# You Can Eat Only One Kind Of Food For A Year - Which? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2010, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980 "2010-08-30T08:37:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/1 "2010-08-30T08:37:30Z")
Simple question, but I am sure I missed some - feel free to elaborate. Assuming you can only eat one kind of food for an entire year, which would you choose? ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/2 "2010-08-30T09:25:15Z")
If I didn’t have to pay for it, Japanese. I would literally eat sashimi every day and be very happy; the one time I was in a fancy hotel with meals comped, I ate it every brunch and dinner for four days and still wanted more. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/3 "2010-08-30T09:57:42Z")
What, by _country_? Oh, honey, Spanish 😃 (take Italian. Add fabada, rice’n’beans, paella, filled omelettes, cocido, baby-animal roasts from Castilla, jamón, calamares a la romana = Greek Kalamari,…) Basically, it would mean No Chinese For You and no BBQ. I’d survive. I thought it was going to be more by food group, that would be a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/4 "2010-08-30T10:53:50Z")
I chose Chinese. I once went a week eating nothing but Chinese food when I lived in NYC just for fun, and it was pretty easy. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/5 "2010-08-30T11:14:12Z")
When I was in junior high, our social-studies teacher was trying to make a point about socialism, and I’m guessing it was the same point he’d tried to make in years past. _“Imagine that, for the rest of your life, you have to eat just one type of food.”_ \ _“And not pizza.”_ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/6 "2010-08-30T11:34:04Z")
I was all ready to choose “Dairy” but that wasn’t what you were asking. I barely eat as it is, and what I choose is plain and dull and would make most people cry, so I will happily continue to eat the basic plain stuff that you listed inaccurately as “American”. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/7 "2010-08-30T11:46:09Z")
Kosher/deli. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2010, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/8 "2010-08-30T12:02:12Z")
I chose Italian, but I’d have voted for German or Polish if they had been there. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/9 "2010-08-30T12:22:36Z")
Cheese. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/10 "2010-08-30T12:47:51Z")
Italian if it was forever, Mexican if it’s only for a year. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/11 "2010-08-30T13:04:09Z")
Indian food is the best food in the world. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/12 "2010-08-30T13:06:43Z")
My favorite cuisine is Chinese, but I don’t think I could take it exclusively for a full year. I know I could take Italian. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/13 "2010-08-30T13:14:05Z")
Chinese by far. And I mean real Chinese food, not what we get here. Specifically, spicy, fresh and delicious Sichuan food. I lived there for two years and I adored everything I ate. I never felt healthier and every meal was so delicious (and cheap) that it made me feel blessed. ---
**Author:** ![BigDadWolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@BigDadWolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDadWolf)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/14 "2010-08-30T13:32:15Z")
Cajun for me. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/15 "2010-08-30T14:04:39Z")
The possibilities are endless with all of them, but I pick Chinese. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/16 "2010-08-30T14:13:49Z")
My definition of Hell would be having to live on Japanese food for a day, much less a year. Ditto Indian. Hmmm…with a little rules-lawyering, I might just switch my vote to French. After all, it doesn’t specify what region or anything, as **even sven** noted. Rustic French cooking is the best in the world. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/17 "2010-08-30T14:17:22Z")
I went with French, since that could be a lot of things. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/18 "2010-08-30T14:28:21Z")
American. i could eat barbeque until the day i die. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/19 "2010-08-30T15:59:55Z")
German ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980/20 "2010-08-30T16:01:06Z")
I was about to vote for Indian or Thai, but then I wondered: what am I eating for breakfast? Anyone? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-eat-only-one-kind-of-food-for-a-year-which/551980.md?page=2)