Other characters love meat too, but they only consider it as a tasty treat or source of protein, in case of Shin. Takes up a large amount of stories in Toriko , as mentioned above. Inverted in Living Dead! In fact, if she doesn't eat enough meat, she'll revert to a mindless zombie until she eats some. Isana's father in Yumekui Merry uses this to justify snatching up all the meat during dinner, even while arguing that Yumeji doesn't eat enough vegetables. Yumeji counters by claiming tomatoes are a good enough and manly enough vegetable, and he eats plenty of those.
Subverted in Silver Spoon: The biggest carnivore at a school full of large, burly manly men is Ikeda, a small, shy, timid girl. Inverted in Pandora Hearts , where resident Action Girl , Alice, is known for her love of eating meat, and is even distracted at times. Her and her kind though usually eat humans , hence her craving for meat. Parodied in the first episode of Osomatsu-san when the brothers reimagine themselves as being cooler than they actually are.
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Casanova Wannabe Karamatsu is described as a "carnivorous carnivore who eats his meat wrapped in more meat". Lance Blastoff a politically incorrect parody character from Frank Miller who converts a beautiful vegetarian to meat eating by the extremely manly act of killing and roasting a dinosaur. Asterix and Obelix both really like their roast boar. Birthright , which established Superman as a vegetarian in keeping with his cherishing and protection of lives in general. Other stories tend to go back and forth on whether he's a vegetarian or not, ones that don't will make his favorite food beef bourguignon with ketchup.
Ultimate Bruce Banner is a vegetarian except in his first appearance, when he orders the pot roast. Ultimate Hulk eats meat, including bad guys. His girlfriend seemed a little turned on.
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In the mainstream Marvel universe, Banner and Hulk both love meat. Used subtly in Lex Luthor: The chef is said to be Gotham's finest, but Bruce cuts his description of the night's dishes short and just orders two strip steaks. It's a form of macho posturing on Bruce's part, as he plays the role of the billionaire playboy. Briefly mentioned in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World ; one of the vegetarian Paul's many gripes about Andro is that he keeps telling Paul he'd be stronger if he ate meat.
This might be the Aesop of Troll 2. Eating veggies is bad for you! The fishing scene in Waterworld. The Exterminators are outraged when their god tells them to grow grain. The two Retired Badass uncles of Secondhand Lions have a diet that consists of mostly meat. Walter insists they change this later on. The Croods averts this. Eep, her mother, and her grandmother are happily carnivorous. Watch just how fast the giant bird's leg disappears in Eep's care.
Granted, they're all likely opportunistic omnivores, but jeez! Subverted in My Favorite Wife: The very macho Stephen Burkett, played by the very macho Randolph Scott, is a vegetarian. M'Baku, leader of the physically-powerful Jabari tribe, threatens to feed Ross to his children.
After a moment, he bursts out laughing and says they're vegetarians. Defied by the head of the MP at the military base, who is a very manly Scary Black Man who abhors meat. The main character uses this to mess with him by only providing him with sausages during a drug cooking. The warriors on Gor are quite fond of meat. In one book Tarl and his friend are at a fancy dinner party, but they both preferred a big steak to the delicacies being served. In another book, he and his different friend take time out of their Quest to go hunting because they "need" to eat meat. Real kzin eat meat.
At least, modern male kzin do. The Kzinti have taken it so far, that as a Proud Warrior Race they went from ancestral omnivores to dedicated carnivores except for ice cream. And to make it even more manly , they eat raw meat. When fresh meat is not available, they heat it up to about body temperature to make it feel more authentic. One of the most literal examples of all time in The Stormlight Archive.
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Alethi men eat meat, spiced food, and other thick, hearty fare. Women eat sweet food, fruit, and other similar dishes. This is not a matter of choice. It is considered abhorrent in their culture for men to eat women's food or vice versa. Whenever a story has a scene where Conan the Barbarian is having a meal, he's usually eating a "joint of beef" and washing it down with either ale or wine. His wife has been getting on his and his subordinates' case to reduce the B on any given sandwich especially the burnt crunchy variety. It rather ties into his ongoing internal conflict with the feeling he's getting old and gentrified, and maybe even a little emasculated.
Jerry Spinelli's Fourth Grade Rats sees peer pressure for boys to pack no sandwiches that don't have meat in them. In the Young Bond novel SilverFin. Even though it takes place in the s, older Hellebore is consistently shown to be retrograde throughout the whole book. Alluded to in The Shining Ones , when Mirtai and Kring discover the picnic lunch Sarabian's servants packed for them is some sort of poultry.
We're both warriors, my betrothed. We're supposed to eat red meat.
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Parodied in a sketch from The Armstrong and Miller Show where a King is hosting a massive banquet for the man of honor, but he doesn't really likes the food and so says he'll just eat his couscous he's brought in a tupperware box. He gets called out on his and says he'll gorge on the very next dish: He leans over, grabs the apple and takes a bite, then complains that it's a Granny Smith apple. The sketch in which they revealed that is something of a subversion of the trope.
That's because Red was trying to get Dalton to guess the word 'vegetable'; after thirty seconds of false starts, Red got Dalton to successfully complete the sentence "Your father ate nothing but red meat for seventy years and now he's a Cray-Z, who happens to be a vegetarian , watches an animated commercial where an atypical, muscular, square-jawed superhero tells kids about the benefits of eating meat. Ironically, Robocop himself can't eat meat, or any solid food, at all.
Earl was astounded when his son, Robbie, became a vegetarian. It has its own butcher shop! Unfortunately, the butcher nearly drowns when Tim shows off the kitchen's self-cleaning feature. It should be noted, Al is not the macho muscleman most entries on this Trope suggest; other "real man" traits Al believes, by the way, is using a toilet with as loud a flush as possible, not brushing your teeth, and not bathing, while trying to do things associated with the traditional image tend to get him hurt, arrested, or both.
He's really not the type of guy a "real man" should admire. Big Eater Ron Swanson of Parks and Recreation planned a junket trip to Indianapolis around visiting his favorite steakhouse.
The discovery that it had been shut down sent him into full-blown Heroic BSoD. He consoles himself by eating his other favorite food, breakfast, ordering all the bacon and eggs in a diner. Ron got on well with Andy after Andy recommended a burrito place for lunch - Ron cuts his suggestion short with "You had me at 'Meat Tornado'. Although he likes fishing, Ron won't eat fish because "Fish is practically a vegetable.
Jim and his brother-in-law from According to Jim proudly live by this trope, though said brother-in-law would try or pretend to try to have a vegetarian diet if his date does it herself. The Scottish folk song "Tatties and Herrin" can be seen as an inversion, though it also invokes National Stereotypes: Fan the queen's wantin' men tae gang fecht wi' her foes It's nae tae the roast beef devourers she goes But awa' tae the north amongst the brave and the darin Tae the lads that were brocht up on tatties and herrin '. Cowpokes'll come from a near and far When you throw a few rib-eyes on the fire Roberto Duran ate two before a fight 'Cause it gave a lot of mighty men a lot of mighty might.
In Garfield , Irma's Diner offers the "He-Man hamburger" , which is five-pound patty of ground beef on a bun. Ron White has a low opinion of vegetarianism. Witness this conversation between him and a vegetarian friend: I feel nauseous and I have a headache. I think that vegetable soup I had for lunch must've had beef broth in it. Your system's kickin' back You're a manly man, aren't you? And wash that down with a flagon of mead, which you also casually toss aside to shatter on the floor. Oh, sure, there's sissy fruit growing on bushes occasionally.
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Ladd in Guilty , even when hungry, turns down bread and potatoes. He needs his fats and proteins! A gender-flipped version comes from Disgaea 2 , with Rozalin. During the beginning intro to chapter 7, as the team's getting ready to head to bed, she admits to wanting "a nice, bloody prime rib", and when Etna talks about the reason she ditched Laharl him eating her pudding , Etna claims sweets are a girl's best friend , to which Rozalin shoots her down with "I really don't like sweets.
I'm more of a meat eater. Might be intended a clue that's she's actually Zenon, whose original gender is unknown and might be masculine, trapped in the body she's using since Real Men Hate Sugar in Japan. In several of the Castlevania games, health is regenerated by finding power-ups that resemble a pot roast, sirloin, or roast turkey. The charr in Guild Wars 2 don't waste time with many earthly pleasures, but good meat is one that they utterly love, men and women alike. As Cat Folk , they're exclusively carnivorous, and the only known charr holiday is called Meatoberfest.
Arena , Akihiko's obsession with protein is a variation on this trope. Chie's love of meat leads to her receiving the tagline, "The Carnivore that Discarded Womanhood. This trait tends to be Flanderized in fan works to the point where readers might think all he ever did was eat and occasionally swing a sword. I'll pass on the desserts But I'll take extra helpings of meat! I cannot eat meat How can you call yourself a man if you cannot consume flesh?
If one becomes ' trans-diet ', as Bruno had, he can expect prejudice and accusations of betraying his kind. One of the things Seymour does on Sin Fest to get more manly is eat a steak, which is drawn to look pretty rare. James Lileks' skewering of a meat cookbook. Epic Meal Time has this but it was subverted for Fanservice in Massive Meat Log and it was played straight when they bring the girls in to eat dessert in The Black Legend.
And in one episode of the parody series Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time , the chef "accidentally" makes a salad. When he realizes this, he gets pissed off. Even more than he usually is. In a nice case of deliberately Completely Missing the Point , they once did a vegetarian episode, which involved making and cooking a giant mushroom shape.
A recurring theme on The Best Page in the Universe. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. New and improved -- now with added goats! Welcome to advertising executive Jill Campbell's life, version 2. Gone are the cheating ex-husband and the chaos of New York.
Brand-new features include a prestigious job at a Boston ad agency, a stronger father-daughter relationship, and a gorgeous old farmhouse. It's bliss -- until a snazzy car account evaporates, leaving New and improved -- now with added goats! It's bliss -- until a snazzy car account evaporates, leaving her branding Un-snazzy, un-sexy beef -- which she hasn't eaten in twenty years. Talk about false advertising. Owning a two-hundred-year-old house in a one-store hamlet is not the nirvana Jill imagined, even with the addition of a dog, two needy goats, and unexpected encounters with the town's most eligible -- and probably only -- bachelor.
Peace of mind sold separately. Wondering how she sold herself on this new existence, Jill forms an unlikely bond with Sarah Watson, a feisty twelve-year-old with an aversion to training bras, makeup, and all the trappings that supposedly make sixth grade worthwhile. While Sarah teaches Jill the basics of home maintenance and animal husbandry, Jill helps Sarah deal with impending womanhood.
And as men start to complicate matters, every idea Jill ever had about love and advertising gets turned on its head. Suddenly, her life looks nothing like the picture on the box, but it could turn out to be exactly what she didn't know she needed. Paperback , pages.
Published January 9th by Gallery Books first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Real Women Eat Beef , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. May 13, Angie rated it liked it Shelves: This is a deconstructing a successful woman so she sees the richness in life outside her career. I would describe it as a typical chick-lit book with a predictable pace and you know what's coming. Having said that I did enjoy it and wish that they would stop making every happy ending be a man who takes care of you Don't worry I didn't give away the best, if just barely hidden, 'good' part of the story.
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Sep 23, Lissa rated it really liked it Shelves: She's hoping to make a fresh start, since all of the dirty laundry surrounding her husband's affair with a younger woman at their agency was aired in the advertising industry gossip columns before she left. Jill buys a large old house on a few acres of land in a rural bedroom community outside of the city. Having a house and a car are new experiences, part of her new life on her own. When a new neighbor, the ruggedly handsome "Grain Man," delivers two goats and a dog that her ailing grandfather purchased to help her build character, Jill knows she needs help.
She doesn't expect to find it in a shy teenage girl named Sarah who comes every day to care for the animals in her barn. Jill is rarely at home. She loves her work, and she immerses herself in the second-best advertising firm in New England. Although she was hired to work on the campaign for a sexy Swedish convertible car, she is slow to realize that her new position seems to encompass many other tasks. When she is assigned to the account for the largest producer of pre- packaged beef in the world, she recognizes that it would be a very bad time to admit that she only eats chicken and fish.
Jill usually relies on her restaurateur father for advice, but he has no compliments for the conglomerate beef industry.