![]() ![]() “The girl dinner is a giddy experience,” said Olivia Maher, the OG coiner of the phrase. I’ve been kind of obsessed with girl dinner since, even though the teenagers have returned and are expecting shepherd’s pie and other more complex dishes that require actual cooking Apparently, a young woman on TikTok had coined the phrase to describe a random, snacky, picky dinner and it had gone viral enough to get into the New York Times. “Oh, you mean ‘girl dinner’?”, my friend said when I told her what we’d been at. ![]() ![]() It doesn’t sound like much, granted, written down here, but with a nice glass of red and no labour whatsoever, it was a lazy person’s feast. A bit of cheddar, a few slices of good ham, a smattering of crackers, some forgotten olives, anchovies, half a sausage roll. Left to our own devices for dinner each evening, we’d hum and haw and look in the fridge and say: “Will we just have some picky bits?” And then we’d assemble a dinner. There were, instead, a few intermittent visits to the fancy grocery shop, which we had got out of the habit of frequenting. We didn’t do one Big Shop the whole time they were away. It turned out we’d only been doing the Big Shop for the past several years because of the pressure to have a variety of answers to the question “what’s for dinner?” asked by people gazing existentially into the empty, echoing fridge and intoning as a follow-on question “why is there never any food in this house?” There will, for example, be no more need for the Big Shop. I mean, sure, this child-free future won’t be happening for a while – thanks to the ineffective housing policies of successive governments, they’ll probably be cohabiting with us well into their 30s – but at least now we have a good idea of what it might look like. Our teenage daughters being away in Irish college for two weeks offered a glimpse into a child-free future. ![]()
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