quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

i am presuming this is a joke but honestly can't figure it so much as my English-to-English dictionary is lost under the couch somewhere
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/28/cereal-killer-cafe-attackers-gentrification-londons-housing

the odd US comic book would occasionally turn up in local newsagents when I was a child and I remember looking at the adverts for american breakfast cereals and being sad that I would never get to try them, I would totally visit a breakfast cereal cafe if one opened locally

similar idea as the japanese candy being sent to the states

$4.50 for a bowl of cereal? is the milk extra?

is it true that you can't get Ricicles in Ireland any more?

it's amazing how the look of those cereal guys is just shorthand now for yuck. sorry if anyone here has that look.

i mean all in all it's not terrible or anything. at least they dress up.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/57/17/94/57179470e7a7ba3e5eb7a6523b3c7481.jpg

this is the best picture of them after the attack:

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03455/Cereal-Killer_3455072b.jpg

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/141209131823-cereal-killer-cafe-2-1024x576.jpg

I thought you could buy a whole box? I'm not sure if I'm interested if you can only get a bowl's worth, the packet is half the appeal, surely?

th shbagginess, it burns my eyes

The cafe, which charges up to £4.40 for a small bowl

idk what the exchange rate is but I assume it works out to considerably more than $4.50 (which would actually be quite cheap price for a whole box)

okay, i totally didn't notice that the one dude has a huge freddie mercury tattoo until now. kudos.

that's about 7 bucks for a bowl.

We used to have a Cereality cafe in Chicago. No prices on their menu online. Strangely one of their only two remaining locations is in a hospital.

There a cereal and grilled cheese place here called Crunch and Munch, that seems to be doing quite well. I think they added the grilled cheese option after they started.

Woops, actual called Mix N Munch

there's one near the barclays center http://www.kithtreats.com/#about

We've had a cereal restaurant for years -- https://www.facebook.com/theknoxvillepearl. Only open 7 p.m.-midnight (or later). I think it's mostly a place for underagers to hang out before/after music shows. I went in once around 1 a.m. out of curiosity. I got a bubble tea. The vibe was odd, low-key Lynchy. Took forever to get served, but the bubble tea was pretty good.

$6 for a bowl of cereal ... no thanks

There is a little seafood restaurant here that I love (they have $30 all-you-can-eat ENORMOUS delicious king crab legs) that also serves bowls of cereal for some reason. Strange.

I don't think it's that strange. They serve breakfast/brunch, so good to have cereal as an option. It's also a big kid friendly place. Kids like cereal.

kinda the stupidest thing in the world to order in a restaurant. feed your kids some cereal before you go to brunch. and then just let them sit there bored while you eat real food.

exceptions for: homemade granola, hot cereals, tiny boxes of cereal in diners.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/dining/vegan-diet-lifestyle-recipes.html

Jaya, her youngest daughter, looked up with eyes wide. “Wait, Mommy, you ate a bear?” she asked.

“It was when I was a kid,” Ms. Piatt replied. “I didn’t understand yet.”

is a vegan diet really so controversial as it is made out to be here? these people talk abt it like it was just made legal to eat this way.

If you can't feel persecuted for your consumer choices, what kind of life are you even living?

it's basically just inverted vanity -- "Everyone thinks my lifestyle is so strange!"

'it's not strange, i'm glowing!!'

true happiness lies in the self-righteous expression of the mundane

vegans and zombies and bacon m i rite

"vegan is the new bone broth" lol i thought paleo was the new vegan

it is pretty funny how nytimes recycles trend pieces every few years e.g. the "hitler youth" haircut trend piece later done as "the disconnected undercut", dozens of "brooklyn is the new manhattan piece" and even a "manhattan is the new brooklyn" one lol

"veganism is now fashionable, not the hippie lentil burgers you once knew!" this has been a trend piece for prob at least a decade now since idk moby went vegan and opened that little shop in nyc

who wants some more cashew cheese

gesundheit

Cashew cheese is pretty good.

:/

:/

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A blast from the past, and a perhaps a different angle on the meritocracy quiddities

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/us/politics/20generation.html

Eleanor Celeste, at 26 if we believe the NYT, is now a "Policy Analyst for Medical and Forensic Sciences at The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy"

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/eleanor-celeste/21/10b/471

I am certain that no other qualified candidates were available, since medical and forensic sciences have only existed for about a decade or two.

We need an update on how the Celeste family feels about Bernie Sanders.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/04/travel/new-york-city-budget-travel.html
in which the author basically proves that expensive ny is far better than non-expensive ny

I'm sorry he missed out on the multiple health code-violating sushi.

looking at a recipe for squash salad in today's time magazine I encountered this glittery gem of the ruling class. last phrase perfectly sums up effete manhattan 2015 :(

We were eating dinner at Houseman, a restaurant opened by the chef Ned Baldwin on the once-quiet far-western side of SoHo, now called Hudson Square. It is a spare, welcoming room, with walls of white brick, warm lighting, smooth wooden tables the color of Bridgehampton sand — a neighborhood restaurant for those who live amid art and commerce, who travel widely, who want to eat simply and well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/magazine/a-new-winter-roast.html?ref=topics&_r=0

i prefer my tables to be more southampton sand colored, sry house man

say what you will, NYT knows the audience for its restaurant feature articles.

those readers who are truly of the upper crust want to look into a flattering mirror that only reflects what they hope others will envy about them. the aspiring middle class readers yearn to imagine themselves in some dim corner of that image. finally, there are the many hate-readers. the times has got them all covered.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/dining/la-chine-review.html?ref=dining&_r=0

But at the risk of undermining my populist credentials, I’d suggest New York could use more Chinese restaurants that are as expensive as our most ambitious French and Italian places.

no worries Pete, your populist credentials are non existent. to be fair he calls for better quality ingredients and more "creativity" from chefs and yeah there is a longstanding NYC assumption that Chinese food should be cheap. but for my money (pun intended) he doesn't bother to document many expensive ingredients (save for lamb loin) here and the creativity seems limited to some Japanese style raw fish starters which, as every other restaurant critic has been saying for 10 years, are a cliche. I love reading about restaurants especially places I can't afford or would never go to but the Times coverage in this area grows more and more effete, exclusive, and (buzz word alert) entitled. This sentence is telling: paying a lot is now "one of the pleasures" of dining out.

"one of the pleasures" is not a quote from the review, BTW, it's a critical trope I read now in all kinds of reviews

one of the pains of reading a lot is you notice lazy writing

spent some time yesterday reading some of the 1000+ comments about his Per Se downgrade. i don't know why i did that.