Food Diary of a 27 year old DC dweller

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The thing is, this woman is not a foodie, she just thinks she is. She’s a pretentious snob who correlates value with cost. While a real foodie would certainly experience some high cost menus, they would also be seeking out the hole in the wall places that make fabulous food.

Boyfriend better be prepared to bankroll this princess for life and get nothing in return.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The twitter comments. LOL.

https://twitter.com/dougjballoon/status/1558876115938250753?s=21&t=zNEbLDkE7WZmlcYhW38UDw

The piece was a little tone-deaf, but Twitter is such a cesspool of jealousy and hate. I suppose she should self-flagellate until a bunch of anxiety-ridden, underachieving Twitter warriors feel better about themselves. I say this as someone who makes less than half what the writer of that BA piece makes and couldn't define the sport of squash if you held a gun to my head.

Nah, I make more than she does, and the comment below about being a snob who equates something being expensive with it having value is spot on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The twitter comments were hilarious for this article and then the University Club (with no self awareness) promoted it in their insta.

It reads like an Onion article. I loved every bit of it and then I started crying inside that people like this are our future. OMG.

The club promoting it is one of the funniest parts for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The twitter comments. LOL.

https://twitter.com/dougjballoon/status/1558876115938250753?s=21&t=zNEbLDkE7WZmlcYhW38UDw

The piece was a little tone-deaf, but Twitter is such a cesspool of jealousy and hate. I suppose she should self-flagellate until a bunch of anxiety-ridden, underachieving Twitter warriors feel better about themselves. I say this as someone who makes less than half what the writer of that BA piece makes and couldn't define the sport of squash if you held a gun to my head.

Nah, I make more than she does, and the comment below about being a snob who equates something being expensive with it having value is spot on.

Your comment has nothing to do with the pitchfork Twitter psychos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The twitter comments. LOL.

https://twitter.com/dougjballoon/status/1558876115938250753?s=21&t=zNEbLDkE7WZmlcYhW38UDw

The piece was a little tone-deaf, but Twitter is such a cesspool of jealousy and hate. I suppose she should self-flagellate until a bunch of anxiety-ridden, underachieving Twitter warriors feel better about themselves. I say this as someone who makes less than half what the writer of that BA piece makes and couldn't define the sport of squash if you held a gun to my head.

You make less than half what this lady makes and you’re calling the Twitter posters underachieving? Ok loser.

Their comments were funny and accurate.

Those comments were lame AF

Yes, I make 100k and am not bitter about it, which they clearly are. Twitter warriors can’t even order a cup of coffee in person without crying about someone offending them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The thing is, this woman is not a foodie, she just thinks she is. She’s a pretentious snob who correlates value with cost. While a real foodie would certainly experience some high cost menus, they would also be seeking out the hole in the wall places that make fabulous food.

Boyfriend better be prepared to bankroll this princess for life and get nothing in return.

Exactly!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“My favorite meal as a child was Caesar salad, a filet mignon with béarnaise sauce, and crème brûlée!”

Barf.

I mean this is also how some of the parents I know talk about their young kids. “Oh little Larla won’t touch pizza but she loves a beet salad with carbonara!” Like having expensive or sophisticated taste in food as a child appears to be a class marker.

She sounds awful. I might enjoy eating this way if I were young and childless and had endless money (she’s got to have a trust fund— no one I know in Big Law or consulting lives like this all the time. But her personality is exhausting. I may be the only one who got this far, but there’s this whole anecdote where she brings her own ingredients to L’Annexe to see what cocktail they’ll come up with, and then the ingredients wind up on the menu and she claims credit, including to a chef from Chez Billy Sud who stops by. Like can you imagine actually talking to a person this self-congratulatory? Oh and quoting her friend calling her tiny and referencing all the food she eats? Part of me thinks she wrote it as parody because this is exactly the kind of anecdote you’d share if you wanted someone to HATE a character. It’s hard to believe an actual person is this un-self-aware.

I was buying it as ridiculous, but entirely within the realm of possibility, until she got to the ordering five entrees thing.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like a pretty great life tbh. But I cringe at all the money she’s burning through. Sounds like her take home pay is 120k per year and she’s spending, what, 40% of that on food?! Still I loved living vicariously through her as she told her story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this was written as a joke.

I'm wondering if her first version was like this or if she wrote something more normal and was asked to punch it up. Did she turn in something listing loads of expensive meals and her editor said, "OK, but talk about your tastes as a child! Mention the farmers' market a billion times! Try to sound like someone who has real influence, not just someone with a credit card!"

And if so, was that because it would draw clicks or because they hated her and wanted her to look like a smug a-hole?

[Anonymous]

Sounds typical of a single young person with a large salary. New Yorkers do the same.

I'm 40 and don't spend that much, but then I've never had that salary as a single person.

[Anonymous]

I am a 30 yo management consultant making about $240K and absolutely have single colleagues that eat and spend this way. It’s fun for a season!

[Anonymous]

How is she not overweight? Ahhh miss my 20s.

[Anonymous]

I do think it was edited or something. At one point she talks about her parents mostly making pasta and prego when she was a kid, and then in another spot she talks about how she ate ssam as a kid, which made me assume she’s Korean and her parents cooked Korean food, so none of it made any sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do think it was edited or something. At one point she talks about her parents mostly making pasta and prego when she was a kid, and then in another spot she talks about how she ate ssam as a kid, which made me assume she’s Korean and her parents cooked Korean food, so none of it made any sense.

Also - she mentions she has home equity, a mortgage, and a monthly HOA payment under "Expenses." But then later on she mentions that Le Diplomate is 15 minutes away from "my apartment" and that she joins a video call for work back in "my apartment." If she had an apartment, wouldn't she be referring to her rent payment, not a mortgage/equity/HOA? Or maybe she owns property separately, and rents her everyday living space?

"Every Bastille Day, I try to have dinner at Le Diplomate. It’s not necessarily the most authentic menu, but powerhouse restaurateur Stephen Starr’s interpretation of the French bistro always hits its mark."

What does "it's not...the most authentic menu" mean? It looks like pretty solid French cuisine to me. What's specifically not authentic about it?

Overall I found the piece silly and harmless. If high-earning 20 somethings want to spend their money in this fashion, who am I to judge. Like other PPs, I suspect that it was embellished after the first draft.

[Anonymous]

This was fascinating to read as a 28 year old high income earner; my partner and I spend about $800 a month on our food (we don’t drink). First of all, as a biglaw attorney I could not eat out every night and go to things like evening committee meetings. Nor do I have the stamina as an introvert to socialize via eating out like she does. I don’t judge the spending — it’s her money, but I just can’t fathom spending 4x what I do (on a bigger salary than her’s too) and eating out every night.