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SZA Says She Prefers Eating Over Sex: 'I'm So Passionate About Food'

The five-time Grammy Award winner is a huge fan of the restaurant chain Jon and Vinny's.

SZA.
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SZA has admitted that food holds way more importance in her life than dating and sex.

The LANA singer-songwriter sat down with GQ to break down 10 things she can't live without, including a multi-course meal from Los Angeles-based Italian restaurant chain Jon & Vinny's.

"I'm so passionate about food," the five-time Grammy winner began. "It's like, honestly over anything. Over the opposite sex, over the same sex, over sex in general."

Throughout the segment, SZA elaborated on her food obsession, mentioning a chili cheese dog while explaining her signature lip combo, and even got a special Jon and Vinny's order.

"Y'all don't know that I know food yet, but you will," she warned around the 3:00 mark in the video above, before receiving her meal.

"You know, I'm a creature of habit and everything that I do is actually really terrible," SZA explained. "And I don't know, the kids call it hyper fixation, whatever. I eat the same thing for like a year at a time and then I change it. And this has actually been lasting several years."

On the table, SZA displayed her spread of White Lightning pizza, a house salad, a gem salad, a chicken cutlet and buffalo garlic dip. SZA may need her own specialty meal at the restaurant, because she demonstrated three ways she eats her "perfect" platter. For her house salad, she douses it with dressing before putting on on individual pizza slices, dips the chicken cutlet in the buffalo dressing and dips each lettuce in her gem salad into dressing, parmesan cheese and breadcrumbs, respectively.

Last year, the vocalist was given her own limited-time caesar salad by True Food Kitchen, cleverly named the 'SZA CZA.' In a press release for the special collaboration, SZA called caesar salad her "hyper fixation meal."

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