# You get one free food for the rest of your life - What'll it be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804 "2010-12-11T18:38:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/121 "2010-12-14T09:54:04Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > Free as in I have to pay for it? The fuck? Forget it then; if I could afford to make food choices independent of cost, I still wouldn’t be counting calories. > > May I suggest you close this poll and replace it with one that actually says what you mean? > [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > Huh? he says right in the OP what he means: > > > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > > > This food, once so designated by yours truly, has virtually zero calories. Zero sodium. In fact, zero of anything that is bad for you. What it does have is a mysterious ability to improve your overall health. I have built into it a safety mechanism that renders it impossible for this food to harm your body in any way, no matter how much you ingest. > > See, says what he means…right there. Perhaps you might make a poll asking what it is that you mean? Nowhere in that paragraph is any inkling that it is his definition of “free,” much less an exhaustive definition. In the absence of qualifiers or modifiers, “free food” means I don’t have to pay for it. I doubt that I would have assumed otherwise unless he specifically said “free doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay for it.” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/122 "2010-12-14T13:52:35Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > Nowhere in that paragraph is any inkling that it is his definition of “free,” much less an exhaustive definition. In the absence of qualifiers or modifiers, “free food” means I don’t have to pay for it. I doubt that I would have assumed otherwise unless he specifically said “free doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay for it.” Free doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay for it. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/123 "2010-12-14T13:58:48Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > Let me try to be sneaky here. > > Butterfat. > > If that’s allowed, I can now have butter, milk, cream, sour cream, ice cream, whipped cream, yogurt, and cheese. You win the Best Loophole competition, rowrrbazzle. But I must now create - and invoke - the butterfat clause.\* mmm \*Butterfat shall not be allowed as a choice on account of I said so. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/124 "2010-12-14T14:26:22Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > You can specify ‘pop’ and drink any kind you want. Then I have my answer! I’m a giant Coca-Cola fanatic. ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/125 "2010-12-14T14:33:38Z")
Popeye’s spicy fried chicken. Mmmmm ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/126 "2010-12-15T02:46:01Z")
Primanti Brothers corned beef and cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/127 "2010-12-15T03:24:59Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Free doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay for it. Yeah, I found that out the hard way when I tried to walk out of the grocery store with a cart full of [Pepsi Free](http://www.usasoda.com/images/pepsi95b.jpg) and [Tide Free](http://www.goodexperience.com/broken/images/2007/05/15/tideefficiency.jpg). I think this was one of those examples of someone replying to the thread title, not the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Ring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Ring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ring)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/128 "2010-12-15T04:38:20Z")
White Castle cheeseburgers - Ambrosia! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/129 "2010-12-15T04:53:50Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > > [@DianaG](#): > > > > > [@zoid](#): > > > > > > Does vodka count? > > > > zoid is a genius. Screw cheese, can I change my answer and expand this to “alcohol”? > > From the OP: > > > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > > > But you get to choose just one food. And you may never change it. > > Enjoy your cheese, Diana. 😃 > > mmm But I still get my vodka - right? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/130 "2010-12-15T05:18:37Z")
I was going to say cheesecake, but then I closed my eyes and stilled my thoughts and a vision came. Well, I say vision, but it wasn’t visual. It was a taste, a taste that I have been avoiding for a long time because it isn’t good for me. Cream cheese avocado dip. Ideally, together with Granny Goose Hawaiian Chips. Although if that would make the dip alone bad, then I’ll skip the chips. Mmmmmm. Lovely decadent stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/131 "2010-12-15T15:27:45Z")
I second Chick-Fil-A, but I’ll go with their regular chicken sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Dunkelheit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dunkelheit/32/248_2.png) [@Dunkelheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunkelheit)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/132 "2010-12-15T16:06:49Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > You win the Best Loophole competition, rowrrbazzle. > > But I must now create - and invoke - the butterfat clause.\* > mmm > \*Butterfat shall not be allowed as a choice on account of I said so. First sugar, now butterfat, dang. Can I choose butter itself? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/133 "2010-12-15T17:12:29Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > [snip]I don’t eat dim sum, but I understand it is any of several different dishes, yes? From what I know, I’m going to put the kibosh on the dim sum (but I’m willing to listen to any arguments against my call).[/snip]mmm That’s a fair call. Allowing “dim sum” would be like allowing “tapas” in Spanish cuisine, or “hor d’oerves” in French. You’d might as well allow “Chinese menu – chose Column A or Column B”. ---
**Author:** ![Loisseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Loisseau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loisseau)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804/134 "2010-12-16T17:25:49Z")
Sauced pasta [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-one-free-food-for-the-rest-of-your-life-whatll-it-be/563804.md?page=6)