The Perils of Dinner Dates

Now I'm not completely sure on what made me randomly think of this topic, but I did, so now my solid 2 followers of my blog get the pleasure of reading about my thought. We are all familiar with the famous, "Dinner Dates" and to be perfectly honest, I am not a huge fan of said dates. While don't get me wrong, I love going on dates, going to dinner just isn't my favorite and I will share my reasoning behind my decision. Number one, I have heard so many people talk to others about their date and the number one question asked is "did you actually eat something or did you just have a salad"? This question always struck me as odd because what is so wrong about eating a salad on your date? What if I genuinely wanted a salad for dinner? Would the remainder of my date proceed in a poor direction because of my salad choice? Would my date suddenly not like me anymore because I didn't "eat"? Would my date really like me more if I would have chosen a bigger meal? Then I start to wonder, what if I decided to do what everyone says and eat a ton? Wouldn't that turn him off more than just choosing what I would normally want? And forgive me if I am trying to impress this date and I choose a sensible meal that I will look at least somewhat attractive while eating. A meal that won't spill all over me and or give me bad breath in case the date went in a good direction. I basically feel like with a dinner date there is no winning. I can either choose a meal that would make me seem like I don't eat anything ever, even though I still don't see what is so wrong with choosing a salad to eat, or that I eat too much and that's just a turn off. I just want to know, when did did the questions go from, "how was the date?" "did you two get along well?", blah blah blah, to "oh did you actually eat something"? I really just don't see how that should be the deciding factor on wether there should be a second date or not. And are these questions only asked towards the girls, or do guys get asked the same thing? If the case is that only girls get asked this then I don't see how that is fair. If we have to worry about our food choice then so should the guy. Or better yet, who friggin cares about what I decide to eat that night? I basically will have two moods before eating dinner, one will be, wow I haven't eaten in a long time so I am really hungry, in which case I will order something that will sustain me. On the other hand I could come in thinking, I just ate not too long ago so I'm not that hungry, so I will choose something smaller but still satisfying. Also, I will most likely be a tad bit nervous on this date because I want it to go smoothly, so I probably won't have much of an appetite to begin with. Well any who I have ranted enough about dinner dates, but if you only get one thing out of this entire blog, know that I am not against dinner dates, but I still think they are awkward and weird. Staring at someone you barely know while eating just strikes me as a weird thing to do, unless you already know that person and have a lot to talk about, then it's not so awkward. But just so everyone out there knows, in my opinion, the forbidden salad is a perfectly fine choice for a dinner date. Just some food for thought (: