# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380 "2022-09-28T11:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 177
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3522 "2023-04-21T20:27:15Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > cheese, bacon, pie Combined that is Quiche Lorraine. Yum. Ice cream for afters. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3523 "2023-04-21T23:26:42Z")
On the meat poll, I went with eggs, bacon, and sausage because crabs, scallops, and mussels are missing from the menu. But I’m very picky about all three items so unless eggs are fresh, the bacon thick cut and meaty, and the sausage is from [Tollafson’s](https://www.tollefsonfamilypork.com/) I’m unlikely to be interested. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3524 "2023-04-21T23:41:15Z")
Eggs, bacon and sausage without the spam? Bleah! ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3525 "2023-04-21T23:47:05Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > without the spam? Bleah! 😄 I get all the salt I need from the bacon. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3526 "2023-04-22T00:59:44Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > the bacon thick cut and meaty Ick. Might as well eat ham. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3527 "2023-04-22T01:42:08Z")
Bloody vikings. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3528 "2023-04-22T01:55:22Z")
Pork shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3529 "2023-04-22T04:36:13Z")
Even if I weren’t a vegetarian, I may be allergic to shellfish, so I’m skipping the gourmet lunch. For the genie one, I’m going for the cheese, bacon, pie, and ice cream, and I’ll give one of you guys my bacon. Spam, spam, spam, egg, and spam’s not got much spam in it, so I’ll take that. (That’s actually something my family will say to me sotto voce if there’s nothing vegetarian on a menu. Or, if I’m offered just bread, “It’s full of bunly goodness.”) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3530 "2023-04-22T05:17:57Z")
Henry IV? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3531 "2023-04-22T05:21:20Z")
Tough to answer the cafeteria question. My last workplace was a zoo (literally!). I could buy a “fully prepared meal” at the same places where any zoo visitor could also do so. So… kinda? ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3532 "2023-04-22T13:43:26Z")
@eschereal: is “the Cat” some specific character? Or is it just “cats are more beautiful than anybody on these lists”? – my work is at home and does not involve any potential workplace I could go into (unless farmers’ markets count.) So I don’t think I’m eligible to vote in that poll. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3533 "2023-04-22T14:33:00Z")
Ok the record one just reminds me of an unpleasant memory, because my answer should be “Yes.” When I was a teen my (now deceased) uncle gave me a bunch of his old records. At the time I didn’t know many of the bands, but I do recall at least Yes and Fleetwood Mac. My mother flipped through them and said, “Oh, I appreciate these far more than you ever could,” and took them for herself. Not the worst thing she ever did to me but I’m still mad about it. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3534 "2023-04-22T14:40:04Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > @eschereal: is “the Cat” some specific character? Or is it just “cats are more beautiful than anybody on these lists”? I meant to leave it ambiguous, but I was thinking of the character from _Red Dwarf_. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3535 "2023-04-22T15:03:21Z")
The Cat [![](https://northernlifemagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/John-Jules.jpg) ](https://northernlifemagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/John-Jules.jpg) I own first printings (American) of The Game and Night at the Opera. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3536 "2023-04-22T15:29:41Z")
Who also spent many years as a police sergeant on Sainte Marie. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3537 "2023-04-22T16:19:15Z")
Did he finally get that promotion? ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3538 "2023-04-22T16:27:40Z")
I think he did. I didn’t faithfully watch all the later seasons. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3539 "2023-04-22T18:36:56Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I meant to leave it ambiguous, but I was thinking of the character from _Red Dwarf_. > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > The Cat Pretty. But not that pretty. Almost any feline beats just about any human, IMO; but if the one Maus posted was the one you were thinking of, then I’ll keep not voting. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3540 "2023-04-22T18:50:54Z")
I’ve driven a golf cart, but not while playing golf. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3541 "2023-04-22T18:56:48Z")
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