Foodie Pseudery (48)
New York Magazine on the juice craze:
Juice announces that America is still a bountiful land of plenty despite our abuse of the Earth. Juice announces that you are hip to the trends, part of the scene that includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Salma Hayek, and other toned-and-together Celebrity Juice Fans featured in Star magazine. Juice says you don’t do manual labor: You make money with your fingers in the new economy, nails painted a cheery neon or pastel gel as you text. … And for a certain, uniquely American urban tribe, juice is a sacrament—or at least part of the sacrament.
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Wow, almost every button pushed there including blasphemy and – my personal least favourite thing – fake nails. 😉
Is this really pseudery, or not a sort of meta-pseudery – pseudery that is aware of its own pretension?
Hmm… You know, I did wonder the same…