You've probably eaten with your friends more times than you can count. But do you know whether they take leftovers home, or whether they'd pick bacon or sausage? We looked at the 100 Food questions on Rikaido's English version and the 255,895 answers quiz creators gave about themselves.
Food questions come from the main edition: a 30-question quiz has five of them. Compared with some other categories, Food doesn't split evenly very often. Only 8 Food questions have a bigger side of 55% or less, against 24 in Real Talk and 23 in Personality. Meanwhile, 18 Food questions have one side at 80% or more. For every category, see where answers split 50/50.
Food questions that split close to even
A few of these are just past the 55% line.
Food questions that split close to even
| 2-choice question | Share of answers | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| Photo before you eat? | Always 50% / Just eat 50% | 3,980 |
| Spicy food: heat or mild? | Bring the heat 51% / Keep it mild 49% | 3,531 |
| Snack craving: salty or sweet? | Salty 51% / Sweet 49% | 3,743 |
| Fast food: burgers or chicken? | Burgers 52% / Chicken 48% | 3,061 |
| Water or soda at restaurants? | Water 52% / Soda 48% | 3,819 |
| Bacon or sausage? | Bacon 47% / Sausage 53% | 2,796 |
| Name brand or store brand? | Name brand 55% / Store brand 45% | 1,031 |
| Do you take leftovers home? | Every time 55% / Leave it 45% | 2,175 |
| Burger: pickles on or off? | Pickles on 44% / No pickles 56% | 3,368 |
| Do you eat breakfast? | Every day 44% / Skip it 56% | 3,911 |
| Milkshake: chocolate or vanilla? | Chocolate 56% / Vanilla 44% | 3,845 |
| Energy drinks? | Fuel me up 44% / Never 56% | 2,761 |
"Photo before you eat?" is No. 1 of all 596 questions for how evenly it splits: "Always" 50%, "Just eat" 50%. "Spicy food: heat or mild?" and "Snack craving: salty or sweet?" come close behind: "Bring the heat" 51% and "Salty" 51%.
"Fast food: burgers or chicken?", "Water or soda at restaurants?" and "Bacon or sausage?" land near the middle too. Neither side is a small minority on any of these: whichever side you're on, plenty of answers went the other way.
"Name brand or store brand?" has fewer answers than most Food questions (1,031, against a Food median of 2,632), so its split could move more as answers come in.
Food questions where most answers go one way
Food questions where one side got 80% or more
| 2-choice question | Share of answers | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| Chopsticks or fork for sushi? | Chopsticks 94% / Fork 6% | 3,681 |
| Cake or pie? | Cake 89% / Pie 11% | 3,278 |
| Stuffing or mashed potatoes? | Stuffing 12% / Mashed 88% | 2,128 |
| Do you drink the cereal milk? | Drink it 86% / Dump it 14% | 3,256 |
| Hot dog: ketchup or mustard? | Ketchup 83% / Mustard 17% | 2,517 |
| Popcorn or candy at the movies? | Popcorn 83% / Candy 17% | 3,563 |
| Tap or bottled water? | Tap 17% / Bottled 83% | 2,437 |
| Steak: medium rare or well done? | Medium rare 82% / Well done 18% | 2,839 |
| Wings: ranch or blue cheese? | Ranch 82% / Blue cheese 18% | 1,150 |
| Marshmallows on sweet potatoes? | Yes 18% / No thanks 82% | 1,789 |
| Can friends steal your fries? | Take some 82% / Hands off 18% | 4,662 |
| S'mores: burnt or golden? | Burnt 18% / Golden 82% | 2,127 |
"Chopsticks or fork for sushi?" is No. 1 in Food for how one-sided it is, and No. 4 of all 596 questions, with "Chopsticks" at 94%. "Cake or pie?" goes to "Cake" at 89%, and "Stuffing or mashed potatoes?" to "Mashed" at 88%.
Read the options exactly. "Can friends steal your fries?" is a choice between "Take some" and "Hands off". It asks what creators say about themselves, so 82% for "Take some" doesn't tell you what happens when you actually reach across the table.
In between: a lean, not a landslide
Most Food questions sit between those two groups. One side is ahead, but the other still has plenty of answers.
Food questions that lean one way, but not all the way
Pineapple on pizza?
Yes 62%Never 38%
Is a hot dog a sandwich?
Yes 24%No 76%
Cilantro: tasty or soapy?
Tasty 64%Soapy 36%
Wings: bone-in or boneless?
Bone-in 31%Boneless 69%
Thin crust or deep dish?
Thin crust 67%Deep dish 33%
Tacos: hard or soft shell?
Hard shell 57%Soft shell 43%
"Pineapple on pizza?" goes to "Yes" at 62%, and "Is a hot dog a sandwich?" to "No" at 76%. On questions like these, the popular side is the better bet if you know nothing else, but a good share of answers went the other way: 38% on pineapple, for instance. So a friend on the smaller side of one of these isn't unusual.
Drinks, side by side
Drink questions on the same scale
Coffee or tea?
Coffee 35%Tea 65%
Iced or hot coffee?
Iced 88%Hot 12%
Starbucks or Dunkin?
Starbucks 82%Dunkin 18%
Coke or Pepsi?
Coke 80%Pepsi 20%
Sweet tea or unsweet?
Sweet tea 64%Unsweet 36%
Sparkling water?
Love it 41%Tastes weird 59%
Boba tea?
Love it 76%Not for me 24%
Dr Pepper or Mountain Dew?
Dr Pepper 36%Mtn Dew 64%
"Coffee or tea?" leans to "Tea" at 65%, while "Iced or hot coffee?" goes heavily to "Iced" at 88%. "Starbucks or Dunkin?" goes to "Starbucks" (82%), and "Coke or Pepsi?" to "Coke" (80%).
It's tempting to read "Coffee or tea?" and "Iced or hot coffee?" together, but they're separate questions, and different creators may have answered each one. So they can't tell us what the "Tea" side thinks about iced coffee. "Dr Pepper or Mountain Dew?" also has fewer answers than most Food questions (1,079), so treat its split with a little more caution.
If one of these comes up in a quiz
- A close split: betting on the popular answer won't help much. Think about what you've actually seen your friend order.
- A one-sided question: the popular side will usually be right. If your friend picked the other side, you've found something to bring up next time you eat together.
- Either way, one question right or wrong doesn't show how well someone knows you.
You can't choose which Food questions appear. Each quiz draws them at random from the 100 Food questions, and the creator can only swap one for another Food question, picked at random. For what a whole score means, see What Score Means a Friend Really Knows You? And for the current split on every Food question, open the Food tab on the Everyone's answers page.