@jinmohl
Actually, I'm pretty certain 花より男子 is itself a pun/reference to the old Japanese saying 花より団子 rather than the other way around. You can find the latter phrase in indexes of old japanese idioms, e.g.
http://kotowaza-allguide.com/ha/hanayoridango.html
@solfalling thanks for that note -- I'd actually never heard the original! I guess the joke has one less dimension than I'd imagined. I'll amend the credits page to remove that reference to avoid misinformation^^
I just realized this is already finished and that we have two more volumes coming. Crazy how I thought so little of this in the beginning and now it's one of my favourite series that get regularly updated here.