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
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
realest of talk
― pies. (gbx), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
PastriesI'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.
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
xposts
― Poutine kissed boy "like a kitten" (jjjusten), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
tomofthenest builds a compelling case. have no regrets re my pasta vote, but fuck bacon imo, pie crust = pastry
― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― pies. (gbx), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
emperor iirc
― Poutine kissed boy "like a kitten" (jjjusten), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― Euler, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― Euler, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Pastries, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Pizza
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― sarahel, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
could you not make beet pizza with similar stuffs that people put on potato pizza? like chevre & walnuts, or gorg & rosemary? something like that...
― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
if pastries go down tom is gonna find a way to classify savory pies as 'sushi' or something
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― sarahel, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― cozen, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― cozen, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
not all of it is horrifying, it's true
― pies. (gbx), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xk-PkZrmeos/SckZCTcnwYI/AAAAAAAACOU/ZpEh-R6ILRM/s320/Kraft-Seven-Seas-Green-Goddess-salad-dressing.jpg
― Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― stoic newington (suzy), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
dan did you post that to say "this one's good" or "lol @ kraft salad dressing"
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
also I feel obligated to do this
These days I go...Ham...for South Asian things.
ok sorry danxxp
― cozen, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://forums.reebosak.net/images/smilies/emot-iiam.gif
― Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/foodfightbracket2.jpg
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
lol y u banned from a uni homes
― pies. (gbx), Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i....i don't get it
― pies. (gbx), Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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), Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
you made it sound like the university banned you, which made us wonder about your IRL activities
― sarahel, Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:24 (fourteen years ago) link
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 reversehigh quality dry-cured ham is unbelievable― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:22 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark
― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:22 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark
incredible finish, a true competitor
― pies. (gbx), Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Thursday, 29 July 2010 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
consequently permabanned that IP
Presumably a shared IP with a big chunk of the campus, ruling out a new generation of budding acoleuthics :(
― we won't make a darraghmac out of a crisis (onimo), Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:21 (fourteen years ago) link
A biryani can be considered a curry too
why are you trying to take my biryani???
― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― rah rah rah wd smash the oiks (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 29 July 2010 11:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Thursday, 29 July 2010 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 31 July 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
omg the pizza/salad margin is epic
― iatee, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
and bacon 61 pastries 60 by my count
― iatee, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
CURRY
― Vlad the Inhaler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
wait what happens now
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
98 - 23 pizza salad
― iatee, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
69 - 52 curry pasta
― iatee, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
and 80 - 41 hard cheese chicken
― iatee, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda disappointed salad didn't get more love. a good salad is such a wonderful thing.
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link