[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

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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

[ellen_fremedon]

Is the sugar in Fat vs Sugar just refined sucrose? Or just sucrose? Or is it ALL SUGARS IN EVERYTHING?

It doesn't affect my choice-- I get very very unhappy when I do not get enough fat in my diet-- but it changes it from a trivially easy choice to a woeful and teary one if I have to give up fruit and sweet corn and tomato sauce and carmelized onions and carrot soup and roasted beets &c.

[thefourthvine]

It's just sucrose. If you have to give up all sugars in everything, I'm not actually sure you could eat a balanced enough diet to survive - all fruits and vegetables have at least a little sugar in them.

[sabeth]

You can -- I've been fruit-free/low-vegetable for two and a half years, fruit-and-veg free for going on eight months. (I'm fructose intolerant. No sucrose either.) It's not pleasant, and I hope I won't have to keep on doing it forever, but so far my immune system is doing fine, as are my skin, hair, etc. (The only vitamins I take are C and folic acid.)

I just thought I'd mention it because frankly, I'm still a little surprised myself. It's definitely not a healthy diet, but it's really quite survivable.

/de-lurk

[stranger]

Same question for fat -- do you mean fried foods, butter and things like meat where the fat is evident, or anything containing veg oils, lean chicken, fish and so on?

[thefourthvine]

"Fat" means anything that is all or mostly fat or contains lots of fat - something a diabetic would have to take as a fat exchange, is how I'm thinking of it. (Although I may be off in my diabetic dietary terminology, since I learned it back when I had a diabetic friend I ate with often, many years ago.) So no oils, no butter, nothing fried, no vegetable oils as oil, no avocados, no nuts, no olives, but lean chicken, fish, dried fruit - things containing very small amounts of fat - those don't count.