What else are you a snob about?

[Jud_T]

Food, wine, beer, cocktails, music, movies, skiing, scuba diving, art, architecture and design. Basically your all-around snob.

[RJ_Daley]

The only think that actually got my mouth watering on this thread was Gibs:

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.

 
serve above with bread below.

Oh sure, being part Neopolitan, I love good pizza, "Napoli DOC, with Mozzarella di bufalo, and san marzano tomatoes with all fresh cut basil and oregano, good fresh onion and garlic infused into the tomato and then pressed into the lighly EVOO basted proper dough. Fire it in woodfired oven at >750* on a pizza stone. Ready to eat in 2 minutes.  But like Shivas, I'll eat some commmercial pizza  (Pizza Hut pan style pepperoni or just green peppers onion, and I'll put my own anchovie on it and bake/toast it a little longer)  with intention to swill beer to wash it down and watch a game....  

And, unless you serve me spoiled or unsanitary food, I will never snob out on your effort to be hospitable and cook something for us.  I can always eat with no pretense or snobbery and I'll try damn near anything you make.. so long as you take the first bite.

I love wine, have had a few reputed great wines, but the distinctions don't follow the price quotients necessarily from my peasant experience POV. I like what I like after I've had it, and my taste for them changes often.   I still say my Grandpa's home made ~200 gallons or so a year, using 5 zinfantel to one muscatelle grape crate flats ratio, no sugar to boost alcohol % so it only ran about 9.5-10ish, aged in pre-used barrels resterilized with sulfur, obtained periodically from a wiskey factory in Tennessee, was the best freakin wine I ever had, except on off years.  And then it sometimes was the best freakin wine vinegar.  When years that it was good, it was very good!

with the wine... redder the bedder...
... good rustic peasant hard crust bread whole wheat or various grain, loaves big as a half medicine ball, with room temp sliced John Volpe Filsetti salume, and any number of great cheeses also room temp, dried cured black greek olives and I'm there.

Pacific oysters raw in shooters.

I guess I'm a snob after all....    

[Mike_Trenham]

Posters on GCA, I only read about 15% of this tread as an example.

[David Camponi]

Pussy...Asians only for me, no cheap white girls.

[Sam Morrow]

Pussy...Asians only for me, no cheap white girls.

So many ways I could take this, I'll take the high road and say one of my best friends is the same way.

[Ben Sims]

Nice wristwatches, and no, I don't mean Rolex.

I'm a big fan of the relatively new Bremont company. They make quite a few watches for us.  Their non-military offerings are stunning.  Breitling is for posers. 


http://www.bremont.com/military

[Joe Leenheer]

Air Transportation...there is just something about riding up front that makes me feel better (and it's not just the free cocktails).

[Bob_Garvelink]

Toilet paper - only the best in this household.

[JLahrman]

Pants. Lose the pleats everyone. No, you don't look better in them. No, you're not too fat to wear flat front. No, pleats are not coming back in style.

Spelling and grammar. I don't care how smart you are or how valid your point is. If you can't spell correctly, I can't get past the fact that you write like a fourth-grader.

[Mike Sweeney]

Pants. Lose the pleats everyone. No, you don't look better in them. No, you're not too fat to wear flat front. No, pleats are not coming back in style.

I work with two Italian brothers from Florence (it is not on Long Island!), they cringed when they had to admit recently that the WSJ MAY have had it right based on a recent trip to some fashion shows for their fabric business:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443982904578046832950796870.html

Any interest in round at Spyglass?  RTJ is coming back!

[JLahrman]

Everything but leisure suits was supposed to be coming back at some point. Unless Jimmy Stewart high-waisted pants are coming back, pleats aren't.

Just funny to see all the high culture fans on this website (snobby about beer, wine, and steak...thanks for reminding me that nearly everyone on here is a middle-aged above-average-income Caucasian) walking around in pants that might cause the wearer to levitate on a windy day.

[JLahrman]

I agree though. Mark Buehrle and his 2hr  games are a wonderful thing.

Young lad, you've probably forgotten about Tom Browning from the Reds.

Check the link to my favorite box score of all time:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN198908030.shtml

August 3, 1989. The Reds scored 14 runs in the bottom of the first inning en route to an 18-2 win over the Dodgers.

The bottom of the first inning took 38 minutes. With Browning on the mound, the rest of the game only took 1 hour 38 minutes. Total time to play a game in which 20 runs were scored: 2 hours 16 minutes.

[Mike Sweeney]

Spelling and grammar. I don't care how smart you are or how valid your point is. If you can't spell correctly, I can't get past the fact that you write like a fourth-grader.

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news for you Professor Lahrman, but "Spelling and grammar." is not a sentence in the English language. 

[Terry Lavin]

Pussy...Asians only for me, no cheap white girls.

Not sure if this is glib...or Gib.

[cary lichtenstein]

Puss and blondes

[Keith OHalloran]

I am also a sock snob, I get new socks for every trip I take.
Like, Sheehy, I am a dive bar snob, I have to find at least one on every trip I go on. The most recent was Tom's Loft at Okemo, wasted a lot of time wasted there.
I am also a bit of a shoe snob, I spend a lot of time on my feet and like to buy good shoes.

[Sam Morrow]

I am also a sock snob, I get new socks for every trip I take.
Like, Sheehy, I am a dive bar snob, I have to find at least one on every trip I go on. The most recent was Tom's Loft at Okemo, wasted a lot of time wasted there.
I am also a bit of a shoe snob, I spend a lot of time on my feet and like to buy good shoes.

I have found that Adidas socks are the best.

[Kevin_Reilly]

Tires. 

A true (American) snob would have spelled it the international way.

I used to be a Porsche guy...I still read Excellence every month cover to cover, but for the last few years it has been a kid-carrying SUV for me.  Someday I will return to the fold.

[JLahrman]

Spelling and grammar. I don't care how smart you are or how valid your point is. If you can't spell correctly, I can't get past the fact that you write like a fourth-grader.

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news for you Professor Lahrman, but "Spelling and grammar." is not a sentence in the English language. 

I was responding to the question posed in the title. A full sentence was not required to answer it. Do you look down upon me?

[David Davis]

Where to begin....

Most of these are as a result of being an American in Europe for half my life and trying to look at things from that perspective.

Beer...Belgian or German, the rest, including the best Dutch stuff like Heineken, Amstel, Grolsch and anything from the UK/US is just inferior (sorry guys, I know this will drum up strong opposition) Also I don't want to insult the UK contingent by stating the US beer and UK beer are in the same class. They are most certainly not with the exception of a few microbrews which I've tried but don't remember anymore, mostly from Oregon.

Wine...not expensive bottles but value for money, which is a luxury of living in Europe, wines from great little wineries in France, Italy and Spain and the imports from ZA.

Food...Belgian, best in the world. End of discussion.

Women...not that I make the best choices but yes a snob here.

Ski resorts...don't even ski much anymore but once you've lived in the Alps you'd need to go towards heli skiing I'd imagine in order to step it up, outside of perhaps Jackson Hole or Whistler.

Clothes....although not really, if I could afford it I'd do all my shopping in Italy, Milan in the 1st or second week of january each year.

Tennis....after having been to all the grand slams on a coaches pass I can't be bothered to ever watch another match live unless is Federer and I can sit in his private box.

Music...in my younger days had a girlfriend working at the ticket office and somehow miraculously ended up with first or second row seats to everyone I went to in the late 80's - early 90's. Hard to get excited to go sit in nosebleeds and don't have any connections.

I'm sure there is more...but I'll save it.

[Mark Pearce]

Beer...Belgian or German, the rest, including the best Dutch stuff like Heineken, Amstel, Grolsch and anything from the UK/US is just inferior (sorry guys, I know this will drum up strong opposition) Also I don't want to insult the UK contingent by stating the US beer and UK beer are in the same class. They are most certainly not with the exception of a few microbrews which I've tried but don't remember anymore, mostly from Oregon.

I'm a beer snob, too, but this is just SO wrong.  The most exciting beer in the world is coming out of US micro-breweries (like Stone, 3 Floyds, Anderson Valley and many, many more) and there's a growing craft movement in the UK (led by the utterly brilliant Magic Rock Brewing Co, but with others like Redchurch and Durham not far behind).  Even the Danes (Mikeller brew some of the best beer known to man) are getting into gear.

Yes, Belgium produces some great beer and the Germans to a lesser extent.  Yes, by volume most beer sold in the USA barely qualifies as beer.  Yes, most UK beer from the large producers is decent but not brilliant.  However, a REAL beer snob is just as excited by some of the beer coming out of the USA, UK and Scandinavia as by Belgium and Germany.

[Jud_T]

Beer...Belgian or German, the rest, including the best Dutch stuff like Heineken, Amstel, Grolsch and anything from the UK/US is just inferior (sorry guys, I know this will drum up strong opposition) Also I don't want to insult the UK contingent by stating the US beer and UK beer are in the same class. They are most certainly not with the exception of a few microbrews which I've tried but don't remember anymore, mostly from Oregon.

I'm a beer snob, too, but this is just SO wrong.  The most exciting beer in the world is coming out of US micro-breweries (like Stone, 3 Floyds, Anderson Valley and many, many more) and there's a growing craft movement in the UK (led by the utterly brilliant Magic Rock Brewing Co, but with others like Redchurch and Durham not far behind).  Even the Danes (Mikeller brew some of the best beer known to man) are getting into gear.

Yes, Belgium produces some great beer and the Germans to a lesser extent.  Yes, by volume most beer sold in the USA barely qualifies as beer.  Yes, most UK beer from the large producers is decent but not brilliant.  However, a REAL beer snob is just as excited by some of the beer coming out of the USA, UK and Scandinavia as by Belgium and Germany.

No question, the Microbrewery movement is the U.S. is producing some stunning stuff.  If you live on this side of the pond there's virtually no reason to buy an imported beer these days unless you can get ahold of some Westvleteren XII.  Remember when you weren't disappointed to see Heineken as the most exotic beer on a list?

[Colin Sheehan]

Only three things other than golf:  

My daughters' education
Music (It don't mean a thing...)
Food (not haute cuisine, but just local, authentic, soulful, sustainable versus processed and shitty)

Golf would be second or third on the depth chart.  

[Ed Brzezowski]

Old corvettes.  Mines a 64
Scotch
Beer.
Flying dog/ raging bitch. Made in Frederick ,Md. Great stuff. Comes out every four weeks

[Paul Gray]

Just hold on there. For the sake of the many fine brewers in Britain, least we forget that the comparisons here are about different products. In Britain we make British beer, in the rest of Europe they make what we call lager and/or pilsner. The really poor lager you're likely to experience over here is, ten to one, Australian.

Gib,

Apologies. I wasn't going to comment but the anally retentive genes forced me to type.   There's no such thing as Sicilian balsamic. Regardless of how it may have been phrased on the bottle, the balsamic must have come from Modena. The oranges on the other hand........

Since I've been stupid enough to take issue with a wordsmith, I'll accept my punishment like a man.