# The best food in the world ever ever ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090 "2009-02-23T19:31:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/41 "2009-02-23T22:28:56Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > One word: OREOS. Exactly what I came in here to say. About this there can be no debate. Oh- and McD’s fries haven’t been any good since they changed the oil they use, I think back in the 80’s. Now back then, they’d be on the top 5 list. Today they’re just a sorry-ass excuse for a french fry. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/42 "2009-02-23T22:56:19Z")
Bacon club sandwiches with a slice of dill pickle and potato salad. Or really, really bloody rare salty steak. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/43 "2009-02-23T23:06:55Z")
Saag Paneer with a side of garlic naan and gulub jamun for dessert Foie gras Laap Gai Filet mignon, Pittsburgh style, with horseradish mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli with hollandaise Sea scallops Steamed mussels in white wine and garlic, with lots of bread to sop up the sauce ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/44 "2009-02-23T23:13:10Z")
Spaghetti carbonara Biscuits & Gravy Pepper steak Belgian frites Paella ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/45 "2009-02-23T23:46:21Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > One word: OREOS. OK, I’m prepared to be Pitted for this but, I don’t really get all the love for Oreos. I mean, they’re OK for a bagged cookie, and I’ve been known to eat a few at a party, but give me a homemade Chocolate chunk cookie, fresh from the oven, any day. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/46 "2009-02-23T23:52:10Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > OK, I’m prepared to be Pitted for this but, I don’t really get all the love for Oreos. I mean, they’re OK for a bagged cookie, and I’ve been known to eat a few at a party, but give me a homemade Chocolate chunk cookie, fresh from the oven, any day. It’s the cream (creme?) inside. That stuff is crack. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/47 "2009-02-23T23:58:44Z")
Pistachio ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/48 "2009-02-24T00:00:08Z")
In no particular order: Any smoked meat, particularly pork shoulder and rib tips or spare ribs Gai pad grapao (Thai holy basil chicken) Creme brulee Foie Gras Penn Cove mussels (particularly from Toby’s in Coupeville, Washington) Otoro (fatty tuna) Cheese in all its infinite varieties Chicken paprikash with galuska/nokedli/spaetzle Neapolitan-style pizza Spaghetti (or other pasta) puttanesca Ossobuco with risotto alla milanesa Beef bourguignon Chicken piri-piri Jerk chicken Tacos al pastor and a whole lot more I’m forgetting Add me to the list of people who just don’t get Oreos. ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/49 "2009-02-24T00:25:12Z")
Chocolate chips, on peanut butter, on a graham cracker(or an Eggo waffle), microwaved, with a big glass of milk. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/50 "2009-02-24T00:50:25Z")
> [@Queen\_Bruin](#): > > One of these days I am going to work up the courage to try lengua. I had it once, at a Colombian restaurant. It tasted like very tender pot roast. Itw as delicious. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/51 "2009-02-24T00:57:19Z")
Ahhh, the Desert Island Food List: 1. Jif creamy peanut butter. 2. That white cheese dip you can find at a lot of Mexican restaurants. 3. Fried chicken 4. Milk 5. Hamburgers ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/52 "2009-02-24T01:00:46Z")
White cheese dip at Mexican restaurants? What? Is this a Tennessee thing? > [@Aesiron](#): > > I had it once, at a Colombian restaurant. It tasted like very tender pot roast. Itw as delicious. Half of what I think my aversion to lengua is is that it seems like it would be wicked rubbery. To hell with it, I’m getting lengua this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/53 "2009-02-24T01:05:49Z")
> [@Queen\_Bruin](#): > > White cheese dip at Mexican restaurants? What? > > Is this a Tennessee thing? It’s an Eastern US thing: I’ve had it in FL, GA, NC, TN, NY, and some other places. Most restaurants that have it bill themselves as “Monterrey style” restaurants, if that helps. Alas, here in San Antonio (I guess I should change my location, huh?) I might as well be speaking a different language. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/54 "2009-02-24T01:36:34Z")
I think it must be [queso fundido](http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/queso-fundido-recipe/index.html) (which means “melted cheese”[). Here are some images.](http://images.google.com/images?q=queso+fundido&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=TE6jSf3WGY-EtgfApO3LBA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title) My aunt served us lengua for lunch once. Didn’t tell us what it was until afterward. It was excellent. My favorites: Mamey ice cream - it’s been my favorite flavor since I was a little kid Real tamales (real=the type they sell in Mexico City) Freshly made corn tortillas with butter Enchiladas suizas (corn tortillas filled with chicken moistened with cream and green sauce; the sauce is more cream and green sauce. Topped with a bit of melted cheese. Puerto Rican chicken fricassee (chicken, potatoes, carrots, peas,olives, pimento in a tomato and wine sauce; served over white rice; yummy) Pad Thai with chicken and shrimp Lentils with homemade spätzle (my best friend’s MIL makes excellent ones) Now I’m hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/55 "2009-02-24T02:18:38Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > It’s an Eastern US thing: I’ve had it in FL, GA, NC, TN, NY, and some other places. Most restaurants that have it bill themselves as “Monterrey style” restaurants, if that helps. > [@gardentraveler](#): > > I think it must be [queso fundido](http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/queso-fundido-recipe/index.html) (which means “melted cheese”[). Here are some images.](http://images.google.com/images?q=queso+fundido&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=TE6jSf3WGY-EtgfApO3LBA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title) That looks and sounds really damn good. I’m a big advocate of anything delicious and cheesy, really. _off to the test kitchen!_ ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/56 "2009-02-24T02:32:57Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > If someone made a bacon-flavored Cadbury’s cream egg with thai curry sauce, pressed on a panini grill, and dipped in tomato soup, I’d be all over that. Dave? Dave Lister? ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/57 "2009-02-24T02:40:50Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Nice fat ripe backyard-grown tomato in August. Served one of these ways: > > 1. Just plain with salt. > 2. Sliced onto a BLT. > 3. Diced with garlic, fresh basil, olive oil and white wine vinegar. > > ::counting months until August 2009:: I’m sure you’re already aware of this delicacy. But I’m more (and more) often than not wrong about the things I’m sure of. So, just to cover the bases, dot the i’s, and cross the t’s: [One of the better things you can do with tomatoes.](http://www.khanakhazana.com/recipes/view.aspx?id=1013) IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/58 "2009-02-24T02:44:25Z")
Beef tacos Black bean chili Risotto Salmon cakes Dry smoked salmon ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/59 "2009-02-24T03:11:16Z")
While the foods cited in the OP are all wonderful indeed, there is just nothing like a REALLY perfectly cooked steak. I love the Steak For Two (it’ll feed 3) at Wolfgang’s, 33rd (or is it 32nd? I’m always in a beef coma when I leave) and Park. Fuck’s sake, have it before you die, people. It’d convert Gandhi away from vegetarianism. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090/60 "2009-02-24T03:44:20Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Chicken paprikash with galuska/nokedli/spaetzle Heaven. With some red cabbage on the side maybe, and a salad with cucumber and onion and feta cheese to start and a good German beer. We went to a local German/Hungarian/etc restaurant for Christmas Eve and had that and I was making happy sounds while I ate. 🙂 Unagi is nice. The tiny salad I had once at a sushi place: the ingredients were not shocking – various spring greens, some crab, some celery and carrot I think – but so much care went into each flavor and the preparation of each ingredient. This was given to me without my request before I had a plate of sushi there. It was the fifth or so time I’d eaten sushi but my first time to have this salad. It was, somehow, the salad that helped me understand the concept of sushi. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-food-in-the-world-ever-ever-ever/487090.md?page=4)