SkaBoneBenny
Well-Known Member
My girlfriend, my best friend, and I have become involved in a debate of sorts. A few nights ago at The Cambridge Commons (an awesome restaurant between Harvard square and Porter square in Cambridge, MA), I ordered the Cambridge Tall Tale Pale Ale and the GF ordered a Watermelon-tini. We both sipped each other's drink. She liked the Pale Ale and I enjoyd her drink. It tasted like candy in drink form.
While my GF and many mnay many other women I know enjoy beer, I find there are far more women who say they hate the taste of beer thatn men. At the same time, there are few men who regularly consume "girly drinks" or cocktails. I enjoy a couple sips of a cocktail now and then, but the thought of drinking a whole or drink or more than one is a bit too much for me.
Why do men and women consume different food and drink? Do biological or social factors best explain this phenomenon? Pressure is put on men not to drink "girly drinks". I've also read that post-pubescent women are more sensitive to sweetness than men. Could testostrone levels play a factor? Or is it all social construction. Thoughts?
-Ben
While my GF and many mnay many other women I know enjoy beer, I find there are far more women who say they hate the taste of beer thatn men. At the same time, there are few men who regularly consume "girly drinks" or cocktails. I enjoy a couple sips of a cocktail now and then, but the thought of drinking a whole or drink or more than one is a bit too much for me.
Why do men and women consume different food and drink? Do biological or social factors best explain this phenomenon? Pressure is put on men not to drink "girly drinks". I've also read that post-pubescent women are more sensitive to sweetness than men. Could testostrone levels play a factor? Or is it all social construction. Thoughts?
-Ben