# Which of these foods/ingredients would you banish from humanity? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140 "2011-11-07T04:56:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [November 7, 2011, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/21 "2011-11-07T08:46:25Z")
No carrots = no carrot cake. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/22 "2011-11-07T09:23:15Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > No carrots = no carrot cake. A small price to pay… we’ll still have banana bread. I tell you what, I’ll make everyone some bloody marys with _two_ stalks of celery and and extra dash of celery salt to ease the suffering of losing our pointy, orange friend. Deal? ---
**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:** [November 7, 2011, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/23 "2011-11-07T09:38:59Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I thought there’d be a larger margin for carrots, since they don’t add too much to recipes, and while a nice veggie on their own, there’s only a few desserts and sides that really benefit from them. I can live without carrot cake. But if we lost carrots, we’d be stuck with a feeling of poignant loss every time we watched a Bugs Bunny cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/24 "2011-11-07T10:47:04Z")
With celery missing in my life, why… I just don’t think I could find any joy in Loony Tunes anymore. _sniff_ ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/25 "2011-11-07T10:51:35Z")
> [@Palo\_Verde](#): > > Onions. When I read a recipe that includes them, I just automatically include something else. Usually garlic for the flavor, bell pepper for the texture, or celery for the crunch. YUCK! ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/26 "2011-11-07T11:19:12Z")
I don’t think I’ve eaten celery in well over a year- don’t hate it, I just don’t care one way or another about it. Woudn’t even notice it’d gone. The person who gives away my potatoes will be hunted down without mercy though. That’s about 1/4 of my diet, right there. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/27 "2011-11-07T11:40:26Z")
I have my eye on you, Mosier. Eye. On. YOU. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/28 "2011-11-07T11:44:09Z")
Although I enjoy the crunchiness of celery, it’s bitter taste makes it the easiest to banish. Can’t get rid of garlic or we’d have vampires running amuck! ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/29 "2011-11-07T11:54:34Z")
I’m going with carrots. In soups and stews, parsnips can impart carroty sweetness, although I’ll miss the color. Not too sure about parsnip cake, but I’m not that big a fan of carrot cake anyway. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/30 "2011-11-07T12:08:06Z")
Celery is a horrible horrible vegetable. It must die. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/31 "2011-11-07T12:28:43Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > No carrots = no carrot cake. Yeah, what a shame, we’d all have to eat just cake without any nasty vegetables trying to sneak their way in. Carrot cake is good for neither carrots nor cake. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2011, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/32 "2011-11-07T12:36:36Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Yeah, what a shame, we’d all have to eat just cake without any nasty vegetables trying to sneak their way in. Carrot cake is good for neither carrots nor cake. I hate to break this to you, but chocolate cake? Beans! And FYI, **cmyk** : I’d see the aliens pave the planet before I willingly drink a Bloody Mary, yuck. Vodka’s for Cosmos. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/33 "2011-11-07T12:51:37Z")
Why couldn’t you have put beets on the list? Then this would have been easy. I picked potatoes. I can eat yams instead. Can’t do carrots cause I love Carrot Cake. Stuffing just would not work without Celery. And Onions and Garlic go in almost everything. Yep, got to go with Potatoes. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/34 "2011-11-07T12:53:22Z")
Sorry, the celery’s gotta go. Not because it’s a bad food, but because all the others are so wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/35 "2011-11-07T12:58:34Z")
Why is cilantro on this list? I guess the aliens think it tastes like soap too. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/36 "2011-11-07T13:26:29Z")
I would pick carrots because I don’t like them that much, but my guinea pig is in love with carrots and would never speak to me again, so I had to pick celery. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/37 "2011-11-07T13:52:32Z")
Celery is vile in taste and scent. It would suck to have to smell that stink all the time, but I suppose after a while you’d adjust and not really smell it any more. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/38 "2011-11-07T14:00:28Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > _Fools!_ Carrots is the obvious choice. How am I supposed to enjoy my bloody marys now, or the extreme deliciousness known as celery salt? You’re absolutely right. I’d like to change my answer, as I didn’t think about this enough. I made the mistake of thinking of the nutritional value of carrots. But extra spicy buffalo wings and blue cheese just wouldn’t be the same without celery! ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/39 "2011-11-07T14:14:03Z")
Garlics and onions are the foundation for all civilised cooking. Although I don’t think I have ever cooked anything with carrots there’s nothing wrong with them as with potatoes. The only expendable item on the list is celery. I can have my bloody Mary without it. However, you forgot to include the vile thing that is mushrooms. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/40 "2011-11-07T14:19:21Z")
I picked potatoes, because if the atmosphere has to smell like something, it might as well be the least offensive smelling thing on the list. You can have my onions when you pry them from my disappointed but hopefully not dead yet fingers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140.md?page=3)