The BBC sets out to defend its Latte drinking acolytes:
Why are lattes associated with liberals?
It comes to a conclusion….
‘At a time when there is seemingly a Starbucks on every street corner and latte is sold in truck stops, there is something rather archaic about representing latte as the beverage of the elite.
Instead, the reality is that “it’s a form of industrially produced, high-calorie, low-cost, high-profit, non-nutritious food”, says Kyla Tompkins, an expert in food studies at Pomona College, California.’
A form of industrially produced, high-calorie, low-cost, high-profit, non-nutritious food?
Strnagely that sounds an awful lot like the BBC’s news output….industrially produced without love or thought at low cost regurgitated from Press releases and innate group think and yet paying themselves a hell of a salary whilst producing little of value…no ‘food for thought’ you might say.
Ah, it is from the BBC News (sic) Magazine.
Context established.
Must be nice to have so many broadcast outlets for so many people to be hired to ‘report’ about, well, themselves.
Excuse my lack of critical analysis but latte-drinking, fairtrade coffee-sipping lefties are a bunch of tossers who think they hold the moral high-ground. In reality, they’re both useless and deluded and consolidate their repugnant sense of self-worth through sticking together in annoying groups of unkempt loutishness. I hate them.
I was returning from my masters lecture tonight and there was your typical bunch of middle-class spoiled brat lefties dressed in wooly jumpers and hobnail boots outside a ‘trendy’ coffee house (with a few middle-aged Jon Snow types clapping along whilst discussing grand theories and personal ontologies in social research) strumming guitars and protesting about our bombing Isis. I wanted to take their guitars and do a Keith Moon job! Lucky for them that I’m a peaceful person!
What? You deduce all that from the kind of coffee they like to drink? Amazing, Sherlock!
Read first sentence and review your understanding of ‘deduce’. There were no claims to deductive reasoning in the above gibberish; inductive, maybe.
Never trust anybody who does not drink tea. Tea is a proper drink.
I can’t stand tea. Honest coffee, good and strong makes one trustworthy all day long.
Latte is just a signifier for a group and if it was true that a certain type of political thought is really statistically associated with a particular beverage I really couldn’t care. Let them eat cake!
It’s the hypocrisy of many self-declared liberals not their liquid intake that upsets me.
“it’s a form of industrially produced, high-calorie, low-cost, high-profit, non-nutritious food”, says Kyla Tompkins, an expert in food studies at Pomona College, California.
If she’s such an expert, how can she describe something as ‘high-calorie’ and ‘non-nutritious’ in the same sentence?