# 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:** 375
**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:** [October 14, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7484 "2023-10-14T21:37:17Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Okay. MASH, sure, But Frasier? Frasier may be my top favorite sitcom of all time, consistently outstanding for eleven seasons. Can’t say the same about MASH. I guess our mileages vary. mmm ---
**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:** [October 14, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7485 "2023-10-14T21:58:15Z")
I had strawberries, blueberries, grapes, and apple and orange slices at breakfast this morning. I ate the orange slice last. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2023, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7486 "2023-10-14T21:59:28Z")
I’ve never _seen_ MASH. I think we started it once a long time ago but it was basically a bootlegged version we had to watch on our laptops. I haven’t seen many of the older shows in the poll, not with any sort of regularity that I could consider them favorites. ETA: I just ate a fruit bar called That’s It. Its only ingredients are strawberries and apples. So I picked strawberries. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7487 "2023-10-14T22:15:04Z")
Some of you may be _a_ Pepper but only [John Green](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcOM3H06KI4) is _the_ Pepper. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7488 "2023-10-14T22:31:31Z")
The last fruit I ate was a [pluot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluot), a plum/apricot hybrid. I guess I could have picked either plum or apricot, but it isn’t really either of those, it’s its own thing. So I had to go with “other”. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7489 "2023-10-14T22:31:44Z")
Most Americans of a certain age who watched All in the Family religiously (the only way to do it) are aware that the show was based on a UK sitcom - it said so right in the opening credits. But have any of you ever seen an episode of Till Death Do Us Part? I have. It’s awful! Unfunny in ways you can’t imagine. Why has nobody made a prune-flavored soda? I’d drink it. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7490 "2023-10-14T23:07:56Z")
I am not sure if I would drink a “prune” flavored soda. But I would definitely try a “plum” flavored soda. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7491 "2023-10-14T23:17:52Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > But I would definitely try a “plum” flavored soda. I figured if anyone made a plum soda, it would be [Jones Soda](https://www.jonessoda.com/); unusual fruit flavors are kind of their thing. It doesn’t look like they do currently, but I am pretty sure they had a limited edition “sugar plum” flavor in their Christmas pack one year. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7492 "2023-10-14T23:45:10Z")
There are no plums in sugar plums. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2023, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7493 "2023-10-15T04:10:03Z")
In case anyone was wondering I had an apple this afternoon. Gala. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7494 "2023-10-15T04:51:52Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > There are no plums in sugar plums. Generally not. Sometimes fruits were candied and dipped in sugar. and your wish is my command- Amazon- # Sparkling Water Plum Flavor Can by SFC BIO, Soda - 11.83Fl oz (Pack of 3) and > **[Martian Abduction Plum Soda 12 Oz Bottle | Nassau Candy](https://www.nassaucandy.com/martian-abduction-plum-12-oz-bottle.html)** > > Rocket Fizz's Martian Abduction Plum is a bold fruit soda pop made for a party. Maritan soda is a new and novel experience, crafted with pure cane sugar. It has a cool retro soda vibe, though it has a retro vibe, too. It's fizzy, sweet and sure to and **Fanta Sour Plum** I have not tried any of these. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7495 "2023-10-15T10:58:34Z")
Yes, i was. Thanks. I had strawberries in my porridge this morning. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7496 "2023-10-15T11:38:20Z")
Apple. Our friends gave an apple orchard nearby. We eat apples daily this time of year. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2023, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7497 "2023-10-15T15:57:38Z")
Yesterday, the most recent fruit I’d had when I voted was an apple. This morning, breakfast involved both raisins and a banana. I nearly always eat at least two different fruits a day; sometimes more. Which ones depends partly on the season, though in the winter at least some of it will be fruit out of the freezer, and sometimes dried fruits contribute. – if the poll had asked which of those fruits I’d had in the past year, over twenty of them would have been on the list. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7498 "2023-10-15T18:11:07Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Or do you not know who Neal Katyal is? I did but being _at_ Burning Man I had no idea he was also there. I don’t keep track of all the tech-bros and movers & shakers moving among us like remoras. The only hikers I heard of by name were Chris Rock and some rapper. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7499 "2023-10-15T18:33:02Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > both raisins That’s 2 more than i had. I just had banana in my porridge today ! ---
**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:** [October 15, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7500 "2023-10-15T19:26:10Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > I did but being _at_ Burning Man I had no idea he was also there. Yeah, you being there makes sense that you wouldn’t know. It was fairly close to the immediate end of BM that I saw the Katyal clips on the teevee. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7501 "2023-10-15T19:46:27Z")
I have never been thrown out of an establishment, gently or otherwise. (I presume that “encouraged to leave because they’re closing, upon finding out which I promptly left” doesn’t count.) I am however not under the delusion that such things can’t ever happen to “Civilized Folk”. So I can’t vote in that poll. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7502 "2023-10-15T19:52:44Z")
I’ve been (along with my friends) encouraged to leave a restaurant after we’d been there for 3-4 hours. We all had ordered a coffee and (cheap) entree. And after about an hour, we split 3 desserts between the 6 of us. But even lateish on a weeknight, the Denny’s wanted us gone rather than talking and drinking up all their coffee. Since then? Nope, but I still voted yes, and if it had been part of the poll, would have had to select “with cause”. 🙂 ---
**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:** [October 15, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/7503 "2023-10-15T20:10:27Z")
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