Dave Smith wrote:
> On 27/03/2013 2:16 PM, tert in seattle wrote:
>>
>>
>> Well that was me referring to "grind your own spices snobs" who
>> certainly do exist. I was thinking of the full range of people's
>> curry orientations, with fully ignorant at one extreme and the
>> people who grind their own spices *and* are snobs about it at the
>> other. Actually I didn't think it through very carefully -- should
>> have put grow-their-own-spices-snobs at the tippy top. I don't mean
>> to suggest that making things from scratch implies snobbery.
>
>
> Oh. That's the way it came across. Lots of us use various spice mixtures
> rather than buying and using individual spices and preparing them
> properly. Learning to toast and grind spices as part of the process just
> makes them better cooks than you. It does not make them snobs.
>
>
>
> To me
>> it is all about what's worth the effort to an individual and that
>> depends mostly on taste, and snobbery is an independent variable.
>
>
> Oh. People who have a taste, or a sense of taste, are snob?
>
>
>> People are either snobs or not and the subject matter is irrelevant -
>> the things snobs aren't snobs about (because they can't be for whatever
>> reason) are "not important" to them. etc etc
>
> On other words.... people whose knowledge and skills are better than
> your own are snobs.


looks like a nerve has been touched