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 06:49 pm (UTC)I'm not sure what people in general do on Father's Day. We took my dad out to lunch the day before. The OH called his dad in the morning. The retailers make a big deal out of it, of course.
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Date: 20 Jun 2006 08:00 am (UTC)I've never done anything on fathers day as an adult, and I don't know anyone who do. Sometimes kids will give little presents to their dad and such.