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

Just walked past this ugly faux farmhouse type abode with the fake mews. Pretentious bloody croissant munching...

Is that crazy Dom name-checking Lacan? Looking forward to the Sun explaining him to their readers people who look at pictures

he's finally getting back at all those pricks. he'll show them!!

"The North London polenta-eating intelligentsia can’t cope with a North East accent challenging their preconceptions of what they think is best for the hoi-polloi".

Darren Grimes, still angling for a job at GB News

where on earth has he got the polenta thing from?

it just sounds fancy, I think.

Don’t tell me you never noticed how the ruling classes are always wolfing down Italian grits.

maybe tom harwood posted a picture of some polenta on his instagram

I was sure this bump would be about the John Harris tweet (in which the croissants were only implied)

polenta doesn't really make much of a meal or snack on its own though

Polenta (mămăligă) is the ultimate peasant food in Romania so seeing it cited itt is amusing.

I think of it as coarse corn flour, like the first time I bought it was to make some cornbread which is probably a trailer park staple in the US!

Should have used "LaCroix-sipping" for the rhyme with hoi polloi.

Or maybe "bok choy".

Hoi polloi means commoners tho

But ppl often mistakenly use it to mean the opposite so it fits itt

i thought this polenta thing was made up today, but it seems to originate from late-90s river cafe menus which have conned a whole generation of right wing pundits into believing that polenta is expensive pic.twitter.com/kCmqfqEdx3

— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) June 4, 2021

Also Derwood should know that it’s wrong to put ‘the’ before ‘hoi polloi’.

polenta-eating intelligentsia

Pictured:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYO4e0uHVDk

Oh I missed hoi polloi in the grimes quote, thought peace man was just talking about the thread title

'The hoi polloi' is perfectly fine in English, as is 'chai tea', 'Sharia law' or 'the La Brea tar pits'.

"shrimp scampi"

scampi fry-crunching cognoscenti

polentaful

Hoi polloi means commoners tho

― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, June 4, 2021 2:40 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

But ppl often mistakenly use it to mean the opposite so it fits itt

― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, June 4, 2021 2:40 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I think it's often confused for "hoity toity".

Hoi polloi means commoners tho

"their preconceptions of what they think is best for the hoi-polloi"

yes he certainly is, wins at first missed the Darren Grimes quote and thought peace, man was commenting on the thread title.

or something like that

no hoi polloi/twitter embeds politics thread

just thinking about that time d-mac attempted a "no hoi polloi" politics thread - which I think was in response to a snarky post I made!

well half of the thread title I mean

TIL how to pronounce La Croix

...sweetie?

Hoi polloienta

> polenta-eating intelligentsia

polentelligentsia

polentascenti

it's just highfalutin' corn meal mush

PoneHub

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/02/food-choices-proxy-class-britain

that's a decent piece on the oat milk swilling Ocado elite! Can't people have been picking on polenta again.

a 375g packet of polenta costs £2 at Ocado

resist oat milk though, especially the milkshakes that are treble the price of the dairy ones.

Good first paragraph to that piece. I use oat milk for porridge but don't like the taste of it with coffee at all.

i tried it with porridge and didn't love the taste but i cd probably adapt but i don't use milk much anyway. my daughter has a real thing for oat milk coffee lattes and such but she swears she's developed a bit of lactose intolerance

I prefer the lighter qualities of UHT milk in my coffee and for sauces. But I did read that the rise in severe allergies is connected with old school milk going out of fashion and all the lovely bacteria in it was good for us.

snooty-toby-young-dumbfounded-when-scarborough-coffee-shop-doesnt-know-what-a-contradiction-is

lol came here much too slow to post that piece

guardian is good when it hires good writers to write good pieces

grouse is terrific if it's been hung properly btw

(by the neck until dead, like er landlords)

... or Toby Young.

toby young is never terrific: this is the hill i will die on

(from overcrowding)

Good first paragraph to that piece. I use oat milk for porridge but don't like the taste of it with coffee at all.

― nashwan, Saturday, 2 October 2021 bookmarkflaglink

See I really like the creamy that oat milk gives to coffee.