real men don't eat quiche

real men don't eat quiche

A phrase that highlights the belief that men should eat meat and other traditionally masculine foods, rather than more delicate foods like quiche (a savory pie-like dish made from eggs). Come on, real men don't eat quiche! How about a nice steak instead?
See also: eat, men, quiche, real
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • quiche
  • quiche-eater
  • brown bag it
  • brown-bag it
  • brownbagging
  • brown-bagging
  • brown-bag
  • brown bag
  • have a strong stomach
  • paleo
References in periodicals archive
WHOEVER said "real men don't eat quiche" has egg on his face - after a new "macho" chilli range became an overnight best-seller.
Quiche? Real men DO eat it
THEY used to say that real men don't eat quiche. Now they're saying that a real man will use his partner's make-up.
Modern man partial to putting on make-up, but not us in Wales!
Translation: real men don't eat quiche, hug trees, nor do they--according to Katy Perry--listen to Mozart, read Hemingway, maintain a My Space page, or wear scarves.
Is Katy 'I Kissed a Girl' Perry Homophobic?
Real men don't eat quiche, they don't ask for directions when they're lost, and they don't spend more than a tenner on a haircut.
RESULT!: Get ahead on Becks' caps; IN ASSOCIATION WITH betfair.com
A couple of decades ago, the fad "Real men don't eat quiche" came as a reaction against reports that red meat was harmful.
Hawks and doves, vultures and chickens? (Preaching Helps)
Since real men don't eat quiche, however, if player l's type is surly he would rather have the beer.
Using Greek mythology to teach game theory
If real men don't eat quiche, then real women don't grab rebounds.
Ducks, dykes, dynamos
ACCORDING to In & Out, real men don't eat quiche -and they don't much care for Barbra Streisand, either.
WOW MOVIES; A BIT OF AN OUTED RAGE
JUST as real men don't eat quiche, rarely will you find them playing football wearing woolly mittens.
RESULT!: Boys all gloved up; IN ASSOCIATION WITH betfair
There used to be a book called Real Men Don't Eat Quiche? Following some comments made by tennis ace Andy Roddick, in the UK this week for the start of Wimbledon, this could now be renamed, 'Real Men Don't Carry Manbags?'
Manbags
In the 1982 satirical blockbuster Real Men Don't Eat Quiche: A Guidebook to All That Is Truly Masculine, author Bruce Feirstein argued that only men who eat red meat could qualify as truly masculine.
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