gendered food

[firecat]

I don't know how much most people think about the intersection between gender and food choices, but it was driven home pretty strongly to me today when the OH and I went to the Fresh Choice salad bar restaurant for lunch at around 11am.

On the way over, we drove past a breakfast place called Stacks, which we ate at once many years ago and thought was only so-so. Usually there is a small line on the weekends, but today there was a line halfway down the block.

Usually Fresh Choice becomes fairly crowded almost immediately after opening at 11am. Today it was almost completely deserted.

I can only theorize that people don't think of salad bar restaurants as appropriate Father's Day destinations, because, you know, salad is for women.

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[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking it might work a little differently -- Dad gets to choose because it's his day, and Dad wants MEAT. Not so much specifically "salads are for women," but "I'm a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy, I don't eat fancy-schmancy salad-bar food."

Of course, a lot of it also depends on the kind of neighborhood you live in.