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

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.

look i’m not implying that the guardian commenters aren’t extremely normal people, but there’s a whole thread on my article on food and class debating whether victorian sex workers would have had good teeth or not pic.twitter.com/HbmdeDsL54

— axaxaxas lmaö (@demarionunn) October 2, 2021

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/people/rob-beckett-working-class-man-breeding-middle-class-children-1248571

What is it with avocados as a lazy shorthand for middle-class signifiers? No one ate avocados back then Rob. The reason your kids are eating them is cos they're less than a quid at Aldi.

God knows it should be possible to write something at least mildly interesting about code switching, working class insecurity/inferiority complex and even the dread chips on shoulders but Christ I feel my soul start to leave my body when I see all these lame signifiers pile up, I was surprised not to read the words Ocado or Spoons in that piece but maybe he’s saving the good stuff for the book

it is bizarre that we are awash in this sea of class codes and the people paid money to write about it cannot for the life of them see any of it

can't believe a stand-up comedian wrote a lazy piece of shit

at least it's not "hoummous" any more
<reads piece>

oh, it is.

Houmousse? Houmousse? Never 'eard of it

I thought it was Hummus? And you can't argue with me I'm that posh I cook homemade falafels and sneer at terrible recipes that use tinned chickpeas!

thought you could spell it any way! but I remember a terrible Russell Kane bit years ago about CORIANDER and HUMMUS hawhaw,
I recently had friends incredulous when I told them we had powdered milk growing up. Think it was St Ivel. I definitely feel like a bit of a fraud in "normal" circles at times.

should be a full stop after "hawhaw" there. Me drinking shitty milk is nowt to do with Russell Kane.

I once heard an excellent interview with a hummus/hoummous expert who'd wrote a book on it and he basically said most of what passes for it in the UK is 3rd rate gack and barely resembles the real stuff you'd get in a Middle Eastern cafe. I dig that kind of food snobbery!

I did actually find myself making my own hummus on a few occasions. And baba ganoush!

That article is dire. Another poor elevator pitch to an agent uncomfortably stretched out to book form when it struggles to be of interest or entertainment as an article.You can practically feel the embarrassment of writing this slush coming off the page.