# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/101 "2011-11-10T10:27:48Z")
I voted celery, but noooo! Can’t you take one of my children instead? ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/102 "2011-11-10T14:03:11Z")
Not voting. Those five vegetables are all on my list of staples. I’m not a great fan of celery but it adds something to broths and stuffing, among other things. One of my sons would probably vote for celery, but this is because he’s allergic to raw celery, poor guy. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/103 "2011-11-10T22:59:20Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > I voted celery, but noooo! Can’t you take one of my children instead? Depends, what kind of vegetables are they? ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/104 "2011-11-10T23:03:02Z")
I don’t like celery, but it adds a nice flavor to a Bloody Mary. I don’t dislike carrots as much as celery, but I can’t think of any use for them, so I voted them off the island. The other choices are indispensable. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/105 "2011-11-10T23:22:03Z")
Potatatos, definitely potatoes. Removing potatoes means a massive decline in the chance that I’ll get invited round somewhere and have to try to mask my grimacing as I force them down. I hate 90% of the ways potato gets prepared and it is a pretty much ubiquitous staple. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/106 "2011-11-10T23:48:24Z")
I didn’t like celery until I discovered organic celery tastes good. So, I banished carrots. I can get my vitamin A elsewhere. Cooked carrots are blah. But my beef stew needs celery. So does my barbecued beef and my egg salad. Getting rid of any of the others just didn’t make sense. Onion and garlic are requirements and you can do a lot of great, tasty dishes with potatoes (add onions and garlic for instance). ---
**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 11, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/107 "2011-11-11T00:44:38Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > It’s meant to be a bit of a Sophie’s choice type of poll, as I read it. If the aliens wanted to make it easy, they’d put something like Brussels sprouts or beets on it. (Although I’d give up celery or carrots before Brussels sprouts or beets, personally.) Precisely this. I just came back to the thread to add that this is supposed to be a “Sophie’s Choice” of veggies… hence the deliciously evil fun! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/108 "2011-11-13T00:49:06Z")
Out of those, celery, but I’d much rather keep that and banish mushrooms. BLEH ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/109 "2011-11-13T03:08:31Z")
Garlic; good for you, tastes good, and keeps the Vampires away, it stays Onion; love carmelized onions, fench onion soup, sweet Vidalia onions, it stays Carrots; raw, cooked, they’re all good, they stay Potatoes; too many uses to _not_ stay… Celery: It’s a food?!? bland, flavorless, watery, and weak, it’s bland,crunchy water, or as Miami Herald collumnist Dave Barry described it; [QUOTE=Dave Barry] Calories are little units that measure how good a particular food tastes. Fudge, for example, has a great many calories, whereas celery, which is not really a food at all but a member of the plywood family, provided by Mother Nature so that we would have a way to get onion dip into our mouths at parties, has none. – David Barry, Stay Fit & Healthy Until You’re Dead, Reader’s Digest, April 1993 [/quote] Plywood…err…Celery shall be banished forever! ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/110 "2011-11-13T18:56:54Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Celery: It’s a food?!? bland, flavorless, watery, and weak, it’s bland,crunchy water, or as Miami Herald collumnist Dave Barry described it; > > Plywood…err…Celery shall be banished forever! Try organic celery. It is way better. Really. I was shocked at the difference and it changed my mind on celery. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/111 "2011-11-17T13:28:36Z")
None of them, but I would inflict my wrath on Mushy peas, Marzipan, Blue cheeses and possibly pork(but not Bacon). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/112 "2011-11-17T14:05:59Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > None of them, but I would inflict my wrath on Mushy peas, Marzipan, Blue cheeses and possibly pork(but not Bacon). Understood, but the aliens are of a malevolent or at best playfully sadistic sort, so that’s not an option. This is supposed to be difficult. Which one of the five staples goes, if it must? ---
**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:** [November 17, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/113 "2011-11-17T20:04:02Z")
All you celery haters, be gone. I have a love for celery that is unsurpassed. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/114 "2011-11-17T20:12:38Z")
It was a toss up between carrots and celery but then I remembered - Carrot Cake! Celery it is! All the other choices are must-haves. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/115 "2011-11-17T20:34:14Z")
Celery is the least irreplaceable to me. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/116 "2011-11-17T20:52:47Z")
> [@Daylate](#): > > I can’t believe nobody has nominated broccoli! Poisness green color, tastes awful. I was all for George Bush the First when he banned it from Air Force 1. It’s also the cornerstone of my diet. It’s rich in vitamins and fibre. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140/117 "2011-11-17T21:53:38Z")
I am not a fan of celery. I don’t like it raw and only barely tolerate it cooked in some dishes. I’ll tolerate a stalk of celery in my bloody mary but I’m not going to eat it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-foods-ingredients-would-you-banish-from-humanity/602140.md?page=5)