Hey you skinny vegetarian, step aside, I am a "real" women. I eat meat and I'm not afraid to show it.

SAF loves to eat, be outdoors and read. I am looking for someone to run with in CP, watch The Office, visit the AMNH, and to share the cote de beouf for two at Balthazar with a bottle of red (or martini!) or a Shack burger with a peanut butter concrete.

That's what my dating ad would look like and this article in NYT gave me high hopes that if I were single, I might be able to find someone who would apprecicate my love of beef (and food in general). Personal highlights in the article were the following tidbits-

In an earlier era, conventional dating wisdom for women was to eat something at home alone before a date, and then in company order a light dinner to portray oneself as dainty and ladylike. For some women, that is still the practice.

“Being a vegetarian puts you at a disadvantage,” Ms. Crosley said. “You’re in the most basic category of finicky. Even women who order chicken, it isn’t enough.” She said she has thought of ordering shots of Jägermeister, famous for its frat boy associations, to prove that she is “a guy’s girl.”

“When a guy sits down and eats something fatty and big, you wonder if they eat like that all the time,” said Brice Gaillard, a freelance design writer. “It crosses my mind they’ll probably die early.”

The first bit I find hysterical. That's the kind of thing that my mom suggests I do because she finds my appetite and love for food is a bit embarrassing- so much that she accuses me of eating more than my share of food therefore contributing to Mike's thinness. The second bit I find true from a personal perspective. I remember distinctly thinking that Mike's chicke-tarian business was a bit of a problem if we ever dated (and therefore I thought we would never date) because meat (let's face it-that means pork and beef) is a big part of my family and of Korean food. He didn't even do Jager shots to make up for it! The last bit is the best because it really shows the double standard to all of this.

Nonetheless, this article brought a little bit of warmth to my heart and made me really like that couple because anyone who knows the importance of Corner Bistro and Keens can only be good (both places are excellent!). Also I like the idea that...

"Red meat sent a message that she was “unpretentious and down to earth and unneurotic,” she said, “that I’m not obsessed with my weight even though I’m thin, and I don’t have any food issues.”

Because I'm definitely not neurotic. Definitely.