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?
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.
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).
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.
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.)
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.
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.