As much as I love it, I’d give up chocolate. I can still make desserts with cheese.
Cheese. As much as I love cheese, I think of the year that I gave up all chocolate for Lent. It was difficult. I think chocolate is a biological need for some women.
I like chocolate, but to me it’s a single food, whereas there are so many different kinds of cheese, it is like lots of different foods. Therefore, I would feel I was preserving more variety by giving up chocolate.
I’d go far, far lower in how much it would take me to give up chocolate for a year. I’d probably do it for $500.
I certainly don’t dislike chocolate but it’s one of those things I just never crave.
Cheese, on the other hand - no way.
I’d give up chocolate in a heartbeat. I’ve practically given it up anyway for health reasons, and have a bar of Green and Blacks 70%, bar of Valrhona 64% Manjari and 85% Swiss chocolate on my countertop with zero inclination to actually eat any of it. Chocolate goes.
$10,000 isn’t enough to monitor every morsel that goes into my mouth that way. Cheese and chocolate are both just too common. Goofy billionaire can either come up with more cash or stuff it.
I am also astonished at the results this far. Before I voted I would have guessed 75% would give up cheese. As of right now the figure is 14%.
Obviously, I am projecting my own tastes onto everybody else. An easy thing to do, still I’m surprised at the sheer number of those who will only give up cheese when they pry it from cold dead hands.
I love chocolate. I like a good sharp cheddar cheese on a Triscuit or with a pretzel, but I could live without it. All other varieties of cheese, you can have. And I really don’t like melted cheese at all, even sharp cheddar, with or w/out Triscuits. For $10,000 I’m in.
Seeing as I’ve already had to give up chocolate because it makes me feel bad, it’d be easy money. I’m probably going to avoid it for another year, anyways, and I could use the money.
Chocolate, and it wouldn’t be hard at all. I don’t really like sweets and frequently go long stretches without eating chocolate anyway.
Cheese? Love it. My new “dish” is slicing up bell peppers and smearing goat cheese all over them. I could eat pizza every night. Giving up cheese would be unbearable.
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Cheese isn’t just about a hunk of it on a cracker. It’s cheesecake. It’s cream cheese on your bagel. It’s cheese on your taco. It’s cheese on your pizza. It’s mascarpone in your tiramisu (although you’re screwed out of that one way or the other, unless you find something else to dust it with). It’s on your salad. Cheese just shows up everywhere, and the way I’m *least *likely or inclined to eat it is just by itself.
I love chocolate. But cheese is a part of my life. I’ve given up chocolate for Lent and didn’t even have that hard a time with it (although Easter was mighty fine). I choose ubiquitous cheese.
StG
If you can give up chocolate with no trouble, doesn’t that mean you should choose something else for Lent?
This is why I wear steel-toed shoes.