# What are you a "snob" about? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 29, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962 "2024-07-29T16:47:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/161 "2024-08-01T15:32:32Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Quite so. As an aside, I’ve actually always wondered whether your screen name refers to eating everything, or, as you are a UK doper, snow peas. Or perhaps both? ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/162 "2024-08-01T15:34:31Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Never dry, but I do tend to cook poultry and game birds to at most medium. Back when I was shooting pheasant I always over cooked them. Now I know better. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/163 "2024-08-01T15:48:48Z")
> [@veryfrank](#): > > I suppose I used to be more of a movie snob, but I happily consume B-movies and mainstream trash. Huge fan of Wim Wenders and Michael Winterbottom and Krzysztof Kieślowski and I have a shelf bursting with Criterion BluRays, but I also wolf down all the main horror franchises, and my bookmarks list on Tubi is longer than the time I have left on earth. I’m fine with sleaze, as long as it’s _enthusiastic_ sleaze, and you can tell people had fun making it > > I guess what I’m snobbish about in film is the most generic, cookie-cutter romcom or action movie. I’m bugged by incompetence that made it to the screen. Someone says _His Girl Friday_ is their favorite romantic comedy, hell, I’ll marry that person. If they say that cruddy one with Cloony and Roberts on the island made them laugh, their tastes just plummeted in my estimation. I can subscribe to all of that, so maybe I’m also a film snob. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/164 "2024-08-01T15:51:10Z")
I adopted it initially to refer to my gourmandism, but later on, I did build a little green boat that I decided to call The Snow Pea. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/165 "2024-08-01T15:58:50Z")
OMG, I remember that! What year, do you remember? Here or on YouTube? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/166 "2024-08-01T16:01:11Z")
2007 is when I started it, before I really got going on YouTube - it’s all [here](https://atomicshrimp.com/page/2?q=build%20boat) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/167 "2024-08-01T16:13:09Z")
Wow, time flies. Thanks for the trip! ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/168 "2024-08-01T16:56:38Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Back when I was shooting pheasant I always over cooked them. Now I know better. by overcooking you mean that 0.50 cal sniperrifle, right? ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/169 "2024-08-01T18:06:26Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > If you tell me you enjoy that show, I’m thinking less of you. (sorry, I know there are good people here who watch it). Yah, a bone of contention between Mrs. D and myself. Love her dearly, at least she’ll go upstairs to watch that stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/170 "2024-08-01T19:50:31Z")
You can get excellent pizza, or terrible if you’d like, in Philly. Same as New York. The notion that good pizza only comes from NY (or anywhere) is absurd. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/171 "2024-08-01T19:52:37Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > I agree. The only pizza truly worthy of praise is in New York or Chicago. I once made the mistake of having pizza for lunch in northern Wisconsin. It tasted like they spilled tomato sauce on a slab of cardboard. 🤢 Visit New Haven, Connecticut for truly great pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/172 "2024-08-01T20:03:03Z")
I find wild bird, of any kind disgusting to eat. Can be hard on the teeth, unless you’re using a sling shot. 😋 ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/173 "2024-08-01T20:04:43Z")
> [@We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](#): > > > [@Jasmine](#): > > > > The only pizza truly worthy of praise is in New York or Chicago. > > I think you need to expand this…I was in Amalfi and Napoli last year and ate pizza almost every day. It was ungodly good. I concur. To become a true pizza snob, one must study in Italy, learning true food snobbery from the Italian masters. 🕶 I’ve had pizza in Sicily, Sardinia, Naples, Sorrento, Matera, Rome, Turin, Florence, and a variety of small towns in Italy. All different and all much more memorable than any pizza I’ve had in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc. (well, except for Kesté Pizza in Greenwich Village). ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/174 "2024-08-02T00:15:57Z")
TV, but not in the way you think. I could take or leave “prestige TV” like … pick something. _Breaking Bad_ or _The Wire_ or whatever. I actually like a show or two in this category (including _House of the Dragon_). And in fact two of my favorite shows are network comedies with broad appeal (_Ghosts_ and a few others). What I’m snobbish about is the bottom-of-the-barrell dreck like _Dr. Phil_ or _Ancient Aliens_ or _Mystery of Oak Island_ or whatever. I don’t just hate it, I’m mad that it exists. When I see advertisements for shows like this it just enrages me that someone, somewhere thinks that I want to see that shit. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/175 "2024-08-02T04:07:56Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Dachshunds, being snobs themselves… They aren’t snobs. They are just _Right._ But I’ll admit, I’m not following their lead on the **Cat Shit Thing**. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/176 "2024-08-03T01:11:59Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > What I’m snobbish about is the bottom-of-the-barrell dreck like _Dr. Phil_ or _Ancient Aliens_ or _Mystery of Oak Island_ or whatever. I don’t just hate it, I’m mad that it exists. When I see advertisements for shows like this it just enrages me that someone, somewhere thinks that I want to see that shit. Speaking of advertisements, your post reminded me what a snob I am about people who tolerate them. Say you’re working in the garage, you put on the radio super loud, and 3 minutes out of every 7 is solid ads blaring out at you. Advertisements are not benign; they are nearly always actively harmful, and if you do not leap for the volume button every time an ad comes on, I think less of you. (Part of my childhood I was raised in a house where TV was grudgingly allowed but commercials NEVER were; if the parents even heard a commercial from the next room, TV time was over. Then I married someone whose father had independently (re-) invented a wired TV remote just for audio way before normal people even had remotes, which he called the Blab-Off Button. A man after my own heart.) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/177 "2024-08-03T20:22:03Z")
> [@Briny\_Deep](#): > > Speaking of advertisements, your post reminded me what a snob I am about people who tolerate them. Speaking of radio- I do not care if it is your fave blue station- if it has too much static- it is a no go. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/178 "2024-08-03T21:11:24Z")
Good leather. As a lifelong horse person I’ve used a lot of crap leather and a lot of good leather. You can only make crap leather a little better with care, but really good quality leather just gets better and better with age. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/179 "2024-08-04T00:08:02Z")
Black licorice. I pretty much buy only Panda brand black licorice now. It’s imported from Finland, and is made from only four ingredients: molasses, flour, licorice extract and aniseseed oil. It is soft and sweet with a strong licorice flavor, and has ruined me for any other brand. Occasionally I’ll pick all the black jellybeans out of a mix, or buy Good & Plenty at the movies. But I always come back to that sweet black opium. If you mention red licorice, you are dead to me. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962/180 "2024-08-04T15:23:27Z")
your licorice / Finland reference reminded me of my fav. chocolate (from my fav. outdoor/surplus site): > **[Scho-Ka-Kola, 100 g Tin Box, 10-Pack](https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/scho-ka-kola-100-g-tin-box-10-pack/70844)** > > This stuff in identically-shaped tins has kept the Germans awake since the 30s. Scho-Ka-Kola is dark chocolate with lots of caffeine, essentially a mild combat drug! Get yours now! just poking around this site, many product descriptions are a real hoot!!! Are there other websites that mention how crappy the product is you are looking to buy? → > **[Polish combat rucksack, leopard camo, surplus](https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/polish-combat-rucksack-leopard-camo-surplus/9209)** > > The saddest, most terrible attempt to make military gear, ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-snob-about/1004962.md?page=10)