A slow week at the Daily Mail (via Radar) :
They say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach but it
seems the dining tables have turned as increasing numbers of men are
taking up cooking in a bid to seduce women.
This is like writing a lifestyle trend piece on the annual salmon migration. Men are cooking for women because they think in will get them laid? You mean like the same reason they shave, bathe, and exercise? Hell, I'd still be thawing out burritos if it hadn't occurred to me that if you cook for a lady, she's at your house already, obviating the need for any sort of "would you like to come in for coffee" lameness. And that was back when Gordon Ramsay was lugging a bus tub for Marco Pierre White. More recently, I doubt I could have persuaded the cinetrix to throw her lot in with me if it were not for the occasional fried sage leaf or other savory.
As a collateral phenomenon, this article raises the fear that "-sexual" will replace "-ista" as the hacky suffix that makes me wish I'd never learned to read.
Finally, the "report" the article refers to was commissioned by a food company, who also has grabbed the "gastrosexual" URL. I tried reading the report, and got only far enough to figure out that the Daily Mail reporter was significantly lazier than Beetle Bailey.
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