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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.

Date: 20 Jun 2006 08:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] surelars.livejournal.com
Yeah - I ask for salads as well. Or I seek out veggie places for dinner. Plus I skip dinner. But only in the States - when I travel in Europe I have don't have this problem, at least not to anywhere near the same degree.

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.

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