"I'm uncultured and middle class but I want to feel rich and sophisticated"

"I'm uncultured and middle class but I want to feel rich and sophisticated"

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Why did you put that in quotation marks, user?

Its what his friends said to him when he showed them pic related

he can't into greentext

>stop liking what I don't like

Sad.

What's in the bottom left and top right?

Looks like a sliced potato but I imagine its just a very brown pear

stop worrying about class signifiers and eat what you like.

Looks more like we're drinking wine and need snacks to go with it.

Far right, why eat a raw potato?

>sophisticated
I think that's why

Bosc pear

Probably the other half of that smoked cheese on the mid right.

Took me a while to realize that those were sliced pears, not sliced raw potatoes.

>no blue or runny cheese
sigh

Needs some honey senpai

What?
That looks just like a slightly fancied up, americanized, but otherwise bog standard brettljausn/vesper.
Do people really do that to feel fancy, and do you really get triggered by that?

I lol'd

>European peasant stuff is used by some overseas to feel rich and sophisticated
>And then they say we are obsessed

Shit is expensive in America. Good salumi is about 20/lb and cheeses go for $10 - 15/lb. So people buy industrial versions of the food in "kits" or "platters" for $40 at the supermarket to feel like they are buying the expensive stuff.

Hell, the cheapest place I found French Gherkins was 7 dollars a jar.

hurr durr eating local meats and cheeses is retarded, i'm gonna go eat arby's instead so I don't piss of my Veeky Forums internet friends

>good cheese
>$10-$15/lb
>america
Try $30-40, enjoy thinking your Tilamook crap is "good cheese"

>I'm so insecure I overthink a nice and comfy platter of cold cuts and cheeses
You poor souls

I don't know what tilamook is, we have local cheesemakers in farm country Indiana.

Here is one that's in your 30 - 40 range that I buy when I want to feel "cultured" They are more expensive because they provide for a few Thomas Keller restaurants.

capriolegoatcheese.com/all-products/

even having these thoughts proves that no matter what you do, you are and forever will be subjugated by your environment and circumanstance. we all are, in a sense, but you don't have to act like it and feel that way.

I think it's really a shift in our drinking habits. Cheese and pickles with beer are hardly a new thing in America. And an entire menu of pub food like jalapeno poppers, mozzarella sticks, nachos and the like has grown up to replace shit like pickled eggs and pigs' feet. On the higher end we have gastropubs.

What's changed is that more and more of the middle class is drinking wine instead of beer. Wine drinkers are going to favor the kind of snacks that go better with wine, and that's going to be the kind of snacks served in wine drinking countries like France, Italy and Spain. Cheap, industrially produced knock offs of these foods are available, but if you want the good stuff it is expensive in America because it's all artisan made and/or imported.

To a lot of Americans both drinking wine and eating imported foods is "fancy", since it more expensive than drinking beer and eating nachos.

>Good salumi is about 20/lb and cheeses go for $10 - 15/lb.
Sounds like expensive to normal euro prices.
Last Salami I bought was some cheap stuff for about 25€/kg and some mid priced cheese for about 30€/kg.
That's just what good food that takes lots of raw materials to make costs.

>That's just what good food that takes lots of raw materials to make costs.
With the exception of cheap industrially mass produced foods most Americans are used to. Someone used to buying American cheese for a few bucks a pound is gonna balk when they see good stuff going for $25+/lb.

so 2.5 euro per hundred grams, that's cheap as fuck. Although some good cheeses can run 7 euros per hundred.

That's essentially what I was trying to say.
You gotta take a lot of meat to make salami/a lot of milk to make cheese.
And you want it high quality too.
And you gotta wait and let stuff age.

"I want to shop at Whole Foods, but I can't afford it."

We have Capriole at work... It's not bad, a little more citrusy tang than I prefer but it works well in the recipe.

American cheese is shockingly expensive. When I go grocery shopping for my grandmom it's on the list sometimes and it's like $5-6 for 24 slices I think. Unbelievable.

>buy all this shit in one tray at a supermarket ready to eat
>dump it out onto a cutting board
>wa la

I'm want to make people think I'm an innovative chef, but I'm actually just poor."

Exactly.

German WURST is about 3€/100g (0,22lbs), cheese about the same. And that's just your Aldi tier ones over the local meat counter at REWE or EDEKA, without any export expanses due to beeing made locally.

You ameritards really need to stop eating shit.

I love this sort of shit but I never buy it at restaurants. For the same 25-30 dollars they are going to charge you, you can get a bottle of wine and some decent cold cuts from a nice deli/some fruit from the grocery store.

You'll get WAY more.

>eating meat and cheese

Nasty

achievement unlocked: spotted the soyboy

>no nuts

A lot of the same folks who shop at WF also shop at TJ's.
No shit. The wine markup at most restaurants is 3-4x the wholesale price of the bottle, whereas the retail price is usually about 1.5x wholesale. Going out to eat and drink is a luxury. Eating and drinking at home will always be cheaper because you're not paying the restaurant's rent and payroll costs.

>being so far up your own ass that you can't just enjoy some sliced meat and cheese

middle class citizens are the only people who matter. we have superior culture. niggers are eating bugs and shit top kek

Isn't everyone middle class in america?

No that would be socialist. It's good to have poor people.

"I want people to think I have good taste in scotch"

>middle class citizens are the only people who matter
But they tend to have awful taste.

>Sounds like expensive to normal euro prices.

Prices don't compare well across the pond.

The prices he wrote aren't expensive to EU, but that's because EU food is just more expensive in general. The prices he wrote are expensive when compared to other US foods.

>EU food is just more expensive in general
Maybe restaurants. I was shocked at how cheap staples like baguettes, wine, cheese, and charcuterie were in France compared to murica. And the stuff from nasty convenience stores is on the level of our finest gourmet markets

>American cheese is shockingly expensive. When I go grocery shopping for my grandmom it's on the list sometimes and it's like $5-6 for 24 slices I think. Unbelievable.

Same price in Scandinavia my guy. That's just what cheese costs.

Yea that's pretty spot on
That or Laphrog

>Maybe restaurants

In general.

I mean, yeah, there are *specific* products that are cheaper in the EU than in the US, but that's true in the opposite direction as well.

But if you carve it all the way down to a cold cynical "I need 2000 calories, what do?" way, you buy those calories cheaper in the US than in the EU.

Notable exceptions are: Sugar (There's a huge markup on sugar imports so local US sugar manufacturers don't have to compete so hard) and I believe, but don't quote me on this, also olive oil. (Though olive oil is an entire adventure in itself.)

Generally in the EU people spend a higher percentage of their incomes on food than Americans. We buy the McMansion, the SUV and the giant TVs, but expect our food to be cheap. As a result a lot of what we eat is pretty poor quality when compared to Europe, where people generally expect better and are willing to pay a little more for it. That makes even the standard issue stuff there better than a lot of what we get. An American looking for something better has to pay extra because that's seen as a luxury market here.

Americans cannot into class. Even the richest of your rich are perpetually stick in middle-class. Sorry bru.

>But if you carve it all the way down to a cold cynical "I need 2000 calories, what do?" way, you buy those calories cheaper in the US than in the EU.
Well yes, I guess I assumed we're talking about human beings with passports and limits on what they'll willingly ingest

But I forgot this is the board where it has to be explained to some people that inhaling deep fried HFCS simply does not appeal to some individuals

That's bullshit, you just picked one that tastes similar (but better). Most people don't know about Laphroaig. Basic bitches usually go for Macallan or Lagavulin

>But if you carve it all the way down to a cold cynical "I need 2000 calories, what do?" way, you buy those calories cheaper in the US than in the EU.

>Being this autistic

>m'ladies don't know about my lafroog tattoo
To be fair, you need to have a pretty high IQ to detect 50ppm of phenols

Can I get that chocolate anywhere? I think my friends will love it

Your post doesn't make any sense.

P.S. I'm Scottish, knowledge of malts doesn't mean anything here socially speaking.

I love how you went from "basic bitches don't know about muh obscure scotch that gets sold by the millions of bottles worldwide" to "meh, 'tis no big deal to know these things"

It's pretty basic Bitch in the UK, don't know about the states

It's your classic 'expensive but you can still buy it in supermarkets' so people think it's fancy then buy a bottle and never drink more than a third of it

>shits on the concept of a cheese, fruit, and meat plate
They're good if they cost 3$, they're good if they cost 200$
it's a fun way to share food with friends, and low effort.
>muh lower classes
>stop enjoying yourself for less money than meeeeeeee

care to share a a bottle of bucky and some heroin with me?

who are you quoting?

>Well yes, I guess I assumed we're talking about human beings with passports and limits on what they'll willingly ingest

Not that far down.

Something like making a solid lentil-and-bacon stew is cheaper in the US than in the EU. Some things are cheaper in the EU and some are cheaper in the US, but on average, for the same quality of product, in the US, you pay less.

>but on average, for the same quality of product, in the US, you pay less.
Where that falls apart is when it comes to stuff seen as luxuries in the US. Wine is more expensive here because people see it as a luxury. Good cheese and charcuterie are the same, because anything better than deli cold cuts is seen as a luxury. Basic ingredients are a lot cheaper, but anything that isn't easy to mass produce costs more here.

I was referring to people outwith Scotland. Over here surprisingly few people know about malts but those who do tend to be well-versed. There's no middle category of "basic bitches".

All this is new to me. I thought Lagavulin, Cardhu and Macallan were the kings of this category.

It's still a really good whisky don't get why you guys are hating on it.

>It's still a really good whisky don't get why you guys are hating on it.

That wasn't my intention, I like it, always drink it with my dad when I go home for christmas
I just always though it had a reputation as a bit of a poseur scotch

It's my dad's favourite too lel. I'm also starting to appreciate Speysides now that I've grown out of my peat-obsessed phase.

it is in fact a potato

"I want to be real cheese"

>wine is more expensive here
what the fuck dude you can get a decent bottle for like 10 dollars most places, and if you're a wino and don't give a shit less than that

this
yellowtail is bretty cheap and drinkable as fuck

Yeah, but in France or Spain a nicer bottle is half that in the supermarket.

In NYC maybe, not in most places. Good luck getting anything but nasty critter wine for $10 in most of the midwest and most of that is stuff that sells for $6 here
Yellowtail is fucking nasty

I live in flyover county VA and my supermarket has bottles much better than yellowtail for 10 bucks on a regular basis.

Fuck you OP. I’m danish and I eat shit like this because I’m poor and only have scraps of stuff.

You can get fairly nice wine in Mexico for 6 dollars.

where im from this is called a farmers breakfast and its mostly eaten by farmers

quintessentially american

fuck off both are great, they are just too expensive. they are like the Apple of scotch

Spending $10 for food is rich to you?

that's not bologna and boiled ham with orange and white cheeze cubes, champ.

I just bought one of those cheap Walmart salami and weird fake tasting processed cheese trays for a work party (couldn't justify spending money on nice things like in OP for co-workers instead of just my friends and I). Very bizarre twist on a classic

Who the hell serves fresh potato slices with all that stuff? They could be poisonous.

>They could be poisonous.
That's only tomatoes, user.

The most petit-bourgeois ingredient of all.

thats pears you mutt

That makes more sense but you must admit they look very much like potatoes

>pleb thinks you can poison yourself from solanine in any modern tuber raw or cooked

>no kalamata olives, whole grain mustard, or caperberries

it shows too

The green potatoes center left and the bottom center will definitely get you. Green potatoes have higher levels of solanine.

I would eat this like a pig

>peasant

Yeah except the peasant has a bread to condiment ratio that is like quite the opposite of what I usually see on these pictures.

To be honest I don't get it. Do these barbarians eat cheese and salamis on their own without bread? How the fuck do they stomach all the saltiness?

And you think it's cheap here? Cheese is one of the most expensive things you can buy.

>he's never had raw potato
it's a delicacy, plebs won't get it

>And you think it's cheap here?
I never think of things outside of America, ever.

>he probably orders his potato well done

Me too.