# One food/meal for the rest of your life - what would you choose? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573 "2005-08-25T15:54:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trisky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Trisky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisky)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/1 "2005-08-25T15:54:51Z")
I often make the claim that I could eat food, only, for the rest of my life. While this is certainly hyperbole on my part, I think it raises an interesting question. What one food (or meal, since some foods go really well together) do you think you could happily eat for the rest of your life? I have a few: [ul] [li]spaetzle[/li][li]goulash[/li][li]fried rice (of any ethnic origin)[/li][li]sushi[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/2 "2005-08-25T15:57:52Z")
that’s easy: kraft dinner (“mac-n-cheese” for you americans) i actually bet a girlfriend $100 once that she couldn’t eat a box of this every day for a month. she could split it up throughout the day, and mix it into any recipe/format she wanted, so long as she consumed one box every day. within a week she was “shitting funny” and “feeling generally like poo” but she lasted 3 weeks before she finally caved. barring KD, i could eat any of a lot of meals indefinetely, provided i had a supply of hot sauces to go along with it. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/3 "2005-08-25T15:57:54Z")
Lasagna (all four food groups represented) Italian cold cut subs (also all four food groups) Gyros Jambalaya Baby back ribs with fries, baked beans, cole slaw, and garlic bread Sushi ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/4 "2005-08-25T16:08:08Z")
Chicken Parm Subs. Plenty Tasty, Plenty of Protein and some vitamins. I sure there must be a dish that would cover the basic RDA’s. perhaps living on Total. I just don’t think it would be enjoyable day after day. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/5 "2005-08-25T16:27:45Z")
I could eat pasta every day and be happy. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/6 "2005-08-25T16:28:15Z")
I’d be boring and practical. I suspect there’s no meal out there I wouldn’t get horribly sick of, so I’d choose something healthy and unassuming, like marinated grilled chicken, lightly steamed vegetables and brown rice. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/7 "2005-08-25T16:40:30Z")
Breakfast: country ham, eggs, flax-meal toast, coffee. (Do the eggs have to be done the same way every morning?) Lunch: Caesar salad, shave parmesan, freshly stale French-bread croutons, pan-broiled jumbo shrimp on top, brewed unsweetened iced tea. Cocktail hour: Grey Goose martini, very _very_ dry, up with a twist. Just one, but in a big _full_ glass. Dinner: Sirloin medium rare (slightly charred on the outside), spinach salad with hot bacon-onion dressing, sautéed _haricots verts_, lightly steamed broccoli, Rex Goliath California merlot, local sparkling mineral water. Dessert: Zabaglione _alla Splenda_ with fresh local strawberries, coffee. For clothes, give me one white buttondown oxford shirt, one pair of khaki pants (no cuffs), one all-weather-weight blue blazer (3-button, top roll), and one pair of Sebago cordovan slipons. If I must wear a tie, silk knit, square-ended, any color that works with the above. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/8 "2005-08-25T16:52:50Z")
Pizza Sushi No problem. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/9 "2005-08-25T17:06:55Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > I’d be boring and practical. I suspect there’s no meal out there I wouldn’t get horribly sick of, so I’d choose something healthy and unassuming, like marinated grilled chicken, lightly steamed vegetables and brown rice. sounds like the pad dinner at casa-de-Phlosphr ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/10 "2005-08-25T17:07:22Z")
Thai curry with chicken and lots of vegetables. That’d do me. I think a pizza with everything might work for me, too. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/11 "2005-08-25T17:08:34Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > Breakfast: country ham, eggs, flax-meal toast, coffee. > (Do the eggs have to be done the same way every morning?) > > Lunch: Caesar salad, shave parmesan, freshly stale French-bread croutons, pan-broiled jumbo shrimp on top, brewed unsweetened iced tea. > > Cocktail hour: Grey Goose martini, very _very_ dry, up with a twist. Just one, but in a big _full_ glass. > > Dinner: Sirloin medium rare (slightly charred on the outside), spinach salad with hot bacon-onion dressing, sautéed _haricots verts_, lightly steamed broccoli, Rex Goliath California merlot, local sparkling mineral water. > > Dessert: Zabaglione _alla Splenda_ with fresh local strawberries, coffee. > > For clothes, give me one white buttondown oxford shirt, one pair of khaki pants (no cuffs), one all-weather-weight blue blazer (3-button, top roll), and one pair of Sebago cordovan slipons. If I must wear a tie, silk knit, square-ended, any color that works with the above. Andy is that you??? This sounds like a collegue of mine. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/12 "2005-08-25T17:12:13Z")
Chicken Caesar salad. With the parmesan cheese and croutons it should cover all the food groups. right? Plus, it’s salad, so it’s good for you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![wasson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4da419/32.png) [@wasson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wasson)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/13 "2005-08-25T17:13:19Z")
Hot wings. And beer. Is beer a food? ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/14 "2005-08-25T17:19:40Z")
Oh and I’d like breaded boneless chicken thighs, asparagus, couscous w/ pine nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/15 "2005-08-25T17:33:42Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > Andy is that you??? This sounds like a collegue of mine. No Andys here. Just for curiosity’s sake, **Phl** , what do you think of this colleague? ---
**Author:** ![Firebringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@Firebringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Firebringer)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/16 "2005-08-25T17:39:09Z")
I’d probably choose cheese. Almost limitless room for variation of the diet. Yup cheese and Stella Artois; a balanced diet. ---
**Author:** ![Trisky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Trisky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisky)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/17 "2005-08-25T17:52:18Z")
> [@wasson](#): > > Hot wings. And beer. Is beer a food? Well, it’s a grain, so why not? To add a drink to my list (in addition to my food), definitely margaritas. No salt, on the rocks, thank you. Ahh… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/18 "2005-08-25T17:57:20Z")
Breakfast: Cap’n Crunch Lunch: Sub or deli style Turkey sandwich with bacon and avocado. Dinner: Fried Chicken, rice and gravy, corn of the cob. Or slightly healthier: Breakfast: Honey Bunches of Oats Lunch: Sub or deli style Turkey sandwich with bacon and avocado. Dinner: Dinner Salad with garlic bread. At Casa de Stuffy a dinner salad contains Lettuce, Roma Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Cubed meat (Turkey, Ham or Chicken) cubed or shredded cheese, hard-boiled chopped egg, raisins or nuts (never both), croutons and dressing; I only use Bleu Cheese. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/19 "2005-08-25T18:13:14Z")
For one single food-type, I’d have to go with a cheesesteak sandwich. Between Steak, Bread, Onions, Green peppers, hot peppers and cheese I’d figure I’d be getting a fair number of essential vitamins, and it still tastes damn good. ---
**Author:** ![leandroc76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@leandroc76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leandroc76)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573/20 "2005-08-25T18:28:32Z")
easy… Ramen Noodles,… in fact that _IS_ all I eat! (sometimes without the bag of spices) I would have said Goulash, but my late grandmother never left the recipe. That was the best recipe in the history of mankind. No Goulash could come close, and no one has yet to come forward with it’s equal. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-food-meal-for-the-rest-of-your-life-what-would-you-choose/318573.md?page=2)