Gay Food.

April 4, 2002 11:43 AM

Gay Food. Hot Dogs: No; Pigs-In-A-Blanket: Yes. (From Slate.com)
posted by adrober (25 comments total)

Certain Twinkie-like junk foods are queer by proxy
Maybe not so much by proxy as by name: Ding Dongs, Sno-Balls.
Mmmm Sno-balls.

Anyway, I don't know if I agree food can be classified as gay, but there are certain drinks that are definitely pretty gay. I mean, c'mon cocktails.
posted by FreezBoy at 11:52 AM on April 4, 2002

Careful, FreezBoy, don't let Miguel hear you say that!
posted by nprigoda at 12:14 PM on April 4, 2002

*chokes on big gay ham, brie, and mesclun on baguette with honey mustard spread*
posted by RJ Reynolds at 12:19 PM on April 4, 2002

Funny.
If this were a test, I'd score a near perfect score. Confirming not that I'm a gay male, but a hetero woman with a penchant for dated desserts.
Just curious, but what do lesbians eat?
posted by G_Ask at 12:49 PM on April 4, 2002

um, other lesbians?
posted by yesster at 12:52 PM on April 4, 2002

but what do lesbians eat?

um, other lesbians?

hehe

(sorry, that was rather immature of me...but still)
posted by BlueTrain at 1:13 PM on April 4, 2002

back in the high school cafeteria lunch table days, one of my friends was eating pink-strawberry-sprinkled ice cream, only to be called gay by several of the table's residents. he responded with, "If being gay tastes this good, then count me in!"
posted by lotsofno at 1:26 PM on April 4, 2002

We read Joy of Cooking, for example, as a camp classic.
Gee, I still use the old Joy. I'm either camp or gay. Or both.
posted by phartizan at 1:28 PM on April 4, 2002

Why FreezBoy, what's wrong with cocktails? Bear me out, dear evanizer: is there anything gay about cocktails? Was Cole Porter gay? Was Noel Coward? No, of course not.

Hey, in Manchester, UK, where I studied for eight years, I had traditional British fare every week. Delicious faggots and mash and spotted dick. Even toad-in-the-hole. Nothing gay about that! :)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 1:31 PM on April 4, 2002

I warned you, FreezBoy...
posted by nprigoda at 1:47 PM on April 4, 2002

Huh. I guess this proves that real men don't eat quiche after all!



Shaddup. I'm allowed to say that. Homosexuality really is the last refuge for insensitivity, you know. I'm not gay because I was born that way ... it's just really the only way to be a successful stand-up comic anymore.
posted by WolfDaddy at 2:26 PM on April 4, 2002

it's just really the only way to be a successful stand-up comic anymore.

I disagree. Eddie Izzard isn't gay, and he's fucking brilliant.

('course, he's a transvestite. But an executive transvestite. An action transvestite, too.)
posted by Danelope at 2:34 PM on April 4, 2002

I think he has queer food confused with 1960's-suburban-wasp-housewife food. Baked Alaska? Pigs in a blanket? Get real. There may be some gay foods, but his examples are pretty far off the mark. Most of my friends wouldn't be caught dead serving that stuff.
posted by anapestic at 2:39 PM on April 4, 2002

Miguel, if you weren't in that far-off Euro-dump of a country, I'd throw a Mai Tai right in your face! And I wouldn't even take the fruit out first!

Heh. Just kidding.

I hate 'gay' essentialism. Camp is dead, my friends. I eat a lot more steaks and bacon than I do baked Alaskas.
posted by evanizer at 2:49 PM on April 4, 2002

*tosses evanizer a defibrillator paddle*

For my dollar, there's nothing gayer in the food chain than Peeps. The name is gay. The colors are gay.
The sugar rush made me french kiss a fireman.
posted by dong_resin at 3:06 PM on April 4, 2002

Methinks Mr. Mehnert is a bit of a fruitcake for believing that food has a sexual preference. I have yet to see a couple of crossdressed Ho-Ho's lounging around on the street corner, whistling at the twinkies driving by.
posted by jaden at 3:20 PM on April 4, 2002

anapestic, you should end that comment with a *snap* ;)

but, yes, i agree
posted by rhyax at 3:25 PM on April 4, 2002

but what do lesbians eat?

There was a joke around for awhile about being able to spot a lesbian in a resturant because she was eating hummus. . .I never understood the joke.
posted by Danf at 3:55 PM on April 4, 2002

You know what?

I guarantee you that everything you eat at this restaurant will be gay.

God, I love the 'net. More specifically, Google. No, I'm not going to tell you what I searched for to come up with this little gem ;-)
posted by WolfDaddy at 4:04 PM on April 4, 2002

Miguel - Following my original statement, like Sno-Balls, Cocktail is "gay" in name only, containing 2 things every gay guy like myself is looking for.

Let the collective groaning start now.
posted by FreezBoy at 4:20 PM on April 4, 2002

the Glutton Bowl was the gayest thing ive ever seen on tv. not, not when they ate the cow balls, or two-fisted the giant burrito-shaped sushi roll, but that guy inhaling those dripping wet hot dogs one after another... very gay.

(not that theres anything wrong with that.)
posted by tsarfan at 4:27 PM on April 4, 2002

I have yet to see a couple of crossdressed Ho-Ho's lounging around on the street corner, whistling at the twinkies driving by.

You just don't cruise the right parts of town
posted by Mick at 6:00 PM on April 4, 2002

DIDN'T WE JUST HAVE THIS THREAD?? SOMETHING MIGUEL POSTED??

posted by Settle at 7:38 PM on April 4, 2002

Settle down.
posted by euphorb at 7:45 PM on April 4, 2002

Settle, down.
posted by rodii at 9:18 PM on April 4, 2002