best sex ever vs. best meal ever

in the end, food is basically more important to me than anything

i think i'm voting meal

Lot of similarities -- a marathon compared to the usual, kinda dazed and poleaxed afterward, a little sore (distended belly vs. raw dick), feeling "damn, I'm not doing that again for a few days."

This is a really hard choice.

there's a creepy dissonance here, though, since the best meals i've ever had have been in the presence of family and/or friends, and the best sex has not at least as far as i know and hope, and pray

comparing the two is like yakkles and barfanges

we should do a theoretical one too imo

best sex - easy - there were/are far more intricacies and variables involved - vs best meal - the only variable really required is having the money or going w/someone who has the money to pay for it.

my best meals have invariably ended up with me overindulging and having a food hangover for days and days afterwards.

the only variable really required is having the money or going w/someone who has the money to pay for it.

no way! good meals require a lot of stuff--good company, good setting, etc. thomas keller can cook a delicious meal but he cant make it the best ever unless thats where yr head is at.

i think i'm a lot less picky when it comes to meals.

This isn't even a question.

I'm the least food-based human I've ever met. I mean, I like good food a lot, but when I put it up next to sex, it's not even close.

something that's never been fulfilling vs. something that was tastily filling

meal

Solitary threads that effortlessly sum up the spirit of ILX.

i hope said meal didn't come from subway, dude!

clean hit

no, but the sex did

6 inches or 12?

More importantly, did you hold the cheese?

was it good for the coke dispenser machine too?

Best meal, easily. Food is way more consistent.

but the thread question specifically ignores consistency. It's about best one example of each.

sex
sex
sex

xp still food then tbh

Yeah sex for me. Far more emotion invested in good sex than good food.

years ago, before facebook opened up to the broader public, i saw in my primitive "newfeed" this girl joined the group MEAT OR SEX??? and she chose sex

and i have been thinking about this question ever since

lol

lonely hoos just thinkin baout things

Yeah sex for me. Far more emotion invested in good sex than good food.

i got very teary when i went to a fucking amazing produce stand last week!

(so: FOOD)

(in Dudley-Moore-as-Arthur voice) "Both involved a 1961 Chateau Margaux."

I love food but the pinnacles of the most intimate sex would be worth starving to death for

For the orig. thread question, specifically the best I've had -- probably sex, but it's close.

Changing the question up a little and thinking "from this point forward" -- I'd say best meal. To achieve at 47 what I managed in my 20s sexually, I'd have to go into some rigorous training. But I could meet or beat the best meal I've ever had tomorrow, and keep finding new highs until I'm 80, without having to get in shape for it. (Heart attack worries would apply to both sex and food, I guess.)

thread really got me thinking about what my best of each was, and the memories of the food are far, far more vivid.

http://www.thefatduck.co.uk/The-Menus/Tasting-Menu/

can i just

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it's really not close, for me - the best food I love, a lot, I mean I talk about food so much people comment on it, but with real intimacy, being that close to another human being, being able to feel as vulnerable and alive and unmasked as you do when you really get to that point

well I mean I don't like to over-tmi tmi but I think truly great sex is as close to the concept of the divine as I can really understand, that communion with a greater self into which one's petty narcissistic self collapses: that's true-life-peak stuff

http://www.foodnut.com/i/The-Fat-Duck/Fat-Duck-Bray-UK-Nitro-Scrambled-Eggs.jpg

^that's true life peak stuff

but with real intimacy, being that close to another human being, being able to feel as vulnerable and alive and unmasked as you do when you really get to that point

People unmasked are enough to make me lose my appetite.

I love food and cooking but I can't even see how this is a question.

Best meal vs. best dump, now that would be a contest.

hahaha, i literally thought of that same joke like two min ago

i totally remember mine too :/

http://www.effettonotteonline.com/news/images/stories/09_12/bleak_moments_xl_01-film-b.jpg

I can go back and have the best meal I've ever had whenever I want, and have done so several times.

I have been trying to have the best sex I ever had for years and have not recreated it yet.

Best sex.

where's your best meal?

I think the best ever meal would involve some pretty awesome sex at some point and vice versa.

where's your best meal?

I have more than one, actually.

Two can't be recreated because the restaurants don't exist anymore (RIP Maison Robert and Aujourd'hui) but I will ride eternally for:

the fusion dim sum at Ginger Park in Back Bay Boston
the lobster rolls at this hole-in-the-wall in Maine that I'm blanking on the name of, but is on the outskirts of Kennebunkport
the 10-course prix fixe menu at Graham Elliot in Chicago
ribs in Tennessee; it doesn't really matter where

as much I love food I've never finished dinner and gone "well, everything's changed now, I'm now in touch with places in my heart/spirit that I didn't even know existed"

I mean I do say things like "holy fucking Christ thank God for Paris, who'd have thought a round loaf of bread filled with runny cheese could be that fucking good" but if you'd have asked me, right then, "how many years of your life would you trade to have gotten a meal this good?" I'd say "years? forget it, maybe I'd suffer two weeks for this meal" whereas I would do prison time for the smoldering star-gone-nova change-yr-life type of sex I'm talking about

aerosmith is like seconds away from posting pictures

i don't even get what point Whiney's pics are supposed to be making

Busting a nut on a pizza vs. busting a nut on a French fry

I'll take "two types of people never welcome in my house" for $500

Ilx food and bloody tea fanatics trying to fake news this but the answer very obviously is best sex.

I love the basic-baiting of this question, call it what you want but if you're vehement you're wrong

That is true. But seeing how serious people get abt their tea here, this question is a doozy tbh.

for some best sex ever and best meal ever may be the same answer

http://www.youtube.com/vLKhJnKrf9M

https://youtu.be/vLKhJnKrf9M

for some best sex ever and best meal ever may be the same answer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes

idk if it's sad or not that I already know who that is without even opening the article

While in prison, Meiwes has since become a vegetarian.

<3

best Rich Tea vs best Chocolate Digestive

Out yacuncha

oh I see, you're a Chocolate Hob-nob kind of person

There's probably the Heston Blumenthal of sex out there, sea-shell with an iPod inside and half-month's-rent to enter and all.

And then the flipside of that, having lived with a gal who was a great cook and worked at Whole Foods (employee discount!), and the homemade meals were, on the right night, as transcendent as anything, and homemade with love.

ok, some people in this thread have obviously had way better sex than i have

i am no longer the true least food-obsessed human

i still don't think it's even close, though

it isnt

i stand by the excellent points i made upthread

food < sex < shitting

I feel aerosmith's posts itt

dlh doing at least two of the big three all wrong imo

put something in my digestive system and my only thought is how quickly it can be gotten out tbh

speaking of, but still slightly off-topic, it would be neat to route a loop of string through the mouth, down the esophagus, through the digestive system, and out the ass, then all the way back again - like a pulley system. then, finally, it would be possible to "eat food" by attaching it to the string, pulling it into the digestive system, then pulling it out whenever you want, either out the back end or through the mouth. could be sexy too

imagine stringing up some pearl onions, or shit kebabs

karl,,,,, thanks

hieronymous nosh

:D

16 people make me feel sad for them but that’s patronizing and it takes all kinds

i got my wish

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16 people make me feel sad for them but that’s patronizing and it takes all kinds

― El Tomboto

if it helps i find the notion of "good sex" literally incomprehensible, it's not a question of "regret" at this point, more like "sure, if you say so dad"

soda gets the fiver

like

i can imagine me eating the best meal ever and its a nice thought, lovely, ill have what hes having type of thing

i can just about imagine me having the best sex ever and no matter the prospective partner in this scenario the fact remains that itll include me and it ruins it rly

Common denominator fella

But also youve given yr guy a rest which is all well and good

Do the same with this subject srsly

As specific as my fantasies get, I can’t actually imagine having any real life sex be as memorable as, say, frying and eating an egg.

I find ppl who are really into sex slightly less tedious than ppl who are really into weed. It’s like, okay, chill already, we’ve all heard of both sex and weed.

It pleases me that if asked two years ago I would have chosen “meal”, but not now.

would have said sex no contest til I tried nashville hot chicken pringles

Attaboy

Also ppl i know who are super into sex are p low key abt it

Not sure what infidels youre hanging w silbs

That attaboy was to ma77ykin5 obvs

i've reversed my opinion on this

a really great meal is super fun but it doesn't give me the same high as after really great sex

Distressing discovery: what would have been a really great self-indulgent meal just a couple of years ago now tends to just leave me bloated and disgusted. It's probably a function of age.

That is terrible news. Anytime something you love isn't fun anymore, yes, probably age, but maybe the silver lining is there's something else out there that you'll be able to enjoy now you're seasoned enough.

i like almost everything better than food