genuine torture

Food v. Food


You have to pick five foods for you and Maisy to be restricted to eat for the rest of your lives. If you pick chicken you can have all kinds of chicken, grilled, fried, etc but a chicken and bacon club sandwich counts as more than one food. You can add all types of spices to every meal. What five foods do you pick?
— Mikey

Your question is a little confusing because I'm allowed to have the foods prepared some ways but not others.  For example fried chicken would need to be battered and maybe breaded.  Can I have any amount of flour without flour being one of my ingredients?  What about bread crumbs?  If I can have bread crumbs, do I automatically get bread?

Assuming that the question is about choosing five key ingredients and discludes dessert, (with sugar, flour, cream, and eggs you can make a ton of amazing stuff) here is my list.

 

Chicken

Steak (which could be ground into ground beef)

Potatoes

Cheese

Lobster

With that and spices - I'd only be really really really sad... not suicidal.

Ice Cream v. Beer


You can only eat ice cream or drink beer going forward in life. Which one do you choose?
— Mikey
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Ice cream.  Assuming that you mean I have to decide between giving up ice cream forever versus giving up beer forever, but with the rest of my diet remaining unaffected, I would give up beer.  I like ice cream more.  Though not much more.

If you mean that I'm only allowed to consume all ice cream or all beer then I also choose ice cream.  Both options would likely lead to my imminent death, but ice cream would be slower and I might survive if I was allowed to have all ranges of exotic favors.  This ice cream has steak in it and green beans!