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Though it may sound like the sort of thing you would expect to find in a chain e-mail, researcher Alan Hirsch has spent 20 years and studied over 18,000 people in order to discover what people's favorite foods say about them. Like tortilla chips the best? You might tend towards perfectionism. Is vanilla your favorite flavor? You might have a surprisingly spicy personality. All of Hirsch's participants came from the midwestern US, but he is sure that his findings can be applied elsewhere, with small regional variations.

Want to get a taste of personality? The Seattle Post Intelligencer has an excerpt from Hirch's book, What's Your Food Sign? How To Use Food Clues To Find Lasting Love. To learn about your compatibility through flavor, imagine that you and your date are at the ice-cream parlor. Which of these flavors would you pick?

• Vanilla
• Double chocolate chunk
• Strawberries and cream
• Banana cream pie
• Chocolate chip
• Butter pecan
• Strawberry
• Coffee
• Mint chocolate chip
• Rocky road

Ready? Read on to find out your results, including what your choice says about you and whether you're more compatible with coffee or chocolate chip.

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