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I've lived in rural hick areas and a big metropolitan city. I've been friends with a myriad of men and women with many tastes. While some might take the Paula Deen mentality and shun "prissy foods," I have never had anyone tell me that a certain food was a man's food or woman's food. Portions -- definitely, but what is on the plate -- never. I know a guy who loves riding his motorcycle as much as making his signature eggs with homemade hollandaise breakfast, and an ex bar owner who could make nice California rolls. I know women who drink mass amounts of beer and win burping contests, and others who would prefer hearty lumps of meat over small portions of gourmet fare. It's all relative.
As for the original poster, I think it would be safe to assume that any men who would go to a friend's house for a specially made breakfast wouldn't be the type who would think: "Darn, look at all this girlie food." But maybe I'm in the minority with my love of both small bon bons and bloody rib-eye steaks. What do you think?
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9-24-2008 @9:27AM Pyrofish said... I am often asked to cook for my family at holidays, or for different events. I always ask who's going to be there. When the women are there, and it's breakfast, I like to provide some fruit. Maybe french toast w/ powdered sugar, in general I'm very careful about being less-greasy.
If it's just us guys on a sportsman's vacation, it's home fries, pancakes, bacon, and eggs. Grease? Cook everything in the bacon fat!
When my friends and I are at festivals, my buddy likes to cook breakfast. Very few women around that time of morning. The menu is always bacon, sausage, taylor pork roll, and either french toast or pancakes. Lots of meat, no frills, just sustenance.
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9-24-2008 @10:21AM Bear Silber said... I agree with Pyrofish. I think that grease factor is the big kicker. I get the feeling that women (the ones I know) get a bit introverted about eating greasy food in front of others whereas men don't really have that issue. I think it's more of a social stigma. That's why you get the women that on the first date order just a salad but eat pizza on the way home. This viewpoint could be totally wrong but it's what I've observed.
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9-24-2008 @11:08AM Astin said... I think there are foods that are VIEWED as more masculine or feminine, but I find that's usually not the case at all.
Steak and bacon are often seen as "man's food". But I know women who adore steak and can out-eat most guys I know when it comes to a ribeye. I know a woman who has "bacon" as part of her nickname she loves it so much, and has been a long-time bacon-of-the-month member. Another woman I know makes trips south for good chicken-fried steak. In fact, outside of vegetarians, I've seldom seen a woman not want bacon or steak if offered.
In fact, hasn't Slashfood regularly posted about things bacon has been used to make? I don't think too many guys are wearing the bacon bra.
I'm a guy, and I'd love a breakfast of french toast and fruit some days. I know just as many guys who will have a salad for lunch or dinner, grilled chicken, a yogurt and granola for breakfast, and any other array of supposedly "woman's food".
Heck, the last time I had breakfast with a group of people, the women ate more of the greasy stuff than the guys! That was after the dinner of all-you-can-eat Texas BBQ the night before (ie.- 98% meat, 2% beans and coleslaw) - and these were thin, cute women!
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9-24-2008 @12:13PM Pyrofish said... I agree that there are many women that eat just like guys do. However, it would seem that in most circles, those women are the exception not the rule. Especially in front of a bunch of people.
Another example, I wouldn't make banana pancakes for my buddies, but I certainly will for a group of women. The guys would probably enjoy them just as much as the women, but boy would they pick on me ;-) Poached eggs or over-easy? Home fries in bacon grease or butter? These things change with the company. And I certainly don't go to the trouble of making homemade buttermilk biscuits unless I'm trying to impress a girl :)
Just what happens when I'm cooking.
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9-24-2008 @12:23PM Jim said... Brunch is nothing but "women's food". I hate, hate, hate brunch... a bunch of fruit and frou-frou "eggs benedict" type dishes. Bleh! Gimme a pile of steak and eggs with bacon and sausage, please!
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9-24-2008 @3:31PM Numb said... CJ from Top Chef would argue that all women love crepes.
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9-24-2008 @3:48PM Samme said... The circles I tend to eat in only show one real trend for male vs. female dining. Vegetables. Women will eat just as much fat, grease, sugar, meat and carbs as the men, but usually after (or with) a pile of vegetables/salad. The guys I know tend to figure green = evil unless it is Mtn. Dew, and are reluctant to eat greens aside from iceberg lettuce.
This actually coincides with the view of the woman having salad at first then eating pizza on the way home. It is the female frenzy for fiber that is the main food difference I know of.
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9-25-2008 @12:08AM Monika said... Bear -- I really hope that you know about women ordering salads on dates and then pizza at home because they're friends or family, and not from a nice perch in a tree with binoculars. ;)
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