Sweet or Savoury or both - which are you?

sporina · 05-03-2021 10:37pm #1

So a mate and I were discussing this - are you sweet/savoury or both..

I'm sweet - he's both..

We are thinking that in general females are more sweet - males savoury - what say you?

(would be really cool if you could include your gender - f - female/m - male..

Happy Friday

Loveinapril · 05-03-2021 10:40pm

Both myself (F) and my husband are mad for sweets. I have two brothers mad for sweet things and the others savoury.

whatawaster81 · 05-03-2021 10:41pm

Male definitely savory. Starter and Main over Desert. Don't really have a sweet tooth but I like chocolate brownies

chooey · 05-03-2021 10:44pm

f- 100% savoury. Could take or leave chocolate or anything sweet.

Faith · 05-03-2021 10:45pm

I think I’m both. In a restaurant, I’ll go for starter and main. With a hangover, I crave savoury food. But in terms of snack food, I’m all about chocolate, cakes and sweets over crisps.

I also don’t like things that are too sweet, like fudge, caramel flavoured ice cream, chocolate flavoured products etc.

odyssey06 · 05-03-2021 10:47pm

Savoury.

cee_jay · 05-03-2021 10:50pm

100% savoury. I don't really chocolate, or sweet things. In a restaurant, my dream dessert is a cheeseboard. And I'm all about the crisps as a snack food.

bee06 · 05-03-2021 10:52pm

Both, crisps over chocolate but I love a good dessert. I’m female

Plumbthedepths · 05-03-2021 10:56pm

Savory all the way. Male.
My taste has changed as I got older, used to love sweet stuff.

Tree · 05-03-2021 11:25pm

Both! (F) Together is especially good, kettle corn, sticky salty chinese takeaway, rasberry jam on fried cheese, caramelised onions

woodchuck · 05-03-2021 11:33pm

I've always had a sweet tooth! (Female) I love savory food too though. You can live on savory food alone, but not sweet food. I'd choose dessert over a starter, but ideally I'd have both :P

florawest · 05-03-2021 11:36pm

Female here.
Savoury 90% of the time with little bit of whole nut chocolate and/or Turkish fry's delight.

Crisps are my weakness ðŸ˜

Dial Hard · 05-03-2021 11:38pm

Only savoury. Female. I don't really like anything sweet. Might have a square or two of chocolate once or twice a year and then wonder why I bothered.

I don't snack either. Never really eat crisps or peanuts or popcorn or anything like that. Would have a crisp sambo over Christmas but it would be for lunch. I've never really understood the concept of just having a bag of crisps or something in between meals. I get that I'm very much an outlier in that regard, though!

messrs · 05-03-2021 11:42pm

Female here and would say im 50/50.

tscul32 · 05-03-2021 11:49pm

Female - 80/20 savoury over sweet. Never get dessert unless it's a cheese plate. But I do like chocolate and home baked goodies.

Dizzyblonde · 05-03-2021 11:51pm

I'm female and I prefer savoury, crisps and chips being my all time favourites. If I'm actually hungry I can't eat sweet things, and the only chocolate I crave is Toblerone.

dmc17 · 06-03-2021 12:06am

Faith wrote: »

I think I’m both. In a restaurant, I’ll go for starter and main. With a hangover, I crave savoury food. But in terms of snack food, I’m all about chocolate, cakes and sweets over crisps.

I also don’t like things that are too sweet, like fudge, caramel flavoured ice cream, chocolate flavoured products etc.

I'm very much like this also. Love savoury food but also partial to some chocolate, biscuits, crisps and jelly sweets

Not a big fan of anything too sweet though and can't actually remember the last time I had a fizzy drink - (m)

con747 · 06-03-2021 12:51am

Both, and mix both together in certain things I try which is interesting at times!

Dave_The_Sheep · 06-03-2021 1:23am

Savoury, generally, though I also can take sweet at times.

If I'm in a restaurant, I'd rather get two starters and a main, than the traditional three courses.

Alun · 06-03-2021 7:42am

Male, and pretty much 100% savoury. I'm partial to a bit of high cocoa content chocolate now and then, but I can make a normal size bar last a year:) My wife thinks I'm mad, she's a chocaholic. A big snacker too .. crisps, peanuts etc.

If I'm eating out, I'll usually forego dessert, unless there's something intensely chocolatey on the menu.

Gloomtastic! · 06-03-2021 10:25am

Male and savoury. When at a restaurant, I usually choose Irish Coffee as a desert. And maybe a cheese board. :rolleyes:

Mrs and the Little G's (M&F) are sweet, sweet, sweet everytime.

igCorcaigh · 06-03-2021 11:27am

This is like a gender reveal thread in disguise!

jk

Male, 100% savoury.
Would rather olives over sweets.

Don't like desserts at all.

(Except maybe for doughnuts).

Faith · 06-03-2021 12:13pm

I can’t even fathom eating a cheese board. If someone put one in front of me, I’d probably ignore it. The idea of slicing off a bit of cheese and eating it is completely alien to me!

sporina · 06-03-2021 1:30pm

hey, thanks for all the replies.. v interesting..

@Faith - much and all as I love chocolate, I don't actually like choc ice cream/cake etc either - too heavy.. or fudge..
Also, on a hangover I do get a mild craving for something savoury - would go for some chicken to fix that - or a bag of pop corn.. (body craving salt I guess)

@Dizzyblonde - again, much and all as I prefer sweet things, like you, I can't eat anything too sweet when hungry.. apples are my go to.. or nuts etc..

@Woodchuck - good point - indeed one cannot live on sweet things alone - but you could do with savoury..

@igCorcaigh - lol I had hoped that no one would fear this - no its a disguise to find out what gender posters are lol
And funny you like doughnuts even though you not sweet toothed - a lot of my male males love em too.. me I am not a doughnut fan at all - though I would prob eat the choc off one and throw the rest away lol

@Dial Hard - gee you don't snack - wow - I could snack all day - just cos I love eating - your meals must be v well balanced..

@Alun - yeah I had a house mate once who would open a small dairymilk - eat 2 squares and put the rest in the fridge - would last her a month - alien to me at the time - though I can do it now.. (to a degree)..

As for cheeseboards - if a cheese board arrived to the house, it would certainly all be blue in time - the only cheese I like is goats cheese - and that on a pizza... Dubliner with relish and brown bread but can't eat much dairy these days anyway due to sinus issues..

not totted up the differences between genders yet.. will give the thread a bit longer..

thanks again - interesting reading..

Faith · 06-03-2021 1:50pm

sporina wrote: »

not totted up the differences between genders yet.. will give the thread a bit longer..

I can add a poll to the thread if you like? It's a bit more binary, but could be interesting.

Recliner · 06-03-2021 1:52pm

F. Def savoury.

Cushtie · 06-03-2021 2:07pm

Both unfortunately!!

Toto Wolfcastle · 06-03-2021 2:17pm

Female and 100% sweet. Desserts and baked goods mainly. I do like good quality chocolate but I’d never pick up a bar of chocolate in the shop or add a packet of biscuits to the shopping list. I’m very picky about desserts too. They have to be homemade or at least freshly made if I’m buying them. I worked in M&S and I couldn’t handle the smell of the packaged cakes aisle but I used to mill through the freshly baked cookies back then.

sporina · 06-03-2021 3:52pm

Faith wrote: »

I can add a poll to the thread if you like? It's a bit more binary, but could be interesting.

yes please - that would be great - thought about it but hadn't looked into it

Faith · 06-03-2021 6:50pm

sporina wrote: »

yes please - that would be great - thought about it but hadn't looked into it

Done.

Just in case it needs to be said, this is a light-hearted straw-poll. I'd be here all day trying to include all variants of gender identity and flavour preferences so the 'other' category exists for everyone who feels they don't fit into one of the binary boxes!

/edit: Updated to include no preference option

Zaney · 06-03-2021 6:58pm

Female and would be more inclined to savoury.

I don’t like mixing sweet and savoury. So I’m not crazy about a three course meal. I like starter and main if out for dinner. But would rather coffee and cake than coffee and sandwich in a café in the afternoon. Does that make sense to anyone?

The only time I like savoury and sweet together os a really nice afternoon tea, preferably shared with some good friends or the hubby with gin in the teacup.

Toulouse · 07-03-2021 11:08am

Female and both.

However I’d be inclined to get a bit sick of something sweet, I’d be able to eat something savoury until fit to burst!

the beer revolu · 07-03-2021 2:12pm

Male and I'd automatically say savoury but in recent years I'm developing a sweet tooth for biscuits and jellies and dark chocolate.

Saying that, I mostly like sweet things less sweet and don't often go for dessert.
So, probably 80/20 savoury/sweet but that may change with time.

I love sour things, too - especially beer!

Gloomtastic! · 07-03-2021 4:04pm

We have 1 Other. As they say, there’s always one!

Purple Mountain · 07-03-2021 4:05pm

cee_jay wrote: »

100% savoury. I don't really chocolate, or sweet things. In a restaurant, my dream dessert is a cheeseboard. And I'm all about the crisps as a snack food.

You sound ideal...
Marry me?

sporina · 07-03-2021 5:51pm

Thanks again for all the replies..

So, I know that genetics play a role in influencing some of our taste preferences, as well as a number of other factors like diet, hormones, culture etc but definitely habit.. and for me, I am sure its one of the biggest contributors to my long standing sweet tooth..

I have always had something sweet after dinner, started at home - came home from school to a 3 course meal almost every day.. home made apple pie, baked alaska etc.. so I blame my Mum (bless her she's great)..

What about you? Can you establish the reason why you might crave something in particular, or a factor that might be contributing to it?

Faith · 07-03-2021 6:26pm

Apparently when I was a baby, I wouldn’t eat enough. My mum, in her anxiety, put some honey in my bottle to try and entice me. It did the job, according to her. She thinks that might be where my sweet tooth came from, but there’s a chicken and egg argument about whether it was always there.

Tree · 07-03-2021 7:37pm

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

We have 1 Other. As they say, there’s always one!

That'll be me. It was before Female/no favourite, but also, in retrospect, BOTH are my favourite, don't make me choose.

sporina · 07-03-2021 8:16pm

Faith wrote: »

Apparently when I was a baby, I wouldn’t eat enough. My mum, in her anxiety, put some honey in my bottle to try and entice me. It did the job, according to her. She thinks that might be where my sweet tooth came from, but there’s a chicken and egg argument about whether it was always there.

from what I have read, its not black and white - a lot of factors play a role.. but as sugar is addictive and we are creatures of habit i'd say your sweetened bottled played a role - although mayb you had a predisposition already..

Dizzyblonde · 07-03-2021 10:00pm

I was mad into sweets as a child, but I'd also drink the vinegar off the pickled onions too.

sporina · 07-03-2021 10:33pm

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

I was mad into sweets as a child, but I'd also drink the vinegar off the pickled onions too.

lollll.. I like your humour..

Oh boards is a bit of craic in these humdrum days,..

Shenshen · 08-03-2021 10:25am

Female, and I'd say I'm 70:30 savoury over sweet.

I do eat sweet things, but I'd be much more picky with them than with savoury foods. For example, you could have 5 bars of Cadbury's chocolate lying right in front of me after I'd not eaten the whole day, and I wouldn't touch them. But I would definitely eat a large slice of homemade apple pie even after I've just finished a massive dinner.
That said, I don't usually do desserts at all. They weren't a thing for me growing up, and I never really got into the habit. Cakes are something to be eaten mid-afternoon, with a hot drink (in case you can't guess, I'm originally from Germany)

My husband doesn't get that at all. He could eat sweets all day every day. He's the one to make sure we've always got several packs of biscuit in the cupboard (just in case), as well as a decent stock of various chocolates. And boiled sweets in the car. Me, I'm happy as long as there's cheese and some pickles in the fridge for when I want a snack

sporina · 18-04-2021 7:06pm

I never got back to this.. thanks for all the replies..

Well its a mixed bag it seems.. and hard to draw any definitive conclusions from the results as we have an uneven number of females/males etc.... but from those who voted it does seem that more people prefer savoury to sweet (19/6) - however, more females prefer sweet to males (5/1).. and I am in that bracket for sure lol..

Here's another thing, I must have a hot beverage (tea/coffee) when eating something sweet.. increases the melt factor thus the sweetness hmm....
As much as I love chocolate, I wouldn't bother eating it on its own.. maybe thats a good thing (I prob eat less as a result)..

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