History Main / RealMenEatMeat

That cow? Food. That dog? [[EatTheDog Food.]] [[BearsAreBadNews That grizzly bear?]] Food. [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile That crocodile?]] Food. That roadkill? Eh...[[ExtremeOmnivore food.]]

** Creator/SamElliot and Creator/RobertMitchum were part of that campaign too. Just smell the testosterone!

* The Music/JimmyBuffet song "Cheeseburger in Paradise" is about a man who tries to go vegetarian for health reasons but keeps having "tremulous dreams" about cheeseburgers.

* ''Music/JimmyBuffet'' song "Cheeseburger in Paradise" is about a man who tries to go vegetarian for health reasons but keeps having "tremulous dreams" about cheeseburgers.

* ''Music/JimmyBuffet'' song 'Cheeseburger in Paradise' is about a man who tries to go vegetarian for health reasons but keeps having "tremulous dreams" about cheeseburgers.

* The stage adaptation of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has an extra song with Ikkaku teaching Hanataro how to be manly. Eating RAW meat is one of the things a real man must do.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Vegeta has this attitude: when he's introduced he's casually munching on a bug-man's arm on a planet he and Nappa have just conquered. While he and Goku explore the innards of Super Buu, he is disgusted upon seeing that the monster's stomach [[RealMenHateSugar is full of sweets]], with nary a bit of meat in sight.
** Saiyans, in general, tend to prefer meat over other kinds of food. Ironically, all the Saiyans have names based on vegetables.

* Isana's father in ''Manga/DreamEaterMerry'' uses this to justify snatching up all the meat during dinner, [[HypocriticalHumor even while arguing that Yumeji doesn't eat enough vegetables]]. Yumeji counters by claiming tomatoes are a good enough (and manly enough) vegetable, and [[TrademarkFavoriteFood he eats plenty of those]].
* In ''Manga/Eyeshield21'', [[BloodKnight Gaou]] will only eat meat. Considering he's modeled after a ''T. rex'', it's not at all surprising. Other characters love meat too, but they only consider it as a tasty treat or source of protein, in case of [[TheStoic Shin]].

* ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'': Ryuuhei Sawamura likes meat. Really, ''really'' likes meat. In a twist of the trope, it's used to emphasize his insane tendencies. Oh, if I say he likes meat, I mean he also likes the meat of his enemies, strongly resembling cannibalism.
* Inverted in ''Manga/LivingDead'' as Toriko, a female zombie, loves to eat meat and has great knowledge of different types of meat. In fact, if she doesn't eat enough meat, she'll revert to a mindless zombie until she eats some.
* Luffy, the HotBlooded pirate captain of ''Manga/OnePiece'', has an obsession with meat.[[note]]Though he ''is'' enough of an equal-opportunity BigEater to also eat fruits and vegetables unprompted -- in fact, that's how he got his powers to begin with.[[/note]] In the ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' Manga Crossover, it's revealed that his full course menu is meat. All of it. Including the Salad, Soup, and Drink categories.
* Parodied in the first episode of ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' when the brothers reimagine themselves as being cooler than they actually are. CasanovaWannabe Karamatsu is described as a "carnivorous carnivore who eats his meat wrapped in more meat".
* Hunny of ''[[Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub Ouran Host Club]]'' tries to follow this in as a part of building himself as a suitable heir for his family. It doesn't take and he goes back to eating sweets.
* Inverted in ''Manga/PandoraHearts'', where resident ActionGirl Alice is known for her love of eating meat and is even distracted by it at times. She and her kind though [[ImAHumanitarian usually eat humans]], hence her craving for meat.
* Subverted in ''Manga/SilverSpoon'': The biggest carnivore at a school full of large, burly manly men is Ikeda, a small, shy, timid girl. She was one of the biggest investors in both incarnations of the Pork Fund, and the mention of 100% beef hamburgers causes her to ''spontaneously materialize'' with a facial expression high school girls normally reserve for members of their favourite BoyBand.
* Takes up a large amount of stories in ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', as mentioned above. Subverted, however, as the extremely muscular and tough Toriko is shown to enjoy ''all'' types of food, loving equally meat, vegetables, soups, and desserts.

* The vegetarian version of a dish often gets a feminine version of the name, such as shepherdess pie to shepherd's pie or croque madame to croque monsieur.

* As it saw the universe as a living, [[UsefulNotes/{{Pantheism}} Pantheistic]] order where everything has its place and hierarchy, the philosophical school of UsefulNotes/{{Stoicism}}, which emphasized dignity and manliness, was distinctly omnivorous in a time when some other schools, like Pythagoreans and some Platonists, spoused vegetarianism (albeit not necessarily for reasons relatable today).[[note]]Pythagoreans believed that souls reincarnated, often from humans to animals and vice versa, and thus considered it a crime for you to eat a fellow human. For his part, UsefulNotes/{{Plato}} favored vegetarian food because at the time meat was a luxury and he was generally against those.[[/note]]

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', Irma's Diner offers the [[http://garfield.com/comic/1999-07-16 "He-Man hamburger"]], which is a five-pound patty of ground beef on a bun.

It never occurs to them that meat is simply part of a complete meal involving salad, meat, vegetables, dairy products, fruit, and [[AdjacentToThisCompleteBreakfast this bowl of]] [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs]][[note]]Technically humans can survive on only meat, if you include the organs and everything, you'll get all the nutrients you need because the cow already ate your greens for you. You might be a bit blocked -- meat is low on fiber -- but as long as you stay hydrated, you'll still be pooping and you won't die.)[[/note]]. Also prevalent is a conviction that however much non-meat food a man eats, he'll still be hungry, for some reason.

-->'''Ron:''' There's a hot, spinning cone of meat in that Greek restaurant next door. I don't know what it ''is'', but I'd like to eat the whole thing.

* [[https://www.fmylife.com/article/walking-stereotype-over-here_402152.html This story]] from FMyLife.com:

If you're a man, eat meat. If you don't eat meat, you're not [[RatedMForManly manly.]] And eat red meat. Who only eats the white stuff? That's not meat. It's gotta bleed before it's meat. What are ya? Some skinny punk? A ''girl''?

* ''Literature/KnownSpace'': Real kzin eat meat. At least, modern male kzin do. The Kzinti have taken it so far, that as a ProudWarriorRace they went from ancestral omnivores to dedicated carnivores (except for ice cream). And to make it even more [[RatedMForManly manly]], they eat raw meat. When fresh meat is not available, they heat it up to about living temperature. In ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' humanity on the Ring has branched out to fill many environmental niches. The group from space captures the leader of one tribe who is infuriated by the Kzin suggesting he is a coward because he eats grass. The human member thinks it reveals that the Kzin has never met an angry bull.

* One recurring joke of the [[TestosteronePoisoning Overly]] [[RatedMForManly Manly Man]][[MemeticMutation meme]] is that he thinks salad is what food eats to become food.

* Lemmy Kilmister of Music/{{Motorhead}}. [[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/dec/12/lemmy-favourite-foods-interview By his own admission]], the only plant matter he'd even consider touching was potatoes and green beans, and otherwise lived on a diet of mostly meat, cheese, and Jack Daniel's. Amazingly, he was quite healthy for being in his late 60s (aside from the terminal cancer, obviously) and is well-known for his RatedMForManly music and for allegedly bedding over 2,000 women in his life.

* ''Literature/KnownSpace'': Real kzin eat meat. At least, modern male kzin do. The Kzinti have taken it so far, that as a ProudWarriorRace they went from ancestral omnivores to dedicated carnivores (except for ice cream). And to make it even more [[RatedMForManly manly]], they eat raw meat. When fresh meat is not available, they heat it up to about living temperature.
** In ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' humanity on the Ring has branched out to fill many environmental niches. The group from space captures the leader of one tribe who is infuriated by the Kzin suggesting he is a coward because he eats grass. The human member thinks it reveals that the Kzin has never met an angry bull.