David Brooks Says Something Stupid, Sparking Debate On Precise Reason Why It Is Stupid

From his prissy little office at the New York Times:

Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches named "Padrino" and "Pomodoro" and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican....
American upper-middle-class culture (where the opportunities are) is now laced with cultural signifiers that are completely illegible unless you happen to have grown up in this class. They play on the normal human fear of humiliation and exclusion. Their chief message is, "You are not welcome here."
In her thorough book "The Sum of Small Things," Elizabeth Currid-Halkett argues that the educated class establishes class barriers not through material consumption and wealth display but by establishing practices that can be accessed only by those who possess rarefied information.
To feel at home in opportunity-rich areas, you've got to understand the right barre techniques, sport the right baby carrier, have the right podcast, food truck, tea, wine and Pilates tastes, not to mention possess the right attitudes about David Foster Wallace, child-rearing, gender norms and intersectionality.

Shibboleths is what he's talking about, and yeah, it's a problem.

I don't really believe that someone was freaked out by high-end sandwiches, though. Pretty sure someone could manage to say "I'd like ham and cheese on some bread of some kind," even if a little shocked by -- get this -- cappicola.

Are people really freaked out by cappicola? I have a large amount of trouble believing that. It's a fairly common spiced ham -- it's a main ingredient in an Italian sub, which is not, as far as a I know, a high-end rich-people-eat-this type of sandwich.

Personally, I think this Social Calamity occurred almost entirely within the confines of David Brooks' head -- I think we're hearing about his Social Status Shock, not his non-college-educated "friend's."

By the way, where did David Brooks come by this non-college-educated "friend"? Last time I heard from him, he was asking the government to set up Adult Day Camps where people of different social classes could meet and mingle.

Or, as I said at the time -- David Brooks needs a federal funded program that will introduce him to his doorman.

(Don't comment on old threads-- you'll get banned! And also, We Who Know Better will Mock you for your ignorant, backwoods ways!)

Still and all, I guess he has something of a point in claiming that the upper middle white college-educated class is ruining this country (in the main -- present company excepted, evidemment!!)

People are little tired of the ruling caste's shibboleths and smelly little orthodoxies (a redolent phrase I picked up from Instapundit, who quoted it from Spiked!, who may have quoted it from George Orwell).

Rod Dreher takes David Brooks seriously, maybe more seriously than he deserves.

Update [OregonMuse]

This seemed appropriate:

Brooks takes me to a sandwich place & he's like "Oh want to go to a fruit stand?" I'm like Dave, I'm a gorilla but I know what capicollo is. pic.twitter.com/OCNpblV6zz
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) July 11, 2017

Posted by: Ace at 08:05 PM

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1 Que?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 07:58 PM (6gk0M)

2 Mmmmmmmmmmm, Mexican

Posted by: Homer Simpson at July 11, 2017 07:58 PM (IqV8l)

3 What David brooks would like is a federal funded program to teach people how to be conservative.

Posted by: Ripley at July 11, 2017 08:00 PM (NbRJx)

4 I call this "Arugula Syndrome."

Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2017 08:01 PM (DQ4Fv)

5 What's with the food jokes and D Brooks? He is a little pudgy and soft but nowhere near fat.

I missed a riff again, didn't I?

Posted by: L, Elle at July 11, 2017 08:01 PM (Rsi2C)

6 Maybe Brooks finally bought his doorman lunch.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2017 08:01 PM (Ri/rl)

7 Brooks imagines himself a toff.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 11, 2017 08:01 PM (LTHVh)

8 Growing up, I'll bet David Brooks got the shit kicked out of him often.

Posted by: tu3031 at July 11, 2017 08:02 PM (qJhUV)

9 At least he didn't ask her to make him a sammich.

Posted by: Aunt Luna at July 11, 2017 08:02 PM (Zd2ZF)

10 This is at best a parable that Brooks showed himself as utterly incompetent in crafting.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at July 11, 2017 08:02 PM (2VN2E)

11 Pizza is still pizza right ad DAMN I read the content!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 11, 2017 08:03 PM (31vnC)

12 At this point I have to wonder what is conservative about the New York Times token.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 11, 2017 08:03 PM (LTHVh)

13
Try the Palomino!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 11, 2017 08:03 PM (pNxlR)

14 Anyone believe that asshole would ever dare to keep anyone in his circle with only a high school diploma?

And didn't ace once do some mocking of Brooks' way of starting his article about "recently I was with friend" or "recently I was talking to the taxi driver"

Posted by: Buzzion at July 11, 2017 08:03 PM (z/Ubi)

15 Willowed from the last thread, but too good not to post. Not my comment.

Ace, or anybody who might know:

In puberty in cis-males, one of the main "side"-effects of increased
the arrival ofHGH in the body is...big increase in genital size. As
literally everyone in the world knows. Boys go from having little dinky
pinky dicks and no balls to having big swingers with clanking balls. All
as a result of a big surge of HGH (and testosterone) in the pubescent
bodies. (Gee, this is starting to sound a bit pervy, unwittingly).

Anyway, my question is:

Can adult males experience "mankind's ultimate quest" of increased penile growth in adulthood through increasing their HGH levels, either naturally via fasting, or artificially with injections?

I was once told, by a doctor, that it is indeed possible, but
medically unethical to recommend, because of the numerous serious side
effects of taking HGH, to rectify a non-problem (average penis size).
But it is an open secret that one CAN literally "grow a bigger penis"
this way.

But if the medical profession can conduct major invasive surgery to
humor the delusional fantasies of transgenders, why not give HGH and
testosterone to humor the delusional fantasies of men with penis-size
insecurities?

Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2017 08:00 PM (DQ4Fv)

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at July 11, 2017 08:03 PM (fKWf6)

16 Cappicola? What is that?
Its gobagoo.

Posted by: gobagoo at July 11, 2017 08:03 PM (A/saJ)

17 Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches named "Padrino" and "Pomodoro" and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican....
----
Is this for fucking real? I'm a HS/Tech School lumpentrog and even I can appreciate layers of spicy soppressata, as succulent as a cabana boy's behind.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:03 PM (QGoUX)

18 Methinks Brooks is just babbling.

Posted by: freaked at July 11, 2017 08:03 PM (BO/km)

19 Surely his imaginary friend learned all kinds of wonderful things about deli meats if she went to one of those fancy degree-granting high schools, instead of a place where she could merely earn a diploma like the high schools here on earth.

Posted by: bgates at July 11, 2017 08:03 PM (k+AnH)

20 Anyone believe that asshole would ever dare to keep anyone in his circle with only a high school diploma?

Someone's wife, maybe?

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at July 11, 2017 08:03 PM (fKWf6)

21 toff?

toff: noun.
A rich or upper class person

Posted by: L, Elle at July 11, 2017 08:03 PM (Rsi2C)

22 I guess David's "friend" doesn't get the Food Channel.

Posted by: huerfano at July 11, 2017 08:03 PM (TO4Og)

23 More.... he extrapolates one persons experience into a cultural phenom...

Would he know Southern Food? Tex Mex? REAL BBQ???? no....

And if he didn't would certain rednecks make fun of the Pencil Neck.... well.... probably....

So knowing this, would he put himself in that position?

Uh.... no....

Every group has its in things... its cultural norms that if you don't know them, you are an outsider...

Its nothing new at all.... except to those who have never been outside their own little bubble.

Posted by: Don Q. at July 11, 2017 08:04 PM (NgKpN)

24 Never heard of cappicola til just now.

Guess that makes me an ignorant rube. Thank God.

Posted by: Country Boy at July 11, 2017 08:04 PM (QwbmS)

25 What do Mexicans call Mexican food?

Food.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2017 08:04 PM (/tuJf)

26 4 I call this "Arugula Syndrome."
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2017 08:01 PM (DQ4Fv)

I read your comment on the previous thread. I'm surprised Doctors aren't already doing this. They do vaginal rejuvenation.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2017 08:04 PM (Ri/rl)

27 You talk like a fag and your shits all retarded.

Posted by: Dr Lexus at July 11, 2017 08:04 PM (lOJ7h)

28 My guess is that his friend wasn't frozen with fear, but just annoyed and maybe a little uncomfortable at being in such a pretentious place, especially if they don't like the fru-fru hipster crap.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at July 11, 2017 08:04 PM (fKWf6)

29 Basically Brooks is lying because...

1. David Brooks does not have friends from any socio-economic strata.
2. David Brooks does not eat sandwhich meat.

and finally....

3. David Brooks talks like a fag and his shit is all retarded.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 11, 2017 08:05 PM (9A6UB)

30
In her thorough book "The Sum of Small Things," Elizabeth Currid-Halkett argues that the educated class establishes class barriers not through material consumption and wealth display but by establishing practices that can be accessed only by those who possess rarefied information.

Take them out of their buzzworded bubble and set them in a location where all their safe words count for zippo and tgen let's see who is uncomfortable. I loathe these pricks.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 11, 2017 08:05 PM (pNxlR)

31 Solamente Latinos para lanzamiento priemera.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:05 PM (6gk0M)

32 Yeah, she was quaking in her boots over some fucking sandwiches.

You know when someone is too dumb to doubt their own intelligence? Not dumb in the I.Q. sense, but just lacking the ability to see people as fully realized humans, and not cartoons.

A lack of emotional insight is its own form of "dumbness."

Posted by: Max Power at July 11, 2017 08:05 PM (q177U)

33 I prefer The Rays' version of Shibboleths over the slightly-goofy uptempo version which Herman's Hermits recorded.

Posted by: music expert at July 11, 2017 08:05 PM (cs4mn)

34 I also noted this morning that Brooks "only" has a BA degree in history.

I was going to take him to lunch, but with my two Masters degrees I didn't know anywhere that a prole like him would be at home. I was startled at how stark the cultural divide is.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at July 11, 2017 08:05 PM (2VN2E)

35 Bienvidos a Miami, aficionados de beisbol.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:07 PM (6gk0M)

36
Never heard of cappicola til just now.

Guess that makes me an ignorant rube. Thank God.
Posted by: Country Boy

Me neither. Sounds like a Kaboom version of Pepsi.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2017 08:07 PM (IqV8l)

37 David Brooks is a douche nozzle....not that he would want to go there

Posted by: fu52 at July 11, 2017 08:07 PM (HpUpB)

38 "My guess is that his friend wasn't frozen with fear, but just annoyed and maybe a little uncomfortable at being in such a pretentious place,"

Probably afraid to order. Might accidently get a bean sprout and broccoli paste sandwich.

Posted by: freaked at July 11, 2017 08:07 PM (BO/km)

39 OT

WTF is wrong with Maj Gen Peters on Tucker Carlson?

He is acting teh crazee.

Posted by: mpfs, I find most people smell of elderberries at July 11, 2017 08:07 PM (79p/O)

40 David Brooks needs to check his gluten privilege. His friend is obviously a celiac and that's why she was terrified of the sandwiches.

Posted by: wooga at July 11, 2017 08:08 PM (lOJ7h)

41 I think Brooks made the whole encounter up-out of whole cloth.
I'm well enough read and educated. My challenges are that I'm not a foodie. I eat to live and I hate pretension. But I'm very capable of asking questions about things I don't understand.
I call bs on Brooks.

Posted by: Northernlurker at July 11, 2017 08:08 PM (eAMlh)

42 I've never heard of a striata baguette. I know what a baguette is.

I guess I'm not fancy enough.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2017 08:08 PM (Ri/rl)

43 >>>But it is an open secret that one CAN literally "grow a bigger penis" this way.

Uh...NO. HGH is a common bodybuilding drug to use post steroid cycles. People use and abuse this constantly and I've never heard of people growing huge wankers from it.

Posted by: Max Power at July 11, 2017 08:08 PM (q177U)

44 Dreher takes him seriously because he is the same kind of pompous elitist asshole...

Posted by: steevy at July 11, 2017 08:08 PM (rmVvL)

45 Maybe David should do an article where a hillbilly takes David on a canoe trip, drinks moonshine, ass rapes him and David can tell us how out of place he feels when told to drop them pants.

Drop?

Take 'em right off.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 11, 2017 08:08 PM (5VlCp)

46 The sandwich not a sammich probably cost $25.

'nuf said

Posted by: mpfs, I find most people smell of elderberries at July 11, 2017 08:08 PM (79p/O)

47 Heh. Douchebags like this guy keep me in business.

Posted by: Luigi's House of Exotic Sounding Sandwiches at July 11, 2017 08:08 PM (qJhUV)

48 "Probably afraid to order. Might accidently get a bean sprout and broccoli paste sandwich."
-Posted by: freaked at July 11, 2017 08:07 PM (BO/km)

Probably didn't want to pay seventeen dollars for such a sandwich.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:08 PM (6gk0M)

49 Sorry, one more.

A few days ago Ace levied some criticism at those who don't believe that other people know what they know. If they don't know something, then it is unknowable.

Brooks certainly seems to occupy that space.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at July 11, 2017 08:08 PM (2VN2E)

50 28 My guess is that his friend wasn't frozen with fear, but just annoyed and maybe a little uncomfortable at being in such a pretentious place, especially if they don't like the fru-fru hipster crap.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at July 11, 2017 08:04 PM (fKWf6)
--
My mom is like a deer in headlights looking at the coffee selection in a typical neo-beatnik java joint (and I have to drag her there, telling her she can be Jane Goodall among the hipster apes).

"Just give me a plain cup of coffee!" she shrieks and tosses a few bills on the counter.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:08 PM (QGoUX)

51 I thought for sure he was going to make a snide remark about his "ill-educated" friend being a Trump supporter.

Posted by: ShainS at July 11, 2017 08:09 PM (ZcAbN)

52 I always order 'small, medium or large' at Starbucks because fuck making me pick some weird foreign word for 'small, medium or large'.

Yes, I'm exaggerating and yes I'm serious.

And how condescending Brooks sounds. Asking is 'friend' if she wants to go elsewhere, showing such concern for his country cousin.

The monkey fucker. I hate that guy and guys like him.

He gives intellectuals a bad name.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 11, 2017 08:09 PM (3OIiX)

53 Celiacs can't eat sammiches?
My sister says her kids have to celiacs and they're always eating sammiches

Is she a bad mom that means?

Posted by: L, Elle at July 11, 2017 08:09 PM (Rsi2C)

54 What's wrong with having manners and being decent to each other? Who in the flying fuck cares if someone has x, y or z?

The more we try to figure out and intellectualize these class gaps the further away we get from the answer.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at July 11, 2017 08:10 PM (IYHxL)

55 Brook's ought to visit the food thread and broaden his horizons.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 11, 2017 08:10 PM (wWrLQ)

56 Probably shocked at the prices, not the food

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at July 11, 2017 08:10 PM (hMwEB)

57
And didn't ace once do some mocking of Brooks' way of starting his article about "recently I was with friend" or "recently I was talking to the taxi driver"
Posted by: Buzzion at July 11, 2017 08:03 PM

Tom Friedman had an article about a taxi driver somewhere who imparted sage advice.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2017 08:10 PM (IqV8l)

58 My guess is that his friend wasn't frozen with fear, but just annoyed and maybe a little uncomfortable at being in such a pretentious place, especially if they don't like the fru-fru hipster crap.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at July 11, 2017 08:04 PM (fKWf6)

That seems likely. I've been to a lot of fancy restaurants - not New York fancy, but fancy enough to serve things like duck and imported wines. I've enjoyed most of the ones I've been to, but there were a couple where I didn't see anything on the menu that appealed to me and I really was just in the mood for cheese fries.

Posted by: Aunt Luna at July 11, 2017 08:10 PM (Zd2ZF)

59 This is the first I ever read of cappicola either. And I was born to that transnational Euro-yuppie class which Brooks is grumbleflaunting. (So, I suppose, I'm doing the same thing now...)

Would it have been all that hard for Brooks to have said something deprecating about 'bobos in paradise' and then translated the bullshit for his guest? But then he'd not have had an article.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 11, 2017 08:10 PM (6FqZa)

60 True -- and hilarious -- story that is a perfect illustration of the white progressive culinary shibboleths:

I know someone who volunteers at a "food bank" run by bleeding-heart leftie white upper-middle-class folks who hand out weekly "food boxes" to mostly black inner city mothers.

But because they're pretentious and want the black to be equally pretentious and share the same hoity-toity food shibboleths, the lefties don't fill the food boxes with "staples" like potatoes and rice and beans and so forth, but instead with esoteric high-end hipster vegetables -- like endive, rutabagas, bok choy, arugula, sunchokes, tomatilloes, Laotian eggplant, etc.

But what happens is this: The blakc mothers go to the food bank, in a warehouse in a ghetto-y part of town, pick up their boxes of food, and then as they walk away into the surrounding neighborhoods, literally throw all the pretentious vegetable away, littering behind them streams of parsnips and icicle radishes and broccolini along the sidewalks of town. They only want to keep packaged food and recognizable comfort foods.

So the neighborhood once a week turns into a gigantic compost heap of pretentious hipster vegetables.

And the virtue-signalling wheels keep-a turning.

Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2017 08:10 PM (DQ4Fv)

61
recently I was talking to the taxi driver

Hey! Hey! Hey! That's my turf! Watch yourself Boy-O!

-- Phat Phook Thomas Phriedman (The "S" is Silent)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 11, 2017 08:11 PM (pNxlR)

62 I had a couple years of college, so I've heard of cappicola, but not padrino and soppressata. I guess you learn about those in upper-level courses.

In other news, intrigued by all the talk about Cheerwine in the art thread, I looked at their website to see if it was available in my area. It listed Wegman's, and sure enough, they had it! I should have known. They also had Vegemite when I got the urge to try that.

However, since I just got back from an hour-long vet visit, the Cheerwine will have to wait. It's martini time now.

Posted by: rickl at July 11, 2017 08:11 PM (sdi6R)

63 Here's the Andrew Dice Clay version:

"So after banging this chick, we went for a bite. As she was deciding what to order, I says, "What, you didn't get enough meat already!? Woah!"

Posted by: goatexchange at July 11, 2017 08:12 PM (YFnq5)

64 This reminds me of Liz Warren talking how she hears about the voters concerns while standing in line at the "cheese shop".

Posted by: tu3031 at July 11, 2017 08:12 PM (qJhUV)

65 24 Never heard of cappicola til just now.

Guess that makes me an ignorant rube. Thank God.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 11, 2017 08:04 PM (QwbmS)

Or just that you don't go to Subway that often. Cappicola is in sandwiches they have there.

Posted by: buzzion at July 11, 2017 08:12 PM (z/Ubi)

66 Oh man, Cheerwine is great. I love it with vanilla vodka.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:12 PM (QGoUX)

67 David Brooks has a friend?

Not possible.

Posted by: mpfs, I find most people smell of elderberries at July 11, 2017 08:12 PM (79p/O)

68
I daresay Brooks badly needs to experience the intersectionality of a fist (or two) with his throat.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 11, 2017 08:12 PM (pNxlR)

69
The sandwich not a sammich probably cost $25.

I was able to retire by NOT spending ridiculous amounts of money on overpriced lunch meat.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2017 08:12 PM (IqV8l)

70 Personally, I think this Social Calamity occurred almost entirely within the confines of David Brooks' head

And there's frightfully little maneuvering room in here.

Posted by: David Brooks' "Thoughts" at July 11, 2017 08:13 PM (Mouru)

71 Now substitute "black" in all the appropriate places.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 11, 2017 08:13 PM (34E+f)

72 Me, I love Cheetos.

They go with everything.

Posted by: mpfs, I find most people smell of elderberries at July 11, 2017 08:13 PM (79p/O)

73 I hope Sherry is okay. She got upset about moron banter this morning beyond what I generally see here, and any moronette who lasts as long as she does in this place tends to have a thick skin. I'd expect more women to flee this place over the Great Teen Vogue Bungholing.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 11, 2017 08:14 PM (6FqZa)

74

Why are we even talking about a guy who only has a BA?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 11, 2017 08:14 PM (WwFyb)

75
This reminds me of Liz Warren talking how she hears about the voters concerns while standing in line at the "cheese shop".

I think she really meant to say "standing around the corral at the Great Plains Land Crabs Roundup".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 11, 2017 08:14 PM (pNxlR)

76 So, according to Brooks, the elite eat soppressata, capicollo and striata baguettes while the unwashed high school graduates eat Mexican food. I hope that the SJW cry-bullies descend on this a$$wipe and make his life living hell for equating "illegal immigrant cuisine" with second class citizens.

Petard, hoisting, some assembly needed thereof.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 11, 2017 08:14 PM (5Yee7)

77 64 This reminds me of Liz Warren talking how she hears about the voters concerns while standing in line at the "cheese shop".
Posted by: tu3031 at July 11, 2017 08:12 PM (qJhUV)
---
Some Norwegian Jarlsburg, perhaps?

Stilton? Danish Blue? Double Gloucester? Cheshire?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:14 PM (QGoUX)

78 Reckon Brooks knows what a backstrap is? How about how to wire a replacement plug for an extension cord? What ddwrt is? Any ASL?

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 11, 2017 08:14 PM (34E+f)

79 Brooks could have been a gentleman and asked his "friend" if he could order something for her. I would never take someone to a place that I would not be able to recommend something I know they would like.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 11, 2017 08:15 PM (wWrLQ)

80 Speaking of sandwhiches, the best sandwhich to be had is from a deli in Astoria Queens called the "Bomb".

It's got everything, it's huge and it's only $7.00

Pick one up on the way to Citifield.

Best deal in NYC.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 11, 2017 08:15 PM (9A6UB)

81 It often occurs to me that I personify many of the social paradigms that the Upper Middle Class would identify as deeply representative of its signifying norms and values.

*puffs pipe thoughtfully*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2017 08:15 PM (Mouru)

82 Posted by: rickl at July 11, 2017 08:11 PM (sdi6R)

I don't know what type of sandwich a padrino is but padrino is godfather in Spanish.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2017 08:15 PM (Ri/rl)

83 ...and, needless to say, I did not get my blowjob either!

Posted by: David Brooks at July 11, 2017 08:15 PM (qJhUV)

84 David Brooks is the cornerstone of the foundation of unearned smugness we so despise.

Posted by: Tentotwo at July 11, 2017 08:16 PM (yhf6w)

85 Dear Lord. David Brooks is claiming stupid people can only eat Mexican. Bigot much.

Posted by: Simplemind at July 11, 2017 08:16 PM (ZuGkg)

86 I hope Sherry is okay. She got upset about moron banter this morning beyond what I generally see here, and any moronette who lasts as long as she does in this place tends to have a thick skin. I'd expect more women to flee this place over the Great Teen Vogue Bungholing.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo

It will take a lot more than that to have me scurry to a safe space.

Like I always say... I come for the incisive commentary and stay for the filth.

Posted by: mpfs, I find most people smell of elderberries at July 11, 2017 08:16 PM (79p/O)

87 David who?

Posted by: Killerdog at July 11, 2017 08:16 PM (7O3zK)

88 So do the hipster douche bags running that sandwich place have well creased trousers?

Posted by: Northernlurker at July 11, 2017 08:16 PM (eAMlh)

89 Even if Brooks actually had a reasonable point to make, it got lost in the overwhelming douchiness.

Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2017 08:16 PM (0mRoj)

90 Don't wear white after September.

Everybody has got to stratify.

Posted by: MAGA at July 11, 2017 08:16 PM (Tyk2V)

91 David Brooks.... *taps chin*... He's the guy who was son enamored with Barkys trouser crease? Yeah fuck that guy in particular. What a fool.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 11, 2017 08:16 PM (zRoPh)

92 Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches
==

Write , old woman. Write like the wind.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at July 11, 2017 08:16 PM (xmlAN)

93 All I know is that Parmigiano Refrigiano is the king of all cheeses.

Posted by: bergerbilder at July 11, 2017 08:17 PM (lIZQs)

94 That might not be quite as obscure a reference as I tend to think it is, but well done, Eris.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 11, 2017 08:17 PM (34E+f)

95 ..."So the neighborhood once a week turns into a gigantic compost heap of pretentious hipster vegetables.

And the virtue-signalling wheels keep-a turning."
-Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2017 08:10 PM (DQ4Fv)

Ironically, that's what the article was all about. The pretentious separation between nomenclature of mixed meats and variety vegetables.

But David Brooks could not pretend to think that "High School Graduates" could grace his pretentious vestibules.

As he makes a large point, he shits all over us lil' "High School Graduates".

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:17 PM (6gk0M)

96 Maybe his friend was like one of those urban kids from The Wire. She was all embarrassed by her lack of knowledge about the strange hams on offer at the fancy sandwich shop. But, instead of helping her order, he saved both their prides and took her to a taco truck.

Another insightful story in the NYT.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 11, 2017 08:17 PM (FUu/Z)

97 Brooks unknowingly points the fickle finger of fate at Bernie Sanders' "free college" scheme.
The point was that the "free college" scheme was designed to center around community colleges (hint: not private colleges like Harvard and Yale), thus clearing out the "cake-eaters" from the Morse deserving "elites".

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at July 11, 2017 08:17 PM (e8kgV)

98 I'd like to confront David Brooks with a semiautomatic assault sandwich and see how he reacts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2017 08:17 PM (Mouru)

99 Why are we even talking about a guy who only has a BA?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

I'm sorry, I didn't graduate from college. Does BA stand for Butt Acne?

Posted by: mpfs, I find most people smell of elderberries at July 11, 2017 08:18 PM (79p/O)

100 What, no cheddar?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2017 08:18 PM (IqV8l)

101 I'd expect more women to flee this place over the Great Teen Vogue Bungholing.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
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I'm not going back to plunge into the bocage. What was the absolute filthiest thing said?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:18 PM (QGoUX)

102 >>>Is she a bad mom that means?

People with celiac disease get explosive diarrhea from gluten ingestion. 99% of bread has gluten.

Posted by: wooga at July 11, 2017 08:18 PM (lOJ7h)

103 I kissed a whole line of demarcation in that last post.

I may have been drinking.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:19 PM (6gk0M)

104 I'm a heterosexual woman, David. You're my platonic gay friend. I'm hardly going to give you a bj even if you did buy me a sandwich with a pretentious name.

Posted by: Sandwich lady at July 11, 2017 08:19 PM (iVOAv)

105 It's a good bet that Brooks couldn't field strip a 1911 Colt....

Posted by: steevy at July 11, 2017 08:19 PM (rmVvL)

106 I dream of a day when men will be judged, not by the color of their skin but by their condescension as they order their douchewhiches.

Posted by: Northernlurker at July 11, 2017 08:19 PM (eAMlh)

107 I'm not going back to plunge into the bocage. What was the absolute filthiest thing said?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:18 PM (QGoUX)

"Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night."?

Posted by: buzzion at July 11, 2017 08:19 PM (z/Ubi)

108 Don't wear white after September.

Everybody has got to stratify.
Posted by: MAGA

It's after Labor Day.

You can wear winter white.

Posted by: mpfs, I find most people smell of elderberries at July 11, 2017 08:19 PM (79p/O)

109 See? "missed", not "kissed.

I should go away for awhile and eat something.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:19 PM (6gk0M)

110 I'm not going back to plunge into the bocage.
==

M-O-O-N , that spells butt stuff.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at July 11, 2017 08:19 PM (xmlAN)

111
81 It often occurs to me that I personify many of the social paradigms that the Upper Middle Class would identify as deeply representative of its signifying norms and values.

*puffs pipe thoughtfully*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2017 08:15 PM (Mouru)

I hate snobs. The richest guy I know wears coveralls and drives a 1970s pickup. I guarantee you he'd think you were an idiot if you bought a 25 dollar sandwich.
I see him at the feed store. I love the oldtimers. He'd call brooks a homo.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (Ri/rl)

112 Well since this started as a food thread...we just had peanut butter and bacon sammiches for dinner. Yay!

Posted by: Farmer at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (yJ1e6)

113 I hope his "friend" kicks Brooks right in his peanuts next time she sees him.

Posted by: freaked at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (BO/km)

114
I am reminded of being in NYC four years ago with a group of our Scouts and one youth insisted upon loudly calling the Thai restaurant where we were dining a "thigh restaurant". We all had a good laugh...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (pNxlR)

115 "Growing up, I'll bet David Brooks got the shit kicked out of him often."

He still needs for that to happen. Often.

I had the misfortune two or three years ago to catch the PBS NewsHour, being re-aired on the local NPR affiliate. Which featured Brooks as the purported "conservative", squaring up against the equally repellent E.J. Dionne playing the liberal (with far greater plausibility).

Brooks referred at one point to the "alleged" deaths of veterans at the VA during the Obama administration. This statement coming after the multitude of dead vets due to VA incompetence and corruption had long since assumed the status of settled fact.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (ujwCG)

116 Not to sound like a hayseed but, WTF is a striata baguette?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (Mouru)

117 Or just that you don't go to Subway that often. Cappicola is in sandwiches they have there.
Posted by: buzzion at July 11, 2017 08:12 PM (z/Ubi)

Never, actually.

Posted by: Country Boy at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (QwbmS)

118 Is David Brooks the guy that like Obama's pants crease? Or was that George Will? (are they secretly the same person? Has anyone seen them in the same room together?)

Posted by: Max Power at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (q177U)

119 I know about cappicol, because my husband is one of dem dagos. And no, I didn't misspell it. Where my grandmother-in-law came from, it was pronounced cappicol.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (FQKBL)

120 Cappicola? Cola made out of heads? Yeah, that does sound freaky.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (vRcUp)

121 Manners my good man, manners distinguishes the man.

Deep bow.

Posted by: Javems at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (yOqwj)

122 It's becoming more and more clear we need Trump/Pence to act and behave with Nolan's version of Bane/Joker. Then in 2020 Trump changes it up to Nolan's Dark Knight.

I know of no other option left to sort this shit out concerning our Betters and Overlords.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (2qHjF)

123 This is BS. I've been in places over seas with menu's that were not in English. Didn't have a problem. Brooks is lying. This only happened in his head.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (pY+s4)

124 I am reminded of being in NYC four years ago with a group of our Scouts and one youth insisted upon loudly calling the Thai restaurant where we were dining a "thigh restaurant". We all had a good laugh...

Charming. I'll bet he ordered the "poke."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (Mouru)

125 116 Not to sound like a hayseed but, WTF is a striata baguette?
Posted by: Cicero

Shlong-shaped bread.

Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (DQ4Fv)

126 116 Rush song from 2112,duh...

Posted by: steevy at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (rmVvL)

127 "Not to sound like a hayseed but, WTF is a striata baguette?"
-Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (Mouru)

Nobody knows. If they do, I'll fight them.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (6gk0M)

128 After all, isn't this how they got Trump?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (oVJmc)

129 "I'm not going back to plunge into the bocage. What was the absolute filthiest thing said?"

Is this moronette for "go on..." ? :^)

Well, I learnt about the Skene glands, which I then looked up at work, and found a helpful diagram, which is NOT HELPFUL TO BE LOOKING AT IN WORK HOURS.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (6FqZa)

130 I grew up middle/slightly upper middle class. I hate pretentious food with pretentious fucking names in pretentious fucking eating establishments. I hate going to some king shit restaurant where they serve food you can't recognize, or pronounce, that comes in ethiopian portions, and decorated like it was a fucking parade float.

Btw, cappicola is nothing special, so fuck the elitist douchebags making it out to be something enlightened. Every deli from big to the smallest shithole sells it. Italians pronounce it gabagool.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (aMlLZ)

131 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2017 08:17 PM (Mouru)

LOL!

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at July 11, 2017 08:22 PM (IYHxL)

132 106 I dream of a day when men will be judged, not by the color of their skin but by their condescension as they order their douchewhiches.
Posted by: Northernlurker at July 11, 2017 08:19 PM (eAMlh)
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Brooks' favorite sandwich is not, surprisingly, the Douchewich, it is the Fluffernutter.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:22 PM (QGoUX)

133 So- The biggest commentary Brooks has is about embarrassing over a sammich?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 11, 2017 08:22 PM (wWrLQ)

134 Leave the Padrino

Take the Burrito

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2017 08:22 PM (/tuJf)

135 one youth insisted upon loudly calling the Thai restaurant where we were dining a "thigh restaurant"

With the mystery meat!

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 11, 2017 08:22 PM (6FqZa)

136 In her thorough book "The Sum of Small Things," Elizabeth Currid-Halkett argues that the educated class establishes class barriers not through material consumption and wealth display but by establishing practices that can be accessed only by those who possess rarefied information.

To feel at home in opportunity-rich areas, you've got to understand the right barre techniques, sport the right baby carrier, have the right podcast, food truck, tea, wine and Pilates tastes, not to mention possess the right attitudes about David Foster Wallace, child-rearing, gender norms and intersectionality.

The technical terms for such people is "twats."

And none of those people is worth a bucket of warm spit.

My criterion: would they step up for you if it were inconvenient - in any respect - for them to do so?

No.

There ya go.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2017 08:23 PM (SRKgf)

137 Venezuelan Beaver Cheese.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 11, 2017 08:23 PM (LTHVh)

138 ..."Brooks referred at one point to the "alleged" deaths of veterans at the VA during the Obama administration. This statement coming after the multitude of dead vets due to VA incompetence and corruption had long since assumed the status of settled fact."
-Posted by: torquewrench at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (ujwCG)

There aren't too many here that wouldn't want to crease his fucking head.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:23 PM (6gk0M)

139 I tried to tell him to talk about the sharp crease in the cappricola on the sandwich. He might have " They never listen.

Posted by: DNC Donor at July 11, 2017 08:23 PM (WJO4x)

140 This little encounter is on the level of Friedman's "Taxi Driver" vignettes.

It's certainly at the same level of arrogance.

And probably just as (not) true.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 11, 2017 08:23 PM (17QyB)

141 Btw, cappicola is nothing special, so fuck the elitist douchebags making it out to be something enlightened. Every deli from big to the smallest shithole sells it. Italians pronounce it gabagool.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (aMlLZ)
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Sicilians were Mexicans before the Mexicans were!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:23 PM (QGoUX)

142
thus clearing out the "cake-eaters" from the Morse deserving "elites".

You spelled "booger" wrong...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 11, 2017 08:23 PM (pNxlR)

143 " Cappicola? Cola made out of heads? "

Cappicola is made from real Capybara. They use only the finest rodents, no road kill.

Posted by: freaked at July 11, 2017 08:23 PM (BO/km)

144 David Brooks is the kind of social climbing fuckwit who couldn't enjoy a slice of pizza without telling you how THIN the crust was (to show he's not one of those plebes who actually enjoy pizza pizza). What an insufferable, punchable shmuck and a half he is.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at July 11, 2017 08:24 PM (BsGS1)

145 Btw, cappicola is nothing special, so fuck the elitist douchebags making it out to be something enlightened. Every deli from big to the smallest shithole sells it. Italians pronounce it gabagool.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (aMlLZ)

My pet peeve is not serving the food on a plate. The flower pot is cute, but I want a plate.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2017 08:24 PM (Ri/rl)

146 137 Venezuelan Beaver Cheese.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 11, 2017 08:23 PM (LTHVh)
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"Not today, sir."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:24 PM (QGoUX)

147 I don't know those words I've never heard of any of that food. I want one of each.

Posted by: Clement at July 11, 2017 08:24 PM (koqu9)

148
As I said before about this Brooks crap, I wouldn't know what those Italian words for various cold cuts and sammichs were without looking it up. Nor would I care, nor give a rip that I didn't know.

The prices may have made his "friend" more freaked out than the names. And they would me to, and would even if I had Bill Gates' money.

And, I'm sure there's a lot of poorly educated Italians who know what those terms mean.

Education and class have nothing to do with it. But in Brooks mind, they do.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at July 11, 2017 08:24 PM (8O3HH)

149 cappicola

It's HAAAAMMMM!!!!!

Posted by: Ponyo at July 11, 2017 08:24 PM (0mRoj)

150 And yes I breathe through my mouth. What of it?

Posted by: xnycpeasant at July 11, 2017 08:25 PM (BsGS1)

151 Didna hear the big news? Psycho Joe is leaving the Republican Party?

Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 11, 2017 08:25 PM (Nwg0u)

152 Not to sound like a hayseed but, WTF is a striata baguette?
====

I think Fiat makes those.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at July 11, 2017 08:25 PM (xmlAN)

153 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 11, 2017 08:25 PM (KCxzN)

154 Just hearing , and having to read the name 'David Brooks', does the GAINZZ thing for me.

Brooks=Substandard Semen OutcomeThingy

Posted by: Lower class person whose opinion must be guided at July 11, 2017 08:25 PM (oBuXO)

155 I will take He-of-the-creased-pants-lust seriously for a moment. Almost anyone who eats food when they are confronted with something they do not have the exact name for will say something like "That looks good." It's a frickin sandwich for heaven's sake- not minced octopus in a wasabi marinade. This is not completely outside any american's culinary wheelhouse.

This sounds more to me like Brooks forcing his own fear of social rejection in a favorite sandwich shop by being seen with 'the wrong type of person' than anything the person themselves did right or wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2017 08:25 PM (mPeei)

156 My observation: the staff in truly good restaurants know how to make people comfortable even if a particular customer doesn't know what a sommelier is or what he's supposed to do with the cork.

Posted by: Northernlurker at July 11, 2017 08:25 PM (eAMlh)

157 I still say Brooks et al could've inspired a great deal of interesting Walking Dead episodes by refusing to eat canned goods that had gone past their expiration dates and getting weaker and weaker, finding it more difficult to run and fight, and succumbing, one by one, to starvation as they are surrounded by grocery stores full of canned goods where the white-trash hicks who grew up eating discolored beans Granny had canned last year routinely eat their fill before shoving can after can into their backpacks to eat later.

"David? You coming?"
"Go ahead. I'll catch up."
"Suit yourself. Here's a can opener if you change your mind."
"No, you fool. Can't you even read? These expired last week. LAST WEEK!"

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 11, 2017 08:26 PM (34E+f)

158 During The Burning Times, people like David Brooks will be used as a public toilet in the town square.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 11, 2017 08:26 PM (2qHjF)

159 One porcine cadaver on leavened triticale -- and make it snappy, Bub!

Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2017 08:26 PM (DQ4Fv)

160 Brooks should have been a mensch and taken her to a place that would have made her more comfortable. Somewhere that serves possum.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2017 08:26 PM (Mouru)

161 Cappicola is ham smeared with black licorice, in essence.

Anise seed, really.

Rub ham across your Anise and you have shitty, fucked-up, ham.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:26 PM (6gk0M)

162 Sicilians were Mexicans before the Mexicans were!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:23 PM (QGoUX)

I'm not Sicilian. I'm a Roman. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2017 08:26 PM (aMlLZ)

163 I thought a Shibboleth was an HP Lovecraft monster.

Posted by: Rihar at July 11, 2017 08:26 PM (+ao6J)

164
ethiopian portions

Hey! Hey! Hey! We ceded that honor to the Sudanese over a decade ago! Do try to keep up!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (pNxlR)

165 I bet David Brooks never had plain old mac and cheese at home.

Probably doesn't know that the cheese in real mac and cheese is ORANGE!

Posted by: mpfs, I find most people smell of elderberries at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (79p/O)

166
116 Not to sound like a hayseed but, WTF is a striata baguette?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (Mouru)

I'm a hayseed too, I've never heard of that sandwich.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (Ri/rl)

167 >>Didna hear the big news? Psycho Joe is leaving the Republican Party?

The power of the vagina compels him.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (/tuJf)

168 Keep rubbing ham on your anise and you'll keep fucking up a perfectly good piece of ham.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (6gk0M)

169 105
It's a good bet that Brooks couldn't field strip a 1911 Colt....

Posted by: steevy at July 11, 2017 08:19 PM (rmVvL)

It's a good bet that Brooks couldn't field strip a cigarette butt, let alone any mechanical device.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (DxWUs)

170 bet he doesn't know the difference between channel locks and vice grips

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (WwFyb)

171 Didna hear the big news? Psycho Joe is leaving the Republican Party?
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 11, 2017 08:25 PM (Nwg0u)

JoMika/JoMika 2020!

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (2qHjF)

172 127 "Not to sound like a hayseed but, WTF is a striata baguette?"
-Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (Mouru)

Nobody knows. If they do, I'll fight them.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (6gk0M)

From one of the root words, looks like a kind of bread.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (mPeei)

173 >> Well, I learnt about the Skene glands,

Glad to stimulate your journey of exploration.

Wiki used to have a real picture of, uh, things spread wide open to show the Skene's outlet ducts right at the end of the urethra, but they replaced it with a diagram.

Darn it.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (8O3HH)

174 And they make some killer sandwiches in Italy and France now.

Posted by: Javems at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (yOqwj)

175 Well, I learnt about the Skene glands, which I then looked up at work, and found a helpful diagram, which is NOT HELPFUL TO BE LOOKING AT IN WORK HOURS.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (6FqZa)
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I just Wiki'd it and the little picture looks like one of those chasm-spanning rickety rope bridges Indiana Jones crosses to his peril:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skene%27s_gland

I don't know what I'm looking at, and I'm okay with that.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (QGoUX)

176 147 I don't know those words I've never heard of any of that food. I want one of each.
Posted by: Clement at July 11, 2017 08:24 PM (koqu9)

Well, you must be a high school dropout.

Posted by: rickl at July 11, 2017 08:28 PM (sdi6R)

177 Not to sound like a hayseed but, WTF is a striata baguette?

An Italian STD.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 11, 2017 08:28 PM (oVJmc)

178
How do guineas pronounce "capicollo?"

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 11, 2017 08:28 PM (L87zM)

179
My 10 y.o. daughter chose Red Robin to go to for her birthday dinner tonight. I had a pulled pork on top of a burger sandwich, quite tasty.

I'm sure Brooks would think it was gauche.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 11, 2017 08:29 PM (r+sAi)

180 I bet David Brooks never had plain old mac and cheese at home.

I'm sure he has. He is not to the Manor born. That's what makes his pretensions all the more galling.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 11, 2017 08:29 PM (LTHVh)

181 Well this really pissed me off. I went to Arby's to get a pork belly sandwich. Well, it's been discontinued, but they now have a triple thick bacon blt. I figure this is the same meat used in the pork belly sandwich. No, it' s cooked until it's too hard for me to eat with my compromised mouth. And that pork belly sandwich was an easy 1000 callries for me to consume (plus, it really was delicious).

Posted by: bergerbilder at July 11, 2017 08:29 PM (lIZQs)

182 I'm not Sicilian. I'm a Roman. lol
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2017 08:26 PM (aMlLZ)
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So that's where they ended up! In Metal.

My dad's folks were from Palermo and Catania.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:29 PM (QGoUX)

183 Como se dice Bull. Shit? david brooks is a liar. there is no way someone in NYC is unfamiliar with those ingredients. The only way this is likely to have happened is if his friend was not white.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2017 08:29 PM (0wem/)

184 Truly high-end restaurants are distinguished by how small the entree is relative to the size of the plate.

Posted by: Northernlurker at July 11, 2017 08:29 PM (eAMlh)

185 I need to start getting a sense of the Cen Tex Horde. Does there need to be a 2nd momee at my place?

I don't want to thread jack so if you will comment as normal and just add a hay or neigh at the end I would appreciate it.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 11, 2017 08:29 PM (wWrLQ)

186
Not for nothing but "gourmet" sandwiches are for flaming anuses.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 11, 2017 08:30 PM (L87zM)

187 OT. But...tonight Lou Dobbs was interviewing Kelly Ann Conway and Lou just sort of goes all rat fuck.
Since when did Conway become McConnell's guardian?--McConnell being the primary object of Lou's ire.
Geez Lou--let's practice some target acquisition discipline!

Posted by: Lower class person whose opinion must be guided at July 11, 2017 08:30 PM (oBuXO)

188 I have had a lot of different food- both upper crust and lower. The absolute best sandwich was a place called Dagwood's in Bloomington, IN. They put about a cow's worth of roast beef on each sandwich, fresh shredded lettuce, great mayo, on real bread ( a full loaf sliced in half longways.) Damn, those were good.

And that is not just the low carb talking.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2017 08:30 PM (mPeei)

189 "From one of the root words, looks like a kind of bread."
-Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (mPeei)

Safe bet. Let's not go ant further, lest we drop our Street Cred.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:30 PM (6gk0M)

190 First there was the Grumblebrag. Brooks has now created the Classempathy brag. Douchiness to the eleventy power.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at July 11, 2017 08:30 PM (BsGS1)

191 He should write a column about kicking his old wife, the one who supported him through the slow years, kicking her to the curb for his 30 y o assistant editor.
Speaking of editors, how does this shit ever get printed? Who would think this is a good idea to explore?

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at July 11, 2017 08:30 PM (Jj+59)

192 Ricola and cheese

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2017 08:30 PM (IqV8l)

193 137 Venezuelan Beaver Cheese.
Posted by: Grump928(C)

THIS is why I come here.

Posted by: mpfs, I find most people smell of elderberries at July 11, 2017 08:31 PM (79p/O)

194
Brooks is the type of anal aperture who eats his chinese take-out with chopsticks.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 11, 2017 08:31 PM (L87zM)

195 Not for nothing but "gourmet" sandwiches are for flaming anuses.

That's where the ring meat goes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2017 08:31 PM (Mouru)

196 My dad's folks were from Palermo and Catania.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:29 PM (QGoUX)

My dad's folks were from Palermo too. Most of his siblings too. I think he was the only one born in America.

Posted by: Tami at July 11, 2017 08:31 PM (Enq6K)

197 If you don't like food not served on plates you'll hate these places

24 of the worst things hipsters did to food in 2016:

http://tinyurl.com/y8zl99l9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2017 08:31 PM (iVOAv)

198 167 >>Didna hear the big news? Psycho Joe is leaving the Republican Party?

The power of the vagina compels him.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2017 08:27 PM (/tuJf)

I'm thinking it's the offshore bank accounts and black market financial opportunities left by Ziggy Brzezinski.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 11, 2017 08:31 PM (2qHjF)

199 121
Manners my good man, manners distinguishes the man.

Deep bow.

---------------------------

Oh, and fashion.

Posted by: Javems at July 11, 2017 08:32 PM (yOqwj)

200 What David brooks would like is a federal funded program to teach people how to be conservative.

Posted by: Ripley at July 11, 2017 08:00 PM (NbRJx)
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I strongly doubt that. I'd more likely believe he'd like to see compulsive crease appreciation classes.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2017 08:32 PM (JhE5a)

201 I'm sure Brooks would think it was gauche.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 11, 2017 08:29 PM (r+sAi)

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Don't be silly, chap. Gauche isn't in season this time of year. Plus you wouldn't want to eat it this far from the Peruvian beaches anyway.

Posted by: David Brooks at July 11, 2017 08:32 PM (34E+f)

202 How do guineas pronounce "capicollo?"

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 11, 2017 08:28 PM (L87zM)

In this country it is usual pronounced gabagool

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 11, 2017 08:32 PM (auHtY)

203 likelihood of this happening is the same as when david brooks went to a gay bathhouse with barack and barack did not know what glory hole and pegging were.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2017 08:33 PM (0wem/)

204

In this country it is usual pronounced gabagool

Yes!

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 11, 2017 08:33 PM (L87zM)

205 So she ate Chorizo instead?

Posted by: Speedy Gonzalez at July 11, 2017 08:33 PM (/kTv/)

206
mortadel

not mortadella

just mortadel

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 11, 2017 08:33 PM (L87zM)

207 "How do guineas pronounce "capicollo?""
-Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 11, 2017 08:28 PM (L87zM)

Normal people say, "cap-uh-COLA". Dysfunctional Mafia-Types call it "gahb-uh-GOOL".

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:33 PM (6gk0M)

208 I bet David Brooks never had plain old mac and cheese at home.

I bet David Brooks has never ridden in a F-150, nor could he pick one out of a line-up

(h/t to John Eckdahl)

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 11, 2017 08:33 PM (KCxzN)

209 143 " Cappicola? Cola made out of heads? "

Cappicola is made from real Capybara. They use only the finest rodents, no road kill.
Posted by: freaked

Brazilian cuisine.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 11, 2017 08:34 PM (pY+s4)

210 "My 10 y.o. daughter chose Red Robin to go to for her birthday dinner tonight. I had a pulled pork on top of a burger sandwich, quite tasty."

Red Robin. Yum.

Posted by: Tuna at July 11, 2017 08:34 PM (jm1YL)

211
provolone, mortadel, gabagool, and pepperoni

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 11, 2017 08:34 PM (L87zM)

212 Rub ham across your Anise and you have shitty, fucked-up, ham.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:26 PM (6gk0M)

Kinda sounds like taint painting.

Posted by: Country Boy at July 11, 2017 08:34 PM (QwbmS)

213 I wonder what Brooks' opinion is on those Brazilian steakhouses where the guys come out with the steaks and chicken on the swords?

Because I think they're f*cking GREAT.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 11, 2017 08:34 PM (34E+f)

214 According to wiki (I know, but bear with me) Brook's eldest son serves in the IDF.

He is still a twat for dumping his wife, and being an idiot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 11, 2017 08:34 PM (hyuyC)

215
In female human anatomy, Skene's glands or the Skene glands, also known as the lesser vestibular glands

So we're talking about the vajayjay's mud room?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 11, 2017 08:34 PM (pNxlR)

216 I challenge you to a bet, Mr. Brooks. I'll bet that within a month I can turn your friend into something indistinguishable from a gentrified sophisticate, a veritable Chelsea Clinton.

Posted by: Professor Henry Higgins at July 11, 2017 08:35 PM (xAvrH)

217 I often go to high end restaurants when I go out and make the waiter explain what all of the gibberish on the menu is; people are embarrassed by this? Why? If the fuckers wanted me to know what was on the menu, they'd put it in English. Then tell the waiter to bring a good wine, because the list doesn't mean shit to me (other than I know a 2007 or 2012 Napa Cab is decent). Then they're just terrified they're going to bring you something you don't like. lol.

And yeah. Without context, like "Italian sub," I'd have no idea what cappicola was. And even saying "Italian sub," I wouldn't know if it was meat or cheese.

Posted by: gm at July 11, 2017 08:35 PM (6Yw+T)

218 " I know what a baguette is. "

An ugly, black-haired woman?

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at July 11, 2017 08:35 PM (/kTv/)

219 I have a large amount of trouble believing that. It's a fairly common spiced ham -- it's a main ingredient in an Italian sub, which is not, as far as a I know, a high-end rich-people-eat-this type of sandwich.

My dirty poor dago relations ate it. Only idiots like Brooks can be fooled into thinking it's something high end

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 11, 2017 08:35 PM (auHtY)

220 The friend was probably shocked by the stupid prices in a place like that.. and was thinking "for a sandwich? I make better sandwiches than that at home with my Panini grill

Posted by: Buanadha at July 11, 2017 08:35 PM (kxv3u)

221 151 Didna hear the big news? Psycho Joe is leaving the Republican Party?

Joe who?

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 11, 2017 08:35 PM (pY+s4)

222 I never should have married David. He's such an insufferable turd.

Posted by: Bobbie Brooks at July 11, 2017 08:35 PM (Tyii7)

223 Yeah. Beooks has a H/S only friend, like Obama had a white girlfriend. Nothing but a composite of projecrion.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at July 11, 2017 08:35 PM (NGyYk)

224 Don't even you East-Coast degenerates.

Listen to your local broadcasters and then tell me that you're correct.

Welcome To America, Fuckers.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:36 PM (6gk0M)

225 In her thorough book "The Sum of Small Things," Elizabeth Currid-Halkett argues that the educated class establishes class barriers not through material consumption and wealth display but by establishing practices that can be accessed only by those who possess rarefied information.

To feel at home in opportunity-rich areas, you've got to understand the right barre techniques, sport the right baby carrier, have the right podcast, food truck, tea, wine and Pilates tastes, not to mention possess the right attitudes about David Foster Wallace, child-rearing, gender norms and intersectionality.

When I got to grad school a housemate invited me to a wine tasting in SF. Before the tasting the assembled multitudes engaged in a snobbery dick-measuring exercise: "Oh, last week I had the most divine Bordeaux."

"Ah, but nothing can compare with the Pinot Noir I had last week."

That sort of thing. I felt about as welcome as a boner in a locker room, as a friend of mine used to say.

The impresario came out, pontificated for a while before his acolytes about the fabulous wines they were going to be blind-tasting, putting the bottles into brown paper bags. (Mission District style, I thought to myself. Zombie will appreciate the reference.)

They had the tasting and they all plumped for ... Thunderbird. Apparently, last week was a good year.

I laughed out loud. It made my whole night.

They never invited me back. I'm not sure why.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2017 08:36 PM (SRKgf)

226 I wonder what kind of microbrewery Brooks frequents. It would likely terrify a friend from the country.

Posted by: Northernlurker at July 11, 2017 08:36 PM (eAMlh)

227 All this sammich talk is making me woozy. Time to return to the bestest channel ever, the American Heroes Channel (AHC) - or as I call it, the All Hitler Channel.

So far I've watched Hitler's Zombie Army, Nazi Werewolves, and Hitler the Junkie.

I'm in trash t.v. heaven.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:36 PM (QGoUX)

228 It's a shame that no one has taken advantage of modern CGI to make a good version of Tarnsman of Gor. I'm watching the 1988 one and it's pretty bad.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 11, 2017 08:36 PM (LTHVh)

229 I have no idea what any of the things Brooks mentioned are, and I listen almost exclusively to classical music and love art. It's not that I'm intimidated by these things, it's that I don't give a shit and find all these faux foreign food names to be pretentious twaddle. I certainly don't need nitwits like Brooks or anyone else treating me like some special class-member that must be helped for his own good. I don't care what frappicino is - I'm not interested.

Posted by: TheLowerDepths at July 11, 2017 08:37 PM (PMt8D)

230 WTF is wrong with Maj Gen Peters on Tucker Carlson?

He is acting teh crazee.

-
?

I liked his Civil War novels but stopped reading when he went Chappaquatch. What's he up to now?

Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 11, 2017 08:38 PM (Nwg0u)

231 What kind of you weird ass people don't know how to pronounce cappicol? There are no g's!!!

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at July 11, 2017 08:38 PM (xKWIP)

232 My 10 y.o. daughter chose Red Robin to go to for her birthday dinner tonight. I had a pulled pork on top of a burger sandwich, quite tasty.

I'm sure Brooks would think it was gauche.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

My birthday was yesterday. Mom and I went to Cracker Barrel. Nana would have been appalled!

Posted by: mpfs, I find most people smell of elderberries at July 11, 2017 08:38 PM (79p/O)

233 Ahhh, projection. That's why unicorns exist.

Since I was 16 years old, I've always wondered why T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' was such a mainstay of my generation's high school English class.

I get it now.

It's anything you want it to be.

Posted by: Tom Sawter at July 11, 2017 08:38 PM (E674P)

234 I have no idea what any of the things Brooks mentioned are, and I listen almost exclusively to classical music and love art.

So you're into mud-wrestling too?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2017 08:38 PM (SRKgf)

235 -Budweiser
-Ford F-250
-Christmas Lights
-Porterhouse

Come At Me, bros...

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:39 PM (6gk0M)

236 "Venezuelan Beaver Cheese."

"Lapa" is Venezuelan beaver, but turning into cheese would be a crime.

Posted by: bergerbilder at July 11, 2017 08:39 PM (lIZQs)

237 219 I have a large amount of trouble believing that. It's a fairly common spiced ham -- it's a main ingredient in an Italian sub, which is not, as far as a I know, a high-end rich-people-eat-this type of sandwich.

My dirty poor dago relations ate it. Only idiots like Brooks can be fooled into thinking it's something high end

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 11, 2017 08:35 PM (auHtY)

It's made from very tall pigs, you ignorant hick!

Posted by: Brooks at July 11, 2017 08:39 PM (/kTv/)

238
So far I've watched Hitler's Zombie Army, Nazi Werewolves, and Hitler the Junkie.

What sammich does Hitler eat?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2017 08:39 PM (IqV8l)

239 I'm sure Queen Elizabeth would think Brooks is a pretentious douche.

Posted by: Northernlurker at July 11, 2017 08:40 PM (eAMlh)

240
There was another good one where some French wine snobs, the very cream of the critic class, picked California wine over their own precious French crap in a blind taste test.

When subjected to actual rigorous analysis, most of this crap falls apart. See the audiophiles, for instance.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at July 11, 2017 08:40 PM (8O3HH)

241 Speaking of deli meats I laugh everytime I hear someone ask for Schickhaus Braunschweiger at the deli counter.

Sounds like something out of a Mel Brooks film.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 11, 2017 08:40 PM (9A6UB)

242 Rod Dreher takes David Brooks seriously

Rod Dreher takes professional wrestling seriously.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at July 11, 2017 08:40 PM (Zspnl)

243
I hate pretentious food with pretentious fucking names in pretentious fucking eating establishments.

Reminds me of that old restaurant joke.

Waiter at a pretentious fucking eating establishment:
"And how did find the veal sir."
Customer:
"I lifted up the carrot and there it was."

Posted by: YIKES! at July 11, 2017 08:40 PM (t6XCL)

244 *Spreads Baseball Virtue-Signalling Wings*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:40 PM (6gk0M)

245 166
116 Not to sound like a hayseed but, WTF is a striata baguette?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (Mouru)
Striata is a hipster-douchebag bread invented in NY. Bread is either a baguette or striata, but not both at the same time
Padrino? That means 'godfather' ; it's not a food at.all.
Brooks' friend probably blanched at how idiotic the managment was in that sandwich joint.
As for sopprassata and capocollo, jeez, every Italian-American kid everywhere had to brown-bag that stuff for school lunches. That Brooks thinks they are a sign of refinement shows what a doofus he is.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at July 11, 2017 08:41 PM (oQQwD)

246 What sammich does Hitler eat?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2017 08:39 PM (IqV8l)
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Black forest ham on white bread with mayo.

He was history's greatest monster!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:41 PM (QGoUX)

247 238
So far I've watched Hitler's Zombie Army, Nazi Werewolves, and Hitler the Junkie.

What sammich does Hitler eat?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

You can probably rule out Reuben's.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 11, 2017 08:41 PM (pY+s4)

248 Food snobbery is a big square on the progressive Bingo board for sure.

See #136

Posted by: Ktgreat at July 11, 2017 08:41 PM (f8ilN)

249 U-S-A!

*cough*

Sorry... I was choking down a Marlboro.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:41 PM (6gk0M)

250 *Spreads Baseball Virtue-Signalling Wings*

I assume the NL will choke, as usual.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 11, 2017 08:42 PM (LTHVh)

251
Apparently you can milk a skenes gland.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 11, 2017 08:42 PM (r+sAi)

252
Brooks' friend probably blanched at how idiotic the managment was in that sandwich joint.
As for sopprassata and capocollo, jeez, every Italian-American kid everywhere had to brown-bag that stuff for school lunches. That Brooks thinks they are a sign of refinement shows what a doofus he is.
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at July 11, 2017 08:41 PM (oQQwD)

But it's rustic now.

Posted by: Northernlurker at July 11, 2017 08:42 PM (eAMlh)

253 Now Eliza, no Mexican today. We're going to dine at the Pret a Manger! No more tacos or enchiladas, you'll chow down on cappicola and soppressata, with a slice of sundried tomata on your ciabatta bun!

Posted by: Professor Henry Higgins at July 11, 2017 08:42 PM (xAvrH)

254 What is it with you uppity people and all of these fancy words. *sniff, sniff **. I wanna know what happened to Johhny Coldcuts. I bet you fning ate him didnt you Ace. I hate you.

Posted by: Taiwan_Joe at July 11, 2017 08:42 PM (sy8f2)

255 They had the tasting and they all plumped for ... Thunderbird. Apparently, last week was a good year.

I laughed out loud. It made my whole night.

They never invited me back. I'm not sure why.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2017 08:36 PM (SRKgf)

Bwaaahahahahahahaha! I bet the cheese-tasting was a hoot, too!

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid, at July 11, 2017 08:42 PM (/kTv/)

256 You know what else is good? Squeeze cheese.

And it makes me sort of happy to know that Brooks has never known the immeasurable joy of sitting on his couch with his kids as everyone is putting squeeze cheese on Ritz crackers and drinking Dr. Peppers while watching some silly kids' cartoon.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 11, 2017 08:43 PM (34E+f)

257 Damn, never thought I'd see the day when someone felt oppressed by the menu at Jersey Mike's.

Posted by: Boone at July 11, 2017 08:43 PM (vq6QR)

258 You can probably rule out Reuben's.

I figured him for a hot corned beef.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 11, 2017 08:43 PM (LTHVh)

259 Black forest ham on white bread with ~~mayo~~ Miracle Whip

He was history's greatest monster!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:41 PM

FIFY

actually, Hitler invented Miracle Whip. True story

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 11, 2017 08:44 PM (KCxzN)

260 228 It's a shame that no one has taken advantage of modern CGI to make a good version of Tarnsman of Gor. I'm watching the 1988 one and it's pretty bad.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 11, 2017 08:36 PM (LTHVh)

---------

Yes, yes. But it needs to be 100% authentic to the book AND whatshisface cover art.

Posted by: MAGA at July 11, 2017 08:44 PM (Tyk2V)

261 "I assume the NL will choke, as usual."
-Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 11, 2017 08:42 PM (LTHVh)

I've made predictions in years' past. I am lesser than fifty-percent in said predictions. I no longer make them.

And this year, in particular? I am not as "in tune" as I usually am.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:44 PM (6gk0M)

262 255 They had the tasting and they all plumped for ... Thunderbird. Apparently, last week was a good year.

I laughed out loud. It made my whole night.

They never invited me back. I'm not sure why.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2017 08:36 PM (SRKgf)

Bwaaahahahahahahaha! I bet the cheese-tasting was a hoot, too!
Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid,

Thunderbird has multiple purposes. I can be used as Transmission fluid in a pinch.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 11, 2017 08:44 PM (pY+s4)

263 Dave, would you like to taste my smoked meat log?

Posted by: Tom Friedman, superdouche at July 11, 2017 08:45 PM (89T5c)

264 246 What sammich does Hitler eat?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2017 08:39 PM (IqV8l)
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Black forest ham on white bread with mayo.

He was history's greatest monster!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:41 PM (QGoUX)

No mustard? Savagery!

Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2017 08:45 PM (0mRoj)

265 actually, Hitler invented Miracle Whip. True story
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 11, 2017 08:44 PM (KCxzN)

I thought it was Ilsa She Wolf of the Nazis that did whip miracles.

Posted by: Northernlurker at July 11, 2017 08:45 PM (eAMlh)

266 I learned my way around menus in Spanish, but that was just a side effect of my job and had nothing to do with the people I preferred to hang with. I bet even Brooks wouldn't know what half the menu items he mentioned were if he wasn't a NYC denizen.

Posted by: bergerbilder at July 11, 2017 08:46 PM (lIZQs)

267 Posted by: AltonJackson at July 11, 2017 08:44 PM (KCxzN)
No shock there as it was a plight on the earth.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at July 11, 2017 08:46 PM (IYHxL)

268 Slap-
Guiness Stout
Ram 2500/ six speed manual
Christmas music
Filet Mignon.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 11, 2017 08:46 PM (wWrLQ)

269 Yeah, Dreher is kinder to Brooks than Brooks deserves.

The rest of Brooks article is fine but it's the utter tone deafness that he is exactly what he is complaining about that makes my teeth grate.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some mush to gum.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny now with MAGIC Jazz Hands at July 11, 2017 08:46 PM (dEQP3)

270 >>>232 My 10 y.o. daughter chose Red Robin to go to for her birthday dinner tonight. I had a pulled pork on top of a burger sandwich, quite tasty.

I'm sure Brooks would think it was gauche.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk >>>

Royal Red (burger with fried egg and bacon) is better. Though my boy got a burger somewhere else recently that had bacon and pastrami! That sounded awesome.

And you're not wrong about how these asshats think of Red Robin. We used to have one in our neighborhood, but the snobs literal drove it out of town.

Posted by: gm at July 11, 2017 08:46 PM (6Yw+T)

271 When I got to grad school a housemate invited me to a wine tasting in SF. Before the tasting the assembled multitudes engaged in a snobbery dick-measuring exercise: "Oh, last week I had the most divine Bordeaux."

"Ah, but nothing can compare with the Pinot Noir I had last week."

That sort of thing. I felt about as welcome as a boner in a locker room, as a friend of mine used to say.

They never invited me back. I'm not sure why.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2017 08:36 PM (SRKgf)

This explains why I don't go to live opera much. I love opera, and would love to meet other people who love opera and are normal human beings, but I invariably find that when I go I'm surrounded by a bunch of idiots name-dropping things they know nothing about to try to impress each other. One time I found chatting up the tattooed bar girl more interesting than hob-nobbing with this patrician ignoramuses.

Posted by: TheLowerDepths at July 11, 2017 08:46 PM (PMt8D)

272
They had the tasting and they all plumped for ... Thunderbird. Apparently, last week was a good year.

Look, Deplorable, I know that we are of approximately the same age and we both spent time in the Bay Area for schoolin'.
And you are telling me that Annie Green Springs didn't whip TB's ass?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 11, 2017 08:46 PM (pNxlR)

273 >>>When subjected to actual rigorous analysis, most of this crap falls apart. See the audiophiles, for instance.

I like to listen to pieces of vinyl on my Sonos.
I think the iPad is a bit of a misstep.

Posted by: Bababooey at July 11, 2017 08:47 PM (lOJ7h)

274 197
24 of the worst things hipsters did to food in 2016:

http://tinyurl.com/y8zl99l9
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2017 08:31 PM (iVOAv)

That is an awesome link!

Re #9, I had never had pho before and found a local pho place. But it was after work and I just wanted to go home and have a drink. I didn't want to sit in a restaurant that didn't have alcohol.

So I ordered it for takeout. When I got home, I found that all the individual ingredients were packaged separately. I didn't have the first clue how to put it together. It should have come with an instruction sheet.

The packaging was meticulous and gorgeous, though. I'll have to go there and eat in sometime.

Posted by: rickl at July 11, 2017 08:47 PM (sdi6R)

275 My guess is Brook's friend was thinking "WTF? $45 for a sandwich, chips and drink? What kind of douche am I with?"

Posted by: MAGA at July 11, 2017 08:47 PM (Tyk2V)

276 Not to sound like a hayseed but, WTF is a striata baguette?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2017 08:20 PM (Mouru)
I'm a hayseed too, I've never heard of that sandwich.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2017 08:27

From another hayseed...reading on an earlier thread today it's a made up NYC overpriced deli name to allow you to feel better when you pay $17 for a $5 sammiche.

It makes no sense..striata might mean striped in Italian...baguette is a type of French bread...no such ethnic term existed...it's NYC made up.

Posted by: Farmer at July 11, 2017 08:47 PM (yJ1e6)

277 actually, Hitler invented Miracle Whip. True story

No wonder it tastes like shit.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 11, 2017 08:47 PM (CNHr1)

278
Dago thru rain, dago thru snow...

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at July 11, 2017 08:48 PM (xmlAN)

279 "Slap-
Guiness Stout
Ram 2500/ six speed manual
Christmas music
Filet Mignon."
-Posted by: Ben Had at July 11, 2017 08:46 PM (wWrLQ)

You are allowed to swing by my place and drink beers, anytime. I'll buy.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:48 PM (6gk0M)

280 Black forest ham on white bread with mayo.

He was history's greatest monster!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:41 PM (QGoUX)
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Horrors! I put mayo on my sandwiches too!

Just. Like. Hitler.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2017 08:48 PM (JhE5a)

281 Slap-
Guiness Stout
Ram 2500/ six speed manual
Christmas music
Filet Mignon.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 11, 2017 08:46 PM (wWrLQ)

What a country!

Posted by: Yacov Smirnov at July 11, 2017 08:48 PM (T71PA)

282 There was another good one where some French wine snobs, the very cream of the critic class, picked California wine over their own precious French crap in a blind taste test.

Torment the liberals and the Frogs: the French vineyards were saved from phylloxera in the 19th century by grafting French vines onto ... California root stock.

You've got to laugh.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2017 08:48 PM (SRKgf)

283 I challenge you to a bet, Mr. Brooks. I'll bet that within a month I can turn your friend into something indistinguishable from a gentrified sophisticate, a veritable Chelsea Clinton.
Posted by: Professor Henry Higgins

-
My Elite Lady.

The Pain of Rain Falls Mainly On the Women and Minorities
I Could Have Twerked All Night
I Grown Accustomed To Padrino and Pomodoro and Ingredients Like Soppressata, Capicollo and a Striata Baguette

Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 11, 2017 08:49 PM (Nwg0u)

284
happy day after birthday mpfs.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 11, 2017 08:49 PM (r+sAi)

285 "No wonder it tastes like shit."
-Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 11, 2017 08:47 PM (CNHr1)

The Hell(mans) you say, woman?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:49 PM (6gk0M)

286 24 of the worst things hipsters did to food in 2016:

If somebody put some of that shit in front of me, I would definitely have to punch them in the face. Food in a sneaker?

Posted by: tu3031 at July 11, 2017 08:49 PM (qJhUV)

287 It is because of people like Brooks that I'm happy we have PDT. Well, among other reasons.

Posted by: Weasel at July 11, 2017 08:49 PM (Sfs6o)

288 Did he mean a strata sandwich?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2017 08:49 PM (QGoUX)

289 When has Brooks written something conservativish?

Posted by: Northernlurker at July 11, 2017 08:50 PM (eAMlh)

290
Ham with, with mayo? You unholy freaks! Brown mustard or get outta town!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 11, 2017 08:50 PM (pNxlR)

291 so what are the odds his friend recognized herself in his column?

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2017 08:50 PM (0wem/)

292 Oh, and Duke's mayo on tomato sammiches.

Posted by: Weasel at July 11, 2017 08:50 PM (Sfs6o)

293 "...And you are telling me that Annie Green Springs didn't whip TB's ass?"

Red Mountain out of a gallon jug -- the best.

Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at July 11, 2017 08:50 PM (T71PA)

294 I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican

Actually, we dined on roast Jeb. She couldn't even tell that it wasn't authentic!

Posted by: David Brooks at July 11, 2017 08:50 PM (xAvrH)

295 For all of the grief Brooks is getting, this is the closest he's come to having a clue in quite some time. Granted -- a very low bar.

Posted by: gm at July 11, 2017 08:51 PM (6Yw+T)

296 nood

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2017 08:51 PM (PY9jH)

297 Ben Had-

Dom Perignon
Limo with driver
Muslim call to prayer
Portugese water dog

Posted by: Emperor Fuckstick at July 11, 2017 08:51 PM (89T5c)

298 Italians pronounce it gabagool.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2017 08:21 PM (aMlLZ)

Well, not the Italians I know generally, or specifically the one I am married to (who come much closer to pronouncing it the way it is spelled), but I am sure that there are some/many who pronounce it this more abbreviated fashion. Sounds like an east coast slang term, just based on my recollection of conversations with other Italians that I used to work with who lived in NYC or north Jersey.

Could also be a regional Italian dialect, transplanted to specific geographic locations in the US by group or sequential migration.

Posted by: HTL at July 11, 2017 08:51 PM (zl60v)

299 I'm very determined to never lose any election to a group that is so much higher up on the Maslow pyramid than I am.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 11, 2017 08:51 PM (rnAwa)

300 Speaking of food and history's greatest monsters, I submit this person.

http://bit.ly/2tcwl9s

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny now with MAGIC Jazz Hands at July 11, 2017 08:52 PM (dEQP3)

301 My guess is Brook's friend was thinking "WTF? $45 for a sandwich, chips and drink? What kind of douche am I with?"
Posted by: MAGA

And no unlimited drink refills.

Posted by: mpfs, I find most people smell of elderberries at July 11, 2017 08:52 PM (79p/O)

302 Look, Deplorable, I know that we are of approximately the same age and we both spent time in the Bay Area for schoolin'.
And you are telling me that Annie Green Springs didn't whip TB's ass?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 11, 2017 08:46 PM (pNxlR)

It was a close run thing, to be sure. They had only one club fighter in the competition, with the confident expectation that he'd do the club fighter thing and go down.

I laughed my ass off, and made no pretense of hiding it. I thought that that was the funniest I'd ever seen. The high priest of this little claven mumbled something about the other wines being "corked," but whatever. They picked some Gallo wine over everything else.

Allahu Akhbar, indeed.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2017 08:52 PM (SRKgf)

303 "Ham with, with mayo? You unholy freaks! Brown mustard or get outta town!"
-Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 11, 2017 08:50 PM (pNxlR)

This Guy can stop-by for beers, as well.

His choice of beers and cheese.

Italian bread, though. Fresh Baked.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:52 PM (6gk0M)

304 You've got to laugh.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2017 08:48 PM (

I hate overhearing the hipster doofuses ordering wine. They have to use their phone to look up the rating on wine spectator. The waitress always seems annoyed. They take 20 minutes to pick a bottle of wine. I hate these people.

I'm betting they have some spit in their food.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2017 08:53 PM (Ri/rl)

305 this is lifestyle pr0n in which brooks fantasies about being a benevolent wizard of oz.

I'm not a working class stiff and shizzz so if I go to a restaurant with stuff I dont know on the menu, I'm all like wassthis? Sounds cool, dude.

Maybe the plebes are different but unless he took him to a snobby french restaurant from a 1980's teen comedy this is all bullshish.

Posted by: andrew jarbacka at July 11, 2017 08:53 PM (AU4SY)

306 241 Speaking of deli meats I laugh everytime I hear someone ask for Schickhaus Braunschweiger at the deli counter.

Sounds like something out of a Mel Brooks film.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 11, 2017 08:40 PM (9A6UB)

Ok, what's the difference between that and regular liverwurst?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2017 08:53 PM (mPeei)

307 EF- your opinions are cancelled.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 11, 2017 08:53 PM (wWrLQ)

308 In similar spirit, in a chi-chi restaurant in Marin County when the waiter asked for drinks orders, I ordered Perrier and soda.

Nobody laughed.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2017 08:53 PM (SRKgf)

309 >>>Black forest ham

with hoffman's smoky sharp cheddar

Posted by: concrete girl at July 11, 2017 08:53 PM (EqvVS)

310 Why thank you Guy.

Posted by: mpfs, I find most people smell of elderberries at July 11, 2017 08:54 PM (79p/O)

311 What sammich does Hitler eat?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2017 08:39 PM (IqV8l)

I don't really know, but he does have Scharzewalter Kirschtorte for dessert (and it is yummy!)

Posted by: bergerbilder at July 11, 2017 08:54 PM (lIZQs)

312 *NOOD!*

...but food is down here.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 08:54 PM (6gk0M)

313 "David Brooks (born August 11, 1961)[1] is an American conservative[2][3] political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times."

Guys? The science is settled.

Posted by: wikipedia at July 11, 2017 08:54 PM (xAvrH)

314 In similar spirit, in a chi-chi restaurant in Marin County when the waiter asked for drinks orders, I ordered Perrier and soda.

Nobody laughed.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2017 08:53 PM (SRKgf)

That there is real comedy.

Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at July 11, 2017 08:55 PM (T71PA)

315 159 One porcine cadaver on leavened triticale -- and make it snappy, Bub!

--------

Make mine quadrotriticale. Thanks.

Posted by: Arne Darvin at July 11, 2017 08:56 PM (nILVB)

316 Jesus Christ Almighty, we are thru the looking glass, and it has been smashed by a balding, albino, bespectacled ape on meth.

Posted by: Fritz at July 11, 2017 08:56 PM (sMZCb)

317 That there is real comedy.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at July 11, 2017 08:55 PM (T71PA)

Thanks. I'm glad you liked it. I said it loudly, and looked around for a reaction from the adjacent tables, but ... bupkis.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2017 08:57 PM (SRKgf)

318 Did he mean a strata sandwich?

I think he meant the futuristic but unsuccessful Consolidated Vultee B-64 Stratosandwich nuclear strike bomber.

Posted by: aviation expert at July 11, 2017 08:58 PM (cs4mn)

319 Thanks. I'm glad you liked it. I said it loudly, and looked around for a reaction from the adjacent tables, but ... bupkis.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2017 08:57 PM (SRKgf)

That's funny. I would have laughed.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2017 08:58 PM (Ri/rl)

320 300 Speaking of food and history's greatest monsters, I submit this person.

http://bit.ly/2tcwl9s
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny now with MAGIC Jazz Hands at July 11, 2017 08:52 PM (dEQP3)

*waves to AtC*

Did you see my #62?

Posted by: rickl at July 11, 2017 08:59 PM (sdi6R)

321 I absolutely cannot stand Miracle whip or any of those horrid mayo knock offs. Yuck.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 11, 2017 08:59 PM (CNHr1)

322 I, for one, want a strong man like David Brooks out in the swamp with me. I know that when I hand him an empty magazine and say, reload this, he won't shit his pants. much.

Posted by: goon at July 11, 2017 08:59 PM (EaQ6/)

323 Brooks great grandfather fought valiantly at the battle of Bull Run. He arrived in a rented Union Cavalry Major General uniform in a carraige pulled by a team of proper pedigree Clydesdales with a lunch basket of credentialed delicacies. He fired a single wayward shot from his derringer and was promptly cut down on his fluffed pillow seat in a hail of confederate fire. Retrieving the basket, Stonewll Jackson was heard to say..."What the fuck is this uneatable shit?"

Posted by: Tentotwo at July 11, 2017 09:00 PM (yhf6w)

324 I think that if brooks were a real conservative, he would have edited it to read like this:

first

To feel at home in opportunity-rich areas, you've got to understand the right barre techniques, sport the right baby carrier, have the right podcast, food truck, tea, wine and Pilates tastes, not to mention possess the right attitudes about David Foster Wallace, child-rearing, gender norms and intersectionality.

Then:

"[our] chief message is, "You [deplorables] are not welcome here."

Posted by: andrew jarbacka at July 11, 2017 09:05 PM (AU4SY)

325 293 "...And you are telling me that Annie Green Springs didn't whip TB's ass?"

Red Mountain out of a gallon jug -- the best.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at July 11, 2017 08:50 PM (T71PA)

What pretentious fools. I prefer mine in a plastic bladder inside a cardboard box. hic

Posted by: Taiwan_Joe at July 11, 2017 09:10 PM (sy8f2)

326 Hmm, many non-college graduates I know have absolutely no difficulty in choosing their preferred Italian cold cuts in the absolute temple of VT Italian delis (before you laugh, we in VT have a long tradition of Italian immigrants who worked the marble, slate, and granite quarries as far back as the 1850s), Gill's Delicatessen in my old hometown, Rutland, VT.

Methinks Brooks would feel the odd one out here as the customer flow is so high that you've got about 15 seconds to sputter out your order (though the average Gill's customer gets the same thing EVERY TIME) before you can feel the multiple 40-watt class phased plasma pulse rifles urging you to hurry up.

Whatever you do, just accept the shredded cabbage. Those that order lettuce sometimes engender a groan from the entire rest of the line. Oh, and ditch the mayo for the homemade dressing.

Posted by: Captain Ned at July 11, 2017 09:14 PM (WI6nT)

327 Wonder if David Brooks ever ate scrapple.

Posted by: Toad-O at July 11, 2017 09:17 PM (cct0t)

328 Never heard of cappicola til just now.

Guess that makes me an ignorant rube. Thank God.

Posted by: Country Boy at July 11, 2017 08:04 PM (QwbmS)
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If you had just gone to college, you would have taken Italian Names for Food 101, which is what divides we college educated from the high-school educated.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2017 09:18 PM (JhE5a)

329
(Don't comment on old threads-- you'll get banned! And also, We Who Know Better will Mock you for your ignorant, backwoods ways!)

Sez the guy who banned himself from his own blog......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 11, 2017 09:22 PM (iFZVz)

330 I had no idea we dagos and our peasant food was so precious among the ameriganz

Posted by: Regular joe at July 11, 2017 09:24 PM (BMjTS)

331 "So far I've watched Hitler's Zombie Army, Nazi Werewolves, and Hitler the Junkie. I'm in trash t.v. heaven."

Given the Nazi propensity for costly overcomplicated wunderwaffen that were produced in tiny quantities and broke down all the time, you have to figure that they poured huge efforts into the zombie and werewolf programs.

Only to come up with, by early 1945, two dozen zombie supersoldiers who just wandered around randomly, and one werewolf soldier who had to be shot after being caught humping der Fuhrer's favorite German shepherd.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 11, 2017 09:25 PM (ujwCG)

332 So, a guy who mocks brute Donald Trump's fondness for Big Macs and well-done steak wants to shield his uneducated friend from lofty, problematic sandwiches with balsamic vinaigrette, arugula and prosciutto?

Posted by: Little Mrs Spellcheck at July 11, 2017 09:26 PM (5xRXp)

333 @330:

When you grow up in a half-Italian town, one quickly learns who makes the better food. It ain't us WASPs.

Posted by: Captain Ned at July 11, 2017 09:26 PM (WI6nT)

334 Sometimes I cannot recognize the type of carrion on the side of the road this side of the tracks. I'm almost paralyzed with fear at these points and it slows the shoveling of my day's dinner. Fortunately, most of the time, I'm able to finish the harvest with just the embarrassment of a creased potato sack.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 11, 2017 09:27 PM (H8S+R)

335 I just came from Ann Althouse, so I'll just say that David Brooks has a punchable face.

Posted by: Uma Thurmond's Feet at July 11, 2017 09:32 PM (SfznE)

336 @330:

My Dad came back from 3 years ROTC active duty (along with Mom I) in 1965 and went to work for the family insurance firm. He had to learn, quite quickly, enough Italian/Sicilian (we were clearly a Southern Italian population) to not make an arse of himself as well as how to stretch one's stomach so as not to commit the mortal sin of refusing hospitality. He did that exactly once; never again.

Posted by: Captain Ned at July 11, 2017 09:35 PM (WI6nT)

337 Many years ago I worked at a government agency in rural West Tennessee. One day an elderly woman in a cotton housedress and bedroom slippers was sitting at my desk trying to resolve a Medicare problem. Towards the end of our conversation, she looked around the office, then leaned towards me. "Everyone here is always so nice," she said. Then, "you know, dear, my favorite author is Cicero, and Cicero says that 'the government is the mind of the state.'" Oh, she was a retired first-grade teacher.
One thing I learned from that job was great respect for "ordinary" people.

Posted by: Miss Sippi at July 11, 2017 09:38 PM (5fPhA)

338 You can probably rule out Reuben's.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 11, 2017 08:41 PM (pY+s4)

"Dammit, Himmler! You went too far! Where am I going to get a decent rye?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2017 09:41 PM (TbnoE)

339 Drehrer actually describes his family, from Louisiana, of having "class anxiety" apparently because of his rejection of the food he was raised on. What a role model for the rest of us!

Instapundit ran his virile tongue up and down Brooks' column, too. Cucked again.

Posted by: Born Free at July 11, 2017 09:43 PM (sP0TI)

340 @337:

Back when knowledge of the Western "Dead White Men" was the epitome of learning and was the prime curriculum focus of any college/university that wanted to play in the top space. The howler monkeys have killed that for another good long while.

Posted by: Captain Ned at July 11, 2017 09:43 PM (WI6nT)

341 @339:

Disgust at jambalaya, red beans rice, or etoufee?? Bloody heathen. I don't do mud bugs, but I'll gladly eat the rest.

Posted by: Captain Ned at July 11, 2017 09:45 PM (WI6nT)

342 OK, is this thing programmed to drop ampersands??

Posted by: Captain Ned at July 11, 2017 09:46 PM (WI6nT)

343 That would be a Yes.

Posted by: Captain Ned at July 11, 2017 09:46 PM (WI6nT)

344 You need "NoScript", Captain Ned.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 09:48 PM (6gk0M)

345 Look for it if you have Firefox or Blue Moon, as a Browser.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 09:49 PM (6gk0M)

346 I'll just use "and".

Posted by: Captain Ned at July 11, 2017 09:50 PM (WI6nT)

347 That works... lol.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 09:51 PM (6gk0M)

348 Don' fuhgit da mootzadel !

Posted by: Aunt Ralph at July 11, 2017 09:53 PM (sH2iL)

349 Trying to get in Giada's pants, eh? Hope you're better than Bobby.

Posted by: Captain Ned at July 11, 2017 09:59 PM (WI6nT)

350 thats what he gets for dating his latino housecleaner

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at July 11, 2017 10:01 PM (A6uIZ)

351 Ont is Nood, for those of you hanging about.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at July 11, 2017 10:04 PM (6gk0M)

352 *I* am unfamiliar with cappicola. and I am very well educated.

I think this may be regional, and/or has to do with eating-out habits. Nothing really to do with education.

Now Mexican, we can talk that!

Geez, I never realized I would be considered a rube because I'm not familiar with certain dishes.

I think everybody should know what a drawback is, and a flap, and a Cincinnati. Oh, somebody doesn't know what those are? How gauche.

Posted by: Alana at July 11, 2017 10:07 PM (WFVVX)

353 Brooks is practicing to get a gig doing the Trump leaks for the NYT. Therefore.

There is no HS educated friend, there is no sandwich shop, nobody ate anything or went anywhere. It's all just fiction to score points with the ever hungry for power, crazy progressive classless class of clowns.

Posted by: geoffb5 at July 11, 2017 10:09 PM (d3wbb)

354 Hmmm ...
Stereotypes about the likes of Brooks arise out of thin air .....

Posted by: Iwontsubmit at July 11, 2017 10:45 PM (122Gu)

355 Can we use the term "urban bumblefuck" for Brooks and Krugman ? Do these people just go on the elevator from their apartment to the subway and likewise to their ivory tower offices ?

Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill formerly from Canada at July 11, 2017 11:07 PM (CbcdH)

356 Capicola is on Subway's Italian Hero. I've had one, they are pretty good. My local Subway is around the corner from my local Wal Mart, which sells baguettes, baked in their own bakery. Those are good, too. I'm still not entirely sure what was on that $12 smoked turkey sandwich i bought at Cochon Butcher, but BOY HOWDY that was good, too! I'm not some stupid hick, and Brooks shouldn't assume that. I've also been known to buy take out sushi, pack it in an ice chest, and drive home with it in my PICKUP TRUCK (omg the horror!)

Posted by: hurricane567 at July 11, 2017 11:36 PM (wFQ5Z)

357 David Brooks is talking about himself again.

That's the only person he knows on an intimate or on a casual level.

Posted by: True the Note at July 11, 2017 11:48 PM (SJ184)

358 I can totally believe that someone lost interest in eating at a particular place because it served "capicolla" and "soppressata". I'm really not a fan of super-fancy gourmet food, and if I see words like that on the menu, I know I'm at one of those super-fancy gourmet eateries.

They probably put "wild greens" that look and taste like dandelions on the sandwiches, too, instead of nice, basic lettuce.

It's not that I'm intimidated by the classiness of the place; I just know I'm not gonna like the food.

I ate a so-called "reuben" at one of those fancy gourmet "eateries" once. It had turkey pastrami, which is okay with me, but it also had gruyere cheese instead of Swiss, "sweet pickled cabbage" instead of sauerkraut, and "tomato-dill aioli" instead of Russian or Thousand Island dressing. It didn't taste anything like a reuben, and it was terrible.

Ham and Swiss with mustard? Great! Capicolla and brie with aioli? Ugh. That is not a ham and cheese sandwich!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 11, 2017 11:48 PM (3YxFh)

359 Late, as usual, to the party...but I loved this Ace.

I also love the "tweeted it out" twitting eruptions from the Beta whose knickers are in a twist over Donald Jr's tweet. I keep laughing about those twitter freakouts, one minute after another as he weeps on his laptop. Each salty tear forming snail tracks on his keyboard, eventually merging with snot to clog the ! key as well as the word, "like" used every other ellipsis.

Forsooth, what will he do now? He has been reading each pixel of those emails for a year, and supposedly getting paid.

Doth he not ask..."Who leaketh the emails from this meeting?" Or, "How doth the NYT capture and read Donald Jr's emails legally?"

Nay, he doth twit in ecstasy of his "research" of the Russian attorney, who, supposedly doth not speaky English, yet she writeth notes in Congress, seated behind Obarky's Ambassador to, gasp, !Russia! five days after the meeting with Donald Junior, or so ye olde photos show, found by random lunatics on the Internet Yes, the Russian attorney, who has a shell office with no website, whose Visa had been denied, and who was vouched for by some NY dude or somesquatch.

But...butt...crap this has been funny. Now waiting for other shoe to drop, y'all. He sat on this "story" for an entire year. Again, I want this guy's job. I wanna know what he's been paid for this crapola. He "researched" leads but missed entire encyclopedias of this catfishing.

The entire Russia adoption thing, that was (supposedly) part of the "meeting" was done because stupid Americans kept leaving toddlers adopted from the homeland to die on hot cars. Or the story of sending one lad back to Mother Russia alone on a plane...like Lena's poor dog, adopted then discarded. So Putin said enough. No more. Also, I think, he is more aware than anyone of human trafficking and the sad tale of that.

Anyway, "tweeted it out" is now up there with "shitting pants" in my collected terms of the Hag collusion.

Speaking of this, the word "extruded" bothers me. I hear it in relation to metals or building stuff. It also reminds me of the Hag's face plant and resultant full Depends on 9/11. "She heroically vibrated against the hard metal bollard, wearing anti-seizure aviators...freezing immobile until her SS agents threw her ripe carcass into the van...while simultaneously extruding into her Depends and dropping her shoe."

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen, is tired of dis at July 12, 2017 12:46 AM (J5mzk)

360 It's probably already been said somewhere in the previous 359 comments, but god is Brooks an insufferable asshole. If he really is as he describes himself here then I don't believe he has any friends or anyone willing to go to lunch with him.

Posted by: steve walsh at July 12, 2017 05:21 AM (clx/U)

361 Imagine the horror on her face when they got to the Mexican restaurant and she saw chorizo on the menu?

Posted by: Drchrxis at July 12, 2017 09:00 AM (q5E8h)

362 Banned for commenting on an old thread?

Why dont you put a decent chat server up instead, sheees..

Posted by: Fisht at July 12, 2017 09:45 AM (zOqbT)

363 Brooks is so full of himself he doesn't even see the Latino diss.

Posted by: Shanks for the memory at July 12, 2017 11:00 AM (TdCQk)

364 I have a BA, and MD. I graduated with Honors from High School, College, and Medical School. I played college basketball, can play the guitar and piano and consider myself to be very well rounded in a facets of life. I have no fucking clue what any of those sandwiches or ingredients are. What an arrogant smug snob. Maybe the person was shocked about the pretentiousness of the menu.

Posted by: pj1070 at July 12, 2017 11:53 AM (uDn1H)

365 Brooks Brothers disown the trouser presser.

Posted by: saf at July 12, 2017 12:22 PM (cS/ge)

366 "Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch."

Only a high school degree.

I stopped reading right there.

This event never happened.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 12, 2017 02:28 PM (jWe5r)

367 "Growing up, I'll bet David Brooks got the shit kicked out of him often."

More likely, not enough.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 12, 2017 02:29 PM (jWe5r)

368 With MS Physics and MSEE I figger I got a bit more larnin than that idjit Brooks but I dont know any of that fancy sandwich stuff either but I sure know I'm not paying 20 bucks for some fancy ham that isn't even hickory smoked. Brooks is a blathering self inflated fool who needs to let some air outta his head.

Posted by: DB OHAra at July 12, 2017 09:38 PM (RutkL)

369 Is this where I can git me a huntin' license?

Posted by: A kawlidge grajewit at July 13, 2017 12:28 AM (ZhwLl)

370 I don't know what capicollo is and I don't care. People who give a s*** about it are weird.

Posted by: Otto Maddox at July 16, 2017 03:39 PM (Vb9ZU)

371 I know all those Italian cured meats. I'd still rather have carnitas tacos at my local tacqueria.

Posted by: Bang Gunley at July 16, 2017 08:43 PM (Z3+AH)

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