What is it with people who think that their preference in food makes them somehow superior to those around them?
Examples:
If you drink light beer ala Miller or Budweiser you’re considered an idiot “Those taste like piss, give me a Bass Ale or Guiness, that’s what real men drink.”
If you drink your coffee black, your somehow have an edge over those who use cream or sugar.
If you get you buffalo wings mild, your just not as cool as those than get them blazin’ hot.
Eat dark chocolate and your much more sophisticated than those eating that milk chocolate stuff.
Drink a cosmopolitan, daquari, or pina colada and your a wuss. Drink some Jack Daniels and your a man.
I’m definitely a beer snob. But I like a good corndog as much as the next person. It’s a balance, I guess. But it is very snobby to loudly condemn the food and drink preferences of others. Just eat your frisee salad with goat cheese, and let the guy next to you eat his patty melt, mmkay?
Unfortunately, it all really comes down to manners and politeness, and a lot of people just don’t have either, or just don’t want to bother with it.
That’s interesting. I never really thought about the fact that so many of our, for lack of a better phrase, most masculine food habits are ones that involve things that are bitter and/or painful.
That having been said, I agree with the OP. Too many people judge others on the kinds of foods they eat. Who cares what somebody else likes?
Peole have different tastes, but somebody is not an idiot or a wuss because they don’t eat what you eat, or like their coffee sweet.
It’s just one of those things that makes some people feel better about themselves - “I eat really hot wings, therefor I have a huge set of balls.”
To be fair, real maple syrup is pretty expensive most places (we can get Canadian relatively inexpensively here, but that Vermont stuff is pretty out of sight). And some places don’t have it at all.
Mind you, I agree with you about the whole maple syrup issue. Just tryin’ to be fair, is all.
This is not to say that everyone who eats hot wings or whatever has this attitude. I eat hot wings, and I have no balls whatsoever. I actually eat / drink most of the stuff mentioned in the OP, but it’s the attitude that sucks, not the food or beer.
Why should I be treated as snobbish because I decline a glass of beer from the communal pitcher of Bud, and go get a Fat Tire instead? I don’t like certain foods/drinks, and yet if I don’t partake of them, I’m perceived as a food snob? Oh, well.
Well, some foods are more complex in their flavors than others, but judging somebody on their food and beverage tastes is just sillly. Besides, good microbrew pale ale would just be wasted on you Bud-drinkers anyway.
When I first met my boyfriend, he condemned me for using tea bags instead of loose leaves. He went on and on about it. Now, a few months later, he uses tea bags more often than not. In fact, the last two times we had tea together, I was the one to use loose leaves, and he used bags.
No, you’re not percieved as a food snob for preferring Fat Tire to Bud.
You’d be percieved as a food snob if you, when offered the Bud, loudly declare that anyone who drinks that piss obviously knows nothing about good beer and is a low-class moron.
