Men eat 93% more pizza when they want to impress their date

If you get taken on a date to an all you can eat restaurant and your male date is really stuffing himself: no worries. He is toooootally into you. Especially if the date is at a pizzeria. Just a quick question: why is an all you can eat restaurant often a sushi restaurant? I actually think all you can eat pizzerias should be a thing. How ideal? And then also per slice or per half pizza or something. Delicious. A piece of quattro formaggi, a piece of diavola, a piece of pepperoni… Okay, I'm daydreaming a bit. Maybe I am quite masculine after all.

Here's the thing: men eat an average of 93 percent more pizza when they want to impress their date. And yes, that's really a bizarre amount. And yes again, this is based on research that was actually conducted. By Cornell University, so not just any random one.

How did they investigate this? By observing 133 adults for two weeks in an Italian all you can eat restaurant. And it quickly became clear that men ate an average of 1.44 slices more when they were in female company (93 percent), but also that they scooped 85 percent more salad. They wanted to show a bit of their healthy side too.

This conclusion, that men engage in overeating to impress their date, was further supported by watching all you can eat competitions. Because there was also a clear difference depending on whether the audience consisted mainly of men or more women. Hilarious, right?

According to psychologists, this is because men want to come across as having special skills. They can do something better than others and are therefore superior and thus the suitable man for their date. Yes, even if that superpower is eating a huge amount.

There is also a paradox in this, because overeating obviously ultimately leads to overweight, so the idea that being able to eat a lot shows that you are biologically strong is not foolproof, although that is the reasoning behind it, according to psychologists.

Even though it is a bit of self-sabotage (because you eat way too much), men still see it as a good trait and feel cooler when they do this.

And what about women? They eat exactly the same when they are on a date, there was no difference. However, women did indicate that despite eating the same, they felt like they were eating more when they were on a date. Additionally, they felt more rushed, even though the meals lasted the same amount of time.

The ultimate lesson we can learn from this, according to the researchers? As Taylor Swift already sang: you need to calm down.

Source: LATimes