Complete the picky eater's polite, yet firm, refusal.

"I appreciate the generous offer of deep-fried tarantula, but I would rather _____ a simple garden salad, if that's okay!"

The correct answer is have.

We use the bare infinitive (the verb without "to") immediately after would rather when the subject of the sentence is doing the action.

If the sentence used "would like," it would require the full infinitive: "I would like to have a salad."