[Poll] Check One

[thefourthvine]

Internets! I am still compiling the Woobie Poll of Dooooooooom, but in the meantime, here is a PRESSING QUESTION that came up today while I was (yay!) visiting with norah. Plus some other pressing questions, because why have one forced choice when you can have five?

So. For the rest of your life, you can only have one of each of the following pairs. Which will it be? Which is the ONLY ONE YOU CAN HAVE FOREVER? (If you already live without one or more of these, then obviously your choice is easier. Like, I will have no trouble at all with question three, but question one might kill me.)

I am also taking suggestions for future horrible forced choices. I would like to find the hardest forced choice in all the land. (That isn't, you know, of great weight or import. No Sophie's Choices.)

Poll #2389 Choose Wisely

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 634

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You can only have one of these for the rest of your life. Which? Choose wisely:

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Onions
234 (37.1%)

Garlic
397 (62.9%)

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Fat
405 (64.3%)

Sugar
225 (35.7%)

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Coffee
159 (25.2%)

Chocolate
473 (74.8%)

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Caffeine
426 (68.3%)

Alcohol
198 (31.7%)

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Sex (including with partner(s) and with yourself, etc.)
427 (68.4%)

Sweets (including all desserts, candy, etc.)
197 (31.6%)

Comments

[giglet]

I didn't choose onions for the same reason that I didn't choose coffee: there are acceptable substituted for onions (shallots, scapes, or even ramps) the same way there are other acceptable carriers of caffeine.

[happydork]

there are acceptable substituted for onions (shallots, scapes, or even ramps

I am so glad I read comments before I made my choice. Otherwise I think I would've spent twenty minutes just staring at question one, not daring to touch my mouse in case I tripped and clicked on the wrong one...

[everysecondtuesday]

I am so in love with all my forms of caffeine I find it difficult to give up any of them (though chocolate does still have some caffeine, so it was a choice there). I agree completely about onions, but I love them enough that it was still a difficult choice.

[artkoala]

ahahaha, ramps. they're like garlic and onions all in one! I totally agree with your logic.

[libitina]

In my world, onions and garlic are best together.

If you ever run into a person who has trouble digesting alliums, then a useful substitution is asafoetida/hing.

[giglet]

In my world, onions and garlic are best together.

And in the best of all possible worlds!