Quote: (10-06-2014 03:24 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:
Has America devolved into a place where not eating after your evening meal is considered unusual?
Appetizers are grazing behaviour. Two observations of female eating: chicks indulge to excess when they're emotionally-upset but graze when they're trying to distract themselves from their boredom. Do you want to risk that subconscious association when you're trying to build intimacy?
Have you considered that an American restaurant portion is twice the size of a portion anywhere else in the world? So an appetizer can easily be enough for the kind of girl whose company we'd seek. By that, I mean not a land whale.
My observation of female eating is that it's often random. She may be training herself to skip meals, or be on some kind of crazy diet. It's not a set schedule.
On a night where she goes out to drink with a guy she only knows from online, you can't really assume she even had an evening meal. There may not have been time or motivation to go home, change clothes and eat.
More likely, she grabbed a snack in the afternoon. As long as she eats something hot and salted after dark, she'll feel sated until the next day. It's not dinner in the old fashioned sense of the word. But it suits the habits of a late teens or early twenties barfly.
You may think of it as grazing. But that's because you have a different relationship to food than a girl in our target demographic would have.