# Food preferences that people think make them superior
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [January 12, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404 "2005-01-12T16:37:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/1 "2005-01-12T16:37:29Z")
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.
Are you a food snob??
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### Author:  [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/2 "2005-01-12T16:42:49Z")
I’m a grilled cheese and Miller Lite girl myself. Call me a snob if you must. 😉
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/3 "2005-01-12T16:44:38Z")
> [@](#):
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> If you drink your coffee black, your somehow have an edge over those who use cream or sugar.
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> If you get you buffalo wings mild, your just not as cool as those than get them blazin’ hot…
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> Drink a cosmopolitan, daquari, or pina colada and your a wuss. Drink some Jack Daniels and your a man.
In suffering lieth virtue, apparently.
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### Author:  [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/4 "2005-01-12T16:44:41Z")
Yes. And don’t even get me started on people who don’t like maple syrup, and enjoy flavored corn syrup instead.
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### Author:  [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/5 "2005-01-12T16:45:31Z")
> [@Hampshire](#):
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> Are you a food snob??
Well…yeah, sort of. :o
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.
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### Author:  [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/6 "2005-01-12T16:47:30Z")
How about, “If you drink iced tea without sugar, you’re a freak who should be in a hospital for observation?”
There _are_ some people who don’t like sugar in EVERYTHING. Deal with it.
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### Author:  [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/7 "2005-01-12T16:47:43Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#):
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> In suffering lieth virtue, apparently.
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.
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### Author:  [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/8 "2005-01-12T16:47:47Z")
I drink Jack and I’m not a man… 😉
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.”
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/9 "2005-01-12T16:48:18Z")
At any rate, my usual reaction to someone’s not liking something I consider ambrosial is, _shrug_ More for me.
Unless I cooked it, in which case it’s _grab_stuff\* EAT THE WHOLE THING YOU MOTHERFUCKER
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### Author:  [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/10 "2005-01-12T16:50:22Z")
> [@Eonwe](#):
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> Yes. And don’t even get me started on people who don’t like maple syrup, and enjoy flavored corn syrup instead.
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. 🙂
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/11 "2005-01-12T16:52:02Z")
> [@Hampshire](#):
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> Are you a food snob??
Fuck yeah.
Don’t give me that lite, sugar-free, lo-carb, watered down crap. I like REAL food, and that DOES make me superior.
Also makes me fat.
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### Author:  [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/12 "2005-01-12T16:52:19Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#):
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> 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.”
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.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/13 "2005-01-12T16:55:41Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/14 "2005-01-12T16:59:49Z")
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. 😃
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### Author:  [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/15 "2005-01-12T17:12:22Z")
> [@LindyHopper](#):
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> 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.
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> Mind you, I _agree_ with you about the whole maple syrup issue. Just tryin’ to be fair, is all. 🙂
Fair 'nough. I guess it’s cheaper when you can get it local.
But to call it maple syrup, when it tastes nothing like maple syrup… that’s what gets my goat.
_goes into Vermontian syrup-seisure_
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### Author:  [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/16 "2005-01-12T17:14:22Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/17 "2005-01-12T17:15:11Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#):
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> 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.
You’re fine as long as you don’t make an issue of it:
GOOD: Oh, thanks, but I’m more of a Fat Tire person.
BAD: Yuck! Who drinks that mule piss?
VERY BAD: I will pray for your soul for this transgression.
Susan
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/18 "2005-01-12T17:17:03Z")
True epicures eat vegemite. Or marmite.
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### Author:  [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/19 "2005-01-12T17:18:20Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#):
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> 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.
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.
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-preferences-that-people-think-make-them-superior/284404/20 "2005-01-12T17:21:36Z")
As long as people don’t put ketchup on their hot dogs, it’s all “live and let live.” 😛
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