HTT - Eatin' Edition

Attention people who are trying to get grants for research: I'm not paying you to find out what is everyone's favorite cuisine. I will, however, hustle up some funds for you to study the correlation between monkey spit and fashion sense, and/or any similarly strange topic that would make for an entertaining dissertation.

But I'm not going to pay you to poll people on their favorite type of food because it would get redundant:

"Mexican!"

"Uh ... Mexican."

"Ameri -- No, Mexican!"

"Eurasian."

What the --- ?

Because I think there is a general consensus (at least in my social circles) that Mexican food is www.thebomb.com. And while there is certainly a plethora of bad Mexican food to be had, you generally can't go wrong with beans, cheese and some bad ol' hot sauce. I once found a cockroach in my quesadilla at a dive in San Diego, and I probably wouldn't have noticed if they had served a decent taco sauce - because I say sauce over salsa any day, but that's a personal issue.

But the same can not be said of other cuisines. Chinese food, for example, must be immaculately prepared or it's only good as a glue substitute. Same goes for a hot dog. Granted, I don't believe the hot dog has yet to qualify as its own genre of food - it currently resides in the Ballpark Eatin's category - but a good dog is heaven with a helping of mustard, while a nasty dog is just that.

So to save you greedy granters some time and lots of donation request letters, I am going to rank my favorite food cuisines in order:

1. Mexican - Stuff a pepper with cardboard, and I'll eat it.
2. Thai - Curry, curry and, um, curry.
3. Japanese - It's like the rice is made of crack. Rice crack.
4. Indian - I really like the one that looks like spinach diarrhea.
5. Italian - One word: gnocchi.

After that, it starts to get blurry with random Vietnamese and Guatemalan dishes duking it out with other cuisines for a higher ranking. But I honestly like most cuisines and have sampled lots of them, although I've yet to try Ethiopian. (I blame Mr. Dub and his higher-ranked Italian hankerings. Also, his aversion to injera and communal hand washing.)

So, my dearest bloggity friends, what are your FIVE favorite cuisines? Rank 'em and weep.

And then let's all go out to lunch. I'm craving Mexican. What about you?