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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

White people: Ruin most of the world in search of flavor.

Also white people: Ew why does this thing have flavor

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The author is also a big time TERF piece of shit

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The original post already said she was British, you don't need to repeat it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Sorry reading comprehension fail

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This article is for subscribers only

They expect people to pay for this bullshit lmao

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

lol, I could read it just fine the other day. I wonder if they put it behind the paywall because they were getting a bad response. Swapped it out with the archive link. https://archive.li/d516E

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bread-bro culture is uber-macho and attracts the bearded man-bun crowd, like chilli-infused cocktails and kimchi. The dudes that used to obsess about pizza have now shifted to sourdough. In fact, it’s worse than that – they are now making pizza from sourdough. Perverts.

even I am not terminally online enough to understand what the hell she just said

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's not a terminally online thing, it's quite an insider/local thing. I don't know where you're from but I live in a relative "hipster" city here in the UK and this is spot on in terms of food trends (basically rich white millennial inventions from London). I live amongst them, and also sort of associated with them a year ago. There are a lot of people, think mid to late 20s who are very attracted to the idea of specialty coffee (probably the beverage equivalence of sourdough) and sourdough toasties for their weekday lunch (I speak from empirical observation). Then for eating out, they have sourdough pizza dinner (there must be like a dozen chains and local restaurants specialising in this). "London" trends like these absolutely sell to a demographic. I think it's tasty, but way too expensive. When they do launch in other cities, they tend to be in gentrified areas and drive up the prices there. That's why there is a disdain for "middle class hipsters" because it's just a "non-mainstream" way (now actually mainstream due to its uptake by everything else generic) to flaunt your "world-culture" and signal to others that you spend your disposable income on COOL stuff, BTW.

But our journalist here (from your excerpt, I can't read this paywalled shit) is just a grumpy old fart hammering home nothing, I bet they're just bitching because it's cool for their age group to laugh at millennials for their inability to afford housing because they're buying expensive bread (which is an absurd but common view). I can't speak as a sourdough enjoyer and defender because it's not working class food financially, otherwise too much of a hassle to make at home as I don't have the time to do research, but my inference is that hipsterism (in food) as it is right now is either a trend-fetish to impress their friends and coworkers, or a disposable income sink for those thinking they can't afford a house anyway, so might as well eat posh.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

expected from julie bindel lmfao

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

men proudly carrying papoose-swaddled babies

imagine trying to paint men giving a shit about their kids as bougie

ugly, cracked loaves of home-baked bread.

wtf are you talking about? "ugly" and "bread" are not words that go together. its wheat and water and its sustained your entire species for 10 thousand years. dumbshit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Sourdough bread, or as it was known for millennia before the 19th century, “just bread”….