Real Men Don't Eat Quiche

Real Men Don't Eat Quiche is a best-selling tongue-in-cheek book satirizing stereotypes of masculinity by the American screenwriter and humorist Bruce Feirstein, published in 1982 (ISBN 0-671-44831-5).

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The title alludes to the gender associations of quiche as a "feminine" food in American culture, which causes men to avoid it.[1]

The book was on The New York Times Best Seller list for 55 weeks and sold over 1.6 million copies. An Australian adaptation by Alex Buzo was published later that year.

Notes
  1. David Gal, James Wilkie, "Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche: Regulation of Gender-Expressive Choices by Men", Social Psychological and Personality Science 1:4:291-301 (2010) doi:10.1177/1948550610365003


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