Why not eliminate something used by a tiny portion of the the world’s populace? We could all probably live without bird’s next soup or truffles.
I like them all, but the least useful for me would be celery, so off it goes. Although I could be persuaded to strike carrot from existence instead. And I could probably use parsnips in their stead. Maybe I should have voted carrots.
The aliens… they tricked me.
They asked me what I thought were the top 5 plant-based staples of human-chow, and when I told them, they devised this plan of inherent evil. And I thought they were my friends!
The runners up were: tomatoes, corn and rice. So, thank your lucky stars I said “celery”.
Celery can go, but it will really screw up my recipes. The rest are essential essentials.
(and yes, cilantro tastes like soap… the aliens eradicated that vile weed almost before they were done spitting it out of their face-holes. Don’t ask – and certainly don’t stare.)
I, now, officially hate you.
Onions are God’s gift to mankind showing that he loves us very much.
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.
Can’t we talk them into taking cilantro instead? If not I’m afraid it has to be celery. I don’t like it but I don’t like any of the options 
Your inflated claims of good vision and your propensity to show up in otherwise delicious dishes all mushy and slimy make you thoroughly dispensable.
Carrots, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
Oof, hard choices. I’d – very reluctantly – go with celery, then mourn the loss of my favorite pickles.
Don’t you see? The aliens are trying do divide us. Weaken us by drawing lines against each other.
We must not fall prey to their game! We must unite on the correct and only acceptable banishment (no matter how tragic, snowmen will never be the same), and say goodbye to the carrot.
Otherwise I will hunt you down. Hunt you down and destroy ye Enemies of the Celery!
Ahem.
Looks like mirepoix is probably screwed no matter what.
Mayonnaise.
No, silly, mayonnaise was a “gift” bestowed upon us by these very aliens millennia ago. That and Ann Coulter.
I thought I didn’t like beets, until I tried them raw a few weeks ago. Amazingly good! Quite different from the boiled, bloody mess I grew up with. So I vote we rename ‘okra’ to ‘celery’, and that would make my vote perfect.
I almost voted for potatoes. I normally don’t use them, for health reasons, but I’d miss an occasional order of fries.
So celery’s the one I could live without.
I don’t see cilantro and anise (pronounced anus) on the poll.
Not voting.
Funny 
I grew up with beets…I HATED HATED HATED HATED them but was forced to eat them. Boiled, bloody mess was right.
It wasn’t until I was 30 (!) when I was trying something in a restaurant. I liked what I was eating and asked the waitress what it was. Beets, she said.
WTH?!?!?!
After that, I made a point to try the foods I was tortured with as a kid and found out I liked most of them.
My mom was NOT a good cook. Basically boiled everything to mush and never seasoned anything. I never realized it until I was 30 and tried beets.
Onions, garlic, and potatoes are necessities. Celery not as much but it’s still important for some things and I like it. I can do without carrots. I don’t dislike them, but I don’t exactly like them either. Even as a side for hot wings, I avoid the carrot sticks until the celery is all gone.
Interesting to see potatoes get more votes than garlic.
Looks like garlic is almost universally beloved.