# How long could one live on spongecake, boiled shrimp and Margaritas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 28, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971 "2012-08-28T21:53:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/41 "2012-08-29T18:33:33Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > “Searchin’ for my lost shaker of salt…” Salt could be recovered by squeegeing the sweat off of the oil-covered tourists, and using the shrimp dip boiler to distill out the water. An added bonus is that the leftover coconut oil film could be used to fill the deep fryer for some nice tempura shrimp. And shrimp dip can contain nearly anything, so it looks like a long healthy nutrient-rich life is guaranteed. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/42 "2012-08-29T18:39:13Z")
You are eventually going to want a cheeseburger. Maybe open a couple of restaurants. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/43 "2012-08-29T18:46:18Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > You are eventually going to want a cheeseburger. Maybe open a couple of restaurants. But what would you name such a restaurant? It would have to reflect both the menu and location. You can keep the pickle. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/44 "2012-08-29T18:52:40Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > You are eventually going to want a cheeseburger. Maybe open a couple of restaurants. That would really be paradise. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/45 "2012-08-29T19:14:28Z")
On that diet you’re never going to get to look at 40. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/46 "2012-08-29T19:32:42Z")
In all of your timeline estimates you are neglecting the fact that there is an injury to the heel involved. (some people are so into material wealth that they concentrate on the loss of the flip flop and don’t even recognize the seriousness of a pop-top wound) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/47 "2012-08-29T19:33:42Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I remember a couple of summers ago. It was hotter n shit. We want to go do something but the ungodly heeeaatttt… > > Some friends called up. They live on a small creek. Hey guys, come on up. We are gonna sit in chairs in the shade in the creek and drink margaritas all day. Sounds good to us! > > No shrimp or spongecake but still a pretty nice day all in all. Ok, so unless there’s some toxic effect from eating shrimp and spongecake, we know the diet is good for at least one day. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/48 "2012-08-29T19:45:07Z")
Well that cheap ass margarita mix did give me one serious case of indigestion the next day so that is a red flag right there. Though I suspect any food/beverage product that is sold in couple gallon plastic buckets probably isn’t the upper echelon stuff. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/49 "2012-08-29T19:48:36Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Well that cheap ass margarita mix did give me one serious case of indigestion the next day so that is a red flag right there. Though I suspect any food/beverage product that is sold in couple gallon plastic buckets probably isn’t the upper echelon stuff. But everyone knows that a stick of Juicy Fruit gum will calm down tummy troubles. Jimmy has an answer for everything. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/50 "2012-08-29T19:52:23Z")
There would have to be some sort of cocktail sauce or life wouldn’t be worth living. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/51 "2012-08-29T20:42:30Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Does watching the sun bake all of those tourists covered with oil enter into it? Well, if lack of fat was really an issue, you could go out and lick the oil off them. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/52 "2012-08-29T21:38:26Z")
One or two tourists a year should make up for all of the other dietary deficiencies. Just wash the suntan lotion off before you cook them. Nasty stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/53 "2012-08-29T22:13:55Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > One or two tourists a year should make up for all of the other dietary deficiencies. > > Just wash the suntan lotion off before you cook them. Nasty stuff. I have heard that human flesh is toxic though due to all of the chemicals and other stuff (including human-specific diseases), but that doesn’t make much sense because if it was that bad, you’d be sick yourself (well, there’s bioaccumulation, but 1-2 a year shouldn’t’ be too much). On a more serious note, there are people who have tried diets even more limited than the OP’s and other recent threads and lived for years before getting sick; [15 years in the case of chicken nuggets](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57367638-10391704/british-teen-stacey-irvine-hospitalized-after-eating-nothing-but-chicken-nuggets-for-15-years/). ---
**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:** [September 4, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/54 "2012-09-04T12:33:35Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > There’s no fat in that diet; [Rabbit starvation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation), dying from a lack of dietary fat, happens eventually, even if enough calories to sustain life are consumed. I would assume you’d be dipping the boiled shrimp in butter, otherwise, you wouldn’t be doing it right.. ---
**Author:** ![Detroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Detroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Detroit)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/55 "2012-09-04T19:10:53Z")
One would assume that one would get really plastered from the low food intake and the high alcohol intake, and would survive only 24 hours - after which time one would wander in front of a moving bus and …SQUISH! ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/56 "2012-09-05T01:12:47Z")
While causation cannot be determined, there is some evidence that such a diet may lead to follicular degeneration and/or loss of secondary sexual characteristics. One male subject reported a longstanding unfulfilled desire to grow even the thinnest of mustaches. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/57 "2012-09-09T03:55:36Z")
Just in case the diet does prove fatal, make sure you have some warm beer and bread handy. They say it can raise the dead. ---
**Author:** ![bluffalobob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bluffalobob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluffalobob)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971/58 "2012-09-11T00:05:28Z")
How Long could one live on spongecake, boiled shrimp and Margaritas? Probably a lot longer than living on reds, vitaman C and cocaine. All a friend can say is aint it a shame? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-one-live-on-spongecake-boiled-shrimp-and-margaritas/632971.md?page=2)