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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: what is a yuppie
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 01:00:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 01:00:58 1985
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Keywords: Yet Another Movement Toward Sociotruffleism

>>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).  [ROSEN]

> 	Godiva  was around way before yuppies were even a gleam in 
> a Perrier-and-soda-serving bartender's eye, even before the 70's.  [POLARD]

But even then they were an obnoxious pompous non-tasteworthy American
consumerized version of what "fancy" chocolate is supposed to be.

> 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.  

Ahem.  Truffles were around long before you and I were born.  Mass marketing
of truffles may have begun where you spoke of.  The style of "San Francisco"
truffle (including the Joseph Schmidt and Candy Jar truffles, arguably the
best chocolate readily available in this country) owes its pedigree to
classic Swiss chocolate truffles which have been around for years.  Bittersweet
chocolate, whipped frothy with heavy cream and liqueur mixed in for fun,
with a hard dark chocolate coating.  Classic.  I used to order Candy Jar and
Joseph Schmidt truffles from Chocolate Heaven on Pier 39 sent out here when
it was the only way to get them.  Now I live across the street from a store
that sells them.  But back then it was the only way I could get them.  (It's
amazing I can still fit into the same clothes...)

> 	Your description of a truffle high is poetic and accurate.

Hey, that's subjective experience for ya... :-?
-- 
"I was walking down the street.  A man came up to me and asked me what was the
 capital of Bolivia.  I hesitated.  Three sailors jumped me.  The next thing I
 knew I was making chicken salad."
"I don't believe that for a minute.  Everyone knows the capital of Bolivia is
 La Paz."				Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr