Epic cycling = Food memories for dudes

I think we all can listen to a song and it kicks in an old memory and we can picture ourselves in an exact place and time. The same holds true to cycling and food, for guys at least. A group of cyclists were discussing over pizza yesterday the different type of foods on past Tour de Kota's.

It seems, some of us dudes can remember exactly what we had to eat during the TDK, day by day, and stop by stop. The dudette, aka 1speed, could not engage the neurons in her brain to achieve "TOTAL RECALL" like us dudes. It got me thinking why is this the case?

Are all dudes just like our stereotypes? Fat, horny and stupid?

What I do find intriguing is how the recollection of a food item can take me back to that exact time and place in my mind.

A few examples dating back a couple of decades and not are cycling related are:

1. Korea - Operation Big Bear - spent 3 months - 10 miles from the DMZ. The first time I had eaten dog. After a few bites mama-son explained how the dog was fresh and that it just was ran over that morning.

2. Yuma, AZ - The first time I ate balute - and little baby chicken still inside the egg.

3. Pamana - Eating raw chicken at a gal's house who was just trying to make few bucks from the GI's. I refused to eat it and in return my buddies would not eat there meals because I had the iron gut and usually ate everything thrown at me.

4. Crappy beef sub last year at a Garriston gas station during our Palisades Park ride.

5. Blueberry pies at the Toure de Kota and a whole lot of other foods. I can picture myself how I was standing or sitting and where I was at when eating certain food items during the TDK.

6. Eating chicken at the Brandon Pizza ranch after the Brandon Lions ride and after riding with the Mayor on his 1st metric century ride.

7. The huge burger and fries at the Bunyon to Bob's ride last year.

So I ask the question. Is this just a guy thing?