Would you rather have the power to snap your fingers at any time and any place and produce fresh herbs OR eat as many doughnuts as often as you want without any negative health consequences (no calories, no fat, no cholesterol)?
Clarification:
doughnuts = any type of fried, sweetened dough including beignets, olie bollen, etc.
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January 27th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
For an endless supply of fresh basil pesto, I would forgo all doughnuts past, present, and future. That includes Krispy Kreme.
January 29th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Fresh herbs for me.
January 29th, 2007 at 10:23 am
doughnuts! doughnuts! doughnuts!
January 29th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
hmmmm this is a hard question I adore fresh basil and flat leaf parsley but I would have to go for guilt free doughnuts all the way!
January 29th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
I’ll take fried dough over the green stuff anyday!
January 29th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
gosh. i hate to be a nerd but herbs!
January 30th, 2007 at 12:14 am
herbs, all the way.
i love doughnuts, but you have so many more options with herbs and they smell better.
basil, rosemary, cilantro, spearmint. yum.
January 30th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
DOUGHNUTS and no consequences!?! Yes please! In fact, this is similar to what I pray for regularly.
January 30th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Herbs — I’m not a fan of doughnuts and fried stuff!
January 31st, 2007 at 10:27 am
To quote Homer Simpson…..”DOUGHNUTS!” I think I gain weight just thinking about them - so guilt free doughnuts would be devine.
February 1st, 2007 at 2:59 am
Herbs all the way! Ok, I admit that I adore doughnuts but lately I’ve totally been craving fresh dill and for some reason, it’s pretty hard to come by around here. I do have an endless supply of several types of fresh herbs but I would love to be able to snap my fingers and have whatever I want, whenever I want!
February 2nd, 2007 at 5:34 am
I’ll say doughnuts before you’ve even finished your question! But could you please include all other types of cake and cookies, too?
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:33 am
Herbs, absolutely! But, I pray I never have to choose one or the other! I love pakoras and other fried foods too!
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:40 am
Gosh that’s a hard question! Who knew you could be so torn between fresh herbs and donuts?
Hmmm…. I think herbs. And then I would make some donuts and have it all. Muahaha!!
February 7th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Um, doughnuts! Fresh herbs aren’t all that hard to find, but no calorie, fat-free doughnuts are impossible to find! Silly Caroline.
February 12th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
I’ve got to say I’d go for the herbs. At this time of year in rainy, grey Portland, what I wouldn’t do for some fresh pesto. But I’m not all that into fried things. If you’d said ice cream with toppings galore, that’d be another story. Good talking to you, C-love.
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Doughnuts are so satisfying. But what are their negative health consequences? Really? Does it include the sense of bloating from eating too many, oesophageal clagging from eating to fast or the heady rush from the sugar, starch and the fat? A doughnut is a physical pill of excess and my response to it is carnal at its core. I don’t think that there is much left of the doughnut if you take out the negative health aspect–Perhaps just a little pill of pleasure, like a drug. But a drug with no health consequences? So you would eat it all day, with no issue. Perhaps having better doughnuts one day, and then craving more and more perfect fritters. Perhaps avoiding any other task, any other food, why not? No negative consequences. Focussing ever more on the next fried morsel and where you can get it, and the slowly mounting disappointments as you search and fail to find the next best doughnut. A lifetime of disappointment in the service of the perfect doughnut, of failed opportunities–the repast not taken. Doughnuts without the negative consequences? You’d have to remove even their addictiveness, and that’s rather their point isn’t it?
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:14 pm
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