Foods specifically loved by women vs. men

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I know I'm going to start my flow when I have to make a special trip to the store for dark chocolate. I've read that the chocolate thing for women is related to a need for magnesium.

Men don't seem to love yoghurt, and all the ads target women. It makes sense that women would eat more yoghurt because of the yeast thing.

I'm wondering if there are foods that men like that women don't eat. I'll have a chaw of beef jerky now and again.

Are women just more omnivorous than men?

Scott swears that beets are a female love. Are there men on ILX who love beets?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I love yogurt. Not beets though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

on fear factor the women never manage to eat the intestines, and the men do it sometimes. but i don't think the men necessarily love it though.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I love yoghurt and beets if beets are like beetroot, maybe they're not, I sure as FUCK love beetroot tho, does anyone have any? I want some fuckin beetroot and some avocado and I'd be killing that fuckin salad yo

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I like dark chocolate, yogurt and beets, but not beef jerky.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Boys like to outgross each other and eat bugs and stuff, so I could imagine that men have got some practice for fear factor. BTW, do you have a UK version of fear factor, or do you watch the US one?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I love yoghurts and like beets.

When I saw the thread title, I had a vision of women throwing yoghurt grenades at men and then beating the shit out of them with clery stick bo staffs and chickpeas to the balls.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm ok with beets. But I hate yogurt, and while I like chocolate, I don't usually get all crazy about it or crave it that often. But also I don't eat meat.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Avocado! That's another one Scott claims is "girly". Women can get downright crazy about avocado, smearing it on their skin and whatnot.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

What about Milkshakes? You hardly ever see a man ordering a milkshake.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a crappy NYC government PSA on TV about "what's in your ready pack?" (y'know, in case there's another terror attack) in which a really large Asian woman says "beef jerky." Gross.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

are you kidding jocelyn?!!? Dudes LOVE milkshakes!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

What? i love milkshakes , then again i hate sports

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of mine once had a theory about more women than men liking spinach. It involved menstruation.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm glad I was wrong! More milkshake love for all.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Women always seem to love puddings more than men, but I have a feeling that the male contigent of ILX would disagree!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I love spinach too!

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a fat fuck

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I LOVE avocado.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

If you go to a restaurant, a woman will look at the menu for a while, and then pick something. A guy will look at the menu for a while, and then pick steak.

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― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Beets - yuck
Milkshake - yum
Yoghurt - meh
Avocado - yum
Dark chocolate - better than tacky milk or gross white

Real men don't eat quiche. So I hear.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man I want some quiche

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I absolutely adore quiche, although, maybe it's just the pastry!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of mine once had a theory about more women than men liking spinach. It involved menstruation.

In my third year uni home, it involved chickpeas.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

we get the US Fear Factor here, although i turned on the TV the other day and I was shocked to see "UK Fear Factor"! So it now exists!

But it's kinda different - it works in a team format (group of 3 each) and the teams bank money on each round and whoever ends up with the most money takes the money (the other team gets nothing). The show I watched had this scottish guy who was really annoyed with himself cos their team were winning all along but he sliped and lost his team all the money, he was shouting in anger whilst hanging on a safety rope. It was kind of touching.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so hungry now.
What about sausages? My ex loved them. I hate 'em, but that's because I don't eat organ meats and I found the texture offputting.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

they still have the same catch phrases though like "Team blah blah, fear is obviously not a factor for you" etc.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I love sausages although sadly no more meat ones for me, just veggie!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Yorkie bars.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Why "sadly," Pink?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not a huge fan of sausages. i do sometimes actually need to have chocolate but i'm not a fan of sweeties.

there's the famous theory that men prefer chocolate bars and girls prefer smaller chocolates like minstrels and revels.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

that theory's rubbish - most of my girlfriends who have been chocolate fiends prefer bars!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I love chocolate, avocado and sweeties. In fact, I'm perfectly adaptable when it comes to food but I draw the line at rhubarb.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

some rhubarb dishes are fantastic tho!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish they had chocolate bars where you could sidle up and order a tall one.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Why "sadly," Pink?
I just miss sausages that is all, but I am happy with the veggie ones!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: vegetarianism = deprivation.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

where's the other side?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Duh, of course vegetarianism is deprivation by definition.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

But it's deprivation with a purpose.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

god, i feel like such a raving food sexist now. But i am more than a little tongue in cheek when i rave to maria. (for the record i don't care for tongue or cheek.) avocados may be a bit, um, comforting for women though, no? here's what i wrote on the beetroot thread:

I know lots more women who loooooove beets than men. Make of this what you will. But perhaps it is cuz a beet resembles a blood-red
moon and tastes like elemental soil and all women are wiccans at heart. Just a guess. My best friend maggie even has a tattoo of a beet on her
arm! And my beloved bride maria loves them so much that it scares me a little. But, um, my data is based on 4 or 5 women I have known
who love them to death and 2 or 3 men who don't.(including me.) I would need further funding to extrapolate further.

-- scott seward (skotro...), August 11th, 2004.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost from the other room

I went for a couple of years without meat (except once a year I'd eat turkey on Thanksgiving -- turkey we got from a farm and defeathered and everything ourselves). There was this place I used to pass by where they'd roast chickens. The smell used to disgust me. Then one day it started smelling soooo goood to me and I realised I was really craving chicken fat. I went ahead and quenched my greasy desire. Later I read that the skin and fat of chickens have certain substances that women, in particular, need.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

You forget that maggie's brother has a matching beet tattoo. But maybe he doesn't count.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I love meats of all sorts, but I don't really like steak. WTF?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

beets are really good in salads.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

UK Fear Factor's been around for years on Sky.

My wife LOVES beetroot which I think is the same as beets. And yoghurt. And chocolate.

I like yoghurt and chocolate but hate beetroot. But I really like spinach.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Maria you forgot cottage cheese. I don't think I've ever seen a man eat cottage cheese. Maybe I don't hang out in the right circles.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

You call them beetroot! We call them beets! I didn't know that.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i eat everything listed on this thread.

squash is something i've noticed more of a female predilection for.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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penn MAID

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

q.e.d.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

women make the food for the women from the animals that we have hunted

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

R.I.M.A. sounds kinda like Y.M.C.A.

Sounds? Do you speak dyslexia?

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

hence, penn maid makes the cottage cheese

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, well timed x-posts.(to ken)

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

for the women, as you said.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

that was a typo. men don't have time to proofread. eegah.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

dyslexia and sounds are two different things. unless you mean dysphasia.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

freudian slip more like.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel like a substandard female because I don't orgasm over chocolate; there are a number of ads on TV here which suggest things like, given 3 wishes women would ask for eternal tim tams and ignore the other wishes. The magazines have jumped on the bandwagon and now eating a pack of tim tams is what you are supposed to do if you are a woman and need to talk (cheer up a dumped) friend.

This is so pervasive that the university run Women's week featured as first event, chocolate eating, followed by a screening of Chocolat woo hoo johnny Depp. Later on in the week Pilates to burn off the chocolate. No wonder it co-incided with Cadbury's chocolate week.

On a lighter note the budget rip off brand calls it's nasty Tim Tams "Choc Tammys" hahahaha

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i love tim tams. i wish you could get them in the us.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Lentils.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

what be tim tams?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

marmite?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

tim tams... hmm

http://www.arnotts.com/Biscuits/OurBiscuitsP.asp?BID=79

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

tim tams are lovely little chocolate biscuits with chocolate filling & coated in chocolate...and they don't taste overly chocolate (to me). i like chocolate enough, but usually the darker the better & there is just something about those tim tams...

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the association between women and cottage cheese is just a dieting thing. same with yogurt. and they are marketed to women. men don't diet as much. or if they do, it means eating 4 slices of pizza instead of 6.

i love cheese and chocolate. and chocolate cheesecake! but cherry cheesecake is my favorite.

do men like sour things more? I love lemons! I can eat them whole. and sour grapes, mmmm.

and i always thought the chocolate/period thing was kinda like needing insulin or something.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Cottage cheese is gross, says woman.

Chocolate contains endorphin triggers or summat but FACT miso, spinach, seaweed and sushi have a range of B vitamins that combat PMT. If I'm feeling the hot reds I just take myself out for a spicy tuna hand roll, some miso and some spinach or seaweed salad.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Lentils.

I love lentils. With bulghur, especially. ;-)

so who's winning here - food or men?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

But Bears like Cottage Cheese! (And bicycles)
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― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

so who's winning here - food or men?

Ladies and gentlemen... food versus men in the World Series of Love.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never known a girl to accept one of my tasty pork scratchings.

No, that is not an innuendo.

― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Are pork scratchings what we call pork rinds? If so, ewww.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.coweggreview.org/country_living/assets/pursuits/scratchins.jpg

Mmmmm! Soft pig fat encased in a hard pig fat crust.

― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Your pork-fat innuendo vs "take myself out for a spicy tuna hand roll"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 4 September 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Noisy, Idaho, Saturday, 4 September 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Noisy, Idaho, Saturday, 4 September 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I just read this entire thread and ... wow.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Saturday, 4 September 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't women want dairy more to reduce the risk of osteoporosis?

― Nellie (nellskies), Saturday, 4 September 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

When it comes to fish, women respond to bass.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 4 September 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry.

All icecream ads are aimed at women who want to sin.

The ultimate in female-only cheeses is ricotta.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The ultimate in female-only cheeses is ricotta.

FUCK YOU.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's true Miccio. Scientific studies show that a man's sperm count goes down when he even says the word 'ricotta' and he begins to develop breasts, rapidly becoming a ladyboy.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cannoli-enterprises.com/ricotta1.gif

OMG you're right! NOOOOOO!!!!!!!

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

it's too late for me I guess. I've actually ordered that stuff on my pizza before.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ricotta is awesome on pizza.
And are you going to tell me that lasagna is a girly dish?

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it have eggplant in it?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Ew no.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Well without eggplant, the pasta provides a certain amount of male stogy scoff value, so I'm comfortable saying it's a sexually well balanced meal. As opposed to, say, ricotta lightly spread on crackers or thinly sliced sourdough bread with avocado and lemon, and mayne a very small amount of smoked salmon or caviar, plus a glass of white wine. That is like totally girly.

Oysters are of course female food. Women be shucking!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 5 September 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never seen a guy who likes caviar, or even salmon roe (w/ champagne it's a guilty (female?) pleasure).

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Women like seafood. It's a throwback to their past, when they were all mermaids.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a compelling urge for sea bass. Now I know where it comes from.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The sea?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahahaha

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Mi madre's Tim Allen-style "men are different than women" observation:
Men like blue cheese dressing, women do not.

Sunflower seeds (in shell) seem to be men-preffered food as well.

― Abbitt, Sunday, 5 September 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I've met a woman who dislikes cheesecake, a dish I personally find revolting.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 5 September 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I like caviar and salmon roe and ricotta. I do admit that oysters are more of an 'appreciate' than 'like' food for me.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 5 September 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Oysters make me upchuck.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Sunday, 5 September 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Mainly for the chixors - all tomato based drinks - tomato juice, Clamato, V8 (vegetable cocktail), Bloody Marys, Ceasars.

Girls don't eat Vienna Sausages.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 5 September 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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