I'll order lettuce and a carrot with low-fat dressing on the side, please.

Girl talk yesterday over appys, steak and SoHos. (Note - I live in Canada, and everyone gives me funny looks when I order a "South of HOW-ston martini" instead of "HEW-ston". Should I stand my ground, or am I wrong? That's the correct pronounciation, right??)

We were talking about how we can eat whatever we want around each other, but not when we're dining with members of the opposite sex. It doesn't have to be a date, mind you, and it's not a question of messiness or getting spinach stuck in your teeth. It was just the notion that if a man - any man - dines with a greater-than-90-pound female and sees her chowing on a burger, fries and a milkshake, his inner reaction is, "Mmmm...that explains it. Tragic, really."

I rubbished this idea, but then thought maybe my desire to actually, you know, enjoy my food, could partially be the reason I'm still single. (This is what my friends suggested.) Is this true??? (I mean about different eating customs around different genders, not an analysis of why I'm still alone.)

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I'm one of those skinny girls who can eat anything... don't hate me!

If a guy is turned off by the fact that you like more than lettuce, he's too superficial to bother with. Don't you want to act like a real person and date one too?

WHY? Why don't you just eat what you want? Why salad? I mean, why would a guy be wierded out by you eating?

*high-fives LadyG*

And they say women are the more complicated sex. Oy!

Personally, I would've thought guys are more appreciative of a gal who can scarf as much as they can. (Or almost as much.) But do guys really think about what a girl eats in relation to her weight/appearance? Regardless of whether or not they're considering pursuing a relationship with this woman?

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give me a girl who can eat as much as I can and likes to make a competition of it over a salad eating pasture grazer anyday.

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I think your girlfriends' theory is a bunch of BS. Maybe some guys are superficial like that but I am not. If you like a burger and fries every once in a while fine. My only possible worry would be as I got to date a girl more is I would worry about her eventual health if ALL she ate was burgers and fries and thats it. My concern wouldn't be her getting fat as much as the health problems that come from that. Don't knock salads! I am a big fan of those Fried Chicken Salads from Steak n Shake and the ones from Wendy's are pretty good too! OOh and I had one with Madarin oranges from O'Charley's once that was really good!

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"And Guido, if I remember correctly, you're the same age as me, you said you'd f*** me AND that we could have eating competitions.

Honey, will you marry me?"

I believe we are close in age Tiff. (I'm 24)

and sure...why not?

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Another bww marriage! Can I come?

That's not being sexist, imo, gunn. If you're just talking about certain women you know and not using a blanket statement based on a few people, it's ok.

A-freakin'-men, Gunn! And it's true. But I think it's biologically ingrained in us. It ain't never gonna change.

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It is! We women are just all overanalyzers, I sure am.

Really, I can come? Thanks Guido. I'll be representing the midwest.

Speaking of Ohio, how do you like it? I hate Cedar Point but I was at Old Man's caves a few weeks ago and hiked the gorge, it was GOURGEOUS. I didn't know Ohio had that kind of thing.

It's not Cedar Point's fault, it's the fact that I loathe amusement parks in general. Cedar Point is one of the lesser evils I've traipsed around unwillingly, though.

Where do you live, if you don't mind my asking?

Oh my god, Gunn, I just finished reading that link and it's SO funny!!

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