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The Power Four => Big Ten => Topic started by: utee94 on March 25, 2026, 01:20:23 PM
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A common game we've all probably played in one fashion or another, now codified in a thread on this here message board full of knowledgeable and well-opinionated folks.
We ask an either/or question, then look at the responses. When that question gets stale, someone asks the next one.
I'll start:
For the rest of your life, you can either have gumbo, or chili. You gotta pick just one.
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geez, tough
am I able to get GOOD gumbo in Iowa? It's hard to find.
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What kind of chili? If it's Cincinnati chili, I'd go with that, anything else, gumbo for me.
JK.
I do really like both. And they both vary a LOT from style to style, kinda like BBQ. Gumbo MIGHT be healthier?
I'd have to think about how both have done in "The League" ....
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Man y'all are sure complicating an either/or question... ;)
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Your fault ...
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Texas Chili for the win.
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Maybe a surprise to you all, but as much as I love a delicious bowl of Texas red, I'd actually pick gumbo.
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Weird.
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I think it's really close, which is interesting, to me. I was musing about another such pair.
How about white OR red Burgundy?
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Red for me for sure. There are several whites and rose's that I really like, but if I had to choose, it's gonna be red.
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I'm currently eating soup that is kind of akin to gumbo, just no chicken or shrimp or okra, I forgot to add okra.
How about fried chicken or pulled pork (both done properly)?
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Red
Fried Chicken
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Fried chicken for me as well.
Pulled pork is nice but it's not elite-level, like brisket.
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Maybe a surprise to you all, but as much as I love a delicious bowl of Texas red, I'd actually pick gumbo.
Blasphemer.I'd take the Yuengling Chili
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I don't think I've ever had gumbo.
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A thing about fried chicken, for me, is the really good kind is fairly rare, most is mediocre, Crackerbarrel stuff, which is edible, but not elite. I find pulled pork to be pretty consistent, there isn't much range from mediocre to superb, IMHO.
Now, elite chili vs elite Gumbo? Huh. Both can be mediocre, both can be superb.
Why is it not spelled mediocer?
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I don't think I've ever had gumbo.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:smiley_confused1:
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Gumbo
Red (easy choice)
Pulled Pork
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I forgot to add okra.
resembles an impotent jalapeno w/o a notable taste unless fried but then ass from road kill taste all right fried
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A thing about fried chicken, for me, is the really good kind is fairly rare, most is mediocre, Crackerbarrel stuff, which is edible, but not elite. I find pulled pork to be pretty consistent, there isn't much range from mediocre to superb, IMHO.
Now, elite chili vs elite Gumbo? Huh. Both can be mediocre, both can be superb.
Why is it not spelled mediocer?
Do you have Publix up there?
Their fried chicken is really good.
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We have Publix here, there is one next to the Kroger we favor. Maybe their fried chicken is really good but what I have seen is pieces sitting around under a heat lamp.
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Randall's (part of the Safeway chain) is a terrible grocery store for almost everything, but they do make really good fried chicken.
Even better than H-E-B which does pretty much everything else, much better than every other grocery store in the state.
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Gumbo
Red (easy choice)
Pulled Pork
Interesting. If FORCED to choose, and I know this is really important today, I'm going:
Gumbo
White burgundy
Fried chicken
I THINK a $200 White is more sublime, for me, than the red, but man it's close. If it's a $20 bottle, I might switch. The cheaper whites are often a bit ... prosaic. Palatable but not transcendent.
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- Tough Call but Gumbo.
- Red or White I don't care. I've never been a wine drinker probably because I drank WAY TOO MUCH Boone's Farm and MadDog in my younger years and that killed any taste for wine that I might have developed.
- Pulled Pork, not a close one for me.
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Gumbo
Red
Fried Chicken
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The cheaper whites are often a bit ... prosaic. Palatable but not transcendent.
I knew it - ya went from being a chemist flying a puddle jumper to one of those hoity - toity vino appraisers. What in the Wide,Wide World of Sports would Vince Dooley or Phil Niekro for that matter say if they heard y'all talkin' yer sommelier way? Ya need to go to more dive bars and run that the hell out of you
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Chili
Red
Pulled Pork
Current answers for lower carb consumption. I can live with it. Pretty freaking well.
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Maybe a surprise to you all, but as much as I love a delicious bowl of Texas red, I'd actually pick gumbo.
me too
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I think it's really close, which is interesting, to me. I was musing about another such pair.
How about white OR red Burgundy?
red Burgundy
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I'm currently eating soup that is kind of akin to gumbo, just no chicken or shrimp or okra, I forgot to add okra.
How about fried chicken or pulled pork (both done properly)?
that was easy - fried chicken
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I knew it - ya went from being a chemist flying a puddle jumper to one of those hoity - toity vino appraisers. What in the Wide,Wide World of Sports would Vince Dooley or Phil Niekro for that matter say if they heard y'all talkin' yer sommelier way? Ya need to go to more dive bars and run that the hell out of you
have you met his wife??? ahhh, the 2nd wife
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I am surprised at the popularity of gumbo here. I’d guess for most it’s close.
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have you met his wife??? ahhh, the 2nd wife
Take my wife …..
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if ya had to choose one for the rest of your life, 1st wife or 2nd wife????
I haven't met the 2nd wife but, I'm willing to chance what's behind door #2
don't want the 1st one back
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Behind the Green Door? Monte Hall has a surprise for you
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We have Publix here, there is one next to the Kroger we favor. Maybe their fried chicken is really good but what I have seen is pieces sitting around under a heat lamp.
That's at almost every fried chicken joint. When I go in, I ask for a fresh batch. They never say no.
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broasted chicken to order
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The good fried chicken around here is always made to order. A heat lamp would be a travesty.
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yup, fast food - not for me
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Korean fried chicken and Nashville hot are the two biggest trends around here. I like them both, quite tasty.
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The good fried chicken around here is always made to order. A heat lamp would be a travesty.
At a sit-down, for sure.
Publix is a huge step up from KFC or any of those chains (except Brown's in/around Chicago as I'm sure @betarhoalphadelta (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=19) would attest).
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if ya had to choose one for the rest of your life, 1st wife or 2nd wife????
I haven't met the 2nd wife but, I'm willing to chance what's behind door #2
don't want the 1st one back
You haven't met your future second ex-wife yet?
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not to my knowledge
she would need to live on a golf course and have Husker season football tickets
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Yeah I'm gonna go ahead and stick with first wife. For now...
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nice disclaimer ;)
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No wine preference, and pulled pork over fried chicken pretty comfortably. Though there are a myriad of ways that chicken of the non-fried variety makes my mouth happy.
As for gumbo or chili.....I now have to speak to my doctor about a depression medication, because the very thought of having to choose one over the other gave my prefrontal cortex a hernia.
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2nd wife and it's not close.
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As for gumbo or chili.....I now have to speak to my doctor about a depression medication, because the very thought of having to choose one over the other gave my prefrontal cortex a hernia.
Yeah I wasn't trying to make it easy. :)
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gumbo, or chili.
Chili
but NOT Cincinnati Chili 🤮
(https://i.imgur.com/0CFaiBd.png)
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Yeah I wasn't trying to make it easy. :)
*sigh*
Gumbo....I guess....
you bastard
Chili.....we could've had so many more years together :91:
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that was easy - fried chicken
Rotisserie chicken and it's not even close.Might just be my menu choice if the executioner had me as his next client. That or an old school dagwood that the deli down the road made. They closed because a bunch of fancy Dan's built their McMansions there in '84 the saving grace is and old buddy use to work there in HS and remembers the contents :dance: - so time to try that after the Chili
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My mom who was from the south( Tennessee) used to make home made fried chicken a couple times a month when I was a kid. And truly homemade mashed potatoes and gravy.
What I wouldn’t give for just one more of her chicken dinners.
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Rotisserie was not a choice, sir.
Now, if you want to do an either/or with fried chicken and rotisserie chicken, well... that's exactly what this thread is designed for!
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Let's try a change of pace from food.
How about-- billiards, or bowling?
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Let's try a change of pace from food.
How about-- billiards, or bowling?
Billiards. ( full disclosure: i suck at both)
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Rotisserie was not a choice, sir.
Now, if you want to do an either/or with fried chicken and rotisserie chicken, well... that's exactly what this thread is designed for!
Well no one was following directions from the start - herding cats sir. And beans are a chili option,glad that was straightened out
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How about-- billiards, or bowling?
Shooting "stick" use be decent at, remember watching Willie Moscone vs Minnesota Fats on the afore mentioned Wide,Wide World of Sports