COMFORT FOOD MEGAPOLL FINALE!

[Rat Diva]

Apple pie vs Mac and cheese ended in a tie, so I've decided to declare apple pie as Most Comforting Dessert.

Lasagna is comfortably ahead in its poll, so it can face off against mac and cheese for the Most Comforting Main Dish crown.

I'm including a write-in vote section so that people who don't like either of these can have the fun of voting. However, these won't count towards the winner. Please feel free to lament about what should have won in the thread.

Now, for the final matchup. Drumroll please...

VS

Now vote for your favorite cheesy pasta goodness and head on over to the Tom Hanks megapoll!

[Rat Diva]

As much as I used to love lasagna, I can't have it anymore, it takes all day to prepare, and dirties every pot and utensil in the kitchen. Meanwhile, mac and cheese in all its warm cheesy goodness is simple and doesn't make me itchy.

[Scuba Ben]

The secret to comforting lasagna is oven-ready lasagna noodles.

As noted in discussions, the secret to comforting mac & cheese is to start with blocks of cheese and not powdered cheese substitute.

[Scuba Ben]

I maintain that the Most Comforting Appetizer is a bowl of chicken soup, with noodles or dumplings (matzah balls) as per your upbringing. And the Most Comforting Side Dish is freshly baked bread. Anybody who strongly disagrees with me, the Pit is over there. ---->

[Rat Diva]

We have Monday off because my boss wants to be able to work without the rest of us bothering her, so I'm thinking of baking some challah. And maybe an apple pie. And whipping up some mac and cheese. And finding someone to wheel me around on a hand truck after eating all that.

[Scuba Ben]

We have a bunch of apples in the fridge from an apple picking outing back in the fall. I like your thinking; perhaps we should use them up on Sunday.

[thorny locust]

Chicken soup should have won. However, chicken soup shouldn't have been separated out into different kinds of chicken soup.

If chicken soup didn't win, homebaked bread should have won. I don't think enough people have had good freshly home baked bread.

If neither of those won, hot cocoa should have won. I don't know what to blame that one on. Maybe too many people live in hot climates?

Grumble grumph.

[What Exit?]

Chicken Soup should have beat both of these with ease. Neither rates all that high for me.

[Die Capacitrix]

I like mac and cheese. Even with powdered cheese. Or with cheddar. Or with gorgonzola. Or other cheese.

[Kat]

Even the crap blue box mac and cheese is comfort, because that's what Mom made.

[Diamonds02]

I like them both equally, but my vote goes to mac and cheese. It’s more accessible. I prefer fresh homemade Mac and cheese. Restaurant prepared is good also, but expensive. But sometimes I have to settle for boxed, if I’m in a hotel and I’m craving Mac and cheese. Shelf stable! Cheap!

[Jaglavak]

Lasagna is a treat. Mac & cheese is what you dredge out of the darkest corner of the cabinet when there is absolutely nothing else in the house and your car broke down.

[Rock]

Chicken noodle soup should have won it all. Grilled cheese with tomato soup should be second. As Ratty said, homemade apple pie is Most Comforting Dessert.

Lasagna certainly beats out mac & cheese.

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by Kat

Even the crap blue box mac and cheese is comfort, because that's what Mom made.

I recommend you avoid looking at mac 'n cheese dishes on TikTok.

So many ways to fruck it up... soupy sauce, crunchy noodles, curdled cheese. I weep for humanity, and the trogs who must consume it.

[NAF1138]

Hey wait, I thought Apple Pie was advancing!

Sonofa

Well... Whatever. We all know what the real winner was anyway.

[Jaglavak]

The cromagnon who posted a video of warming up a slice of pizza under a hot water tap should get keelhauled.

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

As much as I used to love lasagna, I can't have it anymore, it takes all day to prepare, and dirties every pot and utensil in the kitchen.

you are forgetting Jeeves or someone can make it for you, plus clean up afterwards.

or was that a different megapoll?


well...I honestly am more comforted by Mac & cheese even though Lasagna is better food.

and apple pie will be for dessert.

or, wait, warm out of the oven chocolate chip cookies....

[Rat Diva]

Originally Posted by NAF1138

Hey wait, I thought Apple Pie was advancing!

Sonofa

Well... Whatever. We all know what the real winner was anyway.

I declared it Most Comforting Dessert. This is the battle for most comforting main dish.

[Borborygmi]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

I'm including a write-in vote section so that people who don't like either of these

This must be some new generation of CAPTCHA that I was previously unaware of.

[NAF1138]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

I declared it Most Comforting Dessert. This is the battle for most comforting main dish.

Oh, so it actually won the whole thing.

Got it.

[TroutMan]

The most comforting of these two is whichever one is currently on my plate.

But I voted lasagna because I'm in a red sauce mood.

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by Borborygmi

This must be some new generation of CAPTCHA that I was previously unaware of.

The tech tricks that I am unaware of could fill an encyclopedia.

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

I declared it Most Comforting Dessert.

are the Chocolate Chip Cookie voters revving up their bitterness and planning to hold a grudge?

I'm not, but that and $5 will get you a cup of coffee.

ETA: can't remember which I voted for, actually....or did CC Cookie and Apple Pie come up against each other?

[NAF1138]

Originally Posted by JackieLikesVariety

are the Chocolate Chip Cookie voters revving up their bitterness and planning to hold a grudge?

I'm not, but that and $5 will get you a cup of coffee.

ETA: can't remember which I voted for, actually....or did CC Cookie and Apple Pie come up against each other?

They didn't

Like I said before, we all know what the real winner should have been.

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by JackieLikesVariety

are the Chocolate Chip Cookie voters revving up their bitterness and planning to hold a grudge?

I'd call it Most Comforting Snack Food.

See? Every 1's a winner, baby, that's no lie.

[Rat Diva]

Right, and cocoa is the most comforting beverage, chicken noodle is the most comforting soup. Biscuits and gravy is the most comforting breakfast dish...

AND GRILLED CHEESE IS THE MOST COMFORTING SANDWICH!!!!

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

AND GRILLED CHEESE IS THE MOST COMFORTING SANDWICH!!!!

[Die Capacitrix]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

Right, and cocoa is the most comforting beverage, chicken noodle is the most comforting soup. Biscuits and gravy is the most comforting breakfast dish...

AND GRILLED CHEESE IS THE MOST COMFORTING SANDWICH!!!!

Washed down by a very comforting non-alcoholic beverage, a root beer float.

[NAF1138]

Originally Posted by Die Capacitrix

Washed down by a very comforting non-alcoholic beverage, a root beer float.

That's right! This poll taught us that Raffers weirdly hate alcohol.

[Rat Diva]

Actually, a float made with hard root beer would probably rock. I have to remember that for this summer because its 7 degrees out right now

[Zeener Diode]

Tied up with two days to go.

Five persons have a chance to switch their votes and become a hero and able to drink for free in any Gweeb-Town, OR become a villain and pariah forever shunned in popular threads. The choice is yours.

[Scuba Ben]

Well, Zeener, if I get to choose my outcome, what's behind door number three? What would I get if I vote for "Something else you monster"?

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

Tied up with two days to go.

suspense! I wasn't expecting that.

[TroutMan]

Originally Posted by Scuba Ben

Well, Zeener, if I get to choose my outcome, what's behind door number three? What would I get if I vote for "Something else you monster"?

Haven't people learned their lesson about what happens when you vote third party?

[NAF1138]

Originally Posted by TroutMan

Haven't people learned their lesson about what happens when you vote third party?

Don't keep voting for lizards!

Originally Posted by Douglas Adams

“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
"But that's terrible," said Arthur.
"Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.”

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by Scuba Ben

Well, Zeener, if I get to choose my outcome, what's behind door number three? What would I get if I vote for "Something else you monster"?

Yours is a dilly of a pickle. I don't want to tell you how to vote.

But a vote for M&C should secure you a place at my table.

[Rat Diva]

Huh, a tie. There's only one possible outcome here, which is that gooey cheese + pasta = comforting (with apologies to Thorny Locust and other non-pasta people).

Thanks again for playing along!

[TroutMan]

I think a tie between these two is the perfect ending. Thanks Ratty, this was really fun!

[Diamonds02]

Somebody should’ve grabbed an admin to break the tie!

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

Huh, a tie.

Nooooo

WE DEMAND RESTITUTION!

/throws gloppy TikTok dishes at everyone

[NAF1138]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

Huh, a tie. There's only one possible outcome here, which is that gooey cheese + pasta = comforting (with apologies to Thorny Locust and other non-pasta people).

Thanks again for playing along!

And this is why you are such a beloved monster.

Well played.

Also, I'm glad Chocolate Chip Cookies won the real poll

[NAF1138]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

Huh, a tie. There's only one possible outcome here, which is that gooey cheese + pasta = comforting (with apologies to Thorny Locust and other non-pasta people).

Thanks again for playing along!

And this is why you are such a beloved monster.

Well played.

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by Diamonds02

Somebody should’ve grabbed an admin to break the tie!

Last time I did that she almost slapped my face off.

[thorny locust]

Originally Posted by Rat Diva

(with apologies to Thorny Locust

At least I can comfort myself with thinking that as neither of them won, both of them lost!

Thanks for running this; it was fun.