# Chocolate or cheese? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 15, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783 "2010-07-15T15:04:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/41 "2010-07-15T19:13:28Z")
Taking inventory of my frigde, there’s no cheese in there right now. But one of the bottom drawers is about 1/3 full of chocolate foodstuffs. So I’ll give up the cheese for $20,000 yearly. I do enjoy some good cheese! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/42 "2010-07-15T19:16:14Z")
Giving up chocolate, easy. I’m not that big of a fan of it. But cheese?! When people ask whether I could convert from being an ovo-lacto vegetarian to a vegan, I tend to quip, “I’m from Wisconsin, I don’t think they **let** us give up cheese.” ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/43 "2010-07-15T19:18:42Z")
I really love chocolate. I like the deep, rich, 74% cocoa solids single-course bars you can get at Trader Joe’s. But I would give it up for an extra $10k per year. That would take a serious dent out of the school/childcare costs. It would just be so logistically difficult to give up cheese. It’s in so many things, I’d have to be constantly watchful. It would really suck to deprive yourself all year only to find that the wrap on the turkey sandwich you ate on Dec 13th had asiago in it. . . ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/44 "2010-07-15T19:37:34Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > To quote a t-shirt I often wear: “I’m an English major. You do the math.” Where can I get this T-Shirt? Oh, and I’d give up chocolate, at least a few years worth. Even though I usually eat cheese as an ingredient in a thing, rather than as a thing on its own, I can’t imagine doing without it. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/45 "2010-07-15T20:02:02Z")
If you were to offer me, right now, a choice between a piece of chocolate and a piece of cheese, I would take the chocolate. Hands down. But if I have to \*eliminate \*one from my diet, that’s entirely different. It’s easy enough to skip dessert or to eat one that doesn’t involve chocolate, and to avoid any non-dessert foods made with chocolate (there aren’t THAT many of them). Avoiding all cheese would be much, much more difficult. Still not sure I’d do it for $10k, though. That’s not even $28 a day. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/46 "2010-07-15T20:09:12Z")
I would not accept this offer unless that ten grand was going to save my dying spouse or something. Chocolate and cheese are two of the three best foodstuffs (bread being the third) on the planet and I will not live without them for any amount. In fact, just for offering he gets a kick in the nads. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/47 "2010-07-15T20:26:43Z")
Another of your damn polls where I agree with the common herd ten to one. Oh fie, Skald, fie! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/48 "2010-07-15T20:26:53Z")
Chocolate. I love it, but it would be easier to give up. It’s not a secret ingredient in as many things, and I can get my sweet fix some other way. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/49 "2010-07-15T20:27:26Z")
Try to take away my cheese and you will become intimately familiar with pain. In all its glorious variations. Without checking I can name at least seven kinds of cheese in my refridgerator right now. I do like my chocolate so 10k wouldn’t be persuasive. 25k would get it some serious consideration though. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/50 "2010-07-15T20:32:57Z")
10K comes to about 192 dollars a week - before taxes. Even less after. That would not enrich my life enough for me to give up either food. I suppose I could be bought, but I don’t know what it would be. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/51 "2010-07-15T21:26:49Z")
Much as I adore chocolate, I could live without it if I had to (though it wouldn’t be easy–I’d probably want more than $10K a year to do it). But cheese? No way. That would mean giving up pizza, and I love pizza far too much to do that. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/52 "2010-07-15T21:30:10Z")
I’d rather have a cheese dessert than macaroni and chocolate. It would be hard for me to give up either but $10k would be worth it to me right now. I chose chocolate because I assumed cheese included cream cheese, and shredded parmesan, and cheez-its, and pizza and on and on… I am just as happy to forego cheese on a burger but I cook some sort of Italian food about once a week. It’s the ingredient cheese I eould have a hard time doing without. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/53 "2010-07-15T23:13:38Z")
Cheese. I absolutely COULD NOT give up chocolate. That would fucking suck. But um, what happens if someone brings in chocolate cheesecake? Am I allowed to cheat? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/54 "2010-07-15T23:27:05Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Am I allowed to cheat? You’d probably be visited by a herd/flock/troop of Skald’s flying/flaming/farting monkeys. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/55 "2010-07-15T23:53:59Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Cheese. I absolutely COULD NOT give up chocolate. That would fucking suck. > > But um, what happens if someone brings in chocolate cheesecake? Am I allowed to cheat? I think it said in the OP that the billionnaire has sunk a ridiculous amount of money into creating a blood test, and that tests are done randomly once a month, and that if you’re caught cheating you forfeit all the money you’ve been paid for that year and get kicked out of the program. So if you’ve already been tested in December, why not cheat? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/56 "2010-07-15T23:55:43Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You’d probably be visited by a herd/flock/troop of Skald’s flying/flaming/farting monkeys. > :rolleyes: What? I’M not the eccentric billionnaire. I have given up the super-villain gig and am the very soul of sweetness & light. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/57 "2010-07-16T00:03:15Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I have given up the super-villain gig and am the very soul of sweetness & light. Who the hell are you, and what have you done with Skald? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/58 "2010-07-16T00:09:01Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Who the hell are you, and what have you done with Skald? > :dubious: Super-villain Skald would have murdered you and all your friends for that remark. Are you dead? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/59 "2010-07-16T00:48:21Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Super-villain Skald would have murdered you and all your friends for that remark. Are you dead? I can’t tell. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/60 "2010-07-16T01:02:31Z")
I discovered I’m lactose intolerant a few years ago, so I don’t eat cheese. I can’t remember the last time I ate cheese. So, some of the rabid cheese-loving in this thread is a little weird to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783.md?page=4)