The ‘girl dinner’ TikTok trend has blown up on social media, with women sharing their artfully arranged snacks they enjoy eating as a meal when their boyfriends aren’t around.
The trend, which thousands of women across the world have participated in, shows off the quirky assortment of snacks put together in mere minutes to create a meze-like girl dinner.
Women have posted their plates of cold-cut meats, cheese, pickles, olives, nuts and other small snacking bites to create one coherent meal for dinner during the warm summer months.
Users say that it’s their idea of a perfect meal when their boyfriends aren’t around, or if they’re short on time to cook a proper meal.
Critics have said that what the women are heralding as their revolutionary ‘girl dinners’, are simply just elevated tapas or charcuterie boards served for one, but that’s not stopped the lighthearted trend booming on social media.
Los Angeles-based Olivia Maher, who coined the term, posted a video on TikTok talking about how her ‘girl dinner’ was inspired by a modest assortment of snacks that a medieval peasant may have consumed.
The 28-year-old told the New York Times that she thought the idea of girl dinner came to her while she was on a hot girl walk with another female friend.
She said that they love eating that way and that it felt so much like a girl’s dinner because they do it when their boyfriends aren’t around and they don’t have to have what’s a typical dinner, essential, with a protein and a veggie and a starch.
A hot girl walk, another Gen Z term that’s caught on, is just a walk where someone concentrates on their health and surroundings to become the best, most elevated version of themselves.
The ‘girl dinner’ trend blew up online after Maher posted a 15-second clip revealing her collection of snacks, including salami, cheese and bread, with the words ‘I call this girl dinner’.
Videos under the hashtag girl dinner have been viewed a staggering 66.9 million times.
Girl dinner plates include items such as crackers, grapes, popcorn, tomatoes, and tinned fish. Some are assembled together on a dish, while other people opt to just chaotically have all the items open on a counter.
Other people have jumped on the trend and taken on their own alternative spin, showing shots of alcohol and colourful vape pens, and calling it their ‘girl dinner’, and the lads have also got involved, demonstrating they’re equal.
A lot of single ladies seldom cook full meals, so this isn’t a concept that’s new and it’s offensive how Gen Z believe they invented everything.
‘Girl Dinner’, back in my day it was called a snack or a finger buffet.
I never realised that I’d been eating girlie dinners for years. Does this mean that I should now wear a frock and call myself Mary, Mary quite contrary?
To be fair, it’s just food on a plate. No wonder this generation is so unlikeable. Numerous cultures eat this way and don’t feel the necessity to instabrand it.
Numerous people do this when they don’t feel like having a heavy dinner. Some people have their big meal in the afternoon now and will then eat cold meats, cheese, bread and pickles in the evening. I frequently do this.
Meanwhile, some British housewives are rolling their eyes at another mindless thing on TikTok. I rolled my eyes so far back I could see yesterday.
This is nothing new and in my house, they’re called ‘picky bits’.
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