Buffalo chicken is chicken perfected we can fight if necessary
Maybe splitting it up by type of dish could work, eg. Peking Duck, noodle dishes, rice dishes, dim sum
What about salad or vegetables?
Collard greens ftw
I agree. Splitting Chinese into more discrete dishes makes it more consistent with the rest of the list. I’d also change Indian to Indian curries. If somebody wants to add other Indian dishes that have chance to make it past round 1, let me know.
Chicken is done so many ways it has to be subdivided imo. Fried chicken isn’t rotisserie chicken isn’t buffalo chicken isn’t baked chicken breasts etc
It would be fairer to just forbid chicken altogether. It’s a staple of the Western Hemisphere diet as rice is to the East
I could also say that it is not in keeping with the progressive nature of this forum to lump ethnic cuisines into broad categories, treating them as exotic, so that their foreignness is their most salient aspect rather than their taste.
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How should Chinese cuisine be entered into the competition?
- Keep as one entry
- Split into dishes
- Split by regions
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This is my preferred option:
Sounds good.
Oh is this back? Let’s do it! I feel like there are so many options maybe you need more brackets? Like four brackets of 32 each to narrow down to 16 with a theme to each bracket? Or maybe smaller brackets so we can get more specific? I guess maybe figure out the foods first and then figure out the bracket.
Actually I just changed my vote to “one category” since the method I laid out seems super unwieldy but also would likely be necessary if we end up with like 8 Chinese dishes
That’s what I plan to do. Right now we have more than 32 entries (I’d guess 40+) so we either need a bunch more to get to 64, have play-in rounds or I will award first-round byes.
I have these 30 right now:
French Fries/Potatoes (–>split?)
Burgers/Sandwiches/Subs
Tacos/Burritos
Sushi
Steak
Pizza
Pasta
Kebab/Gyros
Bread
Cake/Sweet Pie/Tarts
Candy
Chocolate
Ice Cream
Fruit
Cheese
Bagels
Chili
Bacon
Ramen
(American) BBQ
Cookies
Lobster/Prawns/Shrimps
Baked goods (eg. Donuts, Cinnamon Rolls etc.)
Pancakes/Waffles
Cereals
Lamb
Buffalo Wings
Rotisserie Chicken
Fried Chicken
Baked Chicken Breast
Still in dispute:
Chinese
Indian (—> Indian Curries?)
Persian
Thai
Vietnamese
I think burgers, hot subs, and cold subs (or just hot and cold sandwiches) should each be their own categories. Fried potatoes should also be it’s own thing. Baked chicken can gtfo. I think I like leaving the ethnic foods as single categories although that’s obviously disputable. Is roasts a good category? Vegetables, I guess. Soups. Salads. Hot dogs/sausages or not different enough? I think either separate tacos and burritos or do “Mexican”
I would be hard pressed to pick against Sesame Chicken in this contest…
It’s wild that an entire basic food group is on the chopping block. Like, of the food groups of the USDA Food Pyramid, which could you survive without? Probably junk food, meats, and fruit, and I don’t think you could cut it down any further. Maybe there are some essential micronutrients that you can only get from fruit? Need to consult a dietician here.
Vitamin C maybe? My initial thought was to break fruit down into smaller categories but probably best to have people just picture it how they want.
You can get vitamin C from lots of non-fruit stuff like potatoes and cabbage.You’d have to be careful, but I think it may be possible to survive without ever eating fruit.
Maybe it’s possible to live without dairy products? At least if you’re not an infant.
Yes being able to digest non-mother’s milk dairy is a fairly recently evolved human trait, it’s not at all an essential nutrient.
It would be a fun exercise to figure out a workable minimum diet that has the fewest number of foods and all of the nutrients you need to survive. Vitamin pills not allowed.