AIBU to find this an odd thing to state on a menu?

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I went to restaurant with a friend the other day. We were looking at the menu and two of the pasta dishes had the subheading 'The Ladies' choice(Creamy chicken and mushroom pasta) and The Gentleman's choice(Pasta in spicy tomato sauce with strips of steak and sliced chillis)

I found this so incredibly weird and also rather offensive. I was tempted to order the gent's pasta just to see if the staff would keel over in horror(I know that they didn't write the menu.)

The only other time I've encountered in person the whole concept of food intended for women and for men was at a wedding when one guest decided that the man next to her was being emasculated because he ordered the lemon cheesecake and not the chocolate fudge cake(which his wife ordered) and tried to convince them to swap as she was sure that being a man he really wanted chocolate cake and was being deprived. It was bizarre.

Has anyone else encountered this?

It's so weird we're meant to be about individual choice so much in this country and then you get this crap.

RuthiePe my MIL does this every time we eat there. DH usually looks st my face and swaps plates

I blame Yorkies, that's man's chocolate. Scoffed a lot of them in protest!

I always get DH's chicken Caesar salad with creamy sauce and he gets my lamb shank in red wine gravy. He likes lemon pavlova and i like chocolate cake.

At MIL's house all the men get the chicken legs and women the chicken breast, because that's how it's always been and her Mum did that. Me and DH would like a bit of leg and breast each.

I would have assumed they were being ironic in some way and wouldn't have ordered either of the dishes ( because I'm a veggie)

Those who swap plates at relatives, how do they react?

Pint for me Coke for DH. Guess which one I get!
He also gets more wine than me when the waiter pours...

Oh for gods sake, if that’s all it takes to upset you, it’s snowflake liberal lefties like you that give woman a bad name. I would have read it, found it amusing and ordered what ever took my fancy. We are so politically correct nowadays.

I'm eating low calorie popcorn at the mo. I guess it's aimed at me because it's in pink packaging. Men diet too, so why is it seen as a female thing to do? There are no men in my pilates class. My FIL would really benefit from pilates but he won't go as it's not a thing men do. Men do rugby.

That's a real throw back to the 1980s when only feminists drank pints of beer and Yorkies were for men.

Stayed at a B&B last year where the owner told us that "Gentlemen are offered not one but two eggs at breakfast"
I thought that was ridiculously sexist but DH loved the concept! 😡

Notice this so much at weddings! Prosecco for woman,beer for men on arrival. The “extra” potatoes,gravy etc always for “the men”. Once I was at a wedding and all the men got small bottles of drink ( like the ones on airplanes) while the girls got hand cream for the favours - the amount of female who took their other half’s 😂

Or I can think of so many examples of women's v men's food. If DH orders a salad and me a pie or some other masculine dishes the waiter always said them. Never seen written on the menu though. Also in adverts. Snickers, which I love, was advertised as for the chocolate bar for men. Felt a bit weird buying it

Meh, I can't get worked up about it. Might muster up an eyeroll at best then order the gentlemen's dinner just to be a rebel and see if the world implodes

My DH went on a work do recently and refused to believe that the men really wanted pints of lager at the cocktail bar they ended up in
I think the younger generation are more happy to orfer what the heck they feel like. DS and his mates are quite happy to order a pink gin and Fever tree in a cocktail bar!

BlackAmericano Are you Donald Trump?

I would not be offended but then I’m not someone that is very often. Maybe those 2 dishes had been popular with men and women and that is why they did it.

Dammit Jesus I'll need to name change again now that you've outed me.

I have never come across anything like that, unless it is at the more fancy restaurants. If it is, I will be ordering a manly steak, no small portions here thanks.

Sorry

Went to an otherwise very lovely wedding and party favours were mini bottle of homemade booze 'for the boys' and a cookie cutter for 'the girls'.

When Yorkie bars did their "Not for girls" campaign, I rebelled and bought some. I wonder now if it was a marketing ploy to sell more to women.
I also eat McCoys crisps

as long as they aren't giving you different sizes if a woman or man picked each dish I don't see the problem.probably an eye roll and "really?" but then move on.
because I think I could still name more men who would have stake over woman.and I think if you looked back far enough to caveman times there will be something to do with "Men get meat"and hunting so needed more or had more of these nice cuts of meat.or something to do with "kings" eating the meats.oh I don't know.im trying to think not everyone is trying to be offensive. because I think we are quickly beomcing in danger of swapping to instead of being conditioned to accept these sexist views as people ay we have for so long and are now being conditioned and told to take bloody offense at everything that might split our gender.let them have their steak and their colour blue.as long as I can have some too when I want its not that big a thing to be associated with the sexes.

DH always makes a point of handing me the wine list and having me taste the wine (the actual choice of wine is always joint).

He’d always go for lemon tart and he likes salad and fish... so far his penis hasn’t fallen off!

I also remember when DF used to travel to South Africa, he would joke about how he always ordered a ladies portion.

I’m an old bat but I am amazed that this nonsense still persists.

What the actual fuck?

One. I don’t eat meat so fuck right off with your creamy cruel chicken. Two. My absolute favourite pasta dish of all time is spaghetti arrabbiata.

I would HAVE to say something to the menu arranger at this restaurant.

Might as well list it as Pink and Blue Pasta.

Fuck that shit.