Why Do Men Scarf Down Their Food?
By Aaron Traister, REDBOOK
DEAR WHYS GUY:
"Why do men eat so freakin' fast? I can be just as hungry-even hungrier than my guy, and still it seems like he's shoveled down two heaping helpings before I've even finished half of my first plate. Are we secretly adversaries in an ongoing eating competition that I don't know about?"
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DEAR REDBOOK READER:
Yes, you are food adversaries. I grew up in a house where I was in constant competition for the food on the table. My sister, my father, and I are like starving animals and I grew up eating my food quickly in effort to get first crack at the last meatball, or the last helping of pasta. It was a endless battle, and it's just a part of my persona now to fight for every last morsel on the table. The amount of food that a person with Traister DNA can put away freaks my wife out; once when I was having one of my food berzerker episodes at a restaurant she had to stop me from reaching over to a plate on another table and stabbing a piece of uneaten fish with my fork. It's okay though because I'm always the big winner, the big meatball winner.
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