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[–] 90 points 1 year ago (8 children)

There was a heartwarming essay in the NYT awhile back called "Why Dads Take Their Gay Sons to Hooters" by Peter Rothpletz.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That was brilliant. I thoroughly enjoyed that.

    It reminded me I f my own faithful trip to hooters with a friend and his father.

    I don't think I know what was going on there, but I did feel like it was super awkward because they were talking about the waitress like she wasn't there.

    I mostly remember the wings we had were not very good.

    Wings should not be battered with cornmeal. Though I don't eat that much meat anymore.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Cornmeal is for seafood and okra. I am fully willing and committed to dying on this hill.

    I never had the hooters experience, I had more of a "self-imposed secret conversation therapy" and being bi certainly helped to pass.

    Lifelong identity issues and anxiety are worth it to avoid the travesty of cornmeal on chicken imo.

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