tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post6331159429096704219..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Brooklyn hipster demographicsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22480756582157174302012-05-18T13:19:54.235-07:002012-05-18T13:19:54.235-07:00Hipsters in Brooklyn are the worst. Check out this...Hipsters in Brooklyn are the worst. Check out this video on why Brooklyn Hipsters suck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Dxcy67hsUApartmentshiphttp://theapartmentship.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73558810788770861612012-05-11T21:29:58.743-07:002012-05-11T21:29:58.743-07:00Here's an interesting NY Times article on how ...Here's an interesting NY Times article on how rapid gentrification of Greenpoint, Brooklyn is causing cultural clash between hipsters and working class Polish immigrants: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/nyregion/rituals-clash-in-brooklyn-outdoor-cafes-vs-churchgoers.htmlRandomMedStudenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13099510671009550305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-92188887876688355592012-05-10T17:12:01.431-07:002012-05-10T17:12:01.431-07:00Steve is right, some of these people(or others lik...Steve is right, some of these people(or others like them) will be billionaires in the future. The people laughing at them are the real fools.ATBOTLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23611264280499225822012-05-10T14:36:55.584-07:002012-05-10T14:36:55.584-07:00"pure canadian gluttony. same beards, more fo..."pure canadian gluttony. same beards, more food."<br /><br />moldies but foodies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53291949699538285042012-05-10T14:36:30.957-07:002012-05-10T14:36:30.957-07:00I've recently been to two locavore places in I...I've recently been to two locavore places in Indianapolis. The service in both places was as nice and helpful as could be. And the food both times was terrific.Ray Sawhillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02434181069400646328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58793378364932894412012-05-10T05:20:26.108-07:002012-05-10T05:20:26.108-07:00Dunno, Jody, Le Bernadine, commonly called the bes...Dunno, Jody, Le Bernadine, commonly called the best restaurant in America, is only $125 prix fixe. No wine included, though...<br /><br />Go to the local schlock chain place and get a fish & chips dinner for $15, featuring whichever white fish and fries that happened to be supplied by the Sysco-type corporate purveyor. They'll have a Bud or glass of plonk to go with dinner.<br /><br />Go to the high-end place and get a piece of line-caught cod with frites fried in duck fat for $25. I'll have a Chimay Blue to go with that, thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24539807941554812292012-05-10T04:51:43.395-07:002012-05-10T04:51:43.395-07:00As some who dealt with the specialty food makers i...As some who dealt with the specialty food makers in New England, you must know that there's a definite pattern to the niche. Eventually, no matter how pure the motive, greed will always reign supreme if the product is at all successful.<br /><br />Stonewall Kitchen, one of the first and most successful of these sorts of companies (two gay guys who started out making jams for friends) makes fuck all in York, Maine now. It's all contract manufactured. Frontier Soups in Chicago makes their soup mixes, Steve! Their stuff is still triple the price of supermarket brands, though.<br /><br />Ten years from now, the successful ones here will be clean shaven and sitting in an office with a spreadsheet on the screen, coordinating the delivery of packaging to the contract manufacturer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89988158634821391322012-05-10T02:13:14.102-07:002012-05-10T02:13:14.102-07:00I tried to eat at a locavoce restaurant in Washing...I tried to eat at a locavoce restaurant in Washington, DC. <br /><br />After having to remind the hostess to bring a menu, to remind the waiter to bring silverware, to remind the waiter to refill the water glasses, and having to yell at my dinner companions because the restaurant was so loud, I finally got the first course 25 minutes after ordering. <br /><br />I guess the staff was so busy socializing with each other that they did not care what the customer thought. <br /><br />After giving up before giving the next two courses, I finally told the manager that I was leaving and wanted to pay for by beverages. The funniest comments were the patrons at the table next to us who said "Take us with you." <br /><br />My guess is that the hipster, artisanal food trends is already well into its 15 minutes and cannot possibly last. How many retail, consumer business can last when they have such contempt for their customers.guest007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36820967432623720582012-05-10T01:18:14.590-07:002012-05-10T01:18:14.590-07:00you can always go in the opposite direction of the...you can always go in the opposite direction of these brooklyn hipster foodies, and that would be:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/user/EpicMealTime<br /><br />pure canadian gluttony. same beards, more food.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1640475338080227372012-05-10T01:12:44.854-07:002012-05-10T01:12:44.854-07:00i concur with steve that food has improved in qual...i concur with steve that food has improved in quality over time, pretty much across the board. not sure it can get much better from here, though i'm sure they'll keep trying.<br /><br />not only is the mass produced supermarket food better, there are specialty supermarket chains like whole foods. these are OVERRUN with yuppies and hipsters. set phasers to stun.<br /><br />also, 30 years ago there were no restaurants. then the 80s franchised restuarant explosion happened. now every town has a dozen good chain restaurants to pick from.<br /><br />it doesn't help that the hipsters are all on yelp.com telling each other where to eat. then again, now that all middle aged people are watching food network for 3 hours a day, eating with my parents has become a much more exhausting ordeal. south park did a spoof of this phenomenon: http://tinyurl.com/32ffmx4<br /><br />and the high end restaurants keep getting higher end. i'm not sure where this concludes, but maybe it has gotten out of hand already. you can't get into gary danko or the french laundry or robuchon. and then when you do, it's 300 bucks to eat. for one person.<br /><br />there's actually a blog for this, thepricehike.com, where they document the steadily rising menu prices at the most exclusive, most expensive 100 restaurants or so in the US.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12935350654497847252012-05-09T23:24:39.053-07:002012-05-09T23:24:39.053-07:00#17 also looks part Asian.#17 also looks part Asian.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41964155461300974462012-05-09T22:42:37.254-07:002012-05-09T22:42:37.254-07:00Monk? I suppose there are people out there who wan...Monk? I suppose there are people out there who want to watch a germphobic nebbish with the generic blond sidekick/foil having his assorted pratfalls; different strokes.downtown abbeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12671967104385445582012-05-09T21:56:05.207-07:002012-05-09T21:56:05.207-07:00"Caught a Sopranos rerun last night (the &quo..."Caught a Sopranos rerun last night (the "johnny cakes" one), laughed out loud at the final 30 seconds of the episode, which could encapsulate probably 90% of the comment history @ iSteve"<br /><br /><br />choose also works. And so does "you" in pronounced as 'chew'.<br />You could have had this epiphany earlier if you had watched a Monk episode more attentively. Though it<br />was a befuddled black guy on the receiving end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18944197789277948822012-05-09T20:44:11.503-07:002012-05-09T20:44:11.503-07:00Why do nearly all the people in the photos look so...Why do nearly all the people in the photos look so narrow eyed?Chicagonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8460560512507355162012-05-09T19:52:03.654-07:002012-05-09T19:52:03.654-07:00I think a lot of commenters are being excessively ...I think a lot of commenters are being excessively scornful and dismissive. Despite a lot of silliness, the locavore food is often really good, IMHO. As a trend , it's clearly resonating and spreading -- my wife and I have eaten terrific locavore meals in Louisville and Indianapolis. It's probably the liveliest part of the current food scene, and it could certainly be argued that the food scene is the liveliest part of our current culturescene generally. The locavore thang also, as Steve points out, connects to other interesting things happening in the larger culture.<br /><br />Did y'all also laugh at rock n roll in the '50s? The American movie renaissance of the '70s? There was a lot that was mockable in them. The locavore food thang may not make as big a mark. But, hey, it might.Ray Sawhillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02434181069400646328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87088591186829055772012-05-09T18:48:33.609-07:002012-05-09T18:48:33.609-07:00Caught a Sopranos rerun last night (the "john...Caught a Sopranos rerun last night (the "johnny cakes" one), laughed out loud at the final 30 seconds of the episode, which could encapsulate probably 90% of the comment history @ iSteve:<br /><br />[Burt Gervasi, Patsy Parisi in storefront to collect 10%]<br />CAPUTO: I can't any more, the juice bought it out--we're closing down.<br /><br />PATSY: The Jews?<br /><br />CAPUTO: No--*JUICE*. Jamba Juice. They're opening a store in here next month.<br /><br />[mobsters exeunt to street]<br /><br />PATSY: What the fuck is happening to this neighborhood?blog veterannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66293858395654483752012-05-09T18:41:20.871-07:002012-05-09T18:41:20.871-07:00So, McDonalds invested in Chipotle which is suppos...<i>So, McDonalds invested in Chipotle which is supposed to be more 'authentic' than Taco Hell, and it's a big hit.</i><br /><br />Chipotle gives you a lot more food. Their burritos are much bigger. The Taco Bell combos don't give you much food.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68273747491436947722012-05-09T18:39:40.337-07:002012-05-09T18:39:40.337-07:00None of these people are turning a profit and are ...<i>None of these people are turning a profit and are heavily debt-financed.</i><br /><br />It's mostly financed by their parents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71868169099200122402012-05-09T18:33:43.088-07:002012-05-09T18:33:43.088-07:00"didn't know vlasic was an african-americ..."didn't know vlasic was an african-american last name"<br /><br />Oh yah, their pickle concern is one of our most venerable black businesses, like the SuperSoakerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76661224449040406202012-05-09T18:30:23.609-07:002012-05-09T18:30:23.609-07:00Money doesn't pour into manhattan. It is crea...Money doesn't pour into manhattan. It is created there.Joshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91697721342739245892012-05-09T17:31:02.565-07:002012-05-09T17:31:02.565-07:00I can afford those goods, and frankly, most of the...I can afford those goods, and frankly, most of them suck and aren't of very good quality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7066689780240725702012-05-09T16:55:26.421-07:002012-05-09T16:55:26.421-07:00Steve: "I can't afford these luxury goods...Steve: "I can't afford these luxury goods"<br /><br />The solution is always to buy and SELL in the same market. Just get that Hollywood Homebrew out there. <br /><br />Gilbert Pinfold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70655501350670833332012-05-09T16:29:02.184-07:002012-05-09T16:29:02.184-07:00None of these people are turning a profit and are ...None of these people are turning a profit and are heavily debt-financed.<br /><br />Also, didn't know vlasic was an african-american last name.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40963490857729753622012-05-09T16:20:38.227-07:002012-05-09T16:20:38.227-07:00Kinda funny- i live in brooklyn, am white and have...Kinda funny- i live in brooklyn, am white and have a very anglo-saxon name - like "walter evans' or 'stuart jackson' - I always get second looks when my name is called at community board meetings or jury duty (bleh) "Excuse me sir we called Darrel Evans" yeah, that's me the white guy named Darrel (Darrel's not my name but you get the picture)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28016767722861991822012-05-09T15:30:21.413-07:002012-05-09T15:30:21.413-07:00The first celebrity in Chicago with a goatee was W...The first celebrity in Chicago with a goatee was White Sox pitcher Jack McDowell around 1991. In the off-season, McDowell had his own rock band and was friends with grunge titans like Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.com