# If you had to pick only one type of meat for the rest of your life... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 19, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579 "2010-01-19T17:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/41 "2010-01-20T03:30:41Z")
I’d get pretty damn tired of one cut of meat, but my best choice is ground beef. Very versatile, from hamburgers to meat sauce to meat loaf, to many other things. I’d get tired, but it would take longer. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/42 "2010-01-20T03:43:59Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > I was told there would be cheese. I’ve had the best crab in the world, because it was as fresh as you can get; if you can get it cooked properly \ then you don’t need no stinking butter, omg… But yah, otherwise, you probably want it. I’d have to choose chicken. Just please don’t ask me to choose drumsticks, breasts, or wings; I need the whole thing! ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/43 "2010-01-20T04:44:52Z")
> [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > Well, you can’t make a good steak with pork. If you can choose the whole animal, there isn’t much you can’t do with cow. I’ll bet you can even come up with a decent cow based “bacon”. You can’t ever make a good steak from pork. Yeah, I guess steak would be the one exception… though pork tenderloin kinda makes up for it (especially since I tend to serve mine slightly pink). It’s not to say that I wouldn’t miss steak if I had to give up everything but pork (I’d miss lots of other stuff too… just off the top of my head, I can think of seared scallops, homemade chicken soup, coconut shrimp and butterfish sashimi)… but I know for sure that the list of things I’d miss would be 10x longer if I gave up pork in favour of beef. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/44 "2010-01-20T07:26:19Z")
I pick dead animal flesh. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/45 "2010-01-20T07:44:25Z")
Ostrich. No cholesterol. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/46 "2010-01-20T08:33:28Z")
Chicken. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/47 "2010-01-20T08:57:32Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Ostrich. No cholesterol. Cite? Even if this is the case, it isn’t dietary cholesterol you should be worried about, it’s saturated fats. You don’t get high cholesterol by eating foods with cholesterol. Your body makes it. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/48 "2010-01-20T09:18:02Z")
Such a restriction would be disastrous to me, but I would pick turkey. Not because turkey is my favourite meat, but because it can be tweaked to resemble the widest range of the other meats no longer available. Turkey is a fair substitute for chicken, all on its own. The drumsticks and/or thigh meat can be made to resemble pork, duck or even (sort of) lamb, depending on the preparation. Turkey ham is nice IMO Turkey bones make a very tasty stock/gravy And of course, turkey is turkey. I would miss the other meats, for sure, but this choice would probably result in the least weeping. ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/49 "2010-01-20T09:20:34Z")
Personally, I’d go for lamb, myself. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/50 "2010-01-20T09:43:12Z")
> [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > Cite? > > Even if this is the case, it isn’t dietary cholesterol you should be worried about, it’s saturated fats. You don’t get high cholesterol by eating foods with cholesterol. Your body makes it. mmm, looks like I’m wrong - turns out it’s comparable cholesterol than beef. [Cite.](http://www.ostrich.org.uk/products/meat.html) OTOH, still pretty low in fats & calories compared to beef, which is great given what you say, and given that that’s what ostrich tastes like, a mix of beef and venison. I’m sticking with my answer. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/51 "2010-01-20T09:49:53Z")
Lamb. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/52 "2010-01-20T10:36:25Z")
Chicken. If I had to pick a cut, it would be thighs. I can do a lot with chicken. Pork would be the easiest for me to give up. Other than bacon, I don’t really like it. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/53 "2010-01-20T13:35:32Z")
If we’re talking cut, pork loin. I can make it into chops, cure it for buckboard bacon, cut it thin for stir-fry, and it’s lean enough that I won’t die in five years from eating only it. If we’re talking animal, I think I’d have to stick with the pig, because there’s no effing way I live the rest of my life without some sort of bacon. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/54 "2010-01-20T19:44:51Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > What would it be? > > Even though I love fried chicken and ribs and bacon and prime rib and steak… 80/20 ground beef. No question. > > You? Beef. Specifically, Spencer… ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579/55 "2010-01-20T23:37:53Z")
Hm. Either salmon or chicken. I’d miss beef a little, but I can live without steak. I’ve never been fond of turkey. Bacon is good, but bad for me, and I can get sick of it. Ham’s good, but I know I’d get sick of it. Any other pork is just kinda gross. But, man. . .salmon is just amazing, especially wild smoked. Or as a seared steak of it on a grill or skillet. . . Chicken, on the other hand, is versatile and cheap. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-only-one-type-of-meat-for-the-rest-of-your-life/525579.md?page=2)