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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
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Reply-To: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry polard)
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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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.)
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