# Is guys that only eat chicken fingers a thing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 31, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382 "2023-10-31T17:16:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/141 "2025-02-28T04:44:26Z")
> [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1014925/8): > > 100 bucks says at least 90% of these cases involve one or more single mothers. Anyone wanna take that bet? Expound please. Midwest Degenerate Gambler -I kind of like single mothers. 1) Sex-positive vibes. 2) Dominance vibes. 3) I want to be a dad one day, but I dont want to deal with infants and toddlers. Older kids are fun though. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/142 "2025-02-28T05:04:09Z")
> [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1014925/8): > > 100 bucks says at least 90% of these cases involve one or more single mothers. Anyone wanna take that bet? > [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](#): > > -I kind of like single mothers. 1) Sex-positive vibes. 2) Dominance vibes. 3) I want to be a dad one day, but I dont want to deal with infants and toddlers. Older kids are fun though. Can’t quite decide which one is grosser. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/143 "2025-02-28T05:10:16Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Can’t quite decide which one is grosser I can. ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/144 "2025-02-28T05:29:55Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Can’t quite decide which one is grosser. When I said “dominance” vibes, I meant HER being dominant, not me. I like strong women. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/147 "2025-02-28T07:01:32Z")
When I found out my dad was dying, the first day or two, the only things that even vaguely tasted good were Pop Tarts and bananas. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/148 "2025-02-28T17:27:10Z")
Back when my wife was a Girl Guide leader, we used to take them camping for a week every year. With a bunch of girls aged 10 to 14 (plus a couple of young leaders), there were always going to be some picky eaters. We happily catered for the vegetarians, but the girl who "only ate crisps (chips) was more of a problem. We did come to the conclusion that many of these fads were rebelling against their parents because they soon started eating “normal” food once the parent(s) were gone. Of course, the influence of exercise, fresh air and peer example had a large part to play. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/149 "2025-03-01T01:47:13Z")
> [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](#): > > sort of know a couple of guys and gals like this. They don’t ONLY eat chicken fingers, but they have pretty restrictive diets. I dont think they’re “spoiled” or have ARFID. They just seem very basic I recall a thread we had where someone proposed Bachelor Chow. Some nutritious hunks of processed glop you could eat dry like bar snacks or pour water over to get something like soggy cereal. An amazing number of Dopers showed up to claim they only eat to stave off death another day, derive no enjoyment from it, and are mostly indifferent to what tastes like. They would lurves them some Bachelor Chow if it existed. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/150 "2025-03-01T02:04:11Z")
Sounds like this would fit here: > **[Plain Palate - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlainPalate)** > > While the primary purpose of eating and drinking is to get nutrients, most of us enjoy the taste of food and drink too, which is why we design foods and drinks specifically to be tasty and why things such as condiments and seasonings were … ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/151 "2025-03-01T04:22:19Z")
There’s also this classic movie scene. > **[Repo Man (3/10) Movie CLIP - The Reverend's Telethon (1984) HD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAO0owc4xeY%2F)** > > Repo Man movie clips: http://j.mp/15vV5ONBUY THE MOVIE: http://amzn.to/t3spJlDon't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6prCLIP DESCRIPTION:Otto ... ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/152 "2025-03-01T04:44:23Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > classic movie scene. Thank you for reminding me of that movie. Damn, I loved _Repo Man_. And the “Food” was one of the reasons. The can of Food still resonates, but when the movie came out it was even funnier, because generics had just started to be carried in grocery stores, and so there were very plain labels that said things like “crushed tomatoes” or “corn.” Since then, store brands like Signature, Kirkland, and others have replaced those eerily basic product labels. But it remains one of my favorite scenes. (Along with the response to the comment, “You have nice friends,” which was: “Thanks. I made them myself.” And several other terrific scenes.) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/153 "2025-03-01T09:42:01Z")
I love Repo-man. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/154 "2025-03-01T15:06:50Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I recall a thread we had where someone proposed Bachelor Chow. Some nutritious hunks of processed glop you could eat dry like bar snacks or pour water over to get something like soggy cereal. Surely I pointed out in that thread that that product is available; it’s called Primate Chow. [![](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/A4PW98/bag-of-commercial-monkey-primate-food-chow-A4PW98.jpg) ](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/A4PW98/bag-of-commercial-monkey-primate-food-chow-A4PW98.jpg) [![](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2315/0707/products/zupreem-dry-primate-monkey-chow-278675_1024x1024.jpg?v=1599665978) ](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2315/0707/products/zupreem-dry-primate-monkey-chow-278675_1024x1024.jpg?v=1599665978) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/155 "2025-03-01T15:24:55Z")
My sister goes on a lot of cruises. Anyone who has cruised knows they offer quite a variety of foods every day, even multiple entrees at dinner. And every.single.night my sister orders a steak, medium well, and 2 baked potatoes. Yes, I have cruised with her as has our other sister, so it wasn’t a one-time thing. She and my mother spent a couple of weeks in Poland. The entire time, my sister would only eat at McDonalds. Not quite the same as eating only chicken fingers, but pretty close. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/156 "2025-03-01T20:10:04Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > Surely I pointed out in that thread that that product is available; it’s called Primate Chow. When I was volunteering to help with the animals at college, I tried a bite of Monkey chow. Okay, I mean I guess it would be better than starving but it does not taste good. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/157 "2025-03-01T20:34:54Z")
It would be pretty cruel not to supplement the Monkey Chow with fresh fruit and other treats. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/158 "2025-03-01T20:40:24Z")
But they need to be served in cage-like boxes that take tools found in the habitat to open. Enrichment is important to keep your subjects from going nuts with boredom. A brief and partial history of Bachelor Chow on the Dope: March 2011: > [@An update on the 'bachelor chow' front](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-update-on-the-bachelor-chow-front/574937): > > Seems that Campbell’s has come up with a ‘complete [meal in a can](http://www.thestar.com/living/food/article/954575--campbell-s-cans-hunger)’. I wonder how complete it really is. Feb 2013: > [@Bachelor Chow redux](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachelor-chow-redux/651221): > > Just wandering through some blogs and I ran across an old post about a patented idea for a [compressed food](http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2012/10/condensed-ration.html). I could see this as bachelor chow, but also fuel for farting contests! Add some sort of minerals and vitamins and assorted amino acids and I think it would appeal to a bunch of people. I sort of wonder what it would taste like, it seems lacking in seasoning. Dec 2019: > [@Is there a common food that could serve as Bachelor Chow? Or would be close?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-common-food-that-could-serve-as-bachelor-chow-or-would-be-close/845350): > > In “Futurama,” Philip Fry is often seeing consuming “Bachelor Chow,” which as the name would suggest is a commercial food made to feed a human. The implication is that it’s boring to eat but provides a person with the right nutrition to remain alive, like Dog Chow does for dogs. Is there a commonly available food stuff - something you could buy at a grocery store, and not have to combine two or more things (except water, if applicable) that would serve as Bachelor Chow? That is, a human could… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/159 "2025-03-02T07:37:27Z")
This thread reminded me that I still had two bottles of Soylent in my fridge. I haven’t eaten yet today and don’t feel like making something, so I dug it out. Turns out it expired in 2017! However, it smells and tastes fine. I’m not sure if this puts me in the running for one of our “what’s the oldest edible thing in your fridge” threads as well. Hope it doesn’t kill me! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/160 "2025-03-02T11:27:44Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > An amazing number of Dopers showed up to claim they only eat to stave off death another day, derive no enjoyment from it, and are mostly indifferent to what tastes like I wouldn’t go that far, but presented with the choice of having something I already know that I like or something new, the large majority of the time I’ll choose the sure thing. Anywhere I go I pretty much stick to takeout from large fast food chains that I’m already familiar with. (And usually the same menu item every time from each chain.) ---
**Author:** ![sunacres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/161 "2025-03-02T13:37:39Z")
I’ve been on two medically supervised Optifast diets that were incredibly effective. The trick was really getting into the mindset that food is not for me, just chug six Optifast shakes every day at regular intervals. Feeling outside of the onslaught of food messaging and hyperbole felt freeing, and it freed up a lot of time otherwise spent on shopping, meal prep and dining. When the weight loss phase was over and I transitioned to a maintenance diet of real food, I worked out a very narrow routine based on raw veggies, sardines and nuts for lunch and a ground turkey/tomatos/asparagus sauce on butternut squash noodles for dinner. Same thing every single day. It was delicious so I could feel the clarion call of yumminess again but it was also satisfying enough to allow me to ignore everything else. So in a way maybe I understand the mindset of the picky eater - it keeps chaos at bay. Long term however, my cherished routine just wasn’t compatible with living together with a “normie” who loves to cook so I’ve completely abandoned it. Now, when we go out to a new restaurant and there’s something on the menu that I don’t recognize, I don’t ask the waiter about it, I order it. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/162 "2025-03-02T13:45:25Z")
I think there’s a really big difference between that and being “indifferent to what it tastes like”. If you were indifferent to how it tastes, you wouldn’t choose the item you know you like - you would choose the cheapest item, or the fastest item but not the one you like best because " indifferent to what tastes like " more or less means there _isn’t_ one you like best [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382.md?page=7)