eaten on brick lane)

not all of it is horrifying, it's true

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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.

dan did you post that to say "this one's good" or "lol @ kraft salad dressing"

also I feel obligated to do this

These days I go...Ham...for South Asian things.

ok sorry dan
xxp

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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

lol y u banned from a uni homes

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

i....i don't get it

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

you made it sound like the university banned you, which made us wonder about your IRL activities

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), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:22 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

incredible finish, a true competitor