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

I'm literally drinking a latte right now

feel like burger with k&f would be acceptable, so many burgers are stupidly too big to eat as the sandwiches they are anyway

I recall someone saying that anyone who has only eaten houmous outside of the middle east/Isreal doesn't know what it really is. It was some dude who wrote a book about houmous talking on R4.

(hotdog thing is a strange life choice for sure xp)

politicians should probably not eat in public -- none of them seem to know how to do it

i hate to say it but a lot of the attitudes in this country can be traced to my hero george carlin. he had a large cult of morning radio hosts who loved to rant about the latte people. george was really good at it though.

he was a good writer. that helped. now you get that generic "latte-swilling, kale-munching, home-schooling, etc..."

hot dog with a knife and fork is p outrageous but sadly difficult to compress into the pithy x-y'ing format.

the classic wes streeting distaste for 'trendy falafel bars' obviously says more of him being out of touch with the common man than it does of anyone else, since the usual term for 'trendy falafel bar' is 'kebab shop'.

i would kill for a trendy falafel bar in my town!

Oh, hm, "home-schooling" mostly calls to mind fundamentalist Christians for me. I think those were the only home-schooled people I knew.

effete middle class professionals only quaff prosecco these days surely

i think they are still into the whole "mixology" thing.

#smallbatchbitters

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politicians should probably not eat in public -- none of them seem to know how to do it

easily explained by the fact that they're all secretly 12-foot-tall babyeating reptoids iirc

when I was in the Netherlands the other day these beered-up Dutch #lads were bounding towards the takeaway I was standing outside chanting FALAFEL FALAFEL like you might expect a British counterpart to enthuse about cheeky Nandos. enjoyed it

the brunch munching, how to white supremacy well listening middle classes

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You heard it here first.

On a related tip disappointingly "muesli-eating" seems to have vanished from common usage as an insult. Though this quote by Labour MP Kevin Hughes from 2001 manages to get the trifecta of yogurt, muesli and Guardian readers: "Don't you find it bizarre, like I do, that the yoghurt-eating, muesli-eating, Guardian-reading fraternity are only too happy to want to protect the human rights of people who engage in terrorist acts?"

Shame he couldn't shoehorn "sandal wearing" in too.

Great thread: cf John Shuttleworth's cappucino references from back in the 90s

as an american, i find the notion that any deep-fried food could possibly be considered "elitist" to be nothing short of bizarre.

Lol, eating yogourt has class associations in the UK?

Not that I'm aware of. Maybe in 1932.

I think it veers through time, am pretty sure Steptoe-era sitcoms used yogurt as a class signifier

that just reminds me of ian mackaye's ice cream-eating motherfuckers taunt

What always makes me smile in threads like this is how subtle/regional class signifiers are, not that people think they don't exist because they aren't aware of them

Greek yogurt has blown up in recent years.

Basing this entirely on me buying it a lot more.

Nah, definitely a "sophistication" signifier for the last 2 or 3 years

i was waiting my whole life for greek yogurt apparently. love it. in the 90's all i could get was Erivan yogurt. still want a trendy falafel place though.

It certainly makes a good khorma, and is just lush with honey. You can get a tub of Greek Yoghurt and a bag of Kale in my local Co-op for a not very petit bourgeois price of just under 2 quid.

btw lex said what I was going to say re falafel/houmous/clueless whites but that reminds me to remind the thread that the influence of shit comedians in keeping the "I have run out of houmous #mostmiddleclasssentenceever #britishproblems" idiocy alive is as much a factor as that of shit columnists. Russell Kane is probably saying something about houmous right this very moment somewhere

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No lie, a few posts into this thread and all I could think of was Russell Kane shrieking 'CoriANDER!!!!'
Think this was from about a decade ago and it's clearly annoyed me ever since

Tbf he's a cunt

surely not

Remember the irst time I came across this kind of thing and it was a piece Michael Crick did around one of the Labour party conf (early 00s but could easily be wrong by five years either side) and he was playing with this awful Blairite activist who said something dumb around mushy peas.

Recently came across that Orwell fragment when quoted by Michael Deacon on twitter iirc and Orwell is totally the fuel these ppl consume when spouting this guff (but I suppose its much wider given the US dimension I am seeing but don't have time right now to process). I suspect Orwell has had an incredibly destructive effect on British politics that is being felt in a partic way at this very moment. I've got to read that Raymond Williams book on him to think about this.

the godawful right-wing comic strip mallard fillmore was like 50 percent "jokes" about liberals sipping lattes. it was almost kind of impressive how many latte-related ideas the guy managed to come up with.

Muscular Labourarity is an unfortunate legacy that Orwell has left for right wing cocks in denial

it seems wrong that politically bad drinking ranges from sipping via quaffing and slurping to swilling but politically bad eating features only munching

Omg

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nibbling! good call

(tho nail-nibbling does not strictly speaking belong with the others)

thought maybe its appeal had broadened since the 80s

can't help wondering why right wingers don't find themselves constantly disappointed by comrades who turn out to secret lefies

Oh wait, "lettuce-munching" = ARUGULA.

...which has been part of every McDonalds salad for years now

Alexei Sayle did this sort of stuff back when he was a bad Bootle alt. comic... as opposed to whatever it is he is now.

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’.

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(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"