This is an interesting question. The foods I currently eat the most of (e.g. natural peanut butter) aren’t particularly bad for me, so I don’t gain a lot by making them free.
I’m kinda torn by pizza. I can make pizzas that are both healthy and yummy - at least, IMHO, which is the only one that counts, with respect to this question. OTOH, I miss being able to dive into a deep-dish pizza.
I think I’d pick either pancakes with butter and syrup, or sweet rolls - probably the latter. I’d eat a lot more of either one than I do right now if they had zero calories. I could see having a Cinnabon or something from Entenmann’s nearly every morning with my coffee if it wouldn’t add to my waistline, and I could see having pancakes for breakfast 2-3 times a week under the same scenario.
I came in here to say “booze” (whiskey if I have to be pinned down to one) before I even saw stoid’s answer. Especially since, like a few others, my first impulse was “sushi” and then I thought, “But that’s healthy anyway!”
It is not, however, cost-free, so if the OP were changed for money considerations, my answer would, too. But if $ is irrelevant, then … bring on the magic hooch.
Beer is what I was thinking of too. As long as it can still get me drunk. Even better yet, there should be a magical control for the drunkenness level, it would be even more awesome.
My standard answer to this sort of question is always “sushi”, but that’s really kind of cheating, as sushi is kind of a “metafood” in that there are all sorts of different kinds of sushi.
The natural accompaniment to the dishes are included, yes? (I need my garlic bread!)
Spaghetti alla Bolognese
Looking at wikipedia for suggestions, the sauce will include:
veal, pancetta, onions, carrots, celery, tomato paste, meat broth, white wine, and, cream.
(basic sauce)
with a heavy covering of grated fresh parmesan
plus the extra ingredient only used for special occasions (different extra ingredient on different days)
pork sausage, white chicken, rabbit, goose liver
use both butter and olive oil for cooking the soffritto of small amounts of celery, carrot and onion.
Prosciutto, mortadella, or porcini fresh mushrooms added when in season
I’m not trying to get too cutesy with your rules Mean Mr. Mustard but could I get away with both sliced and pan fried potatoes and french fries. Most people wouldn’t consider them interchangeable. Could any variety of fried spud qualify so long as it’s limited to potato, hot oil and salt?
Deep dish today, thin crust tomorrow, Chicago style, New York style, sausage, pepperoni, bacon, olives, tomato slices, maybe even some ham and pineapple now and then to shake things up. So many choices; how could I ever get tired of it?
And even if I did, so what? I’ll just eat salads for a few days, and before you know it I’ll be craving the 'za all over again.
Most people picked some kind of food but I’m going with StG and choosing Coke. Expand to all sodas if possible?
I know I wouldn’t get tired of that because during my 5 years at a fast food restaurant, I drank soda almost every time I was there during every break and lunch period. I still love soda to this day
Pizza - as pointed out it is almost infinite in makings, crust from cracker thin to deep dish, sweet, through savory, almost anything can be used as a topping [think of all the posts on non US pizzas we have read over the years, and all the food porn pizza we have seen on tv]
And being diabetic, I really heavily limit my consumption to a few times a year, and one to two pieces depending on how it is made. I could murder me some pizza! I would probably end up with it 2 to 3 times a week.
I am deeply ashamed to admit this (and I suppose it violates the rule of the OP – because technically it’s more than one food, or perhaps not really food at all] but… I have to go with a #1 meal at McDonald’s. A Big-Mac-fries-diet-Coke meal.
