I’ll Cop To A Few Things
By Mitch Berg
I don’t have many “yuppie” affectations.
One of them I’ll cop to is beer. I didn’t really start drinking seriously until I went to Europe. I developed a taste for good beer before I developed a tolerance for crummy beer. So ever since then, generally, when given a choice between a case of Budweiser and a six-pack of something really, really good for the same price, I’ll take the good beer and drink nice and slow.
Coffee is another. I never drank coffee – not even when I worked graveyard shift radio (Mountain Dew provided my caffeine back then). Then I got married to a coffee drinker, and lived across from a Dunn Brothers. And…wow. Just…wow.
So to this day, I’ll squeedge out two bucks for a large DunnBros, if I need it.
Takeaway; I can see the point behind some of the “hoity toidy” obsessions some of us have. I can justify liking the “good stuff” rather than choking down the crummy stuff, when one has it as a responsible option.
That being said, I want to pants this guy just on principle.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:55 am
“Of course, if you swing the Pike’s Place way, you can try the VIA™ Colombian blend which tasted pretty much like brown water. The Italian Roast though had acid and some body. It wasn’t as rich or nuanced as a freshly roasted batch of in-season organically farmed direct trade beans, but then nothing really is.”
I want to beat this guy about the head with a jelly dong.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 am
Come on, I order all my coffees with an extra shot of “political statement”.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:06 am
You right-wingers have a dread of appearing to be what you are, namely out-of-touch elitists. You’re desperate to seem like regular guys, presumably for electoral reasons. It’s why former President GHW Bush put it around that he just *loves* him some pork rinds. And why a bunch of Minnesota conservatives can debate who likes country music the most.
Well you’re back to being a minority party, so why keep up the pretense? Get out your cigars and brandy snifters! Affect a fruity Oxford accent! Listen to your inner William F. Buckley! You’re losers. So you might as well live a little!
Or – and this might be too far a stretch – just be normal people. If you like coffee and you have the money, buy good coffee. If you like organic food, go to Whole Foods. Heck, if you fancy a Subaru or one of them other libral cars, go ahead and buy one.
As in all things, follow Angryclown’s example. Angryclown isn’t embarrassed to admit that he hoses down his patsies with the finest vintage seltzer (if it’s not from the Seltzer region of France, it’s “sparkling water,” not seltzer) or that he hits people with cream pies made by a top Belgian pastry chef.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:54 am
You right-wingers have a dread of appearing to be what you are, namely out-of-touch elitists.
Perhaps because I’m too busy appearing to be a red-state flyover-land banjo-picking yokel?
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:59 am
Don’t you actually play the banjo?
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:14 am
angryclown said:
“As in all things, follow Angryclown’s example”
angryclown is a total racist. I have no proof, it’s just the truth, and he knows it.
Example followed. 🙂
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:14 pm
“Minnesota conservatives can debate who likes country music the most.”
alt-country maybe.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:23 pm
As in all things, follow Angryclown’s example
Paper bag? Check.
Spray paint? Doh.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:11 pm
How do you keep the floppy shoes on?
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
“That being said, I want to pants this guy just on principle.”
I’ll hold him down (on principle), if you promise that AC is next!
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Somebody pass angryclown the Grey Poupon.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Assclown wouldn’t know fine taste if it bit him on the tongue.
Booze, live a little and pass up on the cheap stuff. Scotch, Beer, Wine… steak…
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:09 pm
I make no apologies for being an eletist and some times snob.
I learned to appreciate arabica bean coffee in the middle east and europe long before it became common here, and prefer my coffee made in a french press because it really DOES taste better. So what?
I share your taste Mitch not only in good scotch, but in the occasional good brew, and recommend the taste testing offered as part of touring the local micro breweries for a really good time. They introduce not only their specialities, but many also educate the tourists on the different ingredients. After seeing some of the different varieties of hopps for example, before brewing, it is much easier to isolate the different components when subsequently tasting the beer, ale, etc.
Ditto some of the Minnesota wineries – I particularly have enjoyed the motto of one of those, Bailey’s, “wine made from grapes that have suffered”, LOL.
Very Minnesotan.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:36 pm
I only feel like an elitist when AC is in the room.