Pasta, rice or potatoes

[Angelina82]

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

Potatoes. No contest.

So, Pasta, potatoes and pain au chocolate? That should do me.

Oh here why don’t you just have some pilau rice too!

Too easy, potatoes for Vodka lol

The people making other suggestions are just wrong. Op has not limited those things, so you can have them AS WELL.

Exactly! I have been more than generous yet people are still pushing for more.

Could you have sauces with the pasta?!

Of course! I don’t expect anyone to eat plain pasta, rice or spuds for the rest of their lives. I’m not a monster!

Potatoes are so versatile - baked, boiled, mashed, creamed, chips, crisps, skins. All you can do with pasta is change the shape and as for rice....

Definitely potatoes - straight out of the ground, no processing at all, good basic food that in my opinion should not be grouped with all that unnatural white rice and highly processed pasta and bread.

A potato should be classed as a vegetable and be one of your 5-a-day.

Potatoes

Potatoes!
You can eat them million different ways AND it makes vodka😁

It does? Hmm....Ok in that case we are now allowed any carb we like in liquid form. NOT soup though ok?

potatoes

Depends, only feeding myself? Potatoes (and you said nothing about flour, so I'll have bread and gnocchi too). Feeding my whole family? Has to be rice.

Pasta, easily. So many options!
Rice, not fussed and can go weeks without having it.
Potatoes, I really only like mash and the occasional roastie.

It looks like the good old spud is well in the lead! I’m not surprised, they are an amazing and pretty nutritious food which I would miss so much. I just couldn’t give up the pasta though!

@BadPoet you are NOT allowed potatoes and gnocchi even if you are making the latter yourself! You can have the bread for free though.

Potatoes. Food of the Gods.

Potatoes. Because a) chips and b) my oven baked cheesy, garlicky, herby mashed potatoes

All them that have said no to spuds you do realise you can no longer have crisps !

Genuinely I can’t remember the last time I ate crisps. I don’t think it was in 2020. I wouldn’t even notice if I never ate crisps again.

Do loads of people only ever eat plain, boiled rice or something? Rice is really, really versatile. You’ve got all the different kinds with different properties and textures: I have several different kinds of rice in the house at all times (basmati, Jasmine, and Korean short grain, but others depending on what I’m making - Thai sticky rice, for example).

You can cook and flavour it in so many different ways: risotto, paella, pilau, dirty rice, green Mexican style rice, rice and peas, jollof rice, fried rice, congee, arancini and so on and so on. That’s not anywhere near an exhaustive list. You can use it to stuff things (not just vegetables, it’s great stuffed inside tiny chickens in samgyetang for example). It can be savoury or sweet (there are loads of rice pudding variations you can make as well as other rice based things, like mochi). It can be ground up and made into noodles or flour.

Honestly, I think rice is possibly more versatile than potatoes.

I’d definitely choose rice.

@Angelina82 Ok, ok, still potatoes though. You've been more than fair.

oven baked cheesy, garlicky, herby mashed potatoes

That does sound amazing. 😋

You can’t veto gnocchi if people choose potatoes @Angelina82. It’s a perfectly legitimate potato-based dish.

Same with potato bread and potato scones. They’re still potato, just served in a different way.

Pasta is nowhere near as versatile as potatoes or rice.

@Angelina82 Ok, ok, still potatoes though. You've been more than fair. grin

Thank you for that acknowledgment and for your understanding.

Potatoes. Love all three, but potatoes are the most versatile. Boil, roast, mash, wrap them in foil and cook them in the edge of a campfire. Mmmm delicious.

Potatoes, cos they’re waffly versatile

Pasta- love it!

Potatoes.