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Sector7G
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 Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| beercanman wrote: |
Am reminded of a scene from a movie I saw years ago: "Return to me"(2000) with David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. The X-files guy is out for dinner with people and one of them is a woman he's kind of being set up with. Minnie is the waitress. The woman is a jerk and insists on a certain type of water. Minnie fills up a fancy water bottle with tap water. The woman drinks it and goes "ah, that's the stuff" or something like that.
Another show I saw once had vodka snobs. On a blind taste test they had no idea what they were drinking. Some rated the cheap one as the best. These were all people who paid the highest price for stuff that tasted no better than the cheaper stuff. They were paying for the name/label. I reckon we all do that sometimes.
Wait, does vodka even have a taste anyway? |
I completely get what you are saying, however being able to "taste the difference" is not the only reason to prefer one beverage over another. Take water for example. Many times tap water is not really safe to drink, whether it tastes bad or not. With alcohol, many times the difference is the way you feel the next morning. I really have no problem with the way Cass and Hite taste, but they both make me feel like I want to die the next day. Same with many hard liquors.
I guess I was a little bit of a water snob, and I found out that though some bottled water had pretty pictures of natural springs on their labels, it actually came from some company's public tap. And "spring water" does not necessarily mean "good" water. |
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Sector7G
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| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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| AgentM wrote: |
| The anti-"elitist" snob. The anti-intellectual, looks down on universities, just because he's some common every-man who couldn't be bothered to go. Usually someone who thinks that universities are for "elitist liberals". Seems to be mostly an American phenomenon. |
To be specific, it's an American right wing tactic. |
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