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Pasta, rice or potatoes

273 replies

Angelina82 · 25/09/2020 04:32

If you could only chose one for the rest of your lives which would it be? Pasta for me all day long 😋

OP posts:
mynameiscalypso · 25/09/2020 08:14

Pasta. I would happily eat it for every meal. Rice is fine but not very exciting. I'd miss potatoes (especially roast potatoes) but I'd just have more pasta to make up for it.

NerrSnerr · 25/09/2020 08:15

Pasta. I'd happily eat pasta every day.

Teaandchocolatedigestives · 25/09/2020 08:18

Pasta
(Then bread as clearly you were mistaken in leaving out the deliciousness that is Freshly baked bread Angry Grin )
Potatoes
Rice

In that order. I'm cheating as I love all carbs Grin

Kittytheteapot · 25/09/2020 08:18

I really like pasta. It would be my go to on any given day. But if it was for the rest of my life, it would have to be potatoes.

Rice - meh.

AlCalavicci · 25/09/2020 08:21

I eat a kot more rice than potatoes or pasta but if it came down to a one only choice I would pick spuds , as pp have said they go with a lot more things and can be eaten on there own .
All them that have said no to spuds you do realise you can no longer have crisps !

ReeseWitherfork · 25/09/2020 08:23

Potatoes can be eaten on their own
Bleugh!!!!!!! Give me plain boiled rice or pasta over a gross old boiled potato any day

Egghead68 · 25/09/2020 08:25

Potatoes

PurpleDaisies · 25/09/2020 08:25

Not rice.

Argh, it’s so hard. I think for versatility, potatoes. I love a potato curry and I would be sad to never eat chips again.

PurpleDaisies · 25/09/2020 08:25

Give me plain boiled rice or pasta over a gross old boiled potato any day

What, even a tiny, freshly dug up new potato? I could eat those all day.

Laiste · 25/09/2020 08:28

This is stressing me out more than it should OP! Grin

I can take or leave rice.
I love pasta.
Rarely eat potato BUT .....

I couldn't live with no more roast potatos ever!

so ... i chose potato. But with deep discomfort.

Sceptre86 · 25/09/2020 08:28

Potatoes, then bread, rice and finally pasta.

Egghead68 · 25/09/2020 08:30

@ReeseWitherfork

Potatoes can be eaten on their own Bleugh!!!!!!! Give me plain boiled rice or pasta over a gross old boiled potato any day
Chips and crisps are both potatoes on their own.
Bluesheep8 · 25/09/2020 08:34

Potatoes. More versatile as a pp said.

PlanDeRaccordement · 25/09/2020 08:35

Rice.
Definitely no question

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 25/09/2020 08:37

I like them all, but it’d have to be potatoes - baked, boiled, mashed, fried, roasted, chips - and added to soups and stews.

Also I once read that they’re very nearly a perfect food - you just need to add a little first class protein.

ReeseWitherfork · 25/09/2020 08:37

Chips and crisps are both potatoes on their own
Usually with a shit load of oil and flavouring/seasoning. Without either of those things... noooo.

PlanDeRaccordement · 25/09/2020 08:37

You can’t make pasta with potatoes, but you can with rice. So by choosing rice I can have rice noodles, yes?

TyroBurningDownTheCloset · 25/09/2020 08:41

I'm on Team Potato. We're in good company - can anyone else hear Samwise Gamgee right now? Plus Rincewind would approve.

Poppingnostopping · 25/09/2020 08:42

Potatoes but I can't always be arsed to cook them which is why we eat a lot of pasta and rice!

0blio · 25/09/2020 08:42

Potatoes - ultimate comfort food.

Rice is ok, but pasta is for children, bland and boring. Both are tasteless and depend entirely on the sauces they're served with.

Spud13 · 25/09/2020 08:47

As per user name I'm obsessed with potatoes 😍, just had a jacket with broccoli cheese for breakfast 🥔🧀🥦. Mainstay of my diet in many forms!!!!! 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔😜😂😊. Xx

MadCatLady71 · 25/09/2020 08:47

Pasta. Although now you can buy those packs of rice that you just heat up in the microwave for two minutes, rice is running a close second. In our house we probably have pasta 4 nights a week, rice the other 3. Potatoes maybe once a month.

SisyphusAndTheRockOfUntidiness · 25/09/2020 08:50

My favourite is rice, but you can do so much more with potatoes. So i would choose potatoes.

Pasta... no. It never held much appeal for me. Either flabby or chewy.

LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett · 25/09/2020 08:50

Tatties.

I could eat a plate of potatoes on their own (mash, chips, wedges, baby new pots with salt and butter) but I couldn't eat a plate of pasta or rice on its own.

FedUpWithBriiiiick · 25/09/2020 08:51

Heart: pasta
Head: potatoes