myrmepropagandistOne Must Go.
Honey
Chocolate
Coffee *and* Tea
Garlic
Poll ended at .
I'm telling the bees.
🚲@futurebird That we’re gonna leave their honey for them instead of stealing it because honey is mid level food?
Rachael L@futurebird we can let the bees have all the honey and not take it!
IDK if domesticated bees would like that, but the wild ones might.
@futurebird I suppose that's true. But selfishly it is the one on that list I least use day to day. A human being selfish is I suppose typical. ;)
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀@futurebird @r343l never stops a honey badger
🛠️☘️🍯 bug 🍄🧣⚙️@futurebird as a bee i am _shocked_
Ungrateful people. Probably eat fake honey and that's why they don't know.
@futurebird mmm could bee, mass market clover honey is a shame on all bees
Ben Rosengart
I really do "tell the ants" all kinds of things. They like to know!
Andrew@fivetonsflax @futurebird I like the understanding that the bees will go on strike if left out on the latest gossip
Cody@fivetonsflax @futurebird actually learned this from Pratchett. And forgot it and learned it again from Atwood.
Clifton RoystonMy condolences, if that has to do with the traditional reasons to tell them.
Paul Koenig@futurebird Tell them from a distance. Some react to carbon dioxide.
Josh 
@josh0 I'm also a member of the controversial "chocolate ain't all that" club
@futurebird it’s much better when it’s not sweetened into a candy. Mexico knows what’s up.
Court Cantrell does not comply@josh0 @futurebird I love honey and ingest it almost every day. But if I must choose, I will let the bees keep it so they can feed their babies. 😁🐝💙
Chocolate is everything. My current favorite is a Ghirardelli 92% cacao. 😋😋😋
raymoo the HomoGaymoo@futurebird @josh0 i really like chocolate, but alas i must agree that if one of these had to go it should be that one
littlemiao 
@josh0 @futurebird No way! I live on it.
Garlic chocolate would be pretty cool.
Queen of Anxiety@futurebird I don’t drink coffee or tea, so this works out well for me. :)
J. Steven York RESISTS@futurebird
If you'd have included milk I would have voted "milk" over honey, but that's up to my gut.
If you'd have included milk I would have voted "milk" over honey, but that's up to my gut.
Naomi P@futurebird I’ve already had to give up chocolate because it’s a migraine trigger for me, so that’s an easy choice.
Lizbon
CavyherdOh, BOO. That sucks. I'd demand a refund, me.
@cavyherd Oddly, I don’t mind as much as you’d think.
Well, that's a blessing. I'd probably be less put out than one would think by a chocolate restriction. But it would still be annoying.
@cavyherd The difficulty is more to do with things like stopping in a coffeeshop to buy tea and a cookie, and all the cookies have chocolate. (Stopping in a bakery is better.)
There’s kind of a presumption among some people in the US that if you want something sweet, you must want chocolate.
Ah. That one. Yes.
Don't get me wrong: present me with a plate of good (butter-based) Tollhouse variant cookies, & I will eat ALL of them, whether I need to or not.
To my taste, the ONLY other thing chocolate chips belong in is vanilla ice cream. (Or, at a stretch chocolate ice cream.)
EVERY other application is, to my taste, entirely gratuitous. Enough so that I will generally actively avoid them.
This from someone who has, in times past, bid fair to have a "chocolate addiction."
Wendroid 🇺🇦@futurebird Seems like sugar (demerara, or fine granulated) isn’t threatened, so I’ll sacrifice honey. Those others are essential elements!
The 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 Ape 
@futurebird I could go without honey or chocolate... but you'll take this coffee from my cold dead hands.
Pretty Good (at growing a beard)@thegreatape @futurebird me except garlic.
epicdemiologist@futurebird I actually like garlic, but have gotten used to doing without it because my husband can't tolerate any kind of alliums. (This is how you learn that nearly every savory recipe starts, "Saute some onion and garlic...")
Cat@futurebird wait, you don't mean "coffee with a teabag in it" like a desperate college student during finals week, do you?
Ronnie@futurebird
Garlic is an easy one for me because I didn't eat it growing up because my dad is allergic.
Garlic is an easy one for me because I didn't eat it growing up because my dad is allergic.
@futurebird I like honey, but I can’t imagine life without the other items. No contest.
Pamina@fivetonsflax @futurebird Same. Is food without garlic even a thing?
ch0ccyra1n is leaving fedi soon@futurebird coffee and tea are the most harmful of the four. Well, unless it's decaf I guess
Ron Bowes@futurebird I'm choosing Honey, but only on the condition that bees still get their own honey and humans leave them to their own devices
Hotter, More Cross BunnyYou're mean!
enfa@futurebird This poll has nuances. All honey vanishes from the earth, bees get killed off, pollination systems break worldwide, catastrophe.
No more coffee? NBD, but does tea include infusions from plants other than the tea plant, e.g. herbal teas/infusions and the like? Is plant based cane sugar in suspension a kind of tea?
Cant get rid of garlic, because vampires won't be kept at bay, so, logically, chocolate goes away, alas.
No more coffee? NBD, but does tea include infusions from plants other than the tea plant, e.g. herbal teas/infusions and the like? Is plant based cane sugar in suspension a kind of tea?
Cant get rid of garlic, because vampires won't be kept at bay, so, logically, chocolate goes away, alas.
bhtooefr@futurebird Honey’s the easy choice IMO - it’s the one that’s most easily substituted. (For that matter, there’s plenty of “honey” that’s mostly HFCS.)
Democracy Matters 
Honey, but not bees!!!
Peter Butler@futurebird First I was like, oh that’s easy — chocolate
Then I saw honey. I could cut both, tbh, but I’d rather keep chocolate
Kifty@futurebird I'd give up coffee easily, but i need my cuppa!
Lee@futurebird Honey is amazing, it's just that all the other things are better.
If tea had been a separate choice I would have gone with that. Sorry England.
Jargoggles@futurebird
Given the antimicrobial properties of honey, I'm not so sure humanity would have gotten along so well without it.
Given the antimicrobial properties of honey, I'm not so sure humanity would have gotten along so well without it.
C Puffer@futurebird I do not understand the results of this poll…
Saskboy K.@futurebird Disappointed in the outcome. Honey is a byproduct of an insect that's essential to agriculture and probably the survival of our species.