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Poll Question: Which type of food do you prefer?
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    Posted: September 18 2010 at 10:42
Whenever it comes to deciding between these two types of food I have a humongous internal war.  Both are great in their own special ways and I love both with all my heart.  However, Mexican food wins by a small margin. Tongue What about you? Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 10:43
Like both, but far from equally...Italian food is just paradise. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 10:48
Both about equally.  Mexican raises hell with my stomach though, so I have to tread carefully.  Heartburn sucks.  

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 11:16
Pasta is the world's most boring food, it's boiled dull with a big dollop of dull thrown at it that requires grating cheese that smells like old socks in a attempt to lift it above dull to dull that smells of old socks. Pizza equally as dull, but with the added incentive of completely tasteless and overcooked "bread" to compliment a topping that you wouldn't put in a midweek sandwich unless you were desperately hungry and a cheese that has neither smell nor taste but is added for the sole reason that it melts nicely and goes stringy (for about five minutes and then it's just cold and oily blandness of indeterminate texture). Both pasta and pizza suffer from one overriding simularity that makes any meal a chore - the first mouthful tastes exactly the same as the last mouthful except it gets progressively colder as the meal progresses until by the last mouthful all you have is congealed lump of dull (on inedible bread in the case of pizza) - yum. The only advantage to pizza and pasta is that any fool can make it and its remarkably difficult to screw up ... many resturants (even in Italy) must put a lot of effort into making sure they do.
 
However, Italian cuisine is some of the finest food in the world - I just never order pasta or pizza.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 12:05
^ I tend to see both pasta and pizza as food made by geniuses for a purpose that you can have anything your imgaintation and knowledge desires to make a good sauce, be it bolognaise, carbonara, napoli, seafood, tuna, anchovies, plain pasta with pesto, or maccaroni n cheese and sousages, tomato sauce, garlic and black pepper.
 
Pizzas the same, you can simply put annything tasty on it (it have to be some logic), the best one are those made in a stone owen, I realy like pizzas with scampi, anchovies, olivs, or hawiian, mexicana Wink
 
but I also realy like Mexican food, been their once and they serve wonderfull meals, spicy yet tasty, and every birthday party is saved if you have prepared Taco 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 12:09
Its been my experience that the textural weirdness of Mexican food gets transmogrified into dull poot in the US, and I assume the same happens to Italian food. I've had Mexican food in Mexico, but I've yet to try Italian food in Italy. Until I taste the traditional originals in their normal context, no vote from me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 12:25
Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Both about equally.  Mexican raises hell with my stomach though, so I have to tread carefully.  Heartburn sucks.  


This. I love both, but I'm never without Rennie tablets!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 12:49
I like spending less time on the toilet so.............



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 12:53
Thanks for the totally indecisive option in your poll.  When it comes to the world cuisines, I am just happy for all the variety, and that I can eat many of them out (no joking) Tongue  in my area, and get the ingredients at local farmers markets.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 12:59
I agree, variety is the key. I could not stand eating just one or two types of food. 

Anyone else really into Indian food?Thumbs Up



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 13:04
Love Indian, and Vietnamese too.  Big smile

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 13:20
real mexican food is some of the most awesome food ever
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 13:30
Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Love Indian, and Vietnamese too.  Big smile


AYE, lads!  Thumbs UpClapRawks

/re the poll: Mexican by a slight margin

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 13:34
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

real mexican food is some of the most awesome food ever
 
Exactly, luckily the town I live in has great Mexican food although it's small.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 13:52
I don't really like Mexican food that much (yeah, I'm one of those people). Gotta go with Italian on this one.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 14:09
Mexican.  I could (and sometimes do) live on tortillas, cheese, avocados, jalapenos, salsa, and tequila for weeks at a time.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 21:18
Italian. I prefer Spanish to Mexican.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 21:20
Love both
But the Italian in me can never go against Italian food!

It is my favorite type of food, I could live off that stuff.
Mexican is great though.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 21:21
Originally posted by LinusW LinusW wrote:

Like both, but far from equally...Italian food is just paradise. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 21:30
Well, when I was in Italy I had some of the best food of my life, but here in the States I far prefer Mexican food.
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