Would You Rather? Tomatoes vs. Lettuce

by Eick · December 8th, 2010 · 13 Comments

It’s Wednesday! Which means it’s Would You Rather time. Today, a battle of veggies you often see in salads (I know tomatoes are technically a fruit, but whateves, they usually function in food as a vegetable).

Option #1: You can never eat tomatoes again.

Option #2: You can never eat lettuce again.

Things to consider: Burgers & sandwiches – this kind of applies equally to both lettuce and tomato, but whichever you choose you can’t expect to garnish your burger or salad with either tomatoes or lettuce anymore. Salads. Sure, if you eliminate tomatoes you can’t have them on a salad anymore, but without lettuce you’re pretty much eliminating all salad, ever. Tomato sauce, tomato juice. No more bloody mary’s, but more importantly, with no tomato sauce you won’t be eating much pizza, lasagna or pasta again unless you find an alternative sauce.

Which do you choose and why?

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13 responses so far ↓

1 Annatagonist // Dec 8, 2010 at 8:12 pm

Does spinach count as lettuce?
2 Eick // Dec 8, 2010 at 8:14 pm

You bet it does. Saying “I’d just eat spinach, arugula etc.” is getting off too easy.
3 Brad // Dec 8, 2010 at 8:17 pm

Too easy! I will just east some cellophane wrappers to make up for the missing lettuce in my diet.
4 Jex // Dec 8, 2010 at 8:52 pm

Instead of lettuce you could use arugula or spinach. Or even kale. I mean, c’mon. Tomatoes are in a ton of delicious things like marinara sauce, on pizza, in soup (paste), and so on. Lettuce is replaceable and cabbage has more flavor anyway.
5 lindno // Dec 8, 2010 at 9:15 pm

way too easy. who would ever say lettuce? if you get rid of tomato, goodbye pizza! who’s that stupid?
6 Lis // Dec 8, 2010 at 10:14 pm

I HATE lettuce. Kthx.
7 Megan // Dec 9, 2010 at 3:28 am

So celery leaves can’t count as lettuce…but they’re great on sandwiches…I’m sorry…if you say they count as lettuce…you’re crazy. Plus you can make a salad without lettuce. Not that I wouldn’t miss it, but it’s more doable…no ketchup? no way.
8 Sethonious // Dec 9, 2010 at 1:37 pm

I must abstain then. I hate raw tomato. HATE raw tomato. It would be so easy to give up the tomato on a burger (aka death slices of slime that ruin perfectly good beef). But I could never give up ketchup, or red sauce. I could also never give up lettuce, spinich, kale, or collards. I love my leafy greens!
9 Eick // Dec 10, 2010 at 8:31 pm

I’m weighing in with the minority on this one. I know it would be a huge pain to try and get around tomato sauce – severely limiting for pizza and Italian food. But I can’t imagine never eating salads again. They’re just too important to me in the grand scheme of eating healthy.

Also, I could easily do without tomatoes on sandwiches and burgers, but definitely would still want lettuce on them.
10 Eick // Dec 10, 2010 at 8:32 pm

Oh, and as for ketchup, good riddance.
11 ecommerce // Dec 11, 2010 at 4:49 am

I love tomatoes. Its soup, catchup, jam…umm….
12 Spam // Jan 12, 2011 at 6:44 pm

Eick: So, really, this is a “Would You Rather” pitting tomatoes against all leafy greens?
13 Anon // May 9, 2011 at 6:08 pm

The first very hard decision for me. I enjoy eating both. Since I can’t go a week without a good batch of tomato sauce, I’d go with tomatoes (and smuggle in lettuce from somewhere).