I'm an insufferable food snob who refuses to set foot in a fast food joint under any circumstances. If I'm going to exceed my daily calorie intake, it sure as hell is not going to be stuffing a mouthful of McDogshit in mouth. When you grow up in Burlingame/San Francisco and make a goodly amount of your living in NYC, it is difficult to justify sitting in an uncomfortable plastic chair eating splintered potatoes boiled in rancid grease.
Just picked up some Blood Orange Balsamic from Sicily yesterday made from Moros, not Sanguinellos - just fabulous when reduced and drizzled on arugula, heirloom tomatoes and goat cheese with almond oil.
Additionally, I refuse to drink cheap tequila under any circumstances. I'll tolerate a marginally decent red wine, but won't even cook with anything below my standards. If it is not good enough to drink, why would I deglaze my pan with a noxious pollutant?
Salt is another one. I'm a hopeless salt snob and will only use that nasty bitter Morton's or Leslie crap to bring pasta water to a boil a bit quicker. Otherwise, I really prefer Himalayan Pink Salt as it has a crisp, sweet undertone.
I'm a snob about restaurants run by a national chain. Outback, Red Lobster, Olive Garden and especially Applebee's are avoided like the plague. When I go to a strange city, the last choice is mind-numbing, generic, prefabricated, focus-group driven culinary torture served by brain dead, minimum-wage nitwits and cooked by drug-addled jailbirds. I'll find a sole proprietor's joint and strap on the bag - at least it is likely to be prepared honestly and with some panache and creativity.
I'm a horrible, irretrievable snob about computer equipment and phones. It is Apple or nothing and any product from Gatesland is expunged and expelled. Just the sound of that goddamed noise of an MS operating system booting up irritates me. I'm not Chinese enough to run a P.C. and thus can be identified as a typical Mac groupie. Fine, I'm a snob.
I'm a snob about three-camera, mainstream network comedy. There are no funny sitcoms anymore and I will not waste one second watching something that panders to the far left side of the intellectual bell curve.
Sadly, there is not enough room on Ran's server to list all the things beneath me.