by Jordan Hildreth, Co-Host The Gym Closet (A Krave Gym Podcast)
The foodie? Your favorite carb source. The carb choices? Pasta, bread, sweets, potatoes, cereal,
oatmeal, granola bars, and fruit. The first round? Bread vs fruit, pasta vs oatmeal, potatoes vs sweets, and cereal vs granola bars.
The results: Bread beat fruit, pasta demolishes oatmeal, cereal wrecks granola, and potatoes beat sweets…. Oooookkkkaaaayyyyy. Potato beats sweet? I think we all know what’s really going on here. We’ve got a group of folks who don’t want to admit that they would prefer the more delicious but hardly as nutritious, sweets. I want everyone who voted for potatoes to really think about that. If you had the option of chocolate, gobstoppers, starburst, snickers, milky way, sweet tarts, ETC!!! The list is endless but my point is you would prefer a lumpy potato over all of those? I don’t think so and if you’re really being honest with yourself, neither do you.
Anyway, those are your winners of round one. Now we move to round 2! This round is bread vs pasta, the two sources that have been fighting for our attention since the start of agriculture (probably), and cereal vs potatoes. I think the question must be asked; will people lie to themselves about sugary goodness vs lumpy potatoes again this round? The results are in: Pasta and cereal both squeak out victories. I am a little surprised pasta beat bread, I was anticipating bread to take it just based on being the most simple and plain, the “classic” if you will. Cereal having to squeak out a victory against potatoes is a travesty, again. PEOPLE! Stop. Lying. There is a brand of cereal that you would choose over dumb potatoes every single time and you know it! Thankfully enough of you were honest to get cereal to the finals.
So now the finals are set: Pasta vs Cereal. These two are wildly different and come in many, many flavors. I am excited to see which comes out on top………. It better be cereal, dammit.
The final results are in, in all 3 polls, pasta was the winner. I am genuinely surprised by this result. Though less surprised than when potatoes almost went the distance. Last night on the podcast we decided what it must have come down to is that adults were voting. What I mean by this is that when we thought cereal would prevail we put ourselves in two different scenarios.
Cereal scenario: early Saturday morning, in our PJ’s watching cartoons while scarfing down a large bowl of -insert favorite cereal here-.
Pasta scenario: Friday evening, semi dressed up at a nice restaurant with our significant other (third wheeling a couple in Jordan’s case) and ordering the shrimp Alfredo pasta with a nice glass of wine.
While the pasta scenario is enticing, our young 12-year-old hearts were drawn to the Saturday morning cartoons. However, it seems that most of you have grown out of this phase and pasta was the winner. I don’t like it, but I understand it.
Make sure to check out the podcast here and tune in next week to see the results of the new foodie: favorite beer!