What foods and drinks would you buy more often if money was not an issue?

Ice Wine!

All the most interesting cheeses

Full Irish breakfast. Every single day until a heart attack gets me.

What's in a full Irish breakfast?
- The typical ingredients are bacon, sausages, eggs, black pudding, baked beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, toast, fried bread and a beverage such as coffee or tea. Hash browns are a common contemporary but non-traditional inclusion.
Nah, Ulster fry for me.
- Why not both? I love Ulster fry, but thanks to Brexit my plans moving to Belfast got cut short.

High quality chocolate. Most of the stuff in the local grocery stores is cheap, waxy and awful. There's a place within reasonable distance with the good stuff, but it's hella expensive.

Aldi and Lidl have good German and Belgian chocolates pretty cheaply. Like $2 for a big bar.
- Thanks! That is good to know. We have some of those around. Not on our usual rotation (a little out of the way) but this could change that. I know they have pretty good produce in there, because I have used them for that on occasion.

Ones prepared by my personal shopper and chef, because I want to eat healthy but have more time for creative and outdoor activities.

More sushi.

Yakitori, tom yum soup, chicken skewers, sushi, exotic fruit, foreign snacks eg. biltong, ukrainian candy, japanese gummies

Beef jerky
Salmon
Cashew nuts
RedBull
Fresh asparagus
Raspberry jam
Corona Extra
Freeze dried fruits and berries
Fresh orange juice

Beef jerky and swordfish for me.
- Swordfish? Interesting.. What's that like?
- Swordfish is a great answer!
  
  It's been too long since I had that! Got scared off due to all the mercury levels, and now I forget about how great it tastes, mercury be damned!
I'm more of a Modelo guy but I like your style

A better question would be, What foods and drinks would you buy more often if health was not an issue?

... and environment.

I'd love to eat ribeyes daily, but guilt (and heart attack) would stop me pretty quickly
- I scuba dove with a school of like 1000 blue fin tuna in the Philippines, and now it’s hard to order / not feel horrible eating tuna sushi

Nice restaurant food, but I guess that doesn't count.

Lychees. The funny thing is that I can afford lychees, but I always think "Why buy them when these perfectly good grapes cost three times less?"

Lychees are fine, but rambutan are the GOAT. I'm not sure where you live, but they're super hard to find in the US in good quality.
- Rambutan have a fishy taste to me. But longan might give the lychee a run for their money 😋

Chips. I love chips, I like trying different flavors, but these days, justifying 5-7 dollars a bag for times other than parties and get togethers is getting harder and harder to do.

Actually healthy and nutritious and delicious breakfast food. I can have two of the three for reasonable prices if I make it myself. But I want all three at max level, and I don't want to have to make it myself from scratch.

Local special, long away.

Cost of food is not an issue for me. What is an issue is that I have no time nor budget to make long travel (inter-continent, with weeks off job) to eat.

With money, I can stop working and go on a vacation.

Sushi would be nice. I have pretty cheap/basic taste otherwise lol. Maybe Korean fried chicken.

Sushi all the time every day every hour every minute.

I guess fancy wine or whiskey.

Berries

I would always have restaurant hummus on hand.

pistachios
kombucha
daiginjo sake
omakase sushi
fried risotto balls
duck (e.g. foie gras)
filet mignon
venison jerky

I would definitely like to have duck more often. I only rarely get it for myself as a treat but god damn is it the best bird going.

Something to go on your bucket list is definitely the restaurant Bebek Bengil in Ubud, on Bali. I'm not a big fan of duck myself, but they made it sooo fucking delicious, and the views are stunning as well. The crispy duck is something I've never had anywhere else like that.

The site is down for me, but here's their site: https://www.bebekbengil.co.id/
- I’ve been there!
Man, I really wanted to like duck, but I’ve never had duck and enjoyed it. I’ve had it both Chinese and French style, and hated it every time.

The French style was confit du canard from Le Petit Saint-Benoit in Paris, and they’re supposedly famous for it, and I still hated it.

All the fanciest Dijon ketchups.

Eh, might have steaks more than once a year or so. Still wouldn't be a regular thing.

Would likely increase the usage of aged balsamic to more than just a very dribble more and then.

Would definitely cook with better bourbons when I use it. Not that it really makes a huge difference in most cases, but I usually have a little bit while cooking when I do, so it would be nice lol.

Fancy Cheese

Really good wine, really good whiskey

Raspberries

Restaurant foods, would eat out more if funds were ample for it.

(I do love fish and other seafood but worry about overfishing, wouldn't buy more. Also like beef but wouldn't buy more of that either, don't want it often)

Wines, cheeses, cold cuts, mutton, salmon, porcino. I'd be also experimenting different stuff here and there (casu marzu, maple syrup, etc.)

There is a brand that makes fake dried meat out of smoked beet. It's absolutely fantastic but pretty expensive. Same goes for fake salmon.

What's the name of the fake salmon? I'd like to try that.
Ooo that sounds interesting. I'd like to try that. Where do you find that usually?

Lobster and crab. And more of the good butter. 🤤

Some different expensive mineral waters
Freeze-dried fruit
Beef jerky
Nuts in wasabi dough
Pizza

Yeah, I just forgot about mineral waters until you mention on.
Freeze dried fruit from Aldi/Trader Joe's is surprisingly cheap.

Impressive how much jerky is showing up on here, but that was one of my first thoughts too. I actually got a monthly jerky subscription for Christmas, and the packs are kinda little, but it's fun getting new flavors every month.

I'll throw caviar out there. We tried a wide range of it for my gf's birthday twice, and there is good stuff at every price range. Even the cheap whitefish stuff was good.

The Bowfin and Spoonbill was our best bang for the buck both times. If you want a splurge without going bust, that's my recommendation. Got it from Browne Trading if anyone is interested.

It's great right off the spoon, on a chip, on a blini, or as a garnish on something else. If you like salty, fishy, umami you deserve to try it.

I'd probably buy hummus, buy a bunch of new stuff I've never tried, maybe buy some red meat a bit more often than once a month or so.

I also usually don't buy orange juice for cost reasons so probably that too.

I don't know where in the world you are but the Publix near my house always has hummus tubs BOGO and that makes it extremely affordable. I just have to be careful not to look at much else cuz everything else is way too expensive for my blood.
- I live in a pretty HCOL area and buy food pretty conservatively. I can look into the BOGO tubs of it though! Mostly I feel its a snack type food and that's where I pinch on foods. The snack, desserts etc.
  
  If I could find it cheap I could probably look into what meals I could have with hummus
Hummus is pretty cheap if you make it yourself.

Chickpeas, oil, tahini or peanut butter, garlic, lemon juice and some sort of hot pepper powder if you like it spicy.
- You know, I never actually considered making it myself, I figured I'd need some device or masher etc. To make it, but I'll look into it!

just eating out in general. i cook at home as often as possible because restaurant prices are nutso. even chinese takeout that used to be cheap is like $15 before tip here

Check out the Too Good To Go app! There's probably a few things near you. It's designed to help reduce food waste. As long as you're open to a little surprise, you can get great stuff for like 75 percent off. We do it almost weekly.
Chinese seems like a weird one to mention because anywhere I've ever gotten Chinese takeout has to be the best value for your dollar in terms of take out food. They cram those containers so full you can make three meals out of it, at least.

Avocado, nuts, fish, kombucha

Allllll of the types of Chili, from dried and smoked to fresh and pickled all of them. Also good cuts of beef

Editables from the cannabis dispensary. Just feels wrong paying so much for a few pieces of candy.

A whole case or ten of Port to cellar. A couple barrels of whiskey to cellar. Really just I'd get into cellaring things myself in general.

If you like ports, make sure you try ice wine sometime. I usually drink dry wines, so when I go sweet, I want to go sweeeet! 😆
- One of my good friends loves ice wine and just got engaged. I've never tried it but I picked up a bottle I'm gonna share with him on his birthday in a few months for a dual celebration.
  
  I often joke I don't have a sweet tooth, I have a whole set of them. (Though I'm totally down for a nice dry too).

supposedly the Galapagos Giant Tortoise is the most delicious meat on the planet, according to Charles Darwin and others

Found the Darwinist.

Yakitori, tom yum soup, chicken skewers, sushi, exotic fruit, foreign snacks eg. biltong, ukrainian candy, japanese gummies

Steak and wine probably. I eat it once a week but I’d like to eat it all the time

Brisket

Lobster

A fully stocked liquor cabinet. All the charcuterie board staples and all the cheeses ever. Throw some smoked salmon in there too.

Dry. Aged. Wagyu.

Expensive liquor. Gin, Whiskey, Rum. I would try all the premium stuff.

Also, high quality organic meat only.

Korean BBQ where you cook it yourself on the little grill in your table

That's just paying extra to do the work for them!
- Some countries it’s normal for a cook to do it for you, but I found it to be awkward as the cook just stands around half the time while you’re talking to your friends. I enjoy it because I can get exactly what I want. I also go to a local American style steakhouse where you cook your own as well
- My Korean family says it's so you know what meat you are getting. LOL.

Mostly cheese. Many different types of cheese. I know there are some cheep cheeses around, but I find the difference between a good and a mediocre cheese is such that I chose to compromise on the quantity rather than on the quality...

Lobster roll American and Japanese

My boring choices would be Chinese takeaway and fresh KFC. The Chinese takeaway near me is delicious, and does great portions, but you're looking at at least £10 to £15 per person if you're not sharing. It's not a massive amount of money, but if you want to try a few dishes, it quickly racks up the cost.

The KFC is bog standard, but it's just far enough away that the food cools down by the time it gets to my house. This is more of a more money equals more time situation, so I'd have more time to go to the restaurant and eat it right there while it's hot.

A few people mentioned beef jerky. I'd like to try some of the different types and flavours. I've only really seen the one brand here, and they sell Teriyaki and spicy. Spicy just means that they've dumped enough spice on it to mask any other taste. I'd like to see what the other options are like.

Same with some of the other suggestions here, like swordfish. I'd love to try some of the more unusual foods, without going down the gimmicky route and eating things like rotten fish, or live octopus.

Real pizza
Vege burgers
Aloe Vera juice

Depending on your location you can grow aloe very easily. It will grow from any cut bit put in soil

harry and davids for food. drink is sorta hard. I would be trying a ton of kabucha type drinks and soda alternatives sweetened with mongfruit or such.

exotic fruits and weird vegetables I havent tried yet.

Dry packed sea scallops. So, so good, quick and easy to cook, but so expensive.

All the same foods but more.

More horse meat. So damn good. I'd love to try some steaks, only had the deli slices.