Gawker: Your Fancy Bagels and Organic Cream Cheese Won't Last Forever

[BurtWorm]

For a snarky gossip site, Gawker has pretty good politics.

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||||Today 1:00 PM|Hamilton NolanThe Way We Live Now: Besieged by indignity. H&H Bagels is drowning in debt! Book fairs and organic dairies are threatened! It's a veritable Yupocalypse:

Everybody knows H&H Bagels. It is the most famous bagel store in New York. It is a landmark of the Upper West Side, as much as people who seem to have stepped off the set of Seinfeld are. Well, it's closed now because of nonpayment of taxes.

Sure, it may reopen. But ask yourself: are you to blame? The answer is yes. The bagel store failed because you failed to support local business sufficiently. Organic dairies are failing because you failed to purchase enough maple-flavored yogurt at the farmer's market. The book industry is failing because you failed to pull out your wallet and support the genius of, say, Keith Gessen. Have fun with your Dunkin Donuts bagels and bodega milk and John Grisham novels, America. It's what you deserve. You people are terrible yuppies.

Also the New York Times has published an entire "news" story today revealing that some people who have gotten pay cuts are now buying less stuff, as a result. Just to make you mad.

[kay why 69]

1. Who the fuck is Keith Gessen?

I don't read John Grisham but you are making zero sense. You are calling people 'terrible yuppies' and then deriding their eshewing of maple locally-produced yogurt? Isn't that what the elite arugula-chewing-latte-sipping-dijon-on-hotdogs-ordering yuppie scum WOULD be buying?

[BurtWorm]

3. Terrible yuppies do yuppie terribly.

That's how I interpret it.

:patriot:

[BurtWorm]

6. You sucked.

[Dogtown]

7. Not for long though

Maybe next time he can hold out till he scores 10 posts.

:eyes:

[BurtWorm]

9. Probably still sucking, wherever it is.

I loathe the ones who can't even think up a name that doesn't give them away, stupid shits.

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[RandomKoolzip]

14. Duh.

[BurtWorm]

15. You keep sucking.

:patriot:

[cali]

2. well, I don't live in NY, but damn straight I try and supporrt local and organic

where I do live. I buy the soy milk and tofu that's made in my town. I buy the local yogurt and cheese as well. Yes, it's a bit more expensive but it helps my neighbors and my town.

[get the red out]

10. I second that!

I like knowing what I am eating! And I like putting money back into the local community. Yuppie doesn't describe me in the least; (Hillbilly technically does, however). Am I supposed to be buying all my food at the Walmart Superstore now or be considered privileged?

[cali]

11. organically and locally produced food are saving my town- literally

and the NYT, Grist, CBC and others have taken note and written about it.

[onehandle]

4. Dunkin Donuts doesn't make bagels.

I don't know what those things are, but they're not bagels.

[Mari333]

5. heh

OH the terribly pretentious faux riche might have to forgo their (bad) taste novelty items. what a bore, she says, yawning as she fills up her shopping cart with cheez wiz.
You know what, the NY times sometimes speaks from a bubble just like DC..they have no clue as to what is going on out here amongst the vast multitudes of people.
Thats one reason I avoid living in cities.
Good article. thanks.

[MadHound]

8. Umm, you don't pay your taxes, you're going to get your ass shut down

No matter how many people are buying at your store. It isn't the public's fault that they didn't pay these taxes, nope, that's the fault of the management.

[slampoet]

13. Organic Businesses are BOOMING. There are seven in Rhode Island this year alone that have prospered.