I recall seeing a restaurant menu with an option called "My girlfriend isn't hungry." For an extra couple of bucks they'll serve you two extra jalapeno poppers or cheese sticks
@@thedadvocate my wife loves having a home cooked meal. But she also loves it when we put together a quick charcuterie board of whatever is already cut up in the fridge plus some chicken nuggets.
@@thedadvocate Wendys Big box capitalized on it ,,Burger Fries ,4 nuggets and a drink , Those chicken nuggies are there for I dont want anything girl .....
“Women born after 1993 can’t cook. All they know is McDonald’s, charge they phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat hot chip & lie.” - some dude’s Tweet gone viral
Born in 92 I can cook everything from lobster to boiling water and everything in between I can make everything tbh My mother taught me some but I taught myself the rest my mom didn't want me to ever have to depend on any woman for anything lol 😆 based mother
Same & I'm a professional chef that can take an hour or more for certain dishes. But in under 30 mins I can grill some meat, heat up a can of vegetables, & bake a potato in microwave which would be infinitely better & healthier than this.
At first i thought “of course people born after 1993 can’t cook; they’re babies” I mean, i was in college then. And it dawned on me that they’re 30, and i’m just old.
My hats off to you for watching this content at that age. I don't know if you still need to know about an age group almost half your age, but more power to you
Can confirm. Partner and i were 'watching' comfy TV while she joined me in one of my hobbies (building Gundam models) and doing an assortment of cheese, nuts, pretzels, etc. seemed to keep her happy!
I must be a rarity then. Cause my Nanna can't cook for shit, and drank like a sailor in her day. Whereas I can cook like a gourmet yacht chef, and prefer my brain cells alive.
Our mothers got men who would build shit and never complain once about putting in physical work. Those men wanted to be family men and provide and did it without whining. We have men who sit in most day, or just “hang”, don’t know how to build shit, barely do chores expect women to do it and still complain about work whilst women go for work and do housework too. Most don’t want to settle down or be a family man. Women in America downgraded in recent years maybe. But the men have literally been doing what women are doing now, for a long time. To an outsider, y’all are the same. Just that the men think they’re morally superior, they’re not. There’s a reason very few foreign women consider American men.
I do the cooking in our house, and after 6 years of bachelor life and two of living together, I've gotten pretty good at it. But even then my fiancée still wants girl dinner sometimes. Hell, I actually just learned the term for it two weeks ago. Sometimes the brain just wants microwaved homemade nachos. Sometimes it just wants babybel cheese wheels & tortilla chips.
just meal prep and freeze. cooking for 1 doesn't have to suck or cost much or even be a lot of work. tomorrow 16 meals of coconut pork and veggies for $16.
Exactly! Looks like they didn't give a damn. Just unload whatever they have leftover in the refrigerator, and get a bottle of wine to get her drunk to have their way with her later. I'd be starving and think the guy was cheap if this was a date. I can eat whatever is leftover in the refrig and drink at home anytime...if I go on a date, I want to go OUT! I've never heard of these "girl dinners".
Lmfao for real, I cook my meals from scratch a lot of the time as a bachelor…but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t make a gas station charcuterie board from time to time lmao
"I just got home from a 12 hour night shift and realized I have no food, but I'm too tired to leave the house. Looks like canned beans and microwave popcorn for breakfast"
Except bachelor dinner is more about trying to make a bastardzation of a 'square meal' in a cave with a box of scraps (eg, cup ramen with ripped up jerky mixed into it with a side of canned corn, is a bachelor meal) wheras girl dinner almost seems to be more about a bunch of random food cravings
As a married man, I can confirm that this is 100% accurate. She is reminiscing her college days when she was poor and in debt. And now she is no longer in college!
There's no question about that. It's just massively hypocritical that when women do it, it's great and empowering, but when men do it, it's stagnant and immature.
I have done this before. My GF didn't want to cook and I didn't want to either and going out didn't sound good either. So I said, "I got this." I created a dish of a few pizza bites, pickle slices, cold pizza, and leftover potato salad. She was happy with the dinner and we were in our 40s
@@Mc1997D No, it is ADHD specifically. ADHD is about impulsivity and lack of executive function. People with ADHD who aren’t stimulated by cooking will put cooking to the side and just pick out ingredients, dinners that don’t require following steps. Bipolar has no real analog here. Schizophrenia has no real analog here. It’s specifically ADHD. Now if the ADHD person was stimulated by cooking, that would be something different. For ADHD, if something is stimulating, it is strongly sought out. If it isn’t, it is strongly rejected.
I've had tons of meals like and always internally referred to them as "I'm not very hungry but I want to eat before going to bed, so I'll just eat whatever" meals 😂
That's not even bare minimum that's pure laziness. Bare minimum would be a tv dinner, frozen pizza, or grill a steak/chop/chicken breast & 5 min potato in microwave. All would be way more acceptable than this. This isn't being a functional adult.
@chelseawales1090 snack foods for dinner isnt a treat to most guys. Steak and lobster is a treat for dinner. Candy and snacks for dinner is honestly just disappointing.
I call it a what my little daughter calls it. A daddy plate. Snacks that reflect the current mood. Spring Autumn Summer. It'll change. But you gotta feel the vibe. Best snacks come from the tum but it's the hum of the drum that makes daddy plates so special for me 😘
Wait, so "girl dinner" is acceptable and normal, and yet a picture of a guy actually cooking a basic meal draws a bunch of insults and face palms form those very women?
@@2st486Or reuse dirty plates in the sink rationalizing "they're not THAT bad." Spoiler alert: yes, they are. It takes near zero effort to put one more dish in the washer to run. Use the dishes directly out of the washer if you gotta, but it's just better. Looking back on it, the bachelor life was unsanitary and lazy af. XD
@@2st486 then I highly suggest investing in some paper plates, a new apartment, or biting the bullet and buying a dishwasher because that's both unsanitary and a pretty massive time sink
I once did mac and cheese in a coffee mug when I was in college because all two of my bowls were dirty and I think that was the lowest point in my life.
Naw, all the different snacks cost too much. Broke chow is peanut butter sandwiches. Two ingredients, both fairly cheap with decent shelf lives, and filling enough to last a while.
100%. Now most women who resort to “girl dinner” argue it’s because they are too burnt out from doing all the cooking. So it sounds like it isn’t the NORM for modern women, just an occasional bout of exhaustion if they do it all the time.
I literally caught my wife's by teaching her how to cook - her feminist mother felt that her daughters shouldn't need that skill anymore. So this girl was skinny and pale from bad diet, and I showed her how to fix it.
@@thedadvocate I'd have to teach my ol lady how to cook then because that's unacceptable. I'm a big boy and I work in a really physically demanding job so I need calories. If I lifted refrigerators, desks, chairs, sofas, entertainment centers all day and came home to that, we'd definitely be having a talk. We'd start simply at first. I'm not expecting a 6 course dinner, but hot dogs, mac and cheese and fries sounds awesome. Then when she's mastered the basics of things that boil in water or sit on a baking sheet, we'll move on to moderate techniques such as basic food prep; e.g. stews, lasagna, tacos. Things that aren't hardcore cooking, but are filling. I'd be happy with that, but if she wants advanced cooking lessons, then I can teach her how to bake cinnamon rolls and make chocolate or chicken fettuccini alfredo from scratch. P.S. Alfredo sauce is a pain in the A.S.S. to make from scratch
@@aaronburdon221dude, girl dinner is a thing for the girl usually. I go all out cooking for my bf, sometimes i cook something specifically for him since we have different habits and tastes. After spending 8+ hours working on code, doing minor chored and maybe going to the gym i usually have absolutely no desire to turn up the stove and cook. So if im home alone for the evening than girl dinner it is, because there's nothing better than a glass of cold kefir and some rye bread when no one's judging Also, you're not entitled to have a steaming hot meal all the time. If ya girl works too, its simply unfair. Especially if you want shit like cinnamon rolls and whatnot. Those things take hours to make and you're basically stuck at home the whole time.
I am a good home cook, and on ocassion I do a version of this with leftovers served on the cutting board, we call is "scavenging for dinner" I too am a racoon.
I call it gourmet dinner tonight. Too tire to cook. But since I just got home tired from work and gotta eat something so I don't wake up in the middle of the night starving, I'm having gourmet tonight.
There's a similar thing from where I'm from called a "taster plate" where you just put pickles and salami and cheese and crackers and whatnot on a plate then eat it
I very much oppose this notion, because that is on the parents to teach the kids. Or, if anyone teaches them later on, they will learn how to cook. There just needs to be someone to make the effort. But what I have learned, in the older generation men did not know how to cook while in the younger generation men tend to take the initiative and learn to cook.
I've seen it too much. I was born in ' I'm very handing in a kitchen, mostly with batch cooking and baking. My brother, born '93, is absolutely hopeless even when people try to help.
@@gabrielbernard5440parents do but do u think kids care about that these days? Theyre confused about everything like theyee confused about their genders
@@gabrielbernard5440 My parents barely taught me anything beyond boiling pasta, cooking some ground beef, and pouring a jar of ragu over the abomination. I had to teach myself how to smoke meat, bake cakes, caramelize sugars, deep fry, etc etc. You don't need parents to learn how to cook as it just takes time, experimentation, and drive.
as someone who enjoyed watching the cooking Channel, born 1994 it was harsh to hear lol but I have seen plenty of people unable to cook for themselves. I had a self interest in food, so enjoyed teaching myself and eating of course.
Never understood not learning to cook, even, or especially, for a man. I was born in the '60s and saw the men born in the '20s dependent upon their wives for their meals. Why? Why would you purposely make yourself dependent on others for a basic need. As the pandemic showed, even others who will cook for you for money can sometimes "disappear".
Same - the best dating advice my mum ever gave was: "Any man can buy a woman dinner, very few can cook it for her." Knowing how to cook worked for me just fine.
I'm 52 next week and I have been doing this for years - it's called not having to cook for anyone but yourself and it's also called eating cereal for dinner.
Once a month, you bet your sweet ass I will 🤣 the kids wouldn’t get the wine class though. Paper plates, because you know by the time this is dinner everyone is too lazy to do dishes too
Yall who grew up with a single mum back me up here, but this was the best damn thing ever. Me and my brother would get so excited when she said we were having bit's and pieces tea. ants on a log was my favourite 😂😂
@Baraccus28 I hit a low point once and for breakfast had grape juice cut with plum wine as the breakfast. I figured "well not enough to get me drunk, I already have the alcohol in hand and it is calories." Granted this wasn't because I was lazy this was because I didn't have any money
Yeah false. I have been the more active and better cook in every relationship I have ever been in. I think like this post claims, post 1993…but what it doesn’t touch on is most men can and do cook especially for how often many of us are single while 80% of women chase swipes from the same five dudes. 🤣
I just call this work snacks LOL. Basically for me this is just swinging by the convenience store and grabbing a couple items that will keep me going through a shift
The ironically funny part of this is how spot on it is! Lmfao! I have 2 younger brothers, born in 93 and 94. The brother born in 93 can cook, the one in 94 can't! Lmfao!!!
Right. Or a quick meal in front of the tv/computer. A quick deli sandwich (or tuna sandwich) with potato chips. Some alcoholic beverage to drink. This is something you eat by yourself at home or with your already live-in fiance or husband...not on a date. I could have done that anytime...I wanted to go OUT somewhere when I was dating...didn't have to be expensive.
At least once a week my fiancée wants this. I don't care because I like fruit, and eating meat and cheese off a plate is just a sandwich with no bread.
@@Time2Heal369 Good sir, with all due respect, it was a joke. Not that deep. Don't want to start an argument, but you gave advice I did not ask for. Have a great Labor Day Weekend.
Y'all should seriously try Hello Fresh. It can b a bit complicated depending on the meal. But it's the best food I've ever made at home. & idr the last time I went out to eat & it was anywhere near as good
Ah, takes my old ass back to when reddit got super fixated on "single man meals" as a display of the weaponized incompetence that all men are unconsciously trained in.
As a man, im staring directly at that mac'n'cheese glass like grab a glass of mac, and a dollop of yogurt with fruit in a mini bowl all while saving room for the 1 or 2 bags of popcorn with random flavorings for the snuggle time on the couch while watching a movie/tv show
Well Hell!! I never knew my problem was having been born in '92. I love to cook but my wife lives on Girl Dinner and I just never, properly, understood. Thanks!!
For some reason this is straight facts, all my friends who I grew up with and am still friends with to this day that are my age(born in 93) can cook like a professional chef, a couple of them are professional chefs now, but my friends I have that were literally a year younger or born from 94-97, can’t cook to save their lives.
@@josephinenelan4204 my point is that guys do this too. I cook every meal in my house. Am i really going to mess with ingredients when I'm home alone beyond roasting a couple of veggies? Hell no.
@@-KMA- I've done the whole, can of pinto beans drained, with cheese, in the microwave, more times than I care to admit. Never done just a can of beans. No judgement here tho.
@@priestesslucy3299do you know how much effort goes into prepping cherry pits? You gotta clean em, freeze em, and crack em open carefully before planting the next Spring.
so this is something that my dad and I did when I was growing up, especially during our busy season (we are farmers) and it was usually salami with some sauce (usually horseradish weird but amazing), cheese (mainly of the string variety) chips and cheese dip (queso for all the non-Arkansans) and we called this snacky supper or adult Lunchables, it was easy to do when we were in a hurry and it was easy to eat riding in a tractor cab (it also kept me from realizing we were broke as a joke back then barely making it to harvest) I miss those days of riding in a jump seat of a tractor eating string cheese and laughing with my dad.
@@JuliaMarieH only time I really cook is the weekends because that's when I have the energy to do so. I usually make something like Spaghetti or Alfredo, chicken and rice, etc that I can then just eat for the next week
I shouldn't have to pay that much for a movie ticket just to experience gathering a large amount of snack foods and hiding them. Good god my "mammal getting ready for the winter brain" almost kicked in 😅
Omg you just described my daughter!! Shes 23 lives at home still but with her less fussy half bf 😂 if im cooking she will eat anything like a starved shark but if our scheduals diverge and she needs to fend for herself its always a bag of snacks!!
This is also a formidable answer. From my studies of my species, it seems most women resort to girl dinner due to cooking fatigue or burnout. So if you offer to cook that night instead she will likely let you!
As kids, pre-microwave, we used to call this “scratch tea” it basically meant get your own dinner because Mum couldn’t be bothered to cook. We lived in a small town, so there were no burger or pizza joints and no home delivery either and we didn’t get all the fancy pre-made meals or processed snacks in the supermarket either.
I have seen that exact same combination of foods on my girl's dinner plate before. That was... uncanny. I mean even including the pickles/gummy worm combo... Damn, TIL!!!
You’d be mind blown to find out many women cook for family, but sometimes when the man is out (late, away, or with friends) they eat like this when they’re alone at home. Just because someone is lazy by themself doesn’t mean they can’t cook.
I’ve always called it a snacky platter. Olives, halloumi, Turkish bread toasted with garlic butter. Soft cheeses and cold meats and dips. A glass of cheeky red and you can’t go wrong.
@@oscargordon3 Bruh same on feeding the siblings. Once I got good my mom just let me do it. Lmao. It helped a lot since she was a single mom with us three. But yeah I don't want to come over for a date and be given fruit snacks. I need hot food. Mac and cheese is good. Lol.
*DISCLAIMER* : Desiring stated items for Dinner is also a symptom of Pregnancy. Consult your Physician/OB/Gyn if this desire occurs more than once a week
A prototype of "Girl Dinner" just buy yourself an extra order of fries for her once she's given up on the salad.
See some of y’all had it figured out before the millennials gave it a name
I recall seeing a restaurant menu with an option called "My girlfriend isn't hungry." For an extra couple of bucks they'll serve you two extra jalapeno poppers or cheese sticks
@@MerchManDan I.. .love that.. haha. Its like the image of a restaurant named "I don't care"
@@thedadvocate my wife loves having a home cooked meal. But she also loves it when we put together a quick charcuterie board of whatever is already cut up in the fridge plus some chicken nuggets.
@@thedadvocate Wendys Big box capitalized on it ,,Burger Fries ,4 nuggets and a drink , Those chicken nuggies are there for I dont want anything girl .....
Instructions unclear: I am now married to a raccoon.
Is she a thief?
Yes 😂
@@priestesslucy3299 surely she is a theif, after all, if they're married surely she stole his heart XD
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"People born after 1993 can't cook."
Me born in 1992 and able to cook : "Oh sh*t !"
Yet another trait I do not share with my generation. I was born to the wrong time.
'91, and a chef. I'm dead Ober here
“Women born after 1993 can’t cook. All they know is McDonald’s, charge they phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat hot chip & lie.” - some dude’s Tweet gone viral
Yeah, I'm in the same boat.
Born in 1988 and I'm all _'Wait a minute'_
And suddenly so many things clicked
Born in 92
I can cook everything from lobster to boiling water and everything in between
I can make everything tbh
My mother taught me some but I taught myself the rest my mom didn't want me to ever have to depend on any woman for anything lol 😆 based mother
_"Meal prep like you're smuggling snacks into a movie theatre"_
Is anyone else reading this as
"Broke college student"?
I read it as Batchelor
and people wonder why Americans are fat raccoons are fat and they eat anything
@@JohnGalt916 OI! Don’t call me out like that.
I read it as calling them toddlers.
I have survived the last 4 years of my life on 1 cup of white rice no sause a day. This is not bragging. I am asking for help.
“Raccoon eyes” had a whole new meaning now lmao😂
Racoon gaze
and people wonder why Americans are fat raccoons are fat and they eat anything
I thought girl dinner was water, a cigarette and sleep
Damn mf lied to me
I’d rather get yelled at than feed that to anyone I claim to love.
Yeah that stuff is snakes b4 real dinner. I know how to cook but don't always I always want a full meal.
As a man who cooks regularly, I reject the notion of "girl dinner" simply because I can make something better in the same amount of time.
Same & I'm a professional chef that can take an hour or more for certain dishes. But in under 30 mins I can grill some meat, heat up a can of vegetables, & bake a potato in microwave which would be infinitely better & healthier than this.
Same
@@bhart3321sme there were a couple in the middle that I wasn't even convinced was edible. At least get a salad, lady.
Amen, brother!
@@bhart3321girl dinner is under 5 minutes
At first i thought “of course people born after 1993 can’t cook; they’re babies”
I mean, i was in college then. And it dawned on me that they’re 30, and i’m just old.
Welcome to the sad reality 😞 🙃 most of my coworkers were born after pokemon and some after 9/11.
Yeah... its like a slap in the face, isnt it?
She’s quoting a popular text post/meme
My hats off to you for watching this content at that age.
I don't know if you still need to know about an age group almost half your age, but more power to you
I was born in 2001 and I can buy alcohol, I'm married, and I have a child.
Can confirm. Partner and i were 'watching' comfy TV while she joined me in one of my hobbies (building Gundam models) and doing an assortment of cheese, nuts, pretzels, etc. seemed to keep her happy!
Gunplaaaaa
Oh. My. Gawd. That's soooo cute!
„Our fathers got woman who could cook like they mothers.
Meanwhile we get woman who can drink like our fathers.”
I must be a rarity then. Cause my Nanna can't cook for shit, and drank like a sailor in her day. Whereas I can cook like a gourmet yacht chef, and prefer my brain cells alive.
Our mothers got men who would build shit and never complain once about putting in physical work. Those men wanted to be family men and provide and did it without whining.
We have men who sit in most day, or just “hang”, don’t know how to build shit, barely do chores expect women to do it and still complain about work whilst women go for work and do housework too. Most don’t want to settle down or be a family man.
Women in America downgraded in recent years maybe. But the men have literally been doing what women are doing now, for a long time. To an outsider, y’all are the same. Just that the men think they’re morally superior, they’re not. There’s a reason very few foreign women consider American men.
And h03 around .
@@crystalm3th573hey bud ive put together a few legos in my day
Nana was the original millenial/gen z@@audreydoyle5268
I don't think anybody actually wants "girl dinner". They just don't want to cook.
I do the cooking in our house, and after 6 years of bachelor life and two of living together, I've gotten pretty good at it. But even then my fiancée still wants girl dinner sometimes. Hell, I actually just learned the term for it two weeks ago. Sometimes the brain just wants microwaved homemade nachos. Sometimes it just wants babybel cheese wheels & tortilla chips.
@@connortobin3775yo those babybel cheeses slap though. If you need to take the edge off they're perfect.
@@Nessus875 Naw fam I love those things. The cheddar and Gouda are amazing. I've always got a bag of each in my fridge.
just meal prep and freeze.
cooking for 1 doesn't have to suck or cost much or even be a lot of work.
tomorrow 16 meals of coconut pork and veggies for $16.
I love cooking; I just hate doing dishes.
Girl Dinner is what it looks like if a 6 year old made dinner out of the leftovers in the refrigerator
Yes that’s what makes it fun
Exactly! Looks like they didn't give a damn. Just unload whatever they have leftover in the refrigerator, and get a bottle of wine to get her drunk to have their way with her later. I'd be starving and think the guy was cheap if this was a date. I can eat whatever is leftover in the refrig and drink at home anytime...if I go on a date, I want to go OUT! I've never heard of these "girl dinners".
@@bettywith2girls they make up for the lack with eight cookies and a bowl of ice cream
And women should not praise or recreate this behavior
@@bgrego88why not lmao
I'm not dealing with this, I'm staying single
Lol just be gay, thats what i did and my life is so much simpler
@@icedragon9097 better yet, focus on the 2d waifus,
I'll insert a little hope here and say I personally was raised knowing how to cook and this snack meal wouldn't fly XD
It's not what the women want, it's what the people want.
Yeah I'm a guy and this is my dinner and/or lunch probably a quarter of the time.
when she thinks she's explaining "girl dinner" but instead she's appropriating "bachelor dinner"
Lmfao for real, I cook my meals from scratch a lot of the time as a bachelor…but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t make a gas station charcuterie board from time to time lmao
"I just got home from a 12 hour night shift and realized I have no food, but I'm too tired to leave the house. Looks like canned beans and microwave popcorn for breakfast"
Except bachelor dinner is more about trying to make a bastardzation of a 'square meal' in a cave with a box of scraps (eg, cup ramen with ripped up jerky mixed into it with a side of canned corn, is a bachelor meal) wheras girl dinner almost seems to be more about a bunch of random food cravings
@@carrot708 fair
If your girl asks you for girl dinner just make what you ate every night when you were 20 and single.
Ramen it is
Spaghetti.
Really easy.
10 mins Max.
I didnt eat like an autistic toddler when i was 20
@@Calories_To_Calibers Freaking rich guy over here! 😆
Cold ham samitch
As a married man, I can confirm that this is 100% accurate.
She is reminiscing her college days when she was poor and in debt.
And now she is no longer in college!
As a chef, that's the saddest most disgusting thing I have ever heard...
"the real secret to women is we are basically raccoons" nothing has ever been more true
raccoons on meth might be more accurate
@heathbecker420 more like raccoons on way to much caffeine
Craccoons
The image of the racoon washing it's candy floss in a stream comes to mind for some reason.
Accurate. I bite if you try to take my food.
You had me until "you do too". I mean I'll do it for her but then I'm going to get actual dinner
Which she'll probably then want once you sit down to eat it.
Yea seems like It’d be easier to just make a nice dinner for your girl
Correct lol. @@shaggybaggums
There's no question about that. It's just massively hypocritical that when women do it, it's great and empowering, but when men do it, it's stagnant and immature.
Deano don’t lie to me! You’d take a gummy worm off her plate :p
Thank you for that... "Girls are basically raccoons" made me do a spit take with coffee... gotta go change my clothes now.
I have done this before. My GF didn't want to cook and I didn't want to either and going out didn't sound good either. So I said, "I got this." I created a dish of a few pizza bites, pickle slices, cold pizza, and leftover potato salad. She was happy with the dinner and we were in our 40s
That sounds delightful 😂 Perfect girl dinner.
My wife isn't a raccoon, she's an opossum.
Possums will eat stuff buzzards won't. Like dead buzzards. You may want to cook your own food. Or at least do a sniff check.
Thank you for specifying the difference. Gotta know the difference so you can act accordingly
*_SHE HAS 13 NIPPLES_* ⁉️😳
plays dead hoping you'll go away, checks out
Eats ticks and can't catch rabies?
Today I learned that my ADHD-driven late-night shame snacks have actually just been girl dinners
ahh theres the comment i was looking for
Yup. It’s ADHD.
@@LionKimbro or shizophrenia, bipolar disorder, genderdysphoria, eating disorder, depression, Borderline syndrome etc.
@@Mc1997D No, it is ADHD specifically. ADHD is about impulsivity and lack of executive function. People with ADHD who aren’t stimulated by cooking will put cooking to the side and just pick out ingredients, dinners that don’t require following steps. Bipolar has no real analog here. Schizophrenia has no real analog here. It’s specifically ADHD. Now if the ADHD person was stimulated by cooking, that would be something different. For ADHD, if something is stimulating, it is strongly sought out. If it isn’t, it is strongly rejected.
It feels like there's a lot of undiagnosed people out there and it kind of makes me sad...
My brother was talking about this at a con last month. Was trying to figure out what he was talking about.
I've had tons of meals like and always internally referred to them as "I'm not very hungry but I want to eat before going to bed, so I'll just eat whatever" meals 😂
When girls do it, it's girl dinner. When guys do it, it's "the bare minimum".
That's not even bare minimum that's pure laziness. Bare minimum would be a tv dinner, frozen pizza, or grill a steak/chop/chicken breast & 5 min potato in microwave. All would be way more acceptable than this. This isn't being a functional adult.
@@bhart3321dude you’re an adult. you can have junk food for dinner once in a while, as a treat.
@@chelseawales1090i can’t hear tone over the internet but I think that’s exactly his point
But girls dinner is not the problem the problem is ppl judging guys, don't get nad at the video
@chelseawales1090 snack foods for dinner isnt a treat to most guys. Steak and lobster is a treat for dinner. Candy and snacks for dinner is honestly just disappointing.
I once made a grilled ham and cheese sandwich using slices of pound cake because I was out of bread. I can cook, I'm just broke and/or high sometimes.
I'm ngl I love a good melt. I love to get fancy with it sometimes. This just sounds like a waste of pound cake and it hurts me lol
@@celestrius9197 It was actually not bad. I've had butter toasted pound cake on it's own and it's the bomb.
Idk why this made me laugh so damn hard. Lol
Bro… Grilled Pound Cake??? That’s so random. I love it.
Nahh man, that's valid asf 👌
I can cook, I'm not broke, I don't smoke, but I would fucking demolish that, that sounds so good with a rich, mild cheese. You're a mad genius.
Sometimes all you got to do is to fill the hunger for the SNACKIES!
I call it a what my little daughter calls it. A daddy plate. Snacks that reflect the current mood. Spring Autumn Summer. It'll change. But you gotta feel the vibe. Best snacks come from the tum but it's the hum of the drum that makes daddy plates so special for me 😘
Wait, so "girl dinner" is acceptable and normal, and yet a picture of a guy actually cooking a basic meal draws a bunch of insults and face palms form those very women?
Ok, but the bachelors at least know how to do this without creating extra dirty dishes to wash.
cuz we eat directly from the fridge
@@2st486Or reuse dirty plates in the sink rationalizing "they're not THAT bad." Spoiler alert: yes, they are. It takes near zero effort to put one more dish in the washer to run. Use the dishes directly out of the washer if you gotta, but it's just better. Looking back on it, the bachelor life was unsanitary and lazy af. XD
@@connortobin3775 i dont have a dishwasher
@@2st486 then I highly suggest investing in some paper plates, a new apartment, or biting the bullet and buying a dishwasher because that's both unsanitary and a pretty massive time sink
@@connortobin3775 you can buy one? i thought the only way was to marry one.
"Any Female born after 1993, cook they cannot."
- Master Yoda
Whoever did that mac and cheese in the glass are never gonna see the pearly gates.
I once did mac and cheese in a coffee mug when I was in college because all two of my bowls were dirty and I think that was the lowest point in my life.
Girl dinner.....
You mean broke college male with no family support? 😂
Hell, even with family support
Agreed those PS5's and XBOXs won't buy themselves 👍😀
Naw, all the different snacks cost too much. Broke chow is peanut butter sandwiches. Two ingredients, both fairly cheap with decent shelf lives, and filling enough to last a while.
nah bro thats broad shit I can cook like a mf
That's just...depressing.
Yes, I don't think it was that long ago that these same women were judging guys for doing more or less the same thing.
100%.
Now most women who resort to “girl dinner” argue it’s because they are too burnt out from doing all the cooking.
So it sounds like it isn’t the NORM for modern women, just an occasional bout of exhaustion if they do it all the time.
I literally caught my wife's by teaching her how to cook - her feminist mother felt that her daughters shouldn't need that skill anymore.
So this girl was skinny and pale from bad diet, and I showed her how to fix it.
@@thedadvocate I'd have to teach my ol lady how to cook then because that's unacceptable. I'm a big boy and I work in a really physically demanding job so I need calories. If I lifted refrigerators, desks, chairs, sofas, entertainment centers all day and came home to that, we'd definitely be having a talk. We'd start simply at first. I'm not expecting a 6 course dinner, but hot dogs, mac and cheese and fries sounds awesome. Then when she's mastered the basics of things that boil in water or sit on a baking sheet, we'll move on to moderate techniques such as basic food prep; e.g. stews, lasagna, tacos. Things that aren't hardcore cooking, but are filling. I'd be happy with that, but if she wants advanced cooking lessons, then I can teach her how to bake cinnamon rolls and make chocolate or chicken fettuccini alfredo from scratch. P.S. Alfredo sauce is a pain in the A.S.S. to make from scratch
@@aaronburdon221dude, girl dinner is a thing for the girl usually. I go all out cooking for my bf, sometimes i cook something specifically for him since we have different habits and tastes. After spending 8+ hours working on code, doing minor chored and maybe going to the gym i usually have absolutely no desire to turn up the stove and cook.
So if im home alone for the evening than girl dinner it is, because there's nothing better than a glass of cold kefir and some rye bread when no one's judging
Also, you're not entitled to have a steaming hot meal all the time. If ya girl works too, its simply unfair.
Especially if you want shit like cinnamon rolls and whatnot. Those things take hours to make and you're basically stuck at home the whole time.
I wasn't planning on adding anything to my shopping list right now, but here we are.
I am a good home cook, and on ocassion I do a version of this with leftovers served on the cutting board, we call is "scavenging for dinner" I too am a racoon.
Since I was a kid, I was raised calling this "We're just gonna snack tonight."
Yep. Me too
I call it gourmet dinner tonight.
Too tire to cook. But since I just got home tired from work and gotta eat something so I don't wake up in the middle of the night starving, I'm having gourmet tonight.
😮
I couldn't drop my standards that low
There's a similar thing from where I'm from called a "taster plate" where you just put pickles and salami and cheese and crackers and whatnot on a plate then eat it
Meal prep like you're snuggling snacks into a movie theater XD
“People born after 1993 can’t cook” hit me like a train
I very much oppose this notion, because that is on the parents to teach the kids.
Or, if anyone teaches them later on, they will learn how to cook. There just needs to be someone to make the effort.
But what I have learned, in the older generation men did not know how to cook while in the younger generation men tend to take the initiative and learn to cook.
I've seen it too much. I was born in ' I'm very handing in a kitchen, mostly with batch cooking and baking. My brother, born '93, is absolutely hopeless even when people try to help.
@@gabrielbernard5440parents do but do u think kids care about that these days? Theyre confused about everything like theyee confused about their genders
@@gabrielbernard5440
My parents barely taught me anything beyond boiling pasta, cooking some ground beef, and pouring a jar of ragu over the abomination.
I had to teach myself how to smoke meat, bake cakes, caramelize sugars, deep fry, etc etc. You don't need parents to learn how to cook as it just takes time, experimentation, and drive.
as someone who enjoyed watching the cooking Channel, born 1994 it was harsh to hear lol but I have seen plenty of people unable to cook for themselves. I had a self interest in food, so enjoyed teaching myself and eating of course.
I have suffered from eating disorders and these girl dinners are what I had to do to start eating again. Little and often and foods I enjoyed.
Yeah same for me 😢
Im so glad that we have both recovered.❤
The reference to eat hot chip and lie was gold
I love that I am considered unable to cook after perfectly baking some cookies.
Same here, when people 20-40 years my senior can't even roast vegetables properly. And my cookies are heavenly too
This as a meal is an abomination and crime against humanity
AGREED!
🥱
....calm down
Never understood not learning to cook, even, or especially, for a man. I was born in the '60s and saw the men born in the '20s dependent upon their wives for their meals. Why? Why would you purposely make yourself dependent on others for a basic need.
As the pandemic showed, even others who will cook for you for money can sometimes "disappear".
Same - the best dating advice my mum ever gave was: "Any man can buy a woman dinner, very few can cook it for her." Knowing how to cook worked for me just fine.
I'm 52 next week and I have been doing this for years - it's called not having to cook for anyone but yourself and it's also called eating cereal for dinner.
My grandma used to make these and call them “variety plates”. Loved it as a kid
Ma’am, are you really about to put your kids Mac’n cheese in a wine glass and just call it “GiRl DiNnEr!”?
Yes 100% but instead of girl dinner, I’d call it “I’m hangry and need food now” dinner
Once a month, you bet your sweet ass I will 🤣 the kids wouldn’t get the wine class though. Paper plates, because you know by the time this is dinner everyone is too lazy to do dishes too
@@thedadvocateya know, that’s fair.
@@lisak604solid point 😋
@@thedadvocateGOD YEAH
You could remove raccoon and say the real secret to women is they are actually grown toddlers.
Was just explaining to my 43yo virgin friend that women are mentally 10 years old. Talk about social status, luxury items, or adventure.
That's what I thought she was going to say. And for the kind of women that she's talking about, that's probably not far off.
#truth
Or we just live in a capitalist hellscape that makes everyone too tired to take care of themselves.
*real secret to adults
FTFY
Yall who grew up with a single mum back me up here, but this was the best damn thing ever. Me and my brother would get so excited when she said we were having bit's and pieces tea. ants on a log was my favourite 😂😂
Hilarious and too true... ex-wife taught this by attitude & without explaining 😂😂😂
"the autism actually has very little to do with it, it's just that people born after 1993 can't cook"
My 1994 autistic ass feels extremely called out
Maybe in the city. But out in the country the 15yr old are smoking brisket.
At this point, I'm beginning to think we're all on the frigging spectrum.
Girl dinner is just what bachelors have always done.
Bachelors that cant cook
A protein shake isn’t dinner. 😁
@Baraccus28 I hit a low point once and for breakfast had grape juice cut with plum wine as the breakfast. I figured "well not enough to get me drunk, I already have the alcohol in hand and it is calories." Granted this wasn't because I was lazy this was because I didn't have any money
Yeah false. I have been the more active and better cook in every relationship I have ever been in.
I think like this post claims, post 1993…but what it doesn’t touch on is most men can and do cook especially for how often many of us are single while 80% of women chase swipes from the same five dudes. 🤣
I’m still waiting for Futurama Batchelor Chow.
I just call this work snacks LOL. Basically for me this is just swinging by the convenience store and grabbing a couple items that will keep me going through a shift
The ironically funny part of this is how spot on it is! Lmfao! I have 2 younger brothers, born in 93 and 94. The brother born in 93 can cook, the one in 94 can't! Lmfao!!!
The "girl dinner" I make is fresh baked bread cold cuts and cheese off the block. Red wine on the side. Carrots and apples occasionally on the side.
Shit that actually sounds delicious
You mean an actual charcuterie board. Not a knock off pizza roll garbage.
Reading this almost made me ask you out, I was getting rizzed for a second there
Right. Or a quick meal in front of the tv/computer. A quick deli sandwich (or tuna sandwich) with potato chips. Some alcoholic beverage to drink. This is something you eat by yourself at home or with your already live-in fiance or husband...not on a date. I could have done that anytime...I wanted to go OUT somewhere when I was dating...didn't have to be expensive.
My roommate does this, but he just calls it a snack plate
That's more accurate than 'Girl Dinner'.
Guy born in 95 here and I absolutely love cooking and especially baking.
Not just women, but I as well want this as my dinner too.
At least once a week my fiancée wants this. I don't care because I like fruit, and eating meat and cheese off a plate is just a sandwich with no bread.
“People born after 1993 can’t cook”. Ngl, I felt that in my soul. 93 baby here
93 baby myself. All we know how to do is twerk, charge our phones, eat hot chip, and lie.
@@Time2Heal369 Good sir, with all due respect, it was a joke. Not that deep. Don't want to start an argument, but you gave advice I did not ask for. Have a great Labor Day Weekend.
Y'all should seriously try Hello Fresh. It can b a bit complicated depending on the meal. But it's the best food I've ever made at home. & idr the last time I went out to eat & it was anywhere near as good
Key word is AFTER 93, if your a 93 baby there where is your cooking skills at?!?
"Who needs to cook when you just can grab snacks"
Well I dont know, a healthy stoamach?
Dino nuggets just hit different lol
Whew. Barely missed the cooking skill cutoff being born in 1992 😂
Ah, takes my old ass back to when reddit got super fixated on "single man meals" as a display of the weaponized incompetence that all men are unconsciously trained in.
As a man, im staring directly at that mac'n'cheese glass like grab a glass of mac, and a dollop of yogurt with fruit in a mini bowl all while saving room for the 1 or 2 bags of popcorn with random flavorings for the snuggle time on the couch while watching a movie/tv show
Well Hell!! I never knew my problem was having been born in '92. I love to cook but my wife lives on Girl Dinner and I just never, properly, understood. Thanks!!
As an autistic person born after 1993 who CAN INDEED COOK, I can confirm that I do not exist
Wait, what?
I think, therefore I am.
However, sometimes I do not think.
This entire thread from moment one is entirely too relatable.
My fiance has had "girl dinner" stuck in her head all week but didn't really understand what it meant. But yeah this is exactly her jam.
Dang I never thought being compared to a raccoon could be so accurate for me
For some reason this is straight facts, all my friends who I grew up with and am still friends with to this day that are my age(born in 93) can cook like a professional chef, a couple of them are professional chefs now, but my friends I have that were literally a year younger or born from 94-97, can’t cook to save their lives.
Girl dinner is just how i make dinner for myself when my partner and the kids are gone and i don't have anyone to cook for.
I know. People in the comments are acting like this is what women are having all the time for every darn occasion. Not the case.
@@josephinenelan4204 my point is that guys do this too. I cook every meal in my house. Am i really going to mess with ingredients when I'm home alone beyond roasting a couple of veggies? Hell no.
Exactly!
Same. I’ll eat a can of kidney beans out the pantry even 😂
@@-KMA- I've done the whole, can of pinto beans drained, with cheese, in the microwave, more times than I care to admit. Never done just a can of beans. No judgement here tho.
Don’t let your girl dinner be just an entire bag of cherries, you WILL have a Bad Time
1/3 to 1/2 a bag works for me. 'specially since they're $9000/ lb. . 🍒🍒🍒
Man they were good in Ontario this season. .🇨🇦
@@robsawatzky45plant a tree or two
@@priestesslucy3299do you know how much effort goes into prepping cherry pits? You gotta clean em, freeze em, and crack em open carefully before planting the next Spring.
so this is something that my dad and I did when I was growing up, especially during our busy season (we are farmers) and it was usually salami with some sauce (usually horseradish weird but amazing), cheese (mainly of the string variety) chips and cheese dip (queso for all the non-Arkansans) and we called this snacky supper or adult Lunchables, it was easy to do when we were in a hurry and it was easy to eat riding in a tractor cab (it also kept me from realizing we were broke as a joke back then barely making it to harvest) I miss those days of riding in a jump seat of a tractor eating string cheese and laughing with my dad.
Girl dinner is how I’m prepping the freezer for Xmas
I, as a chubby male who has always been the equivalent of a human garbage disposal, see this as an absolute win
Same
Yes
Have some pride in yourself.
@@arobidy Also Yes
As a man who was born in 1999 I resent the statement about people not being able to cook after 1993. I can cook but I don't like to
As a girl also born in 1999, I can also cook but don’t like to, which is why I have girl dinner for such lazy occasions
@@JuliaMarieH only time I really cook is the weekends because that's when I have the energy to do so. I usually make something like Spaghetti or Alfredo, chicken and rice, etc that I can then just eat for the next week
It's not necessarily that. Often it's about not liking cooking of others more. It's easier to cook, than suffer trough cooking of others.
I shouldn't have to pay that much for a movie ticket just to experience gathering a large amount of snack foods and hiding them. Good god my "mammal getting ready for the winter brain" almost kicked in 😅
Omg you just described my daughter!! Shes 23 lives at home still but with her less fussy half bf 😂 if im cooking she will eat anything like a starved shark but if our scheduals diverge and she needs to fend for herself its always a bag of snacks!!
Girl dinner is like we got invited to Charlie brown’s thanksgiving. 😂
That's pretty funny...and true!
SHE HAS THE GAVEL. THE DADVOCATE HAS SPOKEN!
It started earlier, then 93. I have never dated a woman who was childless and could cook. I'm 41. Bonus points for learning after pushing out clones!
Gorl Dinner just seems like Game Night Dinner
Just no. I will cook you a real meal.
This is also a formidable answer. From my studies of my species, it seems most women resort to girl dinner due to cooking fatigue or burnout. So if you offer to cook that night instead she will likely let you!
As kids, pre-microwave, we used to call this “scratch tea” it basically meant get your own dinner because Mum couldn’t be bothered to cook. We lived in a small town, so there were no burger or pizza joints and no home delivery either and we didn’t get all the fancy pre-made meals or processed snacks in the supermarket either.
Facts, ive been known to order an appetizer platter as a meal
I have seen that exact same combination of foods on my girl's dinner plate before. That was... uncanny. I mean even including the pickles/gummy worm combo...
Damn, TIL!!!
Yet another reason to stay single, I like nutrition in my diet 😂
Same here!
I mean you can be the main person cooking in your relationship. Why would that be a problem?
You’d be mind blown to find out many women cook for family, but sometimes when the man is out (late, away, or with friends) they eat like this when they’re alone at home. Just because someone is lazy by themself doesn’t mean they can’t cook.
Who said you had to eat this too, though? LOL And good on you for staying single!!
This is like what I eat after I come home from the grocery store.
"We're like raccoons"
"Gi-give..... Trash..... Good?"
I’ve always called it a snacky platter. Olives, halloumi, Turkish bread toasted with garlic butter. Soft cheeses and cold meats and dips. A glass of cheeky red and you can’t go wrong.
I can definitely cook 😂😂 had to learn at an early age because I didn't like my mamas cooking lmaooo
I cooked for 3 siblings, Hell naah for a date i will preep then cook, if we date then we go to Casual snack dinners when we want
@@oscargordon3 Bruh same on feeding the siblings. Once I got good my mom just let me do it. Lmao. It helped a lot since she was a single mom with us three. But yeah I don't want to come over for a date and be given fruit snacks. I need hot food. Mac and cheese is good. Lol.
*starts taking notes* ✍️ Cook badly ✍️ so my kids learn to cook well ✍️
@@thedadvocate This comment made my morning 😂😂
Saaaame. My mom's shit should've been on fear factor. Many a time I just went to bed hungry rather than eat her food.
*DISCLAIMER* : Desiring stated items for Dinner is also a symptom of Pregnancy. Consult your Physician/OB/Gyn if this desire occurs more than once a week
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Once I toasted three pieces of bread, cut them up and put them on a plate with slices of deli cheese, and I swear she was so happy
Girl dinner LMAO! I feel so trolled 😂