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WHAT’S SO GAY ABOUT SALAD?
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The qutn is why ’s also seen as a food for gay men—a perceptn that some of them, like the Salad Toss-Off nttants, have embraced. Slate lumnist Simon Doonan has argued, wh his imable polil rrectns, that foods are herently eher gay or straight. In Gay Men Don’t Get Fat, Doonan wr, “Gay foods are nice to look at, but may nta ltle or no prote.
This quote, om the eternally svelte fashn edor, hts at one reason for salad’s image as a gay food. Among a certa image-nsc subset of gay men, excs body fat is anathema.