2023 July 8, Jessica Roy, “Is It a Meal? A Snack? No, It's 'Girl Dinner.'”, in The New York Times[1], retrieved July 10, 2023:
According to TikTok, where the trend has more than 30 million views, girl dinner is akin to an aesthetically pleasing Lunchable: an artfully arranged pile of snacks that, when consumed in high enough volume, constitutes a meal.[…]”
2023 July 7, Heather Martin, “What is ‘girl dinner’? New TikTok trend is courting controversy”, in Today[2], retrieved July 10, 2023:
“Girl dinner can look like many things,” [Olivia Maher] says, depending on what your needs are and what you had earlier in the day, “But what matters is the feeling it evokes."[…]"
2023 July 10, Alyx Gorman, Yvonne C Lam, “Explain it to me quickly: What is a TikTok ‘girl dinner’ and should I eat one tonight?”, in The Guardian[3], retrieved July 10, 2023:
Though based on my thorough sampling of the trend, cold pork pies are tragically absent from girl dinner plates.[…]"
2024 August 21, Charlotte Lytton, “Picking at your food like that is ruining dinner for everyone”, in The Independent, London, page 19:
TikTok dwellers will recognise picky plates as an update on last year’s “girl dinner”, another social media trend denoting what is, politely, a random assortment of snacks (to which “dregs from the salad drawer” would also apply).
2024 August 23, Mary Cate Smith, “Wish List: Eight amazing picks for our home interiors”, in Irish Examiner:
Want to inject some chutzpah into your “girl dinner” for one or maybe you’re entertaining some like-minded fun-loving friends? Laetitia Rouget’s tableware features tongue-in-cheek statements like “Dodgy Business” or “Mussels from Brussels.”
