broccoli, bacon or chocolate?

@jb78000 (15139)
October 7, 2009 3:12pm CST
alright for the rest of your life 95% of you diet has to consist of one of the above foods. which would you choose and why? for myself i'd rule out chocolate straightaway because i hate the stuff. (nasty brown rubbish) i'm vegetarian so bacon is out. sadly i would be restricted to 1001 different things you can do with broccoli.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
7 Oct 09
hi jb7800 oh my but I could get so sick of broccoli for the rest of your life, and bacon would sooner or later get me with its high fat content, and I love chocolate' but a steady diet of it would probably kill me with its fat content too. so broccoli it is.oh but I have 5 percent so broccoli and chocolate, that would do it.
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@jb78000 (15139)
7 Oct 09
just broccoli and chocolate? good choices but i fear your diet may be somewhat lacking in protein.
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
7 Oct 09
I'd go the broccoli! Not only does it contain the best balance of overall nutrients out of the three and would keep me helthier for longer, it's baby trees man..... BABY TREES! The remaining 5% of my dietary allowance would be made up of seafood and rabbit.
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
7 Oct 09
Fantastic spelling of "healthier" on my part there! (I'm not eating enough broccoli and rabbit)
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
7 Oct 09
I'm supposed to be in bed actually..... There's no issue with you dressing and looking as if it's Halloween 365 days a year, so what's the problem with me and my phantoming habits?
@jb78000 (15139)
7 Oct 09
poor little trees. now shouldn't you be off phantoming some house or other?
@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
8 Oct 09
I'd choose broccoli too. i think it would take the longest to get sick of it - bacon would be too greasy and chocolate would be too sweet.
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@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
8 Oct 09
Hi cutepenguin, the blue rabbit ate too much chocolate again, she should know better when she professes to hate it but usually hates it most when its made her sick. Brocoli though is the most well thought out choice of the three as can be enjoyed in so many healthy and delicious ways.
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@jb78000 (15139)
8 Oct 09
hello cutepenguin - you need an avatar to go with that user name . broccoli is a good choice and doesn't have to be healthy if you cook it the right way.
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@YoungInLove (1254)
• Canada
8 Oct 09
Id pick brocolli. I like the stuff. I like chocolate but i can only eat a small amount until it starts to make me feel sick. Same with bacon, they both taste great at first but after a little bit it starts to make you feel gross. So brocolli all the way!
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@jb78000 (15139)
8 Oct 09
pretty much anything that consist either mainly of sugar or mainly of salt and fat will make you feel that way. i don't eat bacon (i've tried the veggie version btw and it is fine if drowned in plenty of ketchup) but do eat chips and the like and there are only so many you can eat before the queasiness sets in.
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@adoremay (2065)
• Philippines
8 Oct 09
I love all of them! I love broccoli because it is so crunchy, I love bacon because it is so tasty and above all I love chocolates because it so amazingly delicious.
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@adoremay (2065)
• Philippines
9 Oct 09
I would like to have chocolates and lots of chocolates.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
8 Oct 09
But adoremay, you really must choose just one of these three delightful options.
• United States
8 Oct 09
I'd have to go with broccoli too. Chocolate would taste good at first, but after a week I would get sick of it. Sores would start to appear in my mouth and I would probably develop a case of diabetes. As for bacon, I love the stuff. Yet, all that grease and fat would tire me out soon. My insides would be loaded with cholesterol and I'd end up gaining 50 lbs. A couple of years down the road I probably would be a heart attack victim. Not a pleasant future if you ask me. Like you said there is a variety of ways to use broccoli. Can we add toppings to it, or is that not allowed? Either way I would get sick of any food that I had to eat for the rest of my life besides rice and chicken, but that is not an option. So, I'll go for the healthy choice. At least I'll live a better life eating broccoli everyday.
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
8 Oct 09
Steamed brocholi is great. My kids when little called brocholi "trees". HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~
@jb78000 (15139)
8 Oct 09
you can of course cook it in any way you like and you have a 5% option for other ingredients. personally i don't recommened just boiling it for a couple of days and then having it plain but some people like it like that. good choice anyway.
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@jb78000 (15139)
8 Oct 09
who is grandpa bob?
@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
7 Oct 09
I don't know what broccoli is. I've only seen it in the movies - never tasted it in my life... there's no broccoli craze around here, like in some overseas countries... That leaves me with bacon (mmmmm... bacon...) and chocolate (mmmm... chocolate...). None is very healthy, but I think I could enjoy bacon much more than chocolate if I have to eat it constantly. After eating chocolate a few times in a row, I seem to get tired of it. That's not the case with bacon (mmmmm... bacon...).
@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
7 Oct 09
I know, but you don't give me much to choose from: just bacon and chocolate (as broccoli, again, does not exist for me - can I you offer a more common vegetable instead? like leek or something)... Eating chocolate won't get me too far either as I would be bouncing off the walls from the sugar energy.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Oct 09
Now that's not what I exected to hear from you there Stvasile, I thought you'd go with the chocolate for sure. Trust me you wouldn't like brocoli as your mother wouldn't know how to cook it properly and would probably turn it into a kind of soup. Saying that some people do actually turn it into soup. Of course the soup would naturally need the addition of lots of herbs as brocili tends not to have much flavour, especially if boiled. It is passable if stir fried with garlic, or lightly steamed for the shortest of times, but anything more and it turns into inevitable green mush.
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@jb78000 (15139)
7 Oct 09
hello stvasile. iwill try and not let world war IV break out in here. well i think if your diet consists primarily of bacon you will be ricocheting off the walls with the inevitable salt high.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
8 Oct 09
Get this, at the Minnesota State Fair this year they actually had chocolate covered deep fried bacon on a stick. Ewwwwww! But I am a chocoholic to the heart so chocolate is my choice. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
8 Oct 09
Our State Fair has all kinds of fried things on sticks. We've had various candy bars as well here. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~
@jb78000 (15139)
8 Oct 09
for some strange reason i feel like i do not want to know the details.
@jb78000 (15139)
8 Oct 09
your country does not have the monopoly on truly revolting foods. we've managed to develop not only the deep fried mars bar but also deep fried pizza. you might currently have the edge with that abomination but i'm sure we'll catch up. [scottish rabbit runs off]
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@Bluepatch (2476)
• Trinidad And Tobago
8 Oct 09
Bacon will be out with me because of the fat and it causes chloesterol. Chocolate has a lot of benefits. I can't remember most of them now but it does have a good bit of good things about it. Broccoli is a vege and has the most benefits as far as I know of these three. Besides, you can do lots with it.
@jb78000 (15139)
8 Oct 09
small quantities of dark chocolate are good for you. as the basis of every meal perhaps not.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
7 Oct 09
I'd reluctantly choose the broccoli. I love chocolate, I hate bacon (most of the time) and I like broccoli OK. But I plan on living until I'm 94 and I don't think I can do that on chocolate (lovely brown nirvana)...
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
7 Oct 09
:-) Dawn is happy...
@jb78000 (15139)
7 Oct 09
here dawn - another few dozen kilos of unwanted chocolate pressies being sent over to you as we speak.
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@jb78000 (15139)
8 Oct 09
chocolate filled dawn. do you think you are at risk of turning into a chocolate?
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• Australia
8 Oct 09
Since 80-90% of my life is already done, I won't be all that worried about the health issues, and since I loathe broccoli, that's all to the good. So, a toss-up between bacon and chocolate. I love chocolate, but even I find it gets a bit much after the first three bars, and since I love bacon almost as much, and bacon isn't quite as unhealthy in excess, it would have to be bacon. Oh, must go, my eggs and bacon are ready. Yum. Lash
• Australia
8 Oct 09
Oops, missed the 5% bit. If I have to choose one of the others for the 5% I'd probably go for the hateful broccoli on pure health criteria, but if I could choose anything else at all it would be either tomatoes or mandarins, because I like both and I wo0uld certainly need the vitamin C or the remainder of my life would be nasty, brutish, and short. Your question is very Hobbsian. Lash
• Australia
8 Oct 09
Our chickens have the run of the middle paddock, are hand-fed breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea - bread, lettuce, or laying mash (my other half is slightly nutty) - and are kept till they die, long after they stop laying, which makes the cost analysis a bit haywire, but hey! As for the poor little piggies, I'd prefer it if my bacon came from something bovine, but alas! Lash
@jb78000 (15139)
8 Oct 09
poor little piggies. those eggs had better be free range or you are going to get a lecture about poor little hennies too...
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Oct 09
What exactly made you choose such nasty foods jb. Couldn't you come up with something a bit more edible, I'd rather starve than live off those three. My son would probably choose the brocoli but only if it was cooked properly and not boiled.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Oct 09
Frankly it's a pitiful discussion and I already answered my choice between chocolate, strawberries and some other unmemorable thing last week. What I do for my friends. There's much more fun to be had in the hairy chest interest you know, but I've gone through that one.
@jb78000 (15139)
7 Oct 09
you can have all three but 95% has to be only one. hey do you think the is the best discussion i have ever done because i certainly do
@jb78000 (15139)
7 Oct 09
it is a fabulous discussion. stop being so mean.
@sunny68 (1327)
• India
7 Oct 09
of the three i love chocolate (i hope you mean anything made with chocolate including cake). but for a final answer i would like to know what the remaining 5% options are......
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
7 Oct 09
There's no need to be silly about things with such a ridiculous list of examples jb. Who on earth eats spices and nuts for God's sake???
@jb78000 (15139)
7 Oct 09
coming from a man who claims to eat cordury i am not going to take that feeble attempt at a putdown very seriously sunshine...
@jb78000 (15139)
7 Oct 09
anything. spices, nuts, tarmac, gravel, fluff. whatever you like.
• United States
8 Oct 09
If you need somewhere to send the chocolate you don't need, do feel free! I would say, for preference, chocolate. But unfortunately, I am diabetic. So if I ate NOTHING but chocolate for the rest of my life, the rest of my life could be pretty short! So I would have to say broccoli. But then, if I could only eat broccoli and nothing else, I'm not sure I want to live long. Ah, someone pass me the chocolate!
@jb78000 (15139)
8 Oct 09
i've already passed a few sacks of chocolate over to that american who answered earlier. anyway i'm not giving hundreds of kilos of sugar enhanced rubbish to a diabetic. well not one that i like anyway.
@ladym33 (10979)
• United States
12 Oct 09
Well to me pitting brocolli agains bacon and chocolate is unfair to broccoli. I mean I like broccolli and all, but I am addicted to chocolate I wish I found it disgusing, I would probably be 10 pounds lighter, also bacon is just so tasty to me. I can't eat a lot of it though because it gives me a tummy ache, but I love how it tastes. I don't think I could live on broccoli and I would love eating the other two, but they would probably kill me.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
20 Oct 09
Hi ladym, the rabbits off hopping somewhere so you're stuck with me I'm afraid. I really think the only solution here for you is to convince yourself that brocoli does indeed taste like chocoate one day and bacon the next and eat it blindfolded when there's just too much brocoli to face.
@jb78000 (15139)
20 Oct 09
squeak! squeak! i know how to do this - make brocolli taste like chocolate...not telling mind you
@Barbietre (1438)
• United States
8 Oct 09
Chocolate ( dark for me as I do not eat much in the way of sugar), then bacon would be my second choice. I eat broccoli but in no way could eat it every day.
@Barbietre (1438)
• United States
8 Oct 09
Well now that depends on what you think healty is. I know our major problems are caused by sugar and white products procesed foods and not animal fats. And there are non smoked bacons which have NO nitrates. But since this is all hypothetical, what does it matter.
@jb78000 (15139)
20 Oct 09
well i am a veggie and i am pretty healthy in spite of not bothering to watch my diet in the least. [finishing banging on about the virtues of a meat free diet]. actually i think whatever your diet is provided it is balanced you will be fine. i suppose it could even include bacon [poor little piggies]
@jb78000 (15139)
8 Oct 09
not very healthy but you are going for what you like.
@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
8 Oct 09
I know brocolli is good for me but I could not go 95% of the time. Bacon smells great but I know how bad it is for me and I don't eat it that often. But, chocolate is my iltimate favorite thing. The truffles and more exppensive some stuff. I would have to go with the brocolli. And have the chocolate afew times now so I think I could handle it.
@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
8 Oct 09
My thoughts exactly. A small amount of the best is better than a large amount of trashy brand.
@jb78000 (15139)
8 Oct 09
this sounds like a very reasonable compromise. also if you like chocolate that much maybe you don't want to ruin that pleasure by eating so much you get sick of it.
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@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
8 Oct 09
i would definitely choose broccoli cause of its high anti-oxidant content. though i like chocolate but it is too sweet and i can't eat that every day. unlike broccoli it is safe to eat everyday and actually good for health if i eat that every day. i only boil it and then it as it is.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
8 Oct 09
yeah i think that boiling it will just lose its nutrition to the water. and i need to drink that water i boiled the broccoli with if i need to get all the nutrition of this vegetable. and steaming seems to be the best option. i don't exactly if that is the same case with stir frying. does not stir frying in a way deplete the vitamins of the vegetable. but if it is quick stir fry i think it is still okay.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
8 Oct 09
Hi hotsummer, if you are stuck with nothing else but brocoli to eat you really should think of different ways to approach it, as the boiled approach could get pretty boring on a daily basis. Steaming is actually much healthier as it retains more of the vitamins. Srir frying it too is a good option as you could take some of that addtional 5% the rabbit is offering and add some garlic and spices to the wok. I don't really think grilled brocoli would work too well though.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
8 Oct 09
I would definitely have to pick chocolate! It is my ultimate guilty pleasure favorite! There's nothing exciting about broccoli so that would be out. Bacon is good but too much grease and salt would be an undoing. Chocolate wins hands down!
@jb78000 (15139)
8 Oct 09
if i hadn't just faxed over all my unwanted to chocolate to dawn i would send it to you. i really don't like the stuff at all - only ever eat it when i am very hungry indeed.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
8 Oct 09
Oh my! You just don't know what you are missing!
@wlee9696 (595)
• United States
7 Oct 09
Bacon would have to win out. I love all three. I couldn't have 95% of my diet broccoli though. So it would be a toss up between the chocolate and the bacon. Where in the world did you come up with this question? :)
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Oct 09
Excuse the rabbit, she's temporarily lost the plot. Now I haven't had bacon for two years now as there has only been smoked available in the shops for some reason which I don't like. I quite often fancy a simple bacon sandwich with red hot English mustard but it is not to be. I shall have to come up with some interesting discussions for my Greek life style section tomorrow. Have you popped in there at all yet wlee, after hours of effort it now sports a genuine Greek avatar who is open to the highest bidder, on the proviso they don't like lobster.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Oct 09
Why thank you jb. So nice of you to be civil.
@jb78000 (15139)
7 Oct 09
wlee, please ignore thea - she is trying to sell one of her friends over the internet and so far has received no bids. that said greek lifestyle is worth a glance at. some of the discussions are very original.