ICJ and Pinback's Top Ten Foods

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu May 22, 2014 10:56 pm

No editing. Just go!

Ben: would you put a "philly cheesesteak" in your top 10 foods?
Sent at 11:41 PM on Thursday
Robb: OK
You want my top 10 foods
I will give them to you.
No one has ever asked.
Ben: I don't need all ten.
Robb: I enjoy making lists.
Oh
Well you're going to get all ten.
Right fucking now.
Ben: I mean, I'm LISTENING.
I think I have my top 10 now too.
I just decided.
Let's go.
GO.
You first.
Robb: 1. Saag paneer.
NOW YOU GO
Ben: We're not ranking.
That's my new thing.
Robb: Yes
YES
Ben: Everything on my top 10 is so great I can't rank them.
Robb: YISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Ok fine
Ben: Okay.
Robb: Just put #1 for all of them.
Ben: But I'll still number them so we remember how many are left.
1. Pho.
Robb: 2. Pepperoni Pizza with Extra Cheese.
Ben: 2. Proper NY pie w/cheese.
Robb: 3. Chicken Korma
Ben: 3. BOWL OF RED
(that's texas chili!)
(or NM chili, if you believe the NM cookbooks.)
Robb: I do believe them.
I am trying to find the name of the next one.
Ben: All of yours are indian food.
Robb: What is that red stringy spice?
That's really expensive?
Ben: Saffron.
Robb: 4. Kashmiri Chicken
Ben: 3 out of 4 indian so far.
4. Ribeye steak.
Robb: Y-yes.
5. Fried fish from a Scottish Chippy
Ben: 5. Green chile cheeseburger.
Robb: 6. Bill Gray's Cheeseburger
Ben: 6. Uni (sushi)
Robb: 7. The Pink Flamingo
Ben: THat's uni (sea urchin roe) in sushi form, wrapped in seaweed on top of sushi rice, you undestand.
Robb: Ohhh got it got it
Yes, I remember that now.
Ben: 7. Hawaiian plate lunch, with either grilled teri chicken or kalbi short ribs. Either one.
Robb: Nice, niiiice
8. Ice Cream Cones cereal, cookies and cream version.
Ben: 8. PHILLY FUCKIN' CHEESESTEAK, fuck it.
Robb: 9. Rib-Eye steak, WELL DONE. No I am just kidding. RARE.
Ben: 9. Skyline 3-way or 4-way (w/ onions). I like having one of my favorite foods ever be the one Deadspin ranked as the worst food available to humans anywhere on the Earth.
Robb: I like that a lot, because I fucking hate them more than I like anything on any of our lists.
Ben: There is no way anyone who has had Skyline can hate it that much. I think it's a conceptual thing, but let's move on.
Robb: 10. A big plate of New Mexican food, Christmas Style. I guess I go with a burrito, but it has rice and beans there.
Ben: That's a good choice.
I went with the GCCB for my NM choice.
And my tenth is...
I forget.
Robb: Chicken and biscuits?
Ben: God dammit, I had this.
No.
Umm.
Robb: Hmmm.
Ben: Jesus.
Robb: You had this.
Ben: OH!
Lobster.
Of coruse.
Robb: Oh shit!
Ben: 10. Lobster.
Robb: Now I fucked up!
Ben: OHhhhHHHhhh.
Robb: Now I fucked. up.
I have fucked up now! I f-- god dammit!
God dammit!
I am OK with my choices.
Ben: I am okay with both of our choices.
Robb: Lobster, you're delicious. I am glad one of us had it.
Ben: I might have to swap out Skyline at some point, but I sure don't want to.
Have you? Have you HAD?
Robb: I have also never had it in Maine, so I don't feel right putting it there.
I have had your version of Skyline.
I have had lobster in Rochester.
Ben: Ah right.
Robb: The Skyline: equisite.
exquisite?
I feel there are better lobsters than NY and CO ones.
Ben: One could say "but Pinback, you have TWO chilis in your top ten" but I consider Skyline a pasta dish, and pasta was not otherwise represented.
Robb: So perhaps it is right that I don't have it yet.
Agreed, Skyline was also your pasta dish, as the Pink Flamingo was mine.
Ben: Agreed.
Let's... Let's LOCK 'EM IN.
Robb: This is our best work.
OK. I gotta be sure to copy it here, since I can't do it when the window closes.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu May 22, 2014 11:01 pm

To recap:

Pinback, who demanded no order:

Pho, NYC pizza, Bowl of red, Ribeye steak, Green chile cheeseburger, uni, Hawaiian plate lunch, with either grilled teri chicken or kalbi short ribs, Philly cheesesteak, Skyline, lobster

ICJ:
1. Saag paneer
2. Pepperoni pizza with extra cheese
3. Chicken korma
4. Kashmiri chicken
5. Fish fry from a chippy
6. Bill Gray Cheeseburger
7. The Pink Flamingo
8. Ice Cream Cones cereal, cookies and cream
9. Ribeye steak
10. A large plate of New Mexican food, Christmas style

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu May 22, 2014 11:04 pm

WHOSE LIST IS BETTER?!! EVERYONE VOTE EXCEPT LETHARGIC!!!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu May 22, 2014 11:05 pm

I am interested in the lists of others AS LONG as you people take the process seriously.

That was as serious as any fantasy baseball draft for me, personally. Can we just show this thread the same level of respect? Please? There's only two of us left, so I hope so?

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Fri May 23, 2014 10:56 am

I leave in 10 minutes for the airport. Tomorrow I will be having a $10 corndog at Disneyland. I can't say it'll make my top 10 best foods but I'm sure it'll make my list of top 10 overpriced ones.

Also if I had to pick a winner I would go with Ben's list as I'm not big on Indian food. They both had some great choices.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri May 23, 2014 12:59 pm

This would have made SUCH a great DR segment....One for the vault, as they say.

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pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sat May 24, 2014 11:09 pm

'kay, I may have to modify my list a little after my ongoing trip to the French Quarter in New Orleans.

My new top ten is the last ten things I've eaten here.

Okay, eight. Pho and the ribeye stay.

ChainGangGuy · Post by **ChainGangGuy** » Sun May 25, 2014 8:21 am

Will there be a subsequent list for desserts? Even k.roo knows that Jonsey has a sweet tooth.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon May 26, 2014 10:35 am

Were you k.roo?

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Wed May 28, 2014 7:26 pm

The French Quarter in NOLA has some amazing food, no arguments there. I also had some pretty amazing gumbo while in New Orleans too. And a po boy. Now that I think about it, I ate a lot while I was there.

The $10 corndog was only $7.95 and it was overrated. The ones from our state fair are much better. We did get a free strawberry funnel cake with them for being in the right place at the right time. It was good, but when was the last time you said, "Wow, that was a terrible funnel cake"?

We ate Mexican food in a town today called Los Banos which unless my high school Spanish teacher lied to me means "the bathrooms" which frightens me. It might also explain why we all have the shits.