Masculine & Feminine Foods?

Question

I know that 'el' is masculine and 'la' is feminine. To describe someone, you would say, "El es impaciente," and you change the 'el' to 'la' depending on if you are describing a man or woman. Is that the same with food? For example, if you are a man, do you say, "el pollo," and a woman would say, "la pollo"? Or is food a universal thing, where everyone says "el pollo"?

Answer 1

The 'el' and 'la' are articles like our English word, 'the'.

Masculine does not mean 'man' and feminine does not mean 'woman' when it comes to Spanish noun, although you will use 'el' to say 'the' for a man (el hombre) and 'la' to say 'the' for a woman (la mujer).

Reading this grammar note from the Learn -> Spanish grammar -> articles section of this site (see the blue toolbar) you can learn more about specifics on how to do this:

Link on masculine and feminine articles and nouns

You may have gotten confused because the word él that has an accent is the pronoun for 'he/him'.