I’ve left out salt and pepper because we all know they’d be 1 and 2 respectively. Even if I seeded them in the same knockout somehow the winner would end up top.
Also, I’m not splitting up different types of the same thing - coriander can be ground, leaves or seeds, whatever; mustard seeds can be whatever colour you love most.
They both appear in lists of herbs and spices I found so same rules apply here really. Ginger root or powder, garlic powdered or fresh, chilli flakes or freshly chopped…
The thing is if I drop those two I’d have ended up with a couple of really obscure ones no one cares about.
I mean another top notch bracket challenge here, well done theo. Just decided at midnight I’m WFH tomorrow to see how this one goes. Love me some spices.
I have a real aversion to bay leaves after trying to use fistfuls of scrunched up bay leaves as a substitute for mince in spag bol when I was the only veggie in my home economics class in year seven and the nun who taught us (yes, really) was so incensed by the idea of someone not eating God’s clean meat that she refused to help me adapt the recipe.
Fistfuls of scrunched up bay leaves do not make spag bol taste good.
Honestly, unlike most other things where I have STRONG OPINIONS, I’m just so glad we have herbs and spices, that I’m more interested than concerned to find out what wins. They’re all just so great.
…except basil! fuck you, basil! until you start being served in correct proportions as a pizza topping, you can go fuck yourself, and regret every minute of it.
