gendered food
18 Jun 2006 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firecatI 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.
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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Date: 19 Jun 2006 04:02 pm (UTC)Man #1: BEEF!
Man #2: RIBS!
Man #3: PORK!
Man #4: VEGETABLE MEDLEY!
(all three of the other men look at him in a mixture of disdain? ridicule?)
Man #4: SAUSAGE!
(all four men smile, sigh with relief, and dig in to their food)