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Girl dinner (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] cokeslutgarbage@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This has nothing to do with the original concept/internet meme of "girl dinner", this is just salad and fries. Girl dinner is like... six olives and an entire sleeve of crackers with peanut butter directly out of the jar. Girl dinner is three slices of cheddar cheese, and an entire bag of baby carrots with hummus. If you have the emotional capacity to cook fries and mix a salad, that is not girl dinner, thats just dinner. This is capitalism using buzzwords without understanding what they're saying and I'm irrationally annoyed by this one in particular because I fucking love Girl Dinner.

That is all. Hope your next meal is delicious and fulfilling xoxo

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Thanks cokeslutgarbage!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thank you, this makes so much more sense.

I also love 'Girl Dinner', and I'm just a lazy guy.

I just tend to call it a mega-snack, and eat slightly different combos of snack foods than I guess the stereotypical (typical?) girl snack foods, but they still aim to hit the same spectrum of food groups and nutrients.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, you just keep eating various snacks until you aren't hungry anymore.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Hrm.

I try to... plan my 'mega-snacks' to hit a bit more specific food groups / kinds of nutrients than just... munching on whatever untill I'm full.

So, still lazy in that it doesn't require any actual 'cooking' or food prep, beyond just grabbing an assortment of things.

But no so lazy that basically 0 thought is put into it.

... Not sure if that qualifies as a meaningful difference in terms of 'girl dinner' vs 'mega snack'.

Also, I'm using the word 'lazy', but I've been seriously depressed and/or exhausted and overwhelmed before, 'lazy' isn't quite the right word...

... as it tends to imply there was even a possibility that you had the mental bandwidth to decide to not use, to actively be 'lazy', when that isn't always the case for someone who chronically having a really not good time.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So I'm a guy and that looks like a fine meal for a night of drinking to me.

The presentation in a comically oversized martini glass is perhaps a bit silly, but...

Yeah this just looks like a pre-game meal of champions to me, if you maybe swap out the croutons for something like breaded chicken nuggets or smaller breaded tenders.

[–] marzhall@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In Pittsburgh odds are fries would come on the salad with every dinner. Strange tradition, but I don't mind it.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago

I want to eat that I don't care what they call it.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

Non.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Seems like where they meet you'd get warm salad and cool fries.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Slightly wet fried with an odd taste of anchovies and oil.

[–] MohamedMoney@feddit.org 17 points 1 week ago

Sometimes the rules have to be broken at the right time to create art

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

"The fries are cold and the salad is hot! How is that even possible?"

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Now THIS is pod racing 😎

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 45 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Aka, "vegetarian gets dragged to a steakhouse."

Watch out, that looks like a Caesar salad, which has anchovies in the dressing.

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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

my one concern is that I wouldn't want a salad dressing touching my fries. especially since I tend to prefer a light vinagrette.

I wonder if such a sauce exists that could function as both salad dressing and fry sauce. probably something starting with a thousand island base?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I wonder if such a sauce exists that could function as both salad dressing and fry sauce.

Ranch.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago

Blue cheese, too.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Caesar dressing would be a delight for fries. Really any creamy dressing

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[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m a girl, and personally I’d replace fries with wings, but then it becomes normal dinner. Life is hard.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No no no, if it's still in the same glass it should still be valid

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love this logic. Wings it is.

[–] ABCatMom@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Olay but what about half wings and half fries?

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Whatever gets you going, I don’t kink shame.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can't tell if those are croutons or chicken nuggets

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Yes.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Does wanting this mean I'm a girl

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

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[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

People assign gender characteristics to the stupidest shit. lmao Like food items and their containers...

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[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Can I get shawarma poutine in a fancy glass as my girl dinner?

[–] wieson@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

Just Dönerteller with less stuff

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I gotta tell my wife that I'm a girl.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

As a girl, yeah i want that dinner

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 6 points 1 week ago

This is how you get cold sad soggy fries.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Okay so make these zucchini fries and I am capital P there

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Ok, let me explain….

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