Real Men Eat Meat/Playing With


 * Basic Trope: A truly manly character has a taste for meat.
 * Played Straight: Bob has as his Trademark Favorite Food, steak.
 * Exaggerated: Every time we see Bob eating it's from a large slab of meat.
 * Justified: When Bob was young his mother made remarkably exquisite steak.
 * The real men whipped the socks off everyone and they want to show it off by eating the most expensive food available: meat.
 * Inverted: Bob and his fellow bikers walk into a diner and order salads.
 * Alternatively, Alice loves to eat steak.
 * Subverted: Bob announces how hungry he is, and then eats a salad at lunch.
 * Double Subverted: But the salad has bacon and chicken in it.
 * Deconstructed: Bob almost never consumes anything vegetarian or vegan, and as a result gets little of the beneficial nutrients provided by fruits and vegetables. His health declines dramatically as a result.
 * Reconstructed: Upon noting the risk of not having a balanced diet, Bob decides to eat more salad...but never without bacon bits, of course.
 * Parodied: Bob eats nothing but meat, subscribes to a meat-lover's magazine, is on a first-name basis with the local butcher, worships a T-bone steak, and lives in a house made of meat. Oh, and his wife wears a dress made of such.
 * Lampshaded: 'Ooh, I'm eating steak, I'm so manly!'
 * Averted: Bob regularly eats fruits and vegetables as well as meat.
 * Enforced: "We need to show that our character is manly. Real men don't eat salad."
 * Invoked: Bob orders a bacon double cheeseburger.
 * Defied: Bob believes that a meat-based diet is morally wrong and/or unhealthy, so he makes it a veggie burger with veggie bacon and soy cheese.
 * "Real men don't give themselves scurvy."
 * Played For Laughs: Bob orders a 12-decker bacon-and-grilled-cheese sandwich, battered and fried.
 * Played For Drama: Bob likes meat ... human meat.