This post brought to you by the letter P
Let me start this post with a simple question:
"If you could only eat food that started with one letter, what letter would that be?"
It's an interesting question, especially since the food universe is so diverse in naming and the line between ingredients and food is often blurred. For example, how would you classify certain types of pie? Would apple pie fall under the letter A, or would it fall under the letter P?
Therefore, before I reveal the answer -- which actually has already been revealed by the title of this post -- here's the ground rules.
1. We're not getting into the nitty-gritty details, bread is bread, not rye bread or wheat bread, for this question all bread is the same.
2. That being said, it must be pretty publicly accepted that the food would be considered in a category -- such as dinner rolls in the bread family -- therefore, baked potatoes, hash browns, potato skins, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, would fall under the label potato family.
3. Flavoring doesn't allow a food to transcend from one letter to another, the food must stay in one category and not jump from one letter to another willy-nilly.
With the rules in place, we come to our answer -- the letter P.
Through years of research, and posing this question to random people I've shared meals with, I've come to the conclusion that the letter P is pinnacle of the food pyramid when posed with this brain-tingling question.
Consider the facts:
Pancakes, pasta, pizza all start with P -- I could live off those three foods alone -- and all three are amazingly easy to customize. You could eat just those three foods, slightly tampering with each recipe (adding different toppings to the pizza, mixing different meats with the pasta, adding chocolate chips to the pancakes) and not have the same meal two times in a row, ever.
Those three foods also cover the essentials; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Also, if you'll notice from the video below, P-related foods are the key cogs of Michael Phelps ridiculous diet. It it's good enough for an Olympian, it's good enough for me.
Of course, there is the all powerful potato, so many tasteful inventions have spawned from this spud.
Some other notable P foods:
1. Peppermint -- A flavoring? maybe, but after Max's hateful words yesterday it needed to have some defense.
2. Plums, peaches, pears, pineapple, pomegranate, peas -- Fruits and vegetables, the letter P's got 'em.
3. Peanuts and peanut butter -- Crunchy peanut butter is better by the way.