If you had to pick just one food (or two) to eat, to the exclusion of all others for a whole month, what would you choose?
For me, no question. I'd pick soup. In particular, soup of the day (or soup du jour, if we are having French food). That way, I'd get a different flavor each day. I'd be happy to eat soup for breakfast, lunch and supper, plus snacks. There is nothing as good.
If I had to pick two foods, I'd pick soup and buttered bread. Fresh-baked, crusty bread with fresh creamy butter.
If those were my two foods, I might sign on for a second month as well.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:If you had to pick just one food (or two) to eat, to the exclusion of all others for a whole month, what would you choose?
Death. Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
You'd prefer that over cake?
Huh.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
If you get to count soup as one food, I'm going to count pork as one food. Ribs, bacon, ham, carnitas tacos, pork chops, pork roast, sausage... dang, now I'm hungry.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
also because I feel like tongue in cheek nitpickery, isn't choosing something like the 'soup of the day' in this particular query either cheating or making the limitations hopelessly vague?
Similar categories of 'foods' you could select under vague categorical classification:
breakfast omniverous solid cooked edible carbon-based
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: You'd prefer that over cake?
Huh.
You're lucky I'm Church of England.
If we're going with relatively large categories, can I get salad and pizza? I think there's enough variety in each that I could eat for a long time without getting bored. That, and I'd be less likely to get scurvy.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Salad and pizza counts as two foods. You are signed up for that for the next month.
Enjoy.
Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :
"If you had to pick just one food (or two) to eat, to the exclusion of all others for a whole month, what would you choose?
For me, no question. I'd pick soup. "
I call shenanigans.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
You want to eat shenanigans for a whole month? You must really love Irish food.
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
Could I do apples?
Apple Sauce for breakfast, apple for lunch, and salads with apples in them for dinner, with apple crisp or other apple sweet things for a dessert of apples.
I could get my variety of apple foods in what kind of apple salad I have.
I like apples.
...
Apple.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Definitely. You can do whatever you like with your food choice -- sauteed apple, baked apple, dried apple. You can have Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, Gala, Fuji, or whatever kind of apple you like.
Vadon is signed up for apples for the next month.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
I'm going with pie (apple, blueberry, chicken pot, pizza)
and salad (green, Caesar, potato, egg, Jell-o).
Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :
<---- loves the fluff!
I know this may seriously gross everyone out, eggs.
Eggs were just about all I could stomach when I was pregnant with Aubree'. They just really make me feel good. I need that protein.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Omelettes, especially my son's amazing omelettes that taste like pizza only they're healthy.
Posted by Traceria (Member # 11820) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vadon: Could I do apples?
Apple Sauce for breakfast, apple for lunch, and salads with apples in them for dinner, with apple crisp or other apple sweet things for a dessert of apples.
I could get my variety of apple foods in what kind of apple salad I have.
I like apples.
...
Apple.
Ugh. Apples, though I like them, always make me feel hungrier.
I'd have to go with spinach and... Hmm. Well, spinach at least.
Posted by theresa51282 (Member # 8037) on :
I could live on soup and salad. Or chicken and salad
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tammy: <---- loves the fluff!
I know this may seriously gross everyone out, eggs.
Fluff and eggs for Tammy. Not my favorite combination, but, hey, your choice.
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
Pasta.
Sort of unfair...but that's how I roll.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
Soup of the day? Pork? Pasta?
Bah, I'm having dim sum for a month.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Mucus, are you aware that "dim sum" is Latin for "I am not very bright"?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I'll have sushi.
And salad, for variety.
Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :
"Bah, I'm having dim sum for a month. "
More shenanigans! This whole thread is shenanigans! I declare a mis-thread!
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Take-out.
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
Sushi for me too.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
I suspect a lot of phrases in all languages sound funny in other languages. Thats why at least in my experience, there are a non-trivial number of kids in grade school that enjoyed "mimicking" other languages. *shrug*
Posted by Xann. (Member # 11482) on :
quote:Originally posted by Paul Goldner: "Bah, I'm having dim sum for a month. "
More shenanigans! This whole thread is shenanigans! I declare a mis-thread!
I agree, this thread is cheating the "one food" game. We are in a one large and vague food catagory for a month thread.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Like that story about how "Coca Cola" translated into "Bite the Wax Tadpole" in China.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
But yes, thats the basic idea.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
One of these days I'm going to open a restaurant named "All Dat and Dim Sum"
I pick Sandwiches.
And soup.
The beauty about sandwiches is the fact that so many things qualify... Burgers... black eyed peas on bread... even a pizza. When you think about it, it's an open faced Italian sandwich, right?
Even Pie is a sandwich when you cut the side crusts off.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
And a steak is just a double-open-faced sandwich.
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
If I have to pick one specific type of sushi, then salmon nigiri. But I like having the whole sushi category available, cause there's enough variety within it that I might not get scurvy even if I eat nothing outside it for a month.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: And a steak is just a double-open-faced sandwich.
Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :
Pez.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Pez is not a food.
Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :
Is too! Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: And a steak is just a double-open-faced sandwich.
It's a "low-carb" sandwich.
Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :
Tante, you're on fire in this thread. (Please don't make a fire pun.)
Posted by The Genuine (Member # 11446) on :
Salt bagels and cream cheese. (Or is that two foods?)
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
OK, I'm gonna try to follow the actual rules: vegetable lasagna.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Dante, quit flaming Tante!
(Actually, Dante, fire, flames -- oh the possiblities.)
All right, can I also choose soup and bread? It's not such a stretch from my normal diet anyway.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
quote:Originally posted by Stray: Sushi for me too.
Me too. Mostly salmon
And some fudge cake too...
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Jon -- that's what I almost posted. Because it's what I made two days ago and I've been eating it ever since. But then I read the rest of Tante's post and thought, yeah, soup, that pretty much covers it.
Posted by Tara (Member # 10030) on :
Rice. It's the only food that would be possible to survive on exclusively for that long. Just sayin'.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Unless it's a food that has a variety of ingredients like omelettes, don't forget! Omelettes are nature's perfect food.
Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :
Sushi and pizza
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Beef and chicken.
Technically, milk is beef and eggs are chicken as well. So.
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
Simple. Stirfry & brown rice.
I'll even specify the stirfry, if you want: chicken or tofu as the main protein a little bit of olive oil a large quantity of spices, including black pepper, salt, red chilli powder, turmeric, garlic, ginger, and then something else depending on my mood that first day. zucchini carrots broccoli water chestnuts okra mushrooms green, yellow, and red peppers whatever other vegis I have in the fridge or freezer that sound good.
I think this is the healthiest thing (that follows the actual rule) suggested thus far. I'd have absolutely no problem eating it for a month, although I'd probably just have rice with a little sauce from the stirfry for breakfast.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Elmer's Glue: Pez.
I liked that movie, too.
Posted by LargeTuna (Member # 10512) on :
Sushi and Broccoli.
NOT together though. Wow that would be gross now that i think of it, broccoli sushi! but they're so awesome separate.
and call shenanigans all you want, I'm counting raw sushi, vegetable sushi, and cooked eel sushi as one foodish. And different types of broccoli too, like with Garlic sauce or just steamed with salt and pepper or whatever. I wish I coud so go on this diet! Great Idea for a thread even if it is nonspecific! Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester:
quote:Originally posted by Elmer's Glue: Pez.
I liked that movie, too.
No clue what you're talking about.
Posted by Sean Monahan (Member # 9334) on :
Grilled chicken salad, as long as it also contained, at the very least: eggs, croutons, tomatoes, some kind of shredded cheese.
Posted by krynn (Member # 524) on :
if there were no health complications involved, i would eat cereal and smoothie king.
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
If I weren't a vegan, there were no health complications, it wasn't unhealthy, etc. then doner kebabs. Mmmmmm.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Elmer's Glue:
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester:
quote:Originally posted by Elmer's Glue: Pez.
I liked that movie, too.
No clue what you're talking about.
A line from the movie Stand By Me:
quote:If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That's easy, Pez, cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by JonHecht: If I weren't a vegan, there were no health complications, it wasn't unhealthy, etc. then doner kebabs. Mmmmmm.
What? Like the Doner Party used to eat?
That's just wrong.
Posted by aiua (Member # 7825) on :
Oh, man. Döner.. I haven't had one of those in ages. I'm with you on that one, I could totally eat those for a month.
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
Single tpe: Edible. Second type: Not lethally toxic. I think that covers my options.
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