Sad but true

Vilco said:

Maybe this doesn't mean nothing, but...
There's a big difference between this cooking NG and the main italian
cooking NG: here you can post recipes who list commercial products in
the ingredients, while on the italian NG you can't even talk about
frozen spinach, unless you want to be ridiculed by some food-snob.
Yeah, damn food-snobs.
This is sad, really sad.
Why? I don't know... Maybe us italians are more concerned about food,
but why all this snobbery?
LOL, I hoper it's just a moment 🙂
--

Somebody has to hold the fort against the barbarians...

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Vilco said:

Maybe this doesn't mean nothing, but...
There's a big difference between this cooking NG and the main italian
cooking NG: here you can post recipes who list commercial products in
the ingredients, while on the italian NG you can't even talk about
frozen spinach, unless you want to be ridiculed by some food-snob.
Yeah, damn food-snobs.
This is sad, really sad.
Why? I don't know... Maybe us italians are more concerned about food,
but why all this snobbery?

I have noticed that in many ethnic food groups the
posters are pretty intolerant of one another's opinions.
God forbid your recipe isn't EXACTLYlike their grandmother
used to make!

gloria p

What is the "main Italian cooking NG" BTW? Also what is the difference
between being concerned about quality and snobbery. In my opinion,
food snobs are trying to be trendy, ostentatious, and are highly
suceptible to suggestion by food and wine journalist. In my
experience, Italians show a higher concern and appreciation of food
than a large percentage of Americans and I can relate to that. I
think it's really a matter of priorities and we all have our own. Oh
boy! Talking about food opens so many interesting questions about
human behavior...

Good Eats...

D.M.

Monsur Fromage du Pollet said:

Curly Sue wrote on 03 May 2005 in rec.food.cooking

Quoted message said:

Vilco said:

Maybe this doesn't mean nothing, but...
There's a big difference between this cooking NG and the main
italian cooking NG: here you can post recipes who list commercial
products in the ingredients, while on the italian NG you can't
even talk about frozen spinach, unless you want to be ridiculed
by some food-snob. Yeah, damn food-snobs.
This is sad, really sad.
Why? I don't know... Maybe us italians are more concerned about
food, but why all this snobbery?
LOL, I hoper it's just a moment 🙂
--

Somebody has to hold the fort against the barbarians...

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

We got a Fort??? Where?

Soiteny! Haven't you heard of a Food Fort?

Ooops, I think we were keeping it from you...

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

D.A.Martinich said:

In my opinion, food snobs are trying to be trendy, ostentatious,
and are highly suceptible to suggestion by food and wine journalist.

I wouldn't limit "food snob" to this.

I think a food snob is anyone who looks down on someone for eating
something they deem unpalatable. The key, for me, is that they deride the
other person, or hold them in contempt.

We have a lot of food snobs on this newsgroup.

--
Siobhan Perricone
"I ain't afraid of your Yahweh
I ain't afraid of your Allah
I ain't afraid of your Jesus
I'm afraid of what ya do in the name of your god"
- Holly Near

"notbob" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Vilco said:

the ingredients, while on the italian NG you can't even talk about
frozen spinach, unless you want to be ridiculed by some food-snob.

Give us the newsgroup names and we'll come over and really rattle
their risotto. 😉

My thoughts exactly! We could all go over there and stomp on their pompous
arses! TAKE OVAAHHH DAA GRROOOUP!

.... Oh hells, just realised how much I just sounded like a troll,
heheheheh...

Shaun aRe
--
Life is the dream you wake up to.

In article <[email hidden]>,

-L. said:

Siobhan Perricone said:

D.A.Martinich said:

In my opinion, food snobs are trying to be trendy, ostentatious,
and are highly suceptible to suggestion by food and wine
journalist.

I wouldn't limit "food snob" to this.

I think a food snob is anyone who looks down on someone for eating
something they deem unpalatable. The key, for me, is that they
deride the other person, or hold them in contempt.

I think it's more those who stick their nose up in the air when someone
says they make or prepare something differently than the snob does.
It's the "holier-than-thou" attitude. It's an ego thing. As if there
is one *right* way to cook something.

In general, I think I'd agree. Except that proper pirohy really ARE
triangular in shape. HTH.
-The Pirohy Princess
--
-Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> Sam I Am! 5/3/05

In article <[email hidden]>, Siobhan
Perricone <[email hidden]> wrote:
(snip)

Quoted message said:

I think a food snob is anyone who looks down on someone for eating
something they deem unpalatable. The key, for me, is that they deride the
other person, or hold them in contempt.

Hey, I represent that remark!! You, you, you BEET LOVER, you!!
(What about we who don't really give a rip but sure have fun making
sport?)

Quoted message said:

We have a lot of food snobs on this newsgroup.
--
Siobhan Perricone

--
-Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> Sam I Am! 5/3/05

Melba's Jammin said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Siobhan
Perricone <[email hidden]> wrote:
(snip)

Quoted message said:

I think a food snob is anyone who looks down on someone for eating
something they deem unpalatable. The key, for me, is that they deride the
other person, or hold them in contempt.

Hey, I represent that remark!! You, you, you BEET LOVER, you!!
(What about we who don't really give a rip but sure have fun making
sport?)

Part-time trolls? Rabble rousers? Provocateurs?

gloria p

Vilco <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Maybe this doesn't mean nothing, but...
There's a big difference between this cooking NG and the main italian
cooking NG: here you can post recipes who list commercial products in
the ingredients, while on the italian NG you can't even talk about
frozen spinach, unless you want to be ridiculed by some food-snob.
Yeah, damn food-snobs.
This is sad, really sad.
Why? I don't know... Maybe us italians are more concerned about food,
but why all this snobbery?
LOL, I hoper it's just a moment 🙂
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

I think it IS true that Italians care very much about good food, or Italian
cuisine would not be as delicious as it is. I DON'T think that necessarily
makes them snobs. Or at least I hope not. Fact is, a lot of people may
care very much about food, but also have families, jobs and errands, and
can't always put half a day's work into what they eat for dinner on any
given weeknight. Things generally do taste better when they're fresh, it's
true, and it's generally advisable to eat meat, fish and poultry when it IS
fresh for the sake of one's health. But I'm sure not going to give a tired
parent of either gender hell for using frozen spinach rather than fresh in a
dish. They deserve credit for cooking dinner rather than just getting TV
dinners out of the freezer. If they don't lavish all the care on it that
they might for a special occasion, they're still making the effort to put
homecooked food on the table.

I'll happily eat any meal with genuine food lovers, even if we only eat
scrambled eggs and toast. I don't have five minutes to spare for food
snobs. I heard an interview with Ruth Reichl on Sunday, and I thought she
summed up the difference between food lovers and food snobs rather well.
For her, a genuine food lover can appreciate a really good grilled cheese
sandwich or hot dog with the same pleasure as they'd eat a four-course meal
that costs a thousand dollars per person. A food snob is more interested in
a restaurant's status, and the fact that they're eating there than they are
in really enjoying the food. It's kind of like the people who are so busy
videotaping the Grand Canyon to prove they were there that they have no
time to really LOOK and appreciate being there.

Melissa

"Melissa Houle" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Vilco <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Maybe this doesn't mean nothing, but...
There's a big difference between this cooking NG and the main italian
cooking NG: here you can post recipes who list commercial products in
the ingredients, while on the italian NG you can't even talk about
frozen spinach, unless you want to be ridiculed by some food-snob.
Yeah, damn food-snobs.
This is sad, really sad.
Why? I don't know... Maybe us italians are more concerned about food,
but why all this snobbery?
LOL, I hoper it's just a moment 🙂
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

I think it IS true that Italians care very much about good food, or
Italian
cuisine would not be as delicious as it is. I DON'T think that
necessarily
makes them snobs. Or at least I hope not. Fact is, a lot of people may
care very much about food, but also have families, jobs and errands, and
can't always put half a day's work into what they eat for dinner on any
given weeknight. Things generally do taste better when they're fresh, it's
true, and it's generally advisable to eat meat, fish and poultry when it
IS
fresh for the sake of one's health. But I'm sure not going to give a tired
parent of either gender hell for using frozen spinach rather than fresh in
a
dish. They deserve credit for cooking dinner rather than just getting TV
dinners out of the freezer. If they don't lavish all the care on it that
they might for a special occasion, they're still making the effort to put
homecooked food on the table.

I'll happily eat any meal with genuine food lovers, even if we only eat
scrambled eggs and toast. I don't have five minutes to spare for food
snobs. I heard an interview with Ruth Reichl on Sunday, and I thought she
summed up the difference between food lovers and food snobs rather well.
For her, a genuine food lover can appreciate a really good grilled cheese
sandwich or hot dog with the same pleasure as they'd eat a four-course
meal
that costs a thousand dollars per person. A food snob is more interested
in
a restaurant's status, and the fact that they're eating there than they
are
in really enjoying the food. It's kind of like the people who are so busy
videotaping the Grand Canyon to prove they were there that they have no
time to really LOOK and appreciate being there.

Melissa

I think your post is right on target. A food lover enjoys good food no
matter where it comes from. It can be cheap, simple, and plain, such as a
homegrown tomato munched in the garden or a raw oyster slurped on the dock.
It can also be outrageously expensive and hard to find like Chateau Margaux
or fugu.

I thin it one of the great fortunes of life that evolution has made
something we must do to live - eating - also someting that can be a great
pleasure.

--
Peter Aitken

Remove the [censored] from my email address before using.

Vilco said:

Maybe this doesn't mean nothing, but...
There's a big difference between this cooking NG and the main italian
cooking NG: here you can post recipes who list commercial products in
the ingredients, while on the italian NG you can't even talk about
frozen spinach, unless you want to be ridiculed by some food-snob.
Yeah, damn food-snobs.
This is sad, really sad.
Why? I don't know... Maybe us italians are more concerned about food,
but why all this snobbery?
LOL, I hoper it's just a moment 🙂
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

I think it has more to do with the nature of "news groups" and the
"internet" than it does food or Italians. The type of intolerant
orthodoxy & behaviour you describe can be found in many group on many
subjects.

This type of behaviour can be found out side of the internet in "real
life" but in those case it is usually confined to like minded
individuals who appreciate and support the behaviour and it is unlikely
in "real life" that a person would causally wander in to a place like
that and not have some idea what they are getting into.
---
Joseph Littleshoes

Vilco said:

Maybe this doesn't mean nothing, but...
There's a big difference between this cooking NG and the main italian
cooking NG: here you can post recipes who list commercial products in
the ingredients, while on the italian NG you can't even talk about
frozen spinach, unless you want to be ridiculed by some food-snob.
Yeah, damn food-snobs.
This is sad, really sad.
Why? I don't know... Maybe us italians are more concerned about food,
but why all this snobbery?
LOL, I hoper it's just a moment 🙂
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

I think it has more to do with the nature of "news groups" and the
"internet" than it does food or Italians. The type of intolerant
orthodoxy & behaviour you describe can be found in many group on many
subjects.

This type of behaviour can be found out side of the internet in "real
life" but in those case it is usually confined to like minded
individuals who appreciate and support the behaviour and it is unlikely
in "real life" that a person would causally wander in to a place like
that and not have some idea what they are getting into.
---
Joseph Littleshoes

Vilco said:

Maybe this doesn't mean nothing, but...
There's a big difference between this cooking NG and the main italian
cooking NG: here you can post recipes who list commercial products in
the ingredients, while on the italian NG you can't even talk about
frozen spinach, unless you want to be ridiculed by some food-snob.
Yeah, damn food-snobs.
This is sad, really sad.
Why? I don't know... Maybe us italians are more concerned about food,
but why all this snobbery?
LOL, I hoper it's just a moment 🙂
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

I think it has more to do with the nature of "news groups" and the
"internet" than it does food or Italians. The type of intolerant
orthodoxy & behaviour you describe can be found in many group on many
subjects.

This type of behaviour can be found out side of the internet in "real
life" but in those case it is usually confined to like minded
individuals who appreciate and support the behaviour and it is unlikely
in "real life" that a person would causally wander in to a place like
that and not have some idea what they are getting into.
---
Joseph Littleshoes

Siobhan Perricone said:

D.A.Martinich said:

In my opinion, food snobs are trying to be trendy, ostentatious,
and are highly suceptible to suggestion by food and wine journalist.

I wouldn't limit "food snob" to this.

I think a food snob is anyone who looks down on someone for eating
something they deem unpalatable. The key, for me, is that they deride the
other person, or hold them in contempt.

We have a lot of food snobs on this newsgroup.

We are lucky to have the standard bearers so we can aim higher :>

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

One time on Usenet said:

Siobhan Perricone said:

On 3 May 2005 18:17:12 -0700, "D.A.Martinich" <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

In my opinion, food snobs are trying to be trendy, ostentatious,
and are highly suceptible to suggestion by food and wine journalist.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I wouldn't limit "food snob" to this.

I think a food snob is anyone who looks down on someone for eating
something they deem unpalatable. The key, for me, is that they deride the
other person, or hold them in contempt.

We have a lot of food snobs on this newsgroup.

Quoted message said:

We are lucky to have the standard bearers so we can aim higher :>

*Chuckle* I guess I don't qualify as a food snob, then -- I usually
just say "that doesn't sound good to me". Then again, I've had to listen
to family members call my favorite devilled ham "cat food" for many
years, so maybe I'm more sensitive... ;-)

--
Jani in WA ~ mom, vid gamer, novice cook ~
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same
way that bricks don't" - D. Adams, HGTTG

Vilco said:

Maybe this doesn't mean nothing, but...
There's a big difference between this cooking NG and the main italian
cooking NG: here you can post recipes who list commercial products in
the ingredients, while on the italian NG you can't even talk about
frozen spinach, unless you want to be ridiculed by some food-snob.
Yeah, damn food-snobs.
This is sad, really sad.
Why? I don't know... Maybe us italians are more concerned about food,
but why all this snobbery?
LOL, I hoper it's just a moment 🙂
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

I think it has more to do with the nature of "news groups" and the
"internet" than it does food or Italians. The type of intolerant
orthodoxy & behaviour you describe can be found in many group on many
subjects.

This type of behaviour can be found out side of the internet in "real
life" but in those case it is usually confined to like minded
individuals who appreciate and support the behaviour and it is unlikely
in "real life" that a person would causally wander in to a place like
that and not have some idea what they are getting into.
---
Joseph Littleshoes

Melba's Jammin said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Siobhan
Perricone <[email hidden]> wrote:
(snip)

Quoted message said:

I think a food snob is anyone who looks down on someone for eating
something they deem unpalatable. The key, for me, is that they deride the
other person, or hold them in contempt.

Hey, I represent that remark!! You, you, you BEET LOVER, you!!
(What about we who don't really give a rip but sure have fun making
sport?)

*Laugh* I admit it *hangs her head in shame* I love beets.

I made refridgerator pickles this weekend, and I've been happily noshing on
them all week... I can't wait for summer and the great cucumbers at the
farmer's market to make fridge pickles with.

--
Siobhan Perricone
"I ain't afraid of your Yahweh
I ain't afraid of your Allah
I ain't afraid of your Jesus
I'm afraid of what ya do in the name of your god"
- Holly Near

On Wed, 04 May 2005 21:34:22 GMT, [email hidden] (Gal

Called Jani) said:

*Chuckle* I guess I don't qualify as a food snob, then -- I usually
just say "that doesn't sound good to me". Then again, I've had to listen
to family members call my favorite devilled ham "cat food" for many
years, so maybe I'm more sensitive... ;-)

Heh. I'm the same way. There are so many strange things I like (peanut
butter and mayo sandwiches with potato chips, for instance) that I can't
really judge what anyone else eats as worthy of contempt. 😉

--
Siobhan Perricone
"I ain't afraid of your Yahweh
I ain't afraid of your Allah
I ain't afraid of your Jesus
I'm afraid of what ya do in the name of your god"
- Holly Near