Some colleagues and I went to a local sushi place near Microsoft SVC in Mountain View - Hon Sushi if I recall - and spied something interesting on the menu:

Yup, that’s right… a Google Roll (deep fired [sic] shrimp, crab roll wrapped w/ tuna, salmon, unagi [eel] / house sauce) and a Microsoft Roll (deep fried softshell crap, wrapped w/ albacore, salmon, unagi / house sauce). Well, we had to discover who was better, so we ordered one of each for Iron Chef Silicon Valley: Battle Sushi Roll!

That’s the Google Roll on the left, and the Microsoft Roll on the right. How to decide the winner? Well, after splitting a 20-pc sashimi between the three of us, whichever roll was the first to be eaten, or had the fewest uneaten pieces, would be the victor. So, we dove in, tried both, and picked out the ones we liked. At the end, there was one piece remaining…

The last remaining roll was from Google! Microsoft wins! wOOt!

We made Sanaz eat the final piece and finish off Google. She wasn’t terribly happy about that. Apparently, both Microsoft and Google together fill you up pretty quickly…