tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post2772034595394828074..comments2024-03-03T04:40:39.492-05:00Comments on Fire Megan McArdle: Pretention Personifiedbradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-79547755452906515002009-12-17T20:15:38.471-05:002009-12-17T20:15:38.471-05:00ppbr rigby male loosely taster payoff preclinical ...ppbr rigby male loosely taster payoff preclinical recourse maltatitle subsection dracopoli <br />masimundus semikonecoloriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-32483290668324028242008-07-08T15:42:00.000-04:002008-07-08T15:42:00.000-04:00"Post-consumer culture"? Have we moved beyond buyi..."Post-consumer culture"? Have we moved beyond buying things? The last time I looked everyone was maxing out their credit cards and borrowing on their houses. (While they could.) Not to mention she's talking about "a shrine to wealth." <BR/><BR/>The woman doesn't think. Every so often she tries, and then a few butterflies wander out from between her ears and another post is born.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-90835303189511663902008-07-08T14:10:00.000-04:002008-07-08T14:10:00.000-04:00Spencer - I got the same thing in Belfast. Everyo...Spencer - I got the same thing in Belfast. Everyone wanted to take me to the Hard Rock Cafe. No thanks. I didn't fly across the ocean to eat the same over-priced, bland crap I can get at home.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-70120359784732884772008-07-08T14:06:00.000-04:002008-07-08T14:06:00.000-04:00I was living there in the mid-80s and they had McD...I was living there in the mid-80s and they had McD's then. I was a kid and we were allowed to eat there very rarely. I agree - if you're homesick or doing it on a lark, like those guys from Australia I mentioned, sure. But to complain that the American resaurant in Europe isn't authentic is just stupid. Those types of restaurants <I>never</I> are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-22058042041893446732008-07-08T14:02:00.000-04:002008-07-08T14:02:00.000-04:00Besides, who the hell travels to a foreign country...<I>Besides, who the hell travels to a foreign country from the States and eats in an American restaurant?</I><BR/><BR/>When I went to Dublin about six or seven years ago, many of the locals I talked to were keenly interested in my opinion of their brand new Planet Hollywood; a lot of them could not understand why I wouldn't want to eat there.<BR/><BR/>Weird.spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01770056727940292951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-72681800697217169722008-07-08T13:25:00.000-04:002008-07-08T13:25:00.000-04:00Cheese & crackers, the only time a Yankee should b...Cheese & crackers, the only time a Yankee should be eating at an American-style restaurant in Yurp is if s/he has been living there for a while & getting homesick. <BR/><BR/>I can't tell you how happy I was when, after over a yr. in Paris, I met a woman w/ a U. S. diplomatic passport & persuaded her to go to the embassy commissary & buy me some Oreos™. Simple pleasures, <I>etc</I>.<BR/><BR/>In those days, there were no Mickey D's in Yurp.M. Bouffanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04519088858760760560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-75793092623273247302008-07-08T12:19:00.000-04:002008-07-08T12:19:00.000-04:00Megan faulting Aspen for being the kind of place t...Megan faulting Aspen for being the kind of place that is designed specifically to cater to people exactly like her is just hilarious.<BR/><BR/>And there she goes again, trying to slip in a veiled boast about her worldly sophistication while making herself actually look ignorant and back-wooded. I lived in Europe for years and while they do offer mayonaise as a condiment for french fries, they don't "slather" them with it (and french fries aren't "American" anyway), just like restaurants here. Surprise, surprise, "authentic" national foods bought abroad aren't authentic at all. Chinese food in China is different than the Great Wall of Pandas in West Covina. Mexican food bought in Mexico doesn't taste like Taco Bell. No Australian has ever eaten food in his homeland that remotely resembles what you can get on the menu at the Outback Steakhouse. Besides, who the hell travels to a foreign country from the States and eats in an American restaurant?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com