Ah! The dreaded question that every person has asked at some point: “What’s for dinner?” Wouldn’t it be nice just once to say – ice cream! Well, mark the calendar because May 11 is “Eat What You Want Day” so this month’s Streetwise question addressed the following: If you could eat whatever you wanted (setting all cost – and more importantly – calories aside), what would be on the menu? Check out what four people said, but be aware that the answers could make your mouth water.
| Moe Bouchy Colorado SpringsSushi from Tomo Sushi on Galley and Academy, and Italian ice cream from Rizuto’s (Ice Cream and Sweet Shop) on Oro Blanco and Barnes |  |
 | Dr. Hal Whitney ParkerI would wake up with a glass of orange juice, a bowl of peaches and wheat toast. That’s breakfast. For lunch, I would have something Mexican. A bean burrito smothered with green chili, lettuce and cheese, and a Hershey’s almond bar for dessert. For dinner, I would have a 12-oz. rib-eye cooked medium rare, with some sort of dinner salad and asparagus, and for dessert a piece of lemon cake. |
| Roberta Millard FalconSushi from AI Sushi (and Grill) on Centennial and Garden of the Gods. |  |
 | Cassie Hammack Colorado SpringsSteak and lobster: I’m not sure where I would go to get it, but that’s what I would have. |
- The world’s longest sushi roll measured 328 feet in length.
- Twinkies are about 68 percent air.
- Krispy Kreme makes about 5 million doughnuts a day in its North American stores.
- In 1886, its first year in business, Coca-Cola sold an average of nine bottles a day. In 2000, people in more than 200 countries drank almost 571 million servings of Coca-Cola in just one day.
- Depending on how it’s measured, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge is 4,200 feet – or 28,800 Oreo cookies – long.
- On July 4, 2006, Takeru Kobayashi won the International Hot Dog Eating Contest for the sixth year in a row. He ate 53 3/4 hot dogs (with the buns) in just 12 minutes – more than one wiener every 15 seconds.
- Americans eat about 100 acres of pizza a day. That’s an average of 350 slices per second.
- Three jars of peanut butter are sold every second.
- Americans eat almost 20 billion pickles per year. That’s more than nine pounds per person a year.
- The average American eats 24 pounds of cheese per year. That’s nothing compared to the French: They eat 43.6 pounds of cheese per person, per year.
- There are at least 1,462 edible insect species in the world.
- In Japan, you can taste some unusual ice cream flavors; including horseradish, crab, squid ink, buttered potato, ox tongue, cactus and chicken wing.
