T/S Food Snobs vs Grammar Pedants

Anyway I voted Grammar Pedants cos they usually mix an exciting amount of RONG into their Olympian pronouncements.

grammar pedants in a motherfucking heartbeat.

You should've capitalised the first word of that sentence.

what, we're voting which one of these we *want* to be?

Fucking neither of them thanks.

No we are voting for which of them is the biggests dicks I was being snarky.

i right, i voted for grammer fiends. but finking about it, i want to change my vote.

"i right" = "oh right"

oh then to clarify: food snobs are the worst.

T/S: scum of the earth vs dregs of humanity

grammar pedants: pretty much useless in this 133t txt nang era
food snobs: often overbearingly precious or irritatingly knowitall but still useful

They both ruin things that are lovely.

at least we can call grammar pedants Linguo now.

fuck off.

I voted for food snobs because I would prefer to be one, as specified in the instructions. I did not feel the "snark".

i think trucker hats should be included as an option

gimme ten grammar pedants over one insufferable fucking food snob - I don't think there's anything wrong with liking good food and being enthusiastic about it but I fuckin hate ppl who're like "oh the only place in town that makes a decent cappucino is joe's, go there on tuesday, maxine makes the best ones"

I voted grammar pedant because I understood the question to be "which one do you prefer," too

foodies are the worst. tell me again why i should give up vegetarianism and eat beef rare.

fuck off.

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not you specifically, sorry: was more at the thread in general and the very notion of daring to diss grammar pedantry :)

i voted for the third choice, natch.

I took heat the other day for not liking bargain burgers, b/c the cheap ground beef has bits of bone and gristle in it. SO SHOOT ME, you want to eat chips of bone that have been power-washed off the spine of a factory-raised cow? Not fucking likely. That has to be like the bottom basement of food snobbery, it's like saying "I prefer my food not rotting and fly larvae-infested, thanks anyway" and someone being like "OMG you rockist."

I voted grammar pedant because I understood the question to be "which one do you prefer," too

lol I'm sorry grimly I forgot you had a penchant for this cobblers

and a paycheck too

we call them paySLIPS here

the 'hang out with' factor tips it for the food people -- IF they're like kitchen-bod foodie types and not restaurant habitues. every now and again you might get a pretty great meal. what do you get hanging with grammar pedants? a sore jaw from gritting your teeth every time you want to deck the sob

s.o.b. you mean

grammar pedants generally operate on the basis of weird 19th century rumors abt language that would get them laughed out of linguistics 101.

food snobs are at least sometimes right.

also food is delicious.

rumors!!

"linguistics"!!

No-one would even be able to communicate recipes and therefore cook without the gift of language, of which grammar is a fundamental component.

u cant eat a rumor am i right!

don't like food snobs? don't eat or talk about food in front of them. don't like grammar snobs? don't talk to them. ever.

both seem totally removed from and unconcerned by how their obsessions are actually used by normal people

eat your words ledge

both seem totally removed from and unconcerned by how their obsessions are actually used by normal people

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actually this is only true about grammar pedants. food snobs sometimes worry about "authenticity" which i guess equals how food is consumed by normal people

u cant eat a rumor am i right!

high five

also, gff otm: i had a "foodie" buddy in Montana who could be snobby about food, but all that really meant is that i got at least one phenomenal meal a week with a big bunch of fun people, for the price of an OK bottle of wine. also, he liked greasy spoons and mcdonald's as much as the next guy, so i guess he wasn't that snobby.

grammar is an aspect of language which like all other aspects needs no correction from and certainly evolved with out any input from lame-ass schoolmarmin jerks.

I think the reason I find a food snob more irritating than a grammar pedant is most language ppl I know would be the first to tell you they know they're being annoying, they just can't help themselves. Food snobs are like Geirbots, they seem to think their pleasure is somehow on a higher level just because they've crawled up their own asses about it.

That said when I go to another country I do my best to find a food snob type to lead me around because those assholes know where all the good restaurants are

It's the snob part that really hurts me. Being into ultra-obscure delicacies unsampled by most people is fine. Pretending that food enjoyed by millions of people every day is somehow inedible dogshit that will kill you on the spot is sucky.

food snobs sometimes worry about "authenticity" which i guess equals how food is consumed by normal people

hahaha this is the worst quality of food snobs and what prevents them from just enjoying meals (food rockism!)

oops i voted for grammar pedants b/c i did not read the question through

Prediction on number of votes for Option 3: 15

i guess the advantage of grammar pedants is that they can at least technically be "right" about grammar, whereas food and taste is totally subjective so food snobs are not only annoying, they're inevitably wrong

yas but food snobs sometimes impart valuable information

yeah they are all pretty awful in totally unique ways

oh shit I took the "which do you want to be" at face value

Food snobs should be beaten.

w/r/t food snobs are we talking people who only eat at fancy, most expensive restaurants, or exploradining types who are always out to discover the hole-in-the-wall in elmhurst, queens with the best such and such authentic specialty? type 2 is infinitely more useful to me.

Worst service ever = a waitress who took everyone's drink order except for the two black people's (me and my wife), disappeared for 25 minutes, then came back and took everyone's food orders except for the to black people's (ditto) and disappeared again for 25 minutes without bringing us the drinks.

http://img30.picoodle.com/img/img30/4/1/9/f_supperm_c7db14a.jpg

ever notice families gathering at a thing at a similar time of day to have the food all at the same time? congratulations, that thing is called the table and the event is called dinner and it's about lots more than the food

yeah, i already said that myself. it's irrelevant to my point.

as for service, i just don't get off inherently on the idea of being served or paying someone to interact with me in the course of the meal. good service is functional - someone brings you your food/drink/etc. at the times you would get them if you were doing it yourself. great service operates principally to enhance your enjoyment of the food by acting as a knowledgeable critical aid - your friend in the food-enjoying process (not the socializing process, imo) - preferably in a manner that you find pleasing.

^^^^^^ food, bitches.

worst service ever=very stoned waiter would not stop talking to me about baseball AFTER he served me my lentil soup. talking to me WHILE i was trying to eat and would not shut up. plus i was really sick to my stomach that day and made the mistake of telling him and he told me the solution was to drink some straight bourbon and three cold beers. then he broke two glasses while de setting the table next to us and went and fetched the broom and swept up the pieces and was talking to himself the whole time

Wait, I misremembered; she brought all of the white and Asian people their drinks and took their food orders before taking our drink orders.

jesus. what did you do?

wow

that's fucked up. did you leave?

want Letterman style top 10 ways Dan could've responded

The entire table got up to leave without paying. She of course ran over to ask what was going on and the big white guy unloaded on her a vicious stream of invective that was astonishing to watch. We ended up talking to the manager about her; I think she was fired. ^_^

worst eating experience ever:

no server for 20 minutes sitting at table

host comes over and apologizes, says server is having a 'rough night' and buys us a round of drinks

server comes and reels off specials list too quickly to hear. my co-diner says 'could you say that again, i didn't quite catch it' and server responds 'i don't need this shit' and asks us what we want. we both order, a little shell-shocked, and wait for the food.

an hour later the host comes out and apologizes, says our order was never put on the line. it'll be another 45 minutes before we get fed.

meal comes, food is pretty darn good. server comes back with check. it is astronomically high. thankfully, i can pay using the gift certificate that brought me to this crappy restaurant.

server says 'we don't accept those any more.' i say 'it's only seven weeks old.' server says 'sorry, management has changed.' so i pony up a wad of money i can't afford (+$115 for two diners) and prepare to leave. on the way out i am stopped by a large manager-looking guy.

'you gotta pay for the round of drinks' he says. 'they were comped because our service was slow' my co-diner responds. 'who comped 'em?' says the big man. 'host' says my co-diner. 'host doesn't have that authority. that'll be $31' says the big man.

my co-diner pays. as we walk out to the street the door swings open and the manager sticks his head out. 'you're not invited back' he says, 'if you can't be bothered to leave a tip.'

"I don't need this shit"

lololol

favorite recent service - clearly tripping waiters free association rant abt teeth nuclear war skateboarding etc followed by many free drinks and foods!

hilarious and a great deal!

okay that's fucked up

xpost

woah, remy got served by Danny Glover

i'm amazed remy both stayed and paid.

La Laiterie at the Farmstead, Providence, in case they'd like to google themselves.

I wouldn't have paid.

our worst service involved being told by the wait captain, AFTER he took order for a bottle of dessert wine and served it, that he needed our table back immediately. he graciously offered to carry our glasses upstairs for us so that we could stand by the host station to finish it.

you didn't give up the table did you?

that would have made me stay there even longer

the manager came over. it was bad. he backed up the server, said "we do turn tables here," and told us that we could have one of the upstairs cafe tables if one opened. we did argue a bit but got nowhere. i sent a letter to someone about it but got fuck-all response. the bill was like $350 as well, so annoying!! people, boycott yauatcha!

and i have to say, the food was wonderful. you'd never get me into that place again, though, for love nor money.

did you pay for the wine?

uh remy that story makes you sound kind of spineless! i usually don't give a fig about 'service' and put up with a lot. but wau.

i've been a server, i've been a busboy, i've been sous, prep, and baker at a half-dozen restaurant ... i always try to give the benefit of the doubt to the people who are working. and truthfully, the company was so engaging that i didn't really pay much attention to the staff until the final series of insults.

Did you get laid?

^_^

if my tab is 350 there better be either cocaine or sex included with the food

beignets dusted with "powdered sugar"

Coca Leaf Cuisine

omg "Peruvian Chef Looks Beyond Cocaine"

Well but how far are you guys willing to go on the "I'm not paying for this" tip, when someone's trying to bully you into it?

(I had this conundrum a couple weeks ago: I had a cab driver who missed and turn and went way past where I wanted, then slammed into another guy and kinda left me hanging next to the Holland tunnel; he's trying to argue with the guy he just nearly killed, I'm trying to slink off and look for another cab, but ... the guy was really insistent that I pay him for stranding me and nearly getting my neck broken, and the fact that cab drivers do sometimes carry guns made me agree to pay half the fare, something I am still mad about.)

That was a bad story -- point being that 5 minutes into the "I'm not paying you" argument, it gets hard to feel out whether you can successfully just walk away without something bad happening

remy i hope you at least left them a mean yelp review

i don't use yelp, sadly. but i did write a letter to the BBB.

Once I was waiting table on some douchies who got really drunk and smeared mashed potatoes on the wall, then put $1.00 in quarters in their 'art' before leaving. My boss (ex-marine, one-eyed, 6' 5") went to the parking lot and stood behind their car. he told them he felt i needed an especially good tip for dealing with their shit, and that he wouldn't move out of the way until they gave it to him. one guy handed him a tenner, and my boss didn't move. next drunkie pulled out a tenner, too, and slapped it in my boss's hand. boss took two steps away, then moved back. 'still not enough' he said. after receiving a total of, like sixty-five dollars, he came inside. pulled me off my tables and handed me $20. 'here you go' he said, 'that's a good tip' and then he proceeded to pocket the rest.

he got hauled off on RICO charges like a year later, btw.

RICO SUAVE charges?

he was such a fascinating guy, except for his habit of beating up his employees.

Food snobs have "supertasters". Grammar snobs don't have "superspellers". Cogito ergo sum!

Grammar snobs don't have "superspellers"

*waves*

s - u - p - e - r

duh

surely that'd be super-spellers?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

mods: can we add 'vinyl "junkies"' to options?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

inconclusive

wow shocked about the last placing. or am i?

Without grammar pedants, the world would not have my favorite (or a favorite) Onion article, Nation's Educators Alarmed By Poorly Written Teen Suicide Notes.

"One Florida boy who recently shot himself in the head wrote, 'I cant talk to anyone about my problems.' 'Cant'? Is he referring to the noun defined as 'the whining, singsong speech of beggars and thieves'? Somehow, I don't think so. We're talking about a serious inability to communicate here."