Okay thank you. I still don't quite understand how to do what I would like to do from those posts. I have successfully made a dependent drop down but I would like for the dependent choices to be available again. In the food example, what I would like is for the user to be able to select "Fruit" and then have the dependent choices of "apple" "pear" "banana" "lychee" "kiwi" appear three times so the user can select "apple" as their first choice, then in another drop down they can also select "banana" as a second choice.

EDIT:
I think I found my answer by scrolling further down these links. Thanks again for all of your help.