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Three foods you can't live without


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Barolo, that's not fare, I scrolled all the way down here to type

"bread

cheese

apples"

and you'd darn well done it before me!"

Those are the things I find hard to do without in Japan. I think my husband's choices would be:

Pork

Pickles

Noodles

...and I suspect my kids are planning on deciding their future citizenship according to the quality of sausage available!

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I'm so tempted to say:

Plants

Animals

Water

Really, it's such a hard decision to make. Well, at least the question didn't say that we had to choose three things that we had to live soley on.

To be a bit more specific, someone's asking for trouble if they take these three things away from me:

Rice

Soybeans

Tea

Rice and soybeans can be enjoyed as is or made into many other products, alone or in combination.

And tea. Tea is just wonderful. Although, to be more descriptive, I really have a preference for Japanese and Chinese green teas. Black just doesn't suit me and oolong is occasional.

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Pork--all thiings pork-y

Rice

Fruit

apparently I can live well as a south pacific islander

or maybe

eggs

bagels

avocados

this is hard.

Edited by aliwaks (log)

"sometimes I comb my hair with a fork" Eloise

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wine

(is it alarming that i'm kind of stuck after wine?)

cheese

pears

if wine doesn't count, add chili peppers.

from overheard in new york:

Kid #1: Paper beats rock. BAM! Your rock is blowed up!

Kid #2: "Bam" doesn't blow up, "bam" makes it spicy. Now I got a SPICY ROCK! You can't defeat that!

--6 Train

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Wine-all

Fava Beans/Peas in the pod/Lima Beans/Local Asparagus

Wine-White Rhone

Lobster/ Maryland Crabs/Mahogany & Ipswich clams

Wine-White & Red Burgundy

Fresh local strawberries in season/Fresh local cherries in season/juicy peaches, nectarines

Wine-all

Homemade Elbows and cheese

Philly Francophiles

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hmm.

dark chocolate. (i make three am grocery store runs for it sometimes)

coffee

buttered bread

fresh fruit

i had trouble narrowing these down.

i would also say my boyfriend's pizza, but that usually includes everythgin we have in the fridge at that time, so i don't know if it counts.

can i just say my boyfriend's cooking?

also...is it ok to be in love with someone for his cooking?

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Bread.

Cream.

Shrimp.

Could certainly live without:

Raw tomatoes.

Olives.

Sardines.

And I lived in Provence for a year. Go figure!

"An' I expect you don't even know that we happen to produce some partic'ly fine wines, our Chardonnays bein' 'specially worthy of attention and compet'tively priced, not to mention the rich, firmly structur'd Rusted Dunny Valley Semillons, which are a tangily refreshin' discovery for the connesewer ...yew bastard?"

"Jolly good, I'll have a pint of Chardonnay, please."

Rincewind and Bartender, The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett

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