"croissant-munching, latte-sipping": instances of misconceived media-class self-loathing ITT

https://twitter.com/stephenkb/status/803913297598812160

an national embarrassment iirc xp

The food in question is always soft, pale and a bit foreign.

In the UK this goes back at least as far as the Macaronis of the C18th.

The thing I remember about the Mandelson/guacamole story is that when it appeared in the Guardian they felt the need to make clear to their readers that the "Scallops 50p" that could be seen on the chippy's price list in the accompanying photo were in fact slices of deep-fried potato in batter, and not Coquilles St-Jacques.

i'm guessing since it's a seaport that you could actually also buy shellfish in hartlepool even in the 1980s, though maybe not at a chippie

Thread reminds me of this - a story which sort of sums up Enda Kenny for me:

On to the Omni Park centre in Santry. Enda went to his favourite canvassing spot – a cafe. He whacked a man on the back to announce his presence, moving swiftly on as the man removed his fork to check if he still had any teeth. He sat beside a couple having their breakfast and cooed at their baby. Then he left them, bewildered, in his wake.
What did he say? “The beans and the rashers,” replied the Dad. “He just said ‘the beans and the rashers’.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GrX1TiJ_gwY/US6TNrwmLrI/AAAAAAAAALg/bQdDmTzqfHM/s1600/BNO_FATTY_beans.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZpBZlXGOpS8/UiD_LviwOKI/AAAAAAAAAto/uhIInP83SJU/s1600/rasher

(the pig is called rasher)

i found these images while hunting for an image of a phenom in uk comics (=beano and dandy, not 2000AD) of slap-up feeds that consisted of ICE CREAM AND CHIPS (a huge mound of ice cream with chips sticking out of it, much as you see bangers & mash depicted in the same comics, except it was ice cream and chips)

i specifically recall these as an occasional item in the three bears (persistent story = the three bears eat a lot, cannot pay, are required to do the washing up) and bad penny (a lesser known version of minnie the minx and beryl the peril)

i remember being baffled by this aged 7 or so and asking mum why they were eating ice cream and chips -- and her saying the 1967 equivalent of "because it's two great tastes together at last"

fuckin hell, hungry now

Googling bangers and mash, was reminded of these two rapscallions:

http://schoolreading70sbooks.weebly.com/uploads/2/0/5/5/20553238/6138925_orig.jpg

There was also a tv show, with, iirc, a theme tune by Chas and Dave.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Quichereilawjd.gif

http://schoolreading70sbooks.weebly.com/uploads/2/0/5/5/20553238/2147320.jpg

One day this summer I was riding through Letchworth when the bus stopped and two dreadful-looking old men got on to it. They were both about sixty, both very short, pink, and chubby, and both hatless. One of them was obscenely bald, the other had long grey hair bobbed in the Lloyd George style. They were dressed in pistachio-coloured shirts and khaki shorts into which their huge bottoms were crammed so tightly that you could study every dimple.

Probably not socialists. Just from Letchworth

"obscenely bald" oh noes how disgusting

a bobby charlton-style combover counts as 'obscenely bald' imo

that one might be a bit offensive to Stephen Kinnock.

classic enda

how on earth he managed to be pm of ireland for so so long is beyond me...

This week's Economist described posh, Conservative-voting villages as "gin and jag" towns. As if poor people don't drink gin. Or have crying jags.

"latte-sipping, cum-guzzling"

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just reddit :(

@andyburnhammp

Bit bizarre hearing these right-wing calls for a "Barista Visa". God forbid the idea of waiting longer in the morning for their posh coffee

^^^suspect this was actually a poorly formed joke abt typical journalist priorities -- nicknaming the visa for pret staff rather than say carers -- but of course it has landed as an attempt to revisit owen smith's "frothy coffee in a mug" triumph

Andy Burnham - too real for Starbucks

he should have a pop at this American "hammed burger" nonsense next

It's a good formula though - just add "posh" or "organic" before something innocuous/foreign/innocuously foreign = instant "man of the people"

Posh coffee
Posh lettuce
Posh hamburgers
Organic falafels
Etc

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/26/dip-back-in-beat-the-hummus-crisis-with-this-quick-recipe

Obviously this is peak-Guardian, and as a red-blooded male I was unaware that the hummus crisis was even a thing, but this is self-evidently part of a right-wing conspiracy to starve Corbyn supporters to death ahead of the general election.

Hummus crisis mentioned on HIGNFY last night too, complete with "this is a disaster for us liberal media elite types" self-flagellation.

I heard an interview with some dude who wrote a book about Hummus and he was very dismissive of what passes for it in the UK. He stated if you haven't tried freshly made Hummus from the Middle East or Israel then you really don't know what it truly is. I'll be looking to see if the Hummus Crisis has hit my local Co-op laters!

"You will need tahini. Nigella Lawson prefers peanut butter"

You metropolitan elites are savages!

the turkish-run cornershop where they call me "boss" if anything has more cheap hummus than usual at the moment

(i am not their actual boss)

There is no scarcity of it's base ingredients, so it pretty much isn't a crisis.

there is literally endless hummus every time i go in the supermarket, wtf is this alleged shortage supposed to be?

one of the suppliers who sells to Sainsburies/Waitrose has manufacturing problems. It is just some wacky Ed Balls Day type meme really.

nobody ever knocks taramasalata-munchers just because of the physical difficulty of reading it

turks i know always just call it tarama (which makes sense bcz salata means salad)

houmous memes are the most disgusting savage shit ever

admittedly this is the one thing I get to be all dayo about

Pity u spelt it wrong so there boss

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houmous memes are the most disgusting savage shit ever

admittedly this is the one thing I get to be all dayo about

why? why on earth could anyone have a reaction to a bland few stories about the lack of humus in supermarkets?

hummus*

before anyone soils themselves

Applause

Good thread.

What are the actual class-signifying tastes and products and buying choices etc at the moment? Are there any? Or would that be separate thread

I think quinoa has overtaken croissants as the middle class plat du jour.

Houses

Spelling of humus is a massive unexplored system of cultural fault lines tbh.

muhammara >>> hummus

Good thread.

What are the actual class-signifying tastes and products and buying choices etc at the moment? Are there any? Or would that be separate thread

kale

I have just made a delicious batch of Kale/Spinach/Potato/Leek soup this morning, so that's my wannabe middle class foodie hipster action of the day done with!

i just had the classic full english sunday fry-up: bacon, scrambled egg, fried chorizo, toasted croissant CRUNCH CRUNCH MUNCH MUNCH

all from the turkish cornershop, this is not fancy food