PrintWould you rather give up potatoes or bread?
This would be a sacrifice either way! Potatoes are definitely a key element in my ususal food consumption, but I could never give up eating bread! The thought of never having warm yeast rolls, banana bread or peanut butter spread on sunflower kernal bread is dreadful! So, if you had to choose...which would you give up---the bread or the potatoes?
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31 Comments:
The potatoes, I suppose. What fresh hell is this, anyway?!
Ann Fisher at 7:15AM on 01/07/08
you mean i could never have a burger and fries again???? so sad.
i'd give up the potatoes if "bread" referred to bread of any kind - loaves, bagels, tortillas, naan, fry bread, pita, chinese bread buns, etc
if flatbreads and steamed breads were allowed then id keep my potatoes!
stumbler02 at 7:15AM on 01/07/08
Yes! Let's make this tough:) I'll go with giving up the spud!
I mean making a choice of either giving up ANY kind of potatoes or potato containing dish...or ANY kind of bread product!
JEP at 7:30AM on 01/07/08
I love the spuds way too much, so the bread would go!
ride&cook at 7:35AM on 01/07/08
potatoes. that's too easy. haha. mom's irish so i'm sick to death of taters.
lexophile at 8:23AM on 01/07/08
Bread can go (uh-oh, bagels too??). So that burger and fries is bunless, I guess. Wait a minute does potato bread count???
RichardCrystal at 8:34AM on 01/07/08
Potatoes, easy choice. Not a huge french fry or baked potato person. But I love bread--all kinds. I cannot imagine having to give that up!
luswim06 at 9:35AM on 01/07/08
I'm with luswim06 - I could never eat another potato and be ok, but life without bread?? No way.
This is just regular potatoes, right? Not sweet potatoes? Pretty please?
CookiePie at 10:01AM on 01/07/08
Yeah, I'm afraid potato bread counts. My cousin has a potato allergy, and those rolls make her very sick.
Lauren Krueger at 10:43AM on 01/07/08
I can live without potatoes but I can't live without bread.
I tried Atkins once. Those were the four most miserable days of my life.
chiff0nade at 10:43AM on 01/07/08
Potatoes. I would die without pizza, bagels (very clear I grew up in NY!), and a good crusty baguette.
charm city cupcake at 10:45AM on 01/07/08
Well, since you put it that way, that ANY dish with potatoes or ANY dish with bread...I would have to give up the potato. I would be sad to miss some potato dishes, but I would go insane without bread!
radley24 at 11:21AM on 01/07/08
Potatoes. Not even a choice, really. My mother is German and my father is half-Irish, so I got my fill of them when I was a child. I still can't take them, and I can't eat fried foods, so french fries don't even play into it, really. Unfortunately, i am also Norwegian, and I would have to get used to fake lefse, instead of the real thing...that might be hard. but, I just made a great loaf of banana bread yesterday and I can't think that I could live without things like that - or blueberry muffins, pizza...the list goes on.
Traveller at 11:58AM on 01/07/08
Potatoes, hands down... they're good, but how would we live without BREAD??? Sandwiches, stuffing, bread pudding, cinnamon toast, gratinee... even the French Revolution! Not to mention the therapeutic value of kneading dough... Keep your potatoes. I want Bread.
Bread is the warmest, kindest of words. Write it always with a capital letter, like your own name. --Anonymous
Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad … but bread is king. --Louis Bromfield
“A loaf of bread,” the Walrus said,
“Is what we chiefly need:
--Lewis Carroll
LoCo at 12:04PM on 01/07/08
Potatoes, easily. I love making hashbrowns on a Sunday morning and sweet potatoes topped with butter and scallions is a fave but I love bread in all of its many glorious forms.
NSW at 12:12PM on 01/07/08
How about a negotiation. One week bread the next week potatoes. Can't we just change it out. It is a starch; when you are making a meal, make a choice. Potatoes have a lot of nutrients and fiber. Bread has lots of fiber. Just pick your starch of the day and go with that. Could be corn, peas, potatoes, bread, rice. You can eat some starch per day. What I am not giving up is cheese. Unless someone makes a big deal about it and so far so good.
JerzeeTomato at 12:53PM on 01/07/08
Potatoes can go for me, I think.
You can make bread soup, but Potato sandwiches?
GTO at 1:34PM on 01/07/08
This is like choosing a favourite child! It's impossible. I'm a hard core carb lover-I never met a potato I didn't like, but if I had to give up bread I'd be a cranky cranky girl. Evil question if you ask me! ;)
psychsarah at 1:54PM on 01/07/08
100% Irish here, but the potato would have to go.
As much as I luv ya darlin' spud, yir just not as, shall we say, versatile as bread and her manifestations. May ye rest in peace. I'll miss ye. Truly.
PerkyMac at 2:03PM on 01/07/08
I could easily give up bread. I mean, I like it alright, but it doesn't get my heart to singing the way potatoes or, say, pasta does. I can go weeks without eating bread and I don't notice because it's just not a food I think a lot about. Now, if the choice were between potatoes and pasta, I'd be crying.
chisai at 2:40PM on 01/07/08
I have celiac diease so bread is poison. If I had a choice it would have been potato.
Lynx4 at 2:56PM on 01/07/08
I agree that this choice belongs in Dante's inferno. I love carbs of all kinds and have no desire to give up any type but bread is a staple a passion. Bagels sandwiches and wraps, not to mention french toast, meatballs, meatloaf (bread crumbs) sweet rolls, foccacia, grilled cheese, pizza. Giving up bread is not an option.
I will miss my mashed potatoes the most!
KtMc24 at 4:09PM on 01/07/08
Oh my goodness...are you trying to starve me? Sometimes I think all I eat is potatoes and bread! Man...you're tough JEP! :)
I guess I'd give up the bread...I eat far too many potato products to count.
Hillary
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Chew on That at 5:25PM on 01/07/08
It's fun to see how strongly SE's feel about possibly having to give up a dearly loved food---especially ones that are commonly eating daily:) No, I'm not giving up my cinnamon toast!
Jerz, remember sometime back I posed the question of giving up chocolate or cheese? I could FEEL the strong emotions coming thru those response comments!!
JEP at 5:34PM on 01/07/08
I was torn when I saw this question because I noticed bread included tortillas, which I eat several times a week. But, I figure corn tortillas don't count! I'm a potato-aholic. I could eat them fried, mashed, baked, in wedges, in breakfast burritos, etc., every day. I would miss a good sandwich though, as well as french toast, focaccia and grilled cheese. But I just don't buy bread that often because it goes bad faster than I can eat it most of the time (unless I get French bread because my husband devours it as a snack!). I just thought about pizza. Oh boy. But I'd still give up bread first -- if I absolutely had to!
misseditor at 7:36PM on 01/07/08
If I had to choose it would be a tough one but in the end potatoes would be going. I love me some toast!
Scoggdog at 9:40PM on 01/07/08
i once lived with a man who felt that dinner wasn't really dinner without mashed potatoes and that sunday breakfast wasn't worth sitting down for unless it was composed of hash.
after i left i didn't cook or eat potatoes in any form for over a year.
'nuff said.
cybercita at 11:12PM on 01/07/08
As much as I love potatoes, I see them as an indulgence rather than a staple. Bread is definitely a staple and I love every form of it.
Afishionado at 11:32PM on 01/07/08
Oh, potatoes! The other day, I bought Calandra's bread at the bakery in Fairfield, NJ. Nearly ate half the loaf on the way home, it was so good!
hereandthe at 8:20AM on 01/08/08
I'd have to pick potatoes. Although you can get fiber and nutrients from the skins, it's still a "white starch". However, there are plenty of whole grain options in the bread group to choose from.
Amandarama at 10:37AM on 01/08/08
I'm Danish. According to the NYT, this means I have to have potatoes at least once a day. My brain tells me that bread in all its glorious manisfestations is food from the gods. My body tells me that I will gain weight if I indulge in bread but the same is not true with potatoes. Go figure.
islandexile at 3:28PM on 01/08/08