Skinny Girls, Big Sandwiches

New Favorite Blog: Skinny Girls, Big Sandwiches

Posted by: Ami Angelowicz Filed in: news
9:00AM, Wednesday August 5th 2009

In our weight-and-beauty-obsessed culture, there’s something almost fetishized and taboo about an image of a skinny girl eating a big, honking burger. That’s why I’m oddly obsessed with a new site aptly titled, Skinny Girls, Big Sandwiches. It’s a blog “dedicated to skinny girls chowing down and stuffing their gullets full of sandwiches ... or tacos, wraps, burritos, hoagies, subs, hamburgers, sloppy joes, paninis, tortas ... or just about any combination of meat and bread products.” After the jump, some of my favorite featured photographs.

I Love You Sandwich ... You Don’t Judge Me. Ahhh ... comfort eating. This pic shows a woman looking like she’s about to make love to her burger. Who hasn’t picked up a sandwich or a large vat of Ben & Jerry’s after a crappy day and gone to town?

That Skinny Bitch Behind Me Better Stop Staring at My Sandwich. A great play on female paranoia. But wait—is she nervous that the girl behind her is going to steal her sandwich or her spotlight?

Two Girls, One Hot Dog. One girl feeds another a hot dog. I won’t remind you all what this is a reference to. Question: When can we get over this whole woman eating a hot dog thing? Once and for all: HOT DOGS ARE NOT SEXY!

Now I’m hungry.

comments

bogart4017
wrote on August 5 2009 @ 09:53 am: [report]

I love watching women enjoy food. As long as they arent eating like truckdrivers theres something kinda sexy about it.

dirtyboots
wrote on August 5 2009 @ 11:07 am: [report]

I think our culture tends to applaud skinny girls when they eat “like a man”. It’s cute and it’s a way of them being “just one of the guys”, or being more down-to-earth. Why isn’t there a blog of fat girls eating phat sandwiches? I doubt there would be much applause for that. I don’t think there is anything wrong with this blog itself, but it does highlight yet another double standard in our culture.

toyen
wrote on August 5 2009 @ 02:20 pm: [report]

Someone needs to start “Chubby Girls, Small Salads.”
Oh, not the same appeal, huh?

BlueVibe
wrote on August 6 2009 @ 08:36 am: [report]

Oh, hooray—more total-unreality when it comes to body type! Not only am I supposed to be rail-thin, I’m supposed to be able to eat like a football team and *still* be rail-thin!

strangeasangels
wrote on August 6 2009 @ 11:34 am: [report]

I don’t know why I ever read the comments here. Everyone just gets angry about the silliest thing. And that’s exactly what this is - silly. Calm down, guys.