Do you struggle with questions like "What is your favorite food?"?

COOKIES!!!!
Nope, do not seem to have a problem.

Pizza, green, Sweet Emotion, Aerosmith. Nope.

I know what you mean, I think i struggle a bit with this too. I just say the first thing that comes into my head but qualify it with the words ‘just now’. ‘I really like purple just now’ Or I name a genre like folk music.

Then I immediately ask them what their favourite thing is. That’s what they are really asking anyway!

Maybe those thing’s aren’t that important to you, I’d be more appreciative of the fact that your child is interested in you, that’s great.

@cookieman – Ok, I should have expected that. That raises an important question. Are cookies “food” if someone asks this question? Or should it be restricted to dessert?

@Adirondackwannabe – Do those answers ever change? If you were to answer this question tonight or in a few days, would they be the same? If so, how do you approach this? Is it a matter of statistics?

@Stinley – I think this came up because my son was writing an essay at school about himself, and he decided to fill it with his favorite things. His big existential crisis at the moment is favorite food: chicken vs. pizza.

@KNOWITALL – It could be that it’s just not that important, I suppose. But I think I might be getting hung up on whether or not my statement would be true (I’m a sincerity-fundamentalist). Right now, I could easily eat pizza, and my understanding right now is that I often crave pizza. However, if I were to answer “pizza”, some part of me cringes at the thought that it isn’t true. Or something.

@hominid No, they never change. I’ve loved pizza since I was a kid, it was the first thing I learned to make, green has always been my favorite, and Sweet Emotion always brings me to a halt and I have to listen. I don’t know if that makes me consistent or boring.

I like chicken and pizza but chicken pizza not so much

I think it’s fine to say ‘I like pizza a lot’. Then it’s true. Children are very black and white so it’s interesting to introduce uncertainty to their lives in a small way!

Not at all. Questions like that are silly,

My favorite “anything” changes depending on a lot of things – location, time of day, attitude, mood, and so on.

Anything, even a favorite food, gets boring if enjoyed too much.

Since I’m an English Literature student, I get asked “What is your favourite book?” all the damn time. I have no idea what my favourite book is. I can’t even tell you what my favourite tragedy by Shakespeare is or my favourite segment of poetry in Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. If I can’t offer a response that specific, then I certainly can’t provide one for all of literature. I usually skirt the question by reframing it as “One book I enjoyed recently…” or “I would love to go back and reread…”

I find the concept of “favourite” perplexing as well.

My response is usually “That is the wrong question”.

My favourite colour is most definitely green, though. It’s practically an addiction.

I don’t have favorites, either. Or best memories, most embarrassing moments, biggest regrets, etc.
I’m an equal opportunity girl, I guess.

No, I generally ignore those questions. No struggle at all.

It would be hard for me to pick one food, so it would be a struggle, yes.

I love a whole lot of songs, I don’t care about colors and I eat everything. So it’s a bit difficult to answer, indeed. As mentioned already, a lot of this would depend on the situation….say I like black. Fine, black is cool. But I would never paint the walls of my bedroom black. I love pizza. But I’d hate it soon enough if that’s what I’d have to eat for the rest of my life.

I love strawberry shortcake, but only if it’s homemade, and made a certain way. I love my mother’s apple pie, but most other apple pies, I don’t care for. The list goes on and on.

@homid: Cookies are the food.

No, it gives me food for thought, ahahaha…haha…ha…i’ll get my coat.

“Some part of me cringes at the thought that it isn’t true. Or something.”

^That made me smile.

I used to have go-to answers. Of these, only “green” is left, and even that isn’t really true. I love green, but I also love purple, dark red and light blue. I think most people choose their favourite things as children, and just stick to them. I can’t imagine having a favourite food, colour or song to suit all purposes. Weirdly, I can imagine having a favourite animal…

EDIT: Re: Favourite animal…just realized I have two.

For almost any category, I have many ‘favorites’ and would have a hard time narrowing it down to just one. About the only true one favorite I can think of is for books: To Kill a Mockingbird has been my favorite ever since I read it for the first time. That could certainly change in the future, though…there are still so many books left to read!

^ Favourite book is an impossible question.

I’ve read The Mists of Avalon 11 times or more, but can I say I liked it more than The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution? They’re too different to compare.

Figure out your favorite things in your spare time, when you’re not on the spot. Color, band, food, book, song, album, movie, TV show, drink, animal. It’s only 10 things. Don’t forget them.

sometimes, yes. If it’s a question like who is your favorite musician, or favorite book, I have issues. With food, I have one I usually say and it freaks people out a bit.

@Afos22 – If you forget them, were they really your favourite?

@28lorelei Now you have to tell us what it is.

@Seek I can’t answer that.

Instead of giving just one answer, I would give several, because I like more than one food and color, but those things are pretty consistent. With songs, I would have a list of about 10 or 20, but those change from time to time.

Food: pizza, cheese enchiladas, Aloo Gobi, hot and sour soup, huevos rancheros, macaroni and cheese.

Colors: the inside of a ruby red grapefruit and moss green.

@Adirondackwannabe it’s sauteed reindeer with mashed potatoes and lingonberries. This is a traditional Finnish food, but here in the US my friends freak out when I tell them.

@28lorelei Okay, that sounds really freakin good.

@28lorelei You eat Rudolph???

As long as he’s rare or medium.

Hmm, Rudolph.