Rank your starches

[-james-]

Hello carbohydrate fans,

My ranking is as follows:

1. Pasta
2. Potatoes
3. Noodles
4. Bread
5. Rice

Pasta is clearly the best and is impossible to get bored of or not be in the mood for.

Potatoes, yeah, stunning variety and just an all round feel good food. Always welcome.

A good noodle is better than a good rice or bread. Big chunky udon fuckers in a big bowl of soup. A pot noodle. Oof.

Bread is broadly overrated but is above rice because you'd obviously pick it if you could only ever have one again. It's at its best when it's cheap as fuck and surrounding similarly cheap as fuck cheese, or as one of the poncey sourdoughs. Generally replaceable tho.

Rice is never the highlight is it? Risotto is good. I love this shit (https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2016/04/tamago-kake-gohan-egg-rice-tkg-recipe-breakfast.html) too.

Honourable mention goes to giant cous cous which is up there but pretty niche and didn't really fit the spirit of the list.

[Giggles]

1. Bread
2. Potatoes
3. Pasta
4. Rice

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Potatoes
Bread
Rice
Pasta
Noodles.

Love them all but the BIG THREE are miles ahead of the other two. Rice and bread are fairly even but convenience and versatility nudges bread just above. I'd happily eat a bowl of plain rice though.

I'm also a fan of bulgur wheat.

[Boydy]

My mate asked me a similar question recently of which one would you lose of the big four (fuck noodles) if you had to choose one. Think we all agreed probably potato. Potatoes are still great so it's a hard choice but rice beats it because imagine Chinese or Indian food without rice. Fuck that, I'd rather live without chips and mash.

My ranking would be:
1. Pasta
2. Bread
3. Rice
4. Potatoes
5. Noodles

[Kikó]

Bread (improves every dish)
Pasta
Rice
Potatoes
Noodles

But really they're all solid contributors.

[Shindig]

Bread
Pasta
Spuds
Noodles
Rice

If I had to wallop one out of existence, it'd be rice. I just don't tend to eat that much of it.

[Manc]

Bread is king. Noodles v underrated.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'd like to say bread is last, but as a conduit for other things it's pretty much essential. British bread can do one, though, utter rubbish.

Potatoes are at the top. Chips, mash, wedges, roasts, jackets, dauphinoises, puree, waffles, smileys, hassleback, croquettes. I've never yet found a bad potato dish. Well, actually, that's a lie, I've had stovies. But aside from that.

1 Potatoes
2 Pasta
3 Rice
4 Bread
5 Noodles

[randomlegend]

I'm intrigued as to why Giggles has excluded noodles entirely.

[Giggles]

They’re so bad they go with the other omissions.

[mugbull]

My favorite Asian dishes tend to be rice-less so although it’s nice it has to be the first to go.

Noodles are probably my favorite but i don’t eat them often enough for them to be my #1

Bread is great. At least any that’s made in France, which is also just a great place

Potatoes manage to avoid last place due to Sarlandaise and french fries.

1. Pasta
2. Bread
3. Noodles
4. Potatoes
5. Rice

[Kikó]

I think it's important to note that British bread isn't real bread.

[Giggles]

Bread is bread and whichever you like yourself is the best one. I’m sure some yoke baked in a hole under hot stones in Portugal makes for a better Instagram story than a sliced pan but I know which one I want to make a rasher sandwich out of.

[Boydy]

I think a lot of you are just thinking of a loaf (whether it be Hovis or some fancy sourdough) and forgetting about pizza and burgers.

[Kikó]

Bread is bread and whichever you like yourself is the best one. I’m sure some yoke baked in a hole under hot stones in Portugal makes for a better Instagram story than a sliced pan but I know which one I want to make a rasher sandwich out of.

Yeah and you're wrong.

Boydy is also correct.

[Ian]

Potatoes is the correct answer.

[Giggles]

Yeah and you're wrong.

Boydy is also correct.

I’m only wrong if I’m picking bread for you to eat.

[Serj]

1. Potatoes
2. Bread (as long as it's not British or Dutch)
3. Pasta
4. Noodles
5. Rice

[Lewis]

British and Ireland have tremendous breads, which covers quite a lot of affiliates like scones and crumpets and that.

[Offshore Toon]

Boydy got me dreaming up an Indian curry with mashed potato. You could make a pool of curry and make Stone Henge out of bits of naan.

[Serj]

British and Ireland have tremendous breads, which covers quite a lot of affiliates like scones and crumpets and that.

Good shout, I forgot about those in my Germanically narrow definition of what constitutes bread.

[mo]

1. Potatoes
2. Bread
3. Pasta
4. Rice
5. Noodles

You just can't beat good chips.

[Queenslander]

1.Potatoes
2.Rice obviously
3. Bread
4 Pasta
5. Noodles

[Revolution]

1. Noodles

From super noodles all the way Singapore style. Adds to every dish and can be eaten alone. The fact its rated so low by you guys here says it all.

2. Pasta

Similar to the above. So many variations. Absolute don of a food.

3. Bread

To be honest bread is made better by the items put inbetween it. No hate here though. Soda bread and sour dough are of.

4. Potatoes

Overrated. Chips are decent. But oven chips are fucking shite showing how fragile this vegetable is. Even crisps arent that great.

5. Rice

Tbh I prefer rice to potatoes. However, where rice falls short is you have it with something and you could easily just scrap rice and increase the something and you're alright.

[John]

Pasta
Bread
Potatoes
Noodles
.
.
.
Rice

[Bernanke]

Pressed the wrong answer. It's potatoes, for all the reasons Jim laid out.

[hfswjyr]

Rice
Potatoes
Noodles
Bread
Pasta

Tough to rank. They are all amazing.