Gilmore Girls Elimination Game

lulu1960 · August 2, 2019

16, 20, 22

chitowngirl · August 2, 2019

7, 8, 26

Kohola3 · August 3, 2019

1 (I can feel the heartburn)

7 (yuck)

22 (nasty)

Taryn74 · August 3, 2019

7 - I'd eat it, in a heartbeat. As long as endive isn't one of those lettuces that taste like grass and/or dirt, blech. Light on the red pepper, though.

22 - Yuk-o.

26 - Mostly because I have no memory of this scene whatsoever.

Still voting against three! * Vote AGAINST the ones you would LEAST like to try.

GG Foods You'd Most Like to Try

1. Rory's heading-to-Yale-breakfast from Luke's. "Since we were short on time, I had them make us something to go. My Yale special." "Oh, share, share." "Sausage, wrapped in a pancake, tied together with bacon." "You made that up?" "I don't know how I do it." (The Lorelais' First Day at Yale)

2. Lorelai makes Luke make her dinner after Liz brags about all the fancy food he likes to cook. "Man, something smells crazy good in here. Oh my G-d, what are you making?" "Lamb and artichoke stew, penne with pesto and potatoes, roasted garlic with rosemary focaccia, tomatoes stuffed with bread crumbs and goat cheese, and ricotta cheesecake with Amaretto cookies to go with your coffee." "You're the perfect man." "Thank you." "I used to think it was Kelsey Grammer, but it's not. It's you." "Finally, I'm one-upping Grammer." (The Party's Over)

3. Caesar has gained more confidence cooking at Luke's. "Chilaquiles, huh?" "Chilaquiles." "People went nuts for them. Mr. And Mrs. Fiss said they want them every morning now. Who knew? I didn't even think we'd sell one of them." "Well it was all Caesar -- his idea, his recipe, his refusal to take no for an answer." "Hey, Caesar. Chilaquiles!" "Chilaquiles!" (Lorelai? Lorelai?)

4. Emily is in charge of Rory's 21st birthday party. "A chocolate praline crunch cake. A chocolate praline crunch cake completely covered with pearls. Ah, to be 21 again." (21 is the Loneliest Number)

5. Sookie temporarily takes over Luke's diner when the Independence Inn burns down. "Hey, we making the Cajun Eggs Benedict again?" "I don't know, we could." "Let's do it, it was good." "Well, the Cajun was all your doing." "Only because I knocked the cayenne pepper into your hollandaise." "Hey, how do you think they invented the Reese's cup and penicillin, my friend? We can win the Nobel here." (A Tale of Poes and Fire)

6. Richard has to come to the Dragonfly to help Lorelai with an insurance claim. "Oh, my, what is that heavenly smell?" "Scones." "I have never smelled anything as heavenly as this." "Wait 'til you taste them." (So...Good Talk)

8. Sookie made, and has to throw out, a bunch of broccoli tarts when Emily has to cancel the launch party she planned. "I have something I have to do. I'll be back in a little while. And have these damn tarts out of here by the time I get home!" "Grab a fork." (An Affair to Remember)

9. Sookie doesn't quite get the idea of a children's menu for a children's birthday party. "You made brie." "Oh. With lavender honey and, uh, bourbon-sugared pecans. I thought it would go nicely with the crudités platter." "Please tell me you made food for the kids." "I did make food for the kids." "These kids, not the Romanov kids." ..... "So, uh, what do we have here?" "A little lemon-garlic aioli for the blanched veggies." "Oh, great." "You think I should put the assorted charcuteries on this table or this one?" ..... "What is that?" "It's macaroni and cheese." "It's green. Why is it green?" "Because I made it with a jalapeno-chipotle cream sauce." ..... "Is that the cake?" "Of course it's the cake. You think I would go to a birthday party without a cake?" "What kind of cake is it, Sookie?" "Chocolate. With a rum-raisin, tropical-fruit ganache." (The Hobbit, the Sofa, and Digger Stiles)

11. Lorelai and Rory sample wedding cakes at Weston's. "Um, can I ask you an ethical question?" "Mmm." "Is it right to be sampling wedding cakes when Sookie's making ours for free?" "What is right anyway, you know? Who defines right? And if eating cake is wrong, I don't want to be right." "I'm bringing out a mocha crunch cream!" "So, ethics?" "Highly subjective and completely overrated." (Red Light on the Wedding Night)

12. Sookie prepares an elaborate 19th century feast. "We're talking seven courses here. Soup, fish, Peacock Pie, the Baron of Beef, the salad, then the Plum Pudding and the Wassail." (Bracebridge Dinner)

14. Lorelai asks Sookie to bring over some food because she's expecting her parents. Sookie misunderstands and thinks Lorelai wants junk food because she's pregnant. "Okay, the mini hot dogs can be bratwurst. The mac and cheese can be Pasta la Sookie. And, presto, the taquitos are blinis." "And the chili fries?" "Are....chili fries." "Right." (I'm Okay, You're Okay)

16. Emily serves custom drinks - The Rory - at Rory's 21st birthday party. "It's like drinking a My Little Pony." (21 is the Loneliest Number)

17. Luke takes over the Dragonfly's kitchen while Sookie is on bedrest. "The duck sauce. Are you straining it?" "Yes." "Twice?" "No." "Oh, well. It's really best if you strain it twice. It makes it really smooth." "People seem to be liking the sauce, Sookie." "Well, sure, when you don't know what you're missing, then...." (But I'm a Gilmore!)

18. Rory has Pete's Pizza make Lorelai the World's Biggest Pizza - sort of - for her birthday. "The thing’s a hazard, babe." "Pete, did it ever occur to you that the problem may not be the pizza, it may be Kirk?" (Happy Birthday, Baby)

19. The girls make dessert sushi as a consolation for Rory not getting to travel to Asia with Logan. "You are honestly asserting that you like the tootsie-roll marshmallow twizzler roll better than the butterfinger junior mint chocolate chip jujube roll?" "Hey, call me crazy. I don't think butterfingers go with jujubes." "The limitations of your palate astound me." (That's What You Get, Folks, for Makin' Whoopee)

20. The Gilmores bring back the finest marzipan in all of Europe, made by cloistered nuns. "Those nuns kick you-know-what." (The Nanny & the Professor)

21. Jackson horrifies Sookie by deep frying a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. "A couple of days ago, Jackson asked me if he could cook the turkey. I thought he was gonna roast it, stick a couple of onions around it, something simple. So I said yes, figuring that the minute he put it in the oven and leaves the kitchen, I can sneak in and give it a nice herb-butter rub and stuff it with a pancetta-chestnut stuffing." "Sure, ‘cause he’d never notice that." "Exactly! Then the propane tank arrived, and the industrial burner, and the fifteen gallons of peanut oil. Then he springs it on me – ‘I’m gonna deep-fry a turkey!'" "Deep-fried turkey." "Interesting." "I tried to talk him out of it, but I’d already promised and now he’s excited about it." (A Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving)

23. Sookie puts together her basket for the Bid-a-Basket fundraiser event. "I made four kinds of pesto and three different desserts. Plus the entire basket is an edible pretzel with a goat cheese filling." (A'Tisket A'Tasket)

24. The food critic isn't impressed with Sookie's risotto. "I mean, you know about this risotto. I mean, on my mother’s deathbed --" "You made the risotto and she lived three more years." "She was supposed to be dead. The doctor said she wouldn’t make it through the night." "And she lived because of the risotto. The magic risotto." "And this guy had the nerve to say it was ‘fine’." (The Deer Hunters)

25. Luke bribes Lorelai with brownies to get her to agree to let Rory tutor Jess. "Well, I accidentally dropped triple the amount of cocoa powder in the batter so I either had to dump the batch or find someone with some sort of superhuman chocolate tolerance – only one name came to mind." "G-d, I love being special." (Teach Me Tonight)

27. Lorelai calls Sookie to tell her the wedding is off. Sookie starts carving up the cake she was almost finished with and handing out slices. "You were a good cake, Clyde. I never should've named you." (Road Trip to Harvard)

28. The girls are upset Luke changed his menus. "Did you take off the Monte Cristo sandwich?" "Well, I –" "No!" "You did, you took off the Monte Cristo sandwich." "I omitted a few obsolete dishes." "I can’t believe Nicole made you take off the Monte Cristo. She’s got you menu-whipped." (The Big One)

29. Luke's got time to make a few fancier dishes since he hired Brennan to help at the diner. "I'm making pumpkin pancakes and it comes with homemade cinnamon butter." "You made cinnamon butter?" "This morning." "Wow. I bet the other people who would love a table right now but can't have one 'cause they're all taken would love pumpkin pancakes with homemade cinnamon butter." (Ted Koppel's Big Night Out)

30. Jackson can't get Sookie any strawberries so she makes blueberry shortcake for the DoubleMint Twins' wedding. Lorelai takes some to FND. "You brought us used dessert?" "It's not used. It's left over." "How nice. I'll just put it in the kitchen next to my half-empty box of Cheer." (Kill Me Now)

31. Lorelai orders the special omelet to make Luke crazy. "I’m gonna go with the special omelet." "Okay." "With a side of bacon." "There’s bacon in the omelet." "Oh, then skip the bacon." "The side of bacon?" "The bacon in the omelet." "Hold the bacon." "Can I get Jack cheese?" "On the side?" "Instead of Swiss, Swiss is so stringy." "Fine, Jack cheese." "Also, I think I’m allergic to oregano so hold that, too, and some coffee." "So, just the eggs, tomatoes, and Jack cheese." "Not too many tomatoes." "Light on the tomatoes." "Very light, just a teeny-tiny amount, practically none." "I’m skipping the tomatoes. It’s an omelet with Jack cheese." "Perfect." (Back in the Saddle Again)

32. Max goes to Luke's with Lorelai and Rory. "I've got the blueberry pancakes this morning." "Bring 'em." "Bring 'em twice." (Red Light on the Wedding Night)

lulu1960 · August 3, 2019

12- Not sure I'd eat some of the dishes. Peacock? Nope.

9- I'm with Lorelai. It's not a kids' menu. It's not a lulu menu either.

20- So many different candies I'd eat.

Kohola3 · August 3, 2019

1, 9 (I'm not sure I'd eat most of those either and I'm no kid), 19 (reading about it makes my teeth ache)

And I will fight for marzipan to the death. Love that stuff!

lulu1960 · August 3, 2019

2 hours ago, Kohola3 said:

1, 9 (I'm not sure I'd eat most of those either and I'm no kid), 19 (reading about it makes my teeth ache)

And I will fight for marzipan to the death. Love that stuff!

Truth be told, I've never had marzipan. But it just sounds overly sweet to me.

Kohola3 · August 3, 2019

18 minutes ago, lulu1960 said:

Truth be told, I've never had marzipan. But it just sounds overly sweet to me.

Nope, not overly sweet. It's mostly ground almonds, at least the good stuff. The kind made by those nuns.

ghoulina · August 4, 2019

8, 9, 12

junienmomo · August 4, 2019

8,9,12

Constant Viewer · August 4, 2019

8, 9, and 19

Taryn74 · August 4, 2019

8 - I wouldn't mind trying a broccoli tart. I wouldn't want hundreds of them in my house though.

9 - I'd at least try everything she mentioned, heh.

12 - The idea of the Bracebridge Dinner sounded lovely.....until Sookie started going over the menu. I have to believe it's not actually legal to cook a peacock nowadays.