There are few things I care about less than coffee. I have two big cups every morning: light and sweet, preferably in cardboard cup. Any bodega will do. I don’t want to wait for my coffee. I don’t want some man-bun, Mumford and Son motherfucker to get it for me. I like good coffee but I don’t want to wait for it, and I don’t want it with the cast of Friends. It’s a beverage; it’s not a lifestyle.

Is "punk rock chef" the most annoying persona in the world?

>>213877275
If it's not it'll do until the most annoying persona in the world gets here

>>213877176 (OP)
What is the origin of this seething hatred of him? I only see it here and people who clearly are referencing here.

>>213877275
There is a passage in one of his books, I dunno if someone can find it, where he actually says something to the effect of "some people like Abba. I'm a punk, I like The Ramones", as if The Ramones are some deep obscure band for cratediggers.

>>213877361
The Ramones are admittedly in comparison a relatively obscure band so I get it

>>213877176 (OP)

I don't like pretentious crackers and potato chips. I have to pay a premium for truffle and duck breast flavored potato chips? Ludicrous. You're a potato chip. Don't go putting on airs, mister.

>>213877335
He spent most of his life telling people they should "travel a lot and eat random shit in a third world country"
He was also cucked so hard he killed himself

>>213877275
I dunno, "vegan cyclist" is pretty up there

>>213877275
I take a middle finger in a photo very personally, like they are flipping me off.
Instant loss of respect they might ask for.

>>213877382
NTA but they really aren't. Saying you like The Ramones means about as much as saying you like Metallica.

>>213877528
I'm interested in how much anti tourism is becoming mainstream. I guess with the rise of nationalism it is inevitable, why leave your country/it's unfair to burden other countries I guess. Even just to eat street food that costs twenty cents

>>213877176 (OP)
If you have time to "get a coffee" before work you're not as busy as you think you are

>>213877176 (OP)
>I have to have this thing twice a day, every day
>but I don’t care about it
>I dislike people having a certain lifestyle that revolves around food
>even though my entire lifestyle and persona revolves around food

>>213877176 (OP)
Why is this man giving me the finger while holding a tartar plate with upper manhattan in the background.

What is the obsession with beef tartare and chefs? It's okay I guess

>>213877665
>Not waking up at 4;55 to get a cup of joe
>>213877831
Because saying "Fuck you" is punk rock.

>>213877618
It's not even just about nationalism. I'm a lefty and I hate tourism because of the pointless overconsumption it generates, because of the lack of respect tourists have towards locals, and because most tourism is done not because of any real purpose or enrichment, rather it's done to farm social capita by posting garbage photos and selfies online so you can farm likes and feel less lonely through the sheer virtue of having spent money to be at a different place, not because you actually created anything of value.

>>213877275
no, self-righteous lefty punk rock chef kike is

>>213878301
In my opinion tourism outside of designated areas and cities designed around it is disrespectful. Places like Vegas and Disney World are acceptable tourist destinations, not places where people are trying to live. All you're doing by going there is sucking resources away

>>213878409
And before you say anything about Vegas, it is a rare if not the only example of people being stupid and moving into a tourist town and pretending it can or should be anything else. It's not meant to be a major metropolis, it's supposed to be a desert town with a strip of casinos. Making it into a shittier LA/Phoenix was a mistake.

>>213877528

Epicureanism is a false path

>>213878301
>I'm a lefty and I hate tourism because of the pointless overconsumption it generates
>live in the pod like me
>eat the bugs like me
>own nothing and like it
Not everyone wants to be a soulless bugman like you.

>>213877748
This

>>213878553
>My soul comes from the expensive shit I bought
Ok

>>213878553
You realize that one of the reasons why people are being forced to live in pods is tourism, right? Wealthy investory buy up houses to turn them into short term rental services (airbnb) because it's more profitable than to allow an individual to buy and own said house. I'm a lefty, not a liberal, I want high quality social housing to be provided for free to every working citizen.

>i dont care about coffee
>but here is all the things my coffee has to be like

he is such a retard

>>213878518
>Epicureanism false
Maybe. But he didn’t pick the finer things in life, he sat on plastic children step stools and sloopered poverty noodles made in roach dens

>>213878409
A lot of those towns would look like Mumbai without tourism dollars.

>>213878553
Going to a country and staying in the same hotel you could stay in anywhere and taking the same pictures millions of people have had before is not helping you. Fucking go home and stop being a leech.

>>213878751
Then they should develop industries that use the resources they do have to help the people that live there instead of being focused on selling cheap booze and foreign food to slobs. Being a tourist town is the laziest shit that shows you have no pride in where you live
>"Uhhh the weather here is nice most of the year guess the only way we should make money is to allow people to flood in and puke everywhere while playing loud music"
I have never understood this shit, people are given paradise and instead of cherishing it they trash it by letting trash in

>>213878719
It’s such a blowhard city/ny style of patter. Blathering on can work in person because your aura makes everyone kind of just take the tone and tune it half out. But when you put it in writing it exposes how vapid it all is

>>213878072
>Not waking up at 4;55 to get a cup of joe
I love that early morning cup, and i've never killed myself either. Maybe there's a correlation there.

>>213878713
> want high quality social housing to be provided for free to every working citizen
And who's gonna build it, pay for it, and maintain it?

>>213878749
He did that for photo ops, to look "authentic". IRL he was an espresso drinker, so he cared quite a bit about coffee. His attitude was all for show.

>>213878866
Do you really not know what social housing means?

>>213878912
You said "for free", so who's paying for it?

>>213878947
If you know what social housing is, you know the answer to that question

>>213877176 (OP)
>It’s a beverage; it’s not a lifestyle.
>proceeds to make food a lifestyle
What did he mean by this?

>>213877593
Definetely not

>>213878983
>Watch my programs and buy my book goy

>>213878983
food and beverage are natural enemies.

>>213877593
In comparison to Ramones, saying you like Metallica means you have musical taste

>>213877176 (OP)
>I have two big cups every morning: light and sweet, preferably in cardboard cup. Any bodega will do. I don’t want to wait for my coffee

counts the cups
needs it fucked with cream and sugar
can't make it himself
this man cares more about coffee than i do about most things. when i drank coffee it was with nothing in it and i'd sometimes be fine with one cup and other times i could drain a pot easy

>>213877361
>>213877382
>>213879219
>comes of age in the 70s
>during the same time punk got popular in NYC and the Ramones blew up in popularity
It's a perfectly valid thing to say, unless you expected him to namedrop a 90s hardcore tape that only had 5 copies made and was distributed only by being stuck between couch cushions at a punk house

>>213877176 (OP)
>Any bodega will do.

Saying bodega like it's a normal thing is 100x more hipster than fancy coffee places.

>>213877748
>Oh you care about coffee? That's pathetic. Now let me tell you why people who don't eat sushi the way I do should be murdered. Here; I even made a comic about it.

coffeefags are gay but bourdain is a faggot and he is in hell now

>>213877176 (OP)
>Bodega
The word is "shop".

>>213877275
"Chef" full stop. You're a fucking cook. Elevating a household chore to a trade (let alone a "profession") is embarassing.

>>213879593
Why do Americans do this. Chinks own most of the shops around me. I don't say
>I stopped by the dian pu for a monster and a vape

>>213878866
Billionaire rent seekers of course.

>>213878866
>Here's why rich people shouldn't pay taxes.
Everyone is getting tired of this larp.

>>213879268
>Goes to a corner store for coffee
>Has not only demands for flavour and texture but also the style of cup
This is mega gay.

>>213877176 (OP)
Calling any corner store a Bodega really rubs me the wrong way.

>>213879691
Working in a restaurant even briefly makes you realize that this industry should have died out years ago.

>>213878719
>>213878817
you're missing the point completely, he's basically saying that coffee shop culture is stupid bullshit, being a barista isn't a real job

>>213878713
In all the places where "housing crises" exist it's because "lefty, not liberal" people like you want to constrain real estate development and management to the point that it's not worth it or too difficult to build new homes or apartments or even just manage existing properties. You want to blame the externalities of your preferred policies on some boogeyman.

>>213877176 (OP)

You just needed to be a street vendor selling greasy slop to impress this guy, right? I don't like being cynical about an intelligent man who's now dead, but holy shit every quote reads like "I've had enough privilege in my life and now I wanna spend time with the poor."

>>213879873
Which is ironic given he's a cook.

>>213879846
I still call them delis, my dad worked at a german one when he was a teen in Queens. They just call them bodegas now because they're run by nonwhites now even though most of them are probably owned by middle easterners not mexicans.

>>213877275
It's up there with black preachers and Boston tough guys.

>>213879593
It's a normal thing in NY and a few other large cities, sorry he didn't take your sensitive flyover fee fees into account by forgetting to mention circle k

>>213879916
Yeah calling them bodegas is a specific semantic choice pushed so we are constantly aware that we are no longer in a white community. Deli store, deli, corner store, all fine.

>>213878072
>Because saying "Fuck you" is punk rock.

Evidently, so is ACKing yourself when your girlfriend fucks a literal underage.

>>213879691

Eating is a profoundly important part of most people's lives. I'd say only the ultra rich cannot get a meaningful eating experience because they have everything so immediately available.

So yeah, I'd say that cooking is an art, because it absolutely does have the power to stir up emotions, just like any song or painting. It's incidental that it is also a household chore.

I do agree that some chefs take themselves way too seriously. I'm a doctor, and you can find that kind of personality in my field as well. No one likes those.

Negroni status?

>>213879972
Shitting is a profoundly important part of most people's day. Cleaning a toilet is not an art, and neither are cooking or video games.

>enters the kitchen
>says he's retired
>makes yourself cry
>doesn't elaborate

>>213879972
>I'd say that cooking is an art, because it absolutely does have the power to stir up emotions, just like any song or painting
Great big greasy sausage fingers typed this.

>>213879880
It doesn't even seem privileged, the dude was pretty open about working a shit exhausting job for almost 30 years. On the line no less. It's like asking a tradesman why he likes greasy spoon diners so much instead of tapas. Not to say he wasn't probably crazy rich by the time the books and the shows were out, but 30 years is still a long time to work in a kitchen

>>213877748
He just hates White people and by extension the coffee shops they run

>>213877176 (OP)
I don't understand why anyone finds any of this stuff profound or interesting. Okay, so you like coffee such-and-such a way. So?

>>213880087
If you asked a tradesman why he prefered a diner over tapas, he'd think you're retarded and probably respond with either
>what's a tapas
Or
>It's on the way home

>>213880042

Neither shitting nor cleaning toilets doesn't make me nostalgic, or make a trip special. Dunno how much of a full life you've had, but I 100% remember some very special meals in my time on this Earth.

Videogames are simply entertainment and don't have the same broad appeal like food, painting, or literature.

>>213880084

I'm actually cutting right now.

>>213877176 (OP)
>There are few things I care about less than coffee. I have two big cups every morning
>two big cups
>every morning
So that means you care a lot about coffee then, Anthony.

>>213877335
Cause he's a massive figure that millennials worshiped and lauded as a de-facto "cool guy" but he was actually a pathetic simp

>>213880141
Neither eating or cooking make a trip special. You have food at home. I can't imagine wanting to take time out of your live to travel to a far away destination for something as mundane or trivial as eating. My last trip I ate MRE's and McDonalds.

>>213879769
country couldn't run more than a year if you pillaged everything from every billionaire. then what?

>>213880141
Video games have a broader appeal than painting. Food is just a utilitarian bodily function for non-fat asses.

people who did heroin never turn out right. you can gaslight us with that "i've been clean for decades" shit but then you fall in love with an italian witch and kill yourself over it.

>>213880213
>My last trip I ate MRE's and McDonalds.
Everyone I've met that does stuff like this is weird, long-haired and greasy. Which fits very well with the stereotypical image of this site.

>>213880130
>"Why do you prefer coffee from a bodega on your street corner instead of a pour over from the cafe"
>it's on the way to work
>what the fuck is a pour over

>>213880213

That's on you, buddy. It's still a fact that most people will have something to say about a certain meal they've had in their life. There's a reason even death row inmates have a last meal.

>>213880246

Yeah good luck making old people and middle aged women care about video games as pieces of art.

>>213880114
"I like my coffee served by browns" is pure, unfiltered, smug progressivism. It's like a siren song if you're a white liberal.

>>213880303
Gay people and middle aged women, who dislike video games, probably ARE the target demographic for artisinal household chores. Boomers and dullard women no doubt are the majority of consumers for cook books and home renovation shows (which do place a lot of emphasis on toilets).

Also I guarantee you most death row inmates, if give the choice between a holiday-destination Thai prostitute or a Michelin Star meal would take the hooker.

>>213877275
>fashy stormweenie hates anyone challenging conservative status quo
Imagine my fucking surprise

>>213880319
Yeah, I guess it's an attempt to create an "authentic" image. Like, "I don't like fancy frou frou Zanzibar Medium Arabica Roast, I only like unpretentious cheap coffee." It still flies over my head, though. I really like mixing together M&Ms and Sour Patch Kids and eating them at the same time, but I wouldn't expect anyone else to find that interesting.

>>213880507

This is not a ranking, Anon.

Pretty much everyone can appreciate a painting on some degree. You can't say the same about video games.

>Gay people and middle aged women, who dislike video games, probably ARE the target demographic for artisinal household chores

Who cares if they're "the target" (of whatever the fuck that may be)? The point stands: pretty much everyone will have something to say about food, and the emotions it can create. That was my statement from the beginning. The expertise and capacity to make you feel something is what I compared to art, as opposed to taking a shit or cleaning a toilet. You're arguing against an universal truth just because you don't think it's special. There are centuries worth of literature making a fuss about food. There's a fuckton of paintings depicting food. You eat the body of Christ, drink his blood. Food has meaning.

>>213877176 (OP)
I like some Mumford and sons songs…

>>213880648
>doesn't expect anyone to find eating m&ms and sour patch kids interesting
>tells us anyway
Curious

>>213880913
I'm offering it as an example of the sort of thing I wouldn't announce like Anthony (I think that's his first name) Bourdain did in whatever TV show or book or interview he announced his arbitrary and nonspecific coffee preferences.

>>213877176 (OP)
I feel the same way about sushi. Can't stand those pretentious faggots that think putting raw fish on rice is an artform.

>>213879989
Living a dream.

>>213880287
>>what the fuck is a pour over
>>what the fuck is a bodega

just say convenience store

>>213880913
It's not Bourdainian until you say fuck you to anyone who doesn't find it interesting.

>>213881062
Convenience stores don't have fresh food, unless you count roller dogs
Bodega = deli run by mexicans
Deli = bodega run by kikes
Both will serve you coffee in a paper cup that says "we are happy to serve you", which comes from the Greeks.
How hard is that?

He's kind of right here thoughever. White americans really do make drinking coffee their whole personality and it's kind of strange.

>*annoying nasal voice* ermm can i get a macchiato to go please

Nigga shut the hell up. He even admits to drinking two a day, I don't understand why it's so prevalent.

>>213880213
It took me a long time to find out there are people like you who simply dont enjoy food, it blows my mind because I live for food, not even a fatty but food makes life better.

>>213881905
Same here. I spent two years living in a hut in Africa and eating nothing but horrible UN rice; ever since then I've been absolutely obsessed with food. I remember smelling fresh herbs for the first time since I got out of there.

>>213881842
It's better than eating cow shit, pajeet.

>drink coffee black because i like it that way
>"errmmm what're you too cool for us?"
>"um, performative much?"
>"oh you're SUUUUCH a man"
i didn't do anything wrong :(

>>213878801
isn't developing industries just as if not more pollutive and uglifying than just keeping a touristy place going? I can see if you get priced out of an entire town because of tourist dollars raising everything but it's also supporting businesses and the country to spend tourist money there. I get the arguments against tourism but I'm not going to feel bad for visiting your country, appreciating it if you let me, and then leaving.

>>213882150
I'd be 110% fine with unlimited tourism if the people in those countries fucking stayed there

>>213882004
Black coffee gives me a tummy ache so I have to add some milk.

>>213877176 (OP)
Imagine telling a big ass story about how you like your coffee. Pretentious fuck. Wish he would have killed himself twice.

>>213877275
if you are lucky enough you don't know picrel, but yes

>>213881905
Food isn't very interesting to me either. It's fun to have good food as a treat sometimes, but I'd rather eat simple healthy, plain stuff most of the time.

>>213877176 (OP)
>There are few things I care about less than coffee
>I like good coffee
Directly contradicting himself

>>213881952
>eating nothing but horrible UN rice

Why didn't you ask the locals to serve you up some tasty authentic african cuisine?

>>213883200
that's actually kino thoughever

There are few things I care about less than food. I have two big meals every day: warm and savoury, preferably on a paper plate. Any drive through will do. I don’t want to wait for my food. I don’t want some Jewish, rockstar heroin addict motherfucker to get it for me. I like good food but I don’t want to wait for it, and I don’t want it with the cast of The Bear. It’s sustenance; it’s not a lifestyle.

>>213882865
isn't that what people do? Go to the touristy places? There's not a flood of people showing up in Japan and staying in, idk, Semboku. They all go to the stupid deer park

>>213883200
The dude that invented mosquito burgers is surely dead right.

>>213878911
this.

>>213883200
I was in a village that way far away from any of the places where you could regularly get decent produce or fresh fish or anything like that. I don't regret the experience, though. It really recalibrated my relationship with food.

>>213881043
I watched a documentary about it and it was interesting and informative until the main guy said "it takes 20 years service to be respected as a sushi chef" and I'm like fuck off Suzuki Ive had better sushi at Caribbean all inclusives than fucking NYC

What are the top three reasons a normie gives when they say Bourdain is cool?

>>213883634
He's not. He's a persona from a bygone era. Tattoos are cringe but getting fresh ink during middle age is just pathetic try hard behavior

>>213878911
>His attitude was all for show.

He's a new york jew, I guarantee you the attitude and the unwarranted sense of self importance is 100% real.

>>213883634
Le travel
Unnecessary profanity
Waxing poetic nonsense over some standard beef bourguignon or thai curry

>>213883634
He has a skull on his uniform how is that not cool.

>>213877176 (OP)
>Noooo my addiction has to be aesthetic and expensive or I am exposed for being a degenerate! Noooo!

Coffee snobs do be annoying, though.

>>213883634
He didn't particularly care for white people.

>>213878756

Many places rely on tourism for money, they'd be very pissed off if you retards shut down the tourism industry.
>a leech.
English must be your 2nd or 3rd language since paying for things yourself is the opposite of being a 'leech', imbecile.

>>213883262
rip muchacho

>>213877176 (OP)
>plate of cat food
>"that'll be $79.99 plus tip"

>>213878301
You must live in Barcelona.

>>213877275
Bourdain is one of the few chefs that spoke out against the ridiculous, "massive slip of gourmet" burger trend. I think he'd feel at home in Japan.

>>213879989
Duplicated

It's "yes chef" when you reply to me.

>>213877275
Right behind cyclists. I want to run those fuckers over every time they avoid all the trails and sidewalks and parks to ride their bike in the middle of the road slowly. They crave attention so bad they will risk being run over for it.

>>213877275
Gordon is great

>>213888228
>whitest sport in the world
>makes amerifats seethe
Coincidence? Don't worry, I'm sure your wife loves your new Watermelondravius Jones #69 authentic football jersey that you wear during all the games

>>213877275
Yes but every one ne of them there is a k pop lunch lady bringing balance to the world

>>213877176 (OP)
I don't understand the finger. Here is a plate of lovely food that you can purchase at my restaurant, oh and by the way fuck you?

>>213888963
He knows that the empire state building is going to be in the background of the photo. The building is a testament to USA national pride which he always hated.

>I posted it again!! hahahaha

>>213877176 (OP)
Is that a plate of gourmet cat food?

>>213884028
He worked with Mexicans for 20 years and realized white people have no culture