Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!fortune!polard From: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry Polard) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: what is a yuppie Message-ID: <5778@fortune.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 15:02:21 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.5778 Posted: Wed Nov 13 15:02:21 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 07:34:05 EST References: <1454@hound.UUCP> <2017@pyuxd.UUCP> <970@lll-crg.ARpA> <5755@fortune.UUCP> <2089@pyuxd.UUCP> Reply-To: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry polard) Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 24 Keywords: Yet Another Movement Toward Sociotruffleism Summary: History of truffles & "yuppie" Mr Rosen - the mailer didn'y get through to you, & this may be of general interest. In article <2089@pyuxd.UUCP> you write: >Yes, but WHAT? Chocolate truffles are something we can thank yuppies for? >Outrageous! Where does this line of thinking come from? Now stupid >putrid "designer" chocolates (like Bill Blass and Godiva) that have more >sugar than your average breakfast cereal, THAT we can thank yuppies for >(or something like that). Sir: Godiva was around way before yuppies were even a gleam in a Perrier-and-soda-serving bartender's eye, even before the 70's. Truffles started at Cocolat in Berkeley, that bastion of Yuppieism, where the term Yupppie was coined (by Alice Kahn in an article in the East Bay Express in 1982). The date and place may be a little off, but truffles and yuppies are definitely post-Godiva. Your description of a truffle high is poetic and accurate. Let's take this discussion away from net.singles & put it in net.fatuous where it belongs. Uh, you mean all the newsgroups are....? Regards, -- Henry Polard (You bring the flames - I'll bring the marshmallows.) {ihnp4,cbosgd,amd}!fortune!polard N.B: The words in this posting do not necessarily express the opinions of me, my employer, or any AI project.