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

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.

(I'm just o_O that his book is £20!)

((8/10 cats team captain or not))

(I'm just o_O that his book is £20!)

It'll be 99p soon enough.

I'll have it on my toast at that price point!

Another charity shop destined classic, who the fuck would want to read Rob Beckett's opinion on anything.

There's going to be some very unhappy dads getting this shit for their Christmas this year, look for the divorce rate to start climbing in the new year.

Not quite satisfying the remit of the thread but look at this classic piece of nonsense Tom Tugentwat has just come out with.

"If we cannot speak to that country then the separatists, the socialists, and the sandal-wearers will tear our great country down. They will reverse Brexit and drag us into a decade of decline."

at this point i'm desperate enough to support a popular front of separatists, socialists and sandal-wearers to crush tory reaction for good. if those only those groups had the coherence and power and discipline attributed to them by the right

if we had actual democratic discourse in this country no tory could be able to get away with warnings about "a decade of decline" ffs

Captain Tugwash loses points for not going with 'sandalnistas'

Poster Left makes a good point: we've just had a decade of decline.

On the other hand, in September 2012 the average house price in the UK was £162,080:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/jan/29/house-prices-creep-up-2012-land-registry

Whereas now a house is £289,099:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/08/average-uk-house-price-hits-record-but-market-starts-to-cool

Can you imagine the nightmare of a Labour government? House prices might have gone down.

Until I read this article I did not know that "No potatoes! No Popery!" was a Conservative campaign slogan in Lewes in 1765.

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/tofu-eating-wokerati-suella-braverman-embarrassing-labour-guardian-lib-dem-b1033854.html

one of these things is not like the other!

just in case of linkrot i think it is important to preserve “tofu-eating wokerati” here in a kind of semi-perpetuity

Mmmmmm, croissants.

everyone loves to munch em

'woke' has been fully ceded to the Right, I hear it 1000% times more from them than I've ever heard from starry-eyed do-gooder lefties

Stay woke, buy these cookies

“tofu-eating wokerati” sounds v racist against people who cook tofu in woks

woke is just the normie version of cucked now

tofu does not deserve this (also doesn't deserve the way people cook it in the west)

Woke-fu

men who eat tofu are basically being cuckolded by something foreign and might as well be women

the tofu-eating wokerati is transing your kids