We’ve all heard the stereotype that women don’t eat on dates. They order a few crackers and a celery stick and can’t finish them or worse an entire entrée but just pick at it and move it around their plate.

I wondered just how true this could be.

So I asked some of my single friends if they eat on dates and most of them either eat lightly or pick. The reasons they gave are “I’m too nervous” or “I’m too self conscious about how I look eating in front of someone new”. After a few of my own dates had commented on how refreshing it was to see a woman actually eat on a date (I eat) I realized this is in fact a huge phenomenon.  

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