I was talking to a workmate today about how much I love quiche. And I remembered the saying “Real men don’t eat quiche”. And back when I was in denial, before I could come out to anyone, I remember smiling from ear to ear as I would tell people I love quiche, and I guess that means I’m not a real man.

No one else had a clue what I was getting at, but I thought I was funny

What were yours if you had something similar?

    • Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Interesting! I will have to check it out because I’ve never heard of it. But then again, growing up in a misogynistic, evangelical, smallish town, no one there was reading a book saying their ideas of manliness were stupid. Also I don’t know when I ever first had a quiche.

      So was it always more of a joke for you, or did people around you say stuff like that seriously?

      • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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        1 year ago

        The people around me said it in a “joking but not joking” way. I grew up in a small town in country Australia, but unlike yours, it wasn’t particularly religious. They were conservative, racist, sexist, you name it, and that saying was enough of a thing for me to have heard it many times. I’m guessing, like me, most people didn’t know where the saying came from though

        • NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Yeah, had no idea what it was from but the time frame adds up.

          There was an American show called Ed, Edd, and Eddy where there was a slightly queer coded kid named Jimmy who brings a quiche to the cul-de-sac picnic and gets made fun of by the Eastern European coded “Foreign Kid” for cursing the picnic with a cursed food.

          Always wondered why they chose quiche.