# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/61 "2010-07-16T01:02:49Z")
I don’t even think I could do either, even for that money. For us that’s a year’s pay, no joke. We could really really use the money but I’m such a pathetic weak-willed food addict I would fail within the first week. I live on cheese. I binge on chocolate. I’d spend all the extra money on replacement fixes. Can we have fake cheese like “soy cheese” and carob bars instead of chocolate? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/62 "2010-07-16T01:14:11Z")
I voted for giving up chocolate, but I wouldn’t want to start that yet. Unsweetened cocoa makes these diet shake things halfway bearable. I miss cheese. There’s some cheese in some of these MREs they give us but pizza, cheese fries, potato skins… mmm, cheese. Before I take his offer I will eat dark chocolate and hard cheese together one more time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/63 "2010-07-16T02:31:56Z")
No contest. Cheese is gross. ---
**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, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/64 "2010-07-16T02:35:37Z")
> [@ataraxy22](#): > > No contest. Cheese is gross. You, Sir or Madam, have obviously never had dilled havarati in you eggs in the morning. With very strong coffee, center cut bacon and bread that is not toasted, but fried in butter…but I digress. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/65 "2010-07-16T02:40:04Z")
While I’d miss the occasional hot chocolate \, I can replace chocolate. There is nothing to replace cheese. ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/66 "2010-07-16T03:19:58Z")
I’m lactose intolerant so I’ve already given up cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/67 "2010-07-16T04:30:51Z")
Ten thousand wouldn’t be enough for me to give up either. I could be bought (I’d probably give up chocolate) but the price would be higher. But I’d give him my father’s number. He doesn’t like chocolate anyway so he might as well make some easy money. eta: And no nad kicking either. I may decline the offer but I’m not insulted by it. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/68 "2010-07-16T06:04:09Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I loathe cheese. Take it off my hands, please! Ten thousand a year for not eating cheese is pure gravy. Somewhere under that gooey sentiment lies a poutine joke. Ketchup with me when you find it. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/69 "2010-07-16T06:08:35Z")
Oh and I would give up chocolate. I would miss it, and the men in my life would not like me certain days of the month, but cheese is too multi-purpose. No pizza, no Angry Chef lasagna, no grilled cheese with tomato soup on cold days, no apples and cold packed cheddar… so yes, chocolate would relucatantly have to go. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/70 "2010-07-16T06:26:05Z")
I’m amazed at the difference in the number of people who’d give up each foodstuff. > [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > Somewhere under that gooey sentiment lies a poutine joke. > Ketchup with me when you find it. Nah. It’ll just get in the whey. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/71 "2010-07-16T06:31:53Z")
It’d have to be at least twice that for me to consider it. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/72 "2010-07-16T07:07:58Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I’m amazed at the difference in the number of people who’d give up each foodstuff. Nah. It’ll just get in the whey. I’ve been casein this thread just for the chance to make a bad pun and you beet me to it. ---
**Author:** ![ColdPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/73 "2010-07-16T07:17:37Z")
Definitely chocolate, I don’t eat that much of it anyway and would do it for $5,000. Cheese is my favourite and I’d need more like $50,000 to consider giving that up for a year. ---
**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 16, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/74 "2010-07-16T14:59:34Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > 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. That’s because you don’t eat tasty things like this [salade de bettrave](http://www.lerevecafe.com/pdfs/LeReveMenus_4_8_10.pdf) ( **PDF** ). Depending how lactose intolerant you are, by the by, cheese might not be a problem for you. If I don’t take some lactase, I can’t have a glass of milk or a bowl of ice cream without it ending badly, but cheese is almost always just fine, as is milk or butter used as an ingredient in something. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/75 "2010-07-17T02:06:45Z")
I like chocolate OK, but **Don’t move my cheese!!** mmm ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/76 "2010-07-17T02:20:45Z")
The cheese would be gone. No problem. But giving up chocolate would be like giving up books or something. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/77 "2010-07-17T03:07:46Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I like chocolate OK, but > > **Don’t move my cheese!!** > mmm A-freakin’-men! Our ‘family motto’ is “You never have too much cheese; if you accidentally put too much cheese in something, add a little more, and no one will notice!” I mean, yeah, chocolate’s good, and all that. But there are lots of kinds of sweets I like that _don’t_ involve chocolate (Good N Plenty, cotton candy, Twizzlers, on and on). But just about every savory food I like includes cheese! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/78 "2010-07-17T04:02:51Z")
No question: I’d give up chocolate. I like chocolate, but I could easily live my life without it. Cheese, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/79 "2010-07-17T04:57:01Z")
I \*love \*chocolate, but I simply can’t imagine going cheeseless. There are just too many things I eat on a regular basis that just wouldn’t work without it. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783/80 "2010-07-17T12:04:36Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I \*love \*chocolate, but I simply can’t imagine going cheeseless. There are just too many things I eat on a regular basis that just wouldn’t work without it. Oh, yeah. Hamburgers? Meh. Bacon cheeseburgers? Mmmmmm. Pasta (like macaroni or something) with butter, salt and pepper? Meh. Add cheese! Mmmmmm. Even when I eat spaghetti with meat sauce, the last thing to go on top is some freshly grated parmesan or Asiago! And in spite of what the ‘diet wizards’ say, I _cannot_ imagine ordering pizza with ‘light cheese’. No, no, no. Extra cheese all the way, baby! I don’t think I’ve _ever_ asked for ‘extra chocolate’! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-or-cheese/546783.md?page=5)