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    Listen: Is It Only “Hot Girl Food” When The Person Eating It Is Thin And Conventionally Attractive?

    “There is an implication that these foods are associated with hotness, or will make you hot. But it is interesting to see that most of the people making these videos are thin, conventionally attractive people.”

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    by BuzzFeed Daily

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    On today's episode:

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    A young woman is in the kitchen, she is holding pineapple and taking a selfie


    1. Hot Girl Summer is here yet again, and along with it is a bevy of Hot Girl Foods — including tinned fish. We have to wonder: How did this happen? Who decides these things?

    Closeup photo of tins of canned tuna and sardines
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    MATOSINHOS, PORTUGAL - JULY 18: Tins of canned tuna meat and sardines of Conservas Ramirez. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Food & Culture writer at VICE Bettina Makalintal joins us today to break down how and why tinned fish has risen to the top of the Hot Girl Food chain.

    2. Gigi Hadid kept two journals during her pregnancy: one for “good” thoughts and one for “bad” thoughts.

    3. Halsey opened up about growing up “white passing” in a mixed race family, and how it’s affected the way people view her.

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