# What are you a Purist about? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 5, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606 "2003-04-05T01:28:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skarlett244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Skarlett244](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skarlett244)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/1 "2003-04-05T01:28:19Z")
I only like banana splits at a soda fountain that contian chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream and chocolate syrup and whipped cream and a cherry on top. No pecan-nutbread-sherbet. No candycanes or red white and blue sprinkles. No guava sauce. I only like cast recordings of Broadway songs, even if another version is the only one that made it to the radio. I only like Porche Red or British Racing Green on convertable sports cars. No tan or plum, or metalic brown, even if the owner is a woman. I only like the orignial version of games like Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit, not the Gold edition or New Millenium edition. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/2 "2003-04-05T01:42:04Z")
**What are you a Purist about?** Tolkien. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/3 "2003-04-05T01:47:20Z")
Scotch must be single malt, properly aged and preferably from a Highland or Island distillary. It must not be mixed with anything, deffinately no ice or water or … Brandy must be at least VSOP (unless an armagniac (sp?)) and must come from France Cheese must be good quality, which nearly allways means europian. And preferably made with unpasturised milk. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/4 "2003-04-05T01:48:08Z")
I am a purist about many things, but one which comes to mind is coffee. No flavored coffee please, unless it is coffee flavored coffee. I am also a purist about some baseball things. I hate artificial turf, domes, and interleague play during the regular season, although I have to admit I am not seriously offended by the designated hitter, so how much of a purist can I be? Looking closely at the Red Sox schedule lately I noticed some night games on weekends in the summer. What’s up with that? Night games are bad enough, but on a Saturday in June, in Boston? ---
**Author:** ![mr.splitfoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@mr.splitfoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.splitfoot)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/5 "2003-04-05T01:53:26Z")
Makers Mark. Shots must be poured in a tumbler, not a shot glass. Always neat, never on the rocks. Coke on the side to clean the palate after several sips. Bars. Must be dark and smokey, with a neighborhood feel. If there is a jukebox, must have at least one Rolling Stones album. Bartender should always look like an everyday person. Beef. Must never be cooked more than medium, no matter what cut or what dish it’s served in. Well done = charcoal. And Mr. S. does NOT like eating charcoal! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/6 "2003-04-05T02:28:56Z")
Underwear must be 100% cotton, not a blend. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/7 "2003-04-05T02:36:28Z")
Boxed macaroni and cheese. It must be Kraft. No off-brands for me. (As far as homemade goes, it must be made with real cheese. And I do NOT eat that American crap, or Velveeta, or any other fake cheeselike substance.) ---
**Author:** ![Turbo\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Turbo\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turbo_Dog)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/8 "2003-04-05T03:22:31Z")
**whiterabbit** tell me that you at least use the foil packaged cheese Kraft M&C and not the powdered stuff! ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/9 "2003-04-05T03:25:48Z")
There is no such thing as whole-wheat pita bread. Chocolate chip cheesecake is an abomination. ---
**Author:** ![DEVA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@DEVA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DEVA)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/10 "2003-04-05T04:26:37Z")
Simultaneous orgasm between my husband and myself during intercourse. Treating my children equally. ---
**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/11 "2003-04-05T04:32:34Z")
Butter. When I ask for butter, I mean _butter_. Not oleo, or worse, vegetable spreads. Plant based fats just don’t taste right, or behave the same way that butter does when I’m cooking. HTML. If I’m designing a webpage, I use CSS for all the visual elements, and leave the base HTML as clean as possible. That means no \ tags, minimal use of tables, and W3C verification. Hot Dogs. All beef, preferably on a chewy brat bun. Chicago style if possible, but with dijon or brown mustard at a minimum. Absolutely no ketchup! ---
**Author:** ![DEVA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@DEVA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DEVA)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/12 "2003-04-05T04:36:03Z")
Drats! How could I have forgotten the butter and all-beef hot dogs? Why the ‘ef’ would you want a CHICKEN or PORK hot dog? 🙂 gross. And: No raw onions EVER. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/13 "2003-04-05T06:45:27Z")
Goodness. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/14 "2003-04-05T06:48:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bippy the Beardless \* > \*\*Scotch must be single malt, properly aged and preferably from a Highland or Island distillary. It must not be mixed with anything, deffinately no ice or water or … > > Brandy must be at least VSOP (unless an armagniac (sp?)) and must come from France > > Cheese must be good quality, which nearly allways means europian. And preferably made with unpasturised milk. \*\* Only a suggestion, **Bippy** : Add a 4 or 5 drops of spring water to your peg of single malt - it ‘releases’ the taste of the malt. From [here](http://www.scotchwhisky.net/drinking/). Being a single malt drinker, you should be able to appreciate the difference in taste - whether or not it’s an improvement is your call entirely!! I take my Lagavulin 16 year old scotsch with a few drops of water… ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/15 "2003-04-05T07:14:41Z")
I take my dark, carbonated beverage (Coke, Pepsi, Dr Pepper) without ice. _Never_ with ice. Not only does the jerk[sup]†[/sup] tend to jam-pack the cup/glass with ice, I find that ice dilutes the ‘bite’ of the soda, which is one of its redeeming factors to me. [sup]† A double meaning is intended with this word.[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/16 "2003-04-05T07:29:18Z")
Baseball (Interleague, shminterleague) the SDMB (Cecil does so exist.) Theater (do NOT say “Good luck”) David Sunflower Seeds. (Frito-Lay’s are a poor excuse.) Diet Coke. (Diet Pepsi is not Diet Coke. I will notice.) San Francicso (What the FUCK is The Gap doing on the corner of Haight and Ashbury?!) I’m sure there’s more. > [@](#): > > **DEVA** : Simultaneous orgasm between my husband and myself during intercourse. I thought my demand for sunflower seeds was strict. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/17 "2003-04-05T08:50:45Z")
OO. Perl and C and nearly all of the other procedural languages are great languages as-is. Bolting OO onto them is neither needed nor pretty, and merely complicates a good thing. Same goes with any other language. Ruby did it right: Make everything an object, no exceptions. Security. No, Microsoft, DOS _cannot cannot cannot_ be secured. Stop trying. Release a real OS. Multitasking. Free clue: If a process can busy-wait, your OS does not support multitasking. Tying up a resource is not only rude, it indicates a fundamentally broken system. Invest in daemons and IPC. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/18 "2003-04-05T14:12:39Z")
Peanut butter must be Smuckers. Ingredients: Peanuts, salt. Diet Coke… any other diet brown soda will not do! He’s Rich Uncle Pennybags. This Mr. Monopoly crap is stupid. I’m probably not the typical monopoly purist as I’m working on owning a version of EVERY game ever made. When I want ice cream … I want Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey. Nothing else will do. Scott paper towels. With cats, dog & toddler… cheesey towels just don’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Mudling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@Mudling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudling)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/19 "2003-04-05T14:46:18Z")
Every window I have open MUST be maximised. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606/20 "2003-04-05T14:53:49Z")
Wow mudling that would make me nuts. I hate when stuff ends up maximized. Do you use a really small monitor or just love huge windows? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-purist-about/166606.md?page=2)