I was talking with new beloved about diet and he said that he was willing to
give up wheat to fall in line with me (I'm a coeliac) but under no
circumstances would he give up ice cream or chocolate.
I did ask him again just how much he was in touch with his feminine side as
apart from my gay friend, I'd not known a guy who thought more about chocolate
than I did.
I'm not sure that the chocolate craving is sex-related... As I said before, I was never all that much interested in it (and I may have been confused as a child/teen, but not *that* confused <g>). DH, OTOH, couldn't live without his little jar of chocolate chips (the cheapest way of hgetting a "fix") -- they've always been part of his daily diet, and he didn't give them up even when he gave up almost everything else (red meat, fat, etc).
Of his 4 children (3 from the first wife), the oldest (son) and the the youngest of the first 3 (daughter) will pack sweets with a shovel given half a chance, with chocolate being the preference, but the middle one (son) is like myself -- as soon have a pickle. Their mother (from all I've heard) also had little interest in sweets (chocolatey or not). The child we produced together (son) is worse than I am -- I don't think he likes *any* sweets except gingerbread cookies (and he spices those to the point where my eyes stream in tears <g>). He'll eat *some* of my cakes (no chocolate) and preserves, but I've long ago adjusted the recipes so that most have about half the sugar called for...
Once a year (for Christmas) I make the Viennese cheeseckae -- all sugar and eggs and butter on top of home-made, full-fat, pot cheese -- he and I will each have a slice and enjoy it, but leave the rest to everyone else; too much of it, and we barf -- it's too rich.
My stepdaughter's two (boy and girl) are also not "sex-placed" when it comes to sweets/chocolate; the girl will eat chocolate, in moderation, but mostly because it's "forbidden fruit". The boy will scarf as much as he's offered :) My middle stepson (he who doesn't care for sweets) has 3 girls; only one of them (the oldest) is a true chocolate afficionado; the middle one will eat it, but only so as not to be left out of a "treat" accorded to the oldest. The youngest (allergic to almost everything) hasn't yet made her mind at almost-7, but, in general, doesn't seem to care either way...
I'm begninig to think that food favourites are dictated by genes, not by sex; the same foods I digest easily, make my DH spend hours in the toilet, getting rid of them. And vice versa... Neither one of us is likely to crave the stuff that disagrees with us :) Of course, on the "chocolate front", one has to consider that I smoke and I drink *gallons* of tea daily -- they're *my* "fix" of (there seems to be no translation for the word "uzywka" -- something one "uses" -- it can vary from food to chemically produced drugs). Chocolate is in the same category as tea, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, and plain sugar -- a mild "drug", which changes the body chemistry and produces a response which makes one "feel good"...
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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