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“American men are all mixed up today…There was a time when this was a nation of Ernest Hemingways, real men. The kind of men who could defoliate an entire forest to make a breakfast fire — and then wipe out an endangered species while hunting for lunch. But not anymore. We’ve become a nation of wimps.” — Bruce Feirstein from the book Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche
Food fads come and go. In the 1970s, it seemed like everyone was making and eating quiche, and then, in 1982, they stopped.
Why? Somebody wrote a book that was so popular it spent 52 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The title was Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche, and although author Bruce Feirstein’s satirical take on male stereotypes was meant to be funny, even people who hadn’t read it took the title to heart.
It became a point of honor for men to refuse to eat quiche and for women to refrain from serving it to them. An entire generation became essentially quicheless due to one guy’s wit hitting home with American male insecurity. Never doubt the power of the pen.
Today, according to Tastewise, fewer than 2% of restaurants serve quiche. That number may be…
