Poll: So, you're stranded in a desert with a dessert...

[Quaxar]

I just had this idea and I'm really torn between the two possibilities, so I thought I'd ask you what you'd do.

Suppose you are lost in the middle of a desert, possibly while trying to reenact The Flight of the Phoenix, without food and slowly starving. Furthermore suppose you (for some reason) find a bag full of peanut bars, but are highly allergic to them, a bite will cause your throat to swell up and probably lead to asphyxation - and you haven't got your antidote with you.

So it's either dieing with a pouch full of food at your hands, or practically suicide by eating the allergen. Of course there is always the chance of getting rescued, but keep in mind you are in the middle of nowhere so it's rather unlikely.
Choose wisely, escapians, you have only one life to loose.


On another note:
Wooh, my first thread. Time for a party!
http://redders.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/communist-party.jpg
Wait, no beer for you, Fidel. You know what the doc said!

 

[Armored Prayer]

I'd leave it. I'll find something else to eat like a scorpion or a lizard.

And about the second answer in the poll. What are loins doing in the desert?

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

I'd just keep going. Far better chance of finding some other food or rescue then than if I was dead.

 

[Queen Michael]

I'd keep looking for something else. I don't even like peanuts that much.

 

[A Raging Emo]

I'd leave it. I'll find something else to eat like a scorpion or a lizard.

And about the second answer in the poll. What are loins doing in the desert?

Yum, Scorpion.

On Topic: I'd leave the box of food, and try and find something else to sustain me for a while longer.

 

[vaderaider]

Ummmmmm...I would probobly eat them, after going a while with no water or food my brain would not realise that it would be smarter to see if I can hold it out in the hope of rescue.

 

[Pielikey]

If there's still hope of rescuing then I'd leave it. Even if it's this pathetic shred of hope.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

Peanuts? For Dessert? What, am I homeless or something?

Anyways, I would just find an Oasis or wait for the Sun to drive me mad, so that I could eat sand and Bite a Cactus and Not care.

So yeah, not gonna eat them.

 

[The Infinite]

I'd stick it out you can last a while without food and water anywhoos, so I'm not one to give up home. There is always life in a desert anyway. Also lions? Isn't that like in a savanna?

 

[PatrickXD]

I'd probably eat it simply because I was so hungry I wouldn't realise it was peanuts until I'd already polished off two or three bars. Yeah... Then I'd die =)

 

[SturmDolch]

Peanuts? For Dessert? What, am I homeless or something?

That almost made me burst out laughing. In class. Jerk.

I would try to survive I guess. I probably wouldn't last too long, though.

 

[Meggiepants]

I would try to use the peanuts to lure something to me that I could eat. It might not work, but what the heck.

Also, great first thread!

 

[Wardnath]

I'd eat them anyway, simply because I lack any sort of allergy (that I know of).

 

[Quaxar]

Wait...
Lions in the desert?

You don't know? They live under the sand and only come out if they catch the smell of someone dragging a bag of peanut bars through their territory. As you can guess sightings are rare so I suppose Wikipedia doesn't have an article yet... but you can trust my word, I have a reference letter from my mother.

 

[Trifixion]

Option 2. Beat the lion to death with it and then eat the lion. Unless I'm also allergic to lion meat, which means I'll have to then use the dead lion to attract hyenas and beat THEM to death with the peanut bag. And hope I'm not also allergic to hyena meat, in which case I will just scream "WOW, LOOK AT ALL THIS SAND! I LOVE SAND! I WANT TO BE A SAND PERSON!" at which point Anakin Skywalker will appear and kill me.

 

[NoblePhilistineFox]

id rather die with a smile on my face from the delicious candy.

 

[MurderousToaster]

I wouldn't eat it, because if I did then I'd die! I would offer the bar to the lion and befriend it. Then I would ride him out of the desert, and call him Fluffy.

 

[mip0]

I'd end it quickly. And then I would pwn that desert in the name of Bear Grylls!