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[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

What criticism even is there against PSLs and Halloween decorations??

[-] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

PSLs are gross, overly sugarladen drinks and emblematic of both crass consumerism and America's obsession with unhealthy food. Halloween decorations are gaudy and an eyesore and also emblematic of crass consumerism, while also representing a non-trivial amount of non-biodegradable plastic waste that just winds up buried in landfills every year.

[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ahh yes, the classic emblem of America's crass consumerism checks notes flavored coffee.

PSLs and Halloween decorations are bourgeois decadance, clearly.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

lattes are french and therefore bourgeois, real proles drink black coffee or take trucker pills.

[-] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

No, not flavored coffee. PSLs. Different things. It's like saying "pork sandwiches" when someone brings up the McRib. It's not that simple. Food has a cultural component tied to its manufacture and identification. And, similar to the McRib, Starbucks style PSLs are food that probably shouldn't exist and which only does as a byproduct of market capitalism. They're the Lacanian 'object a' - an empty, manufactured falseness. We don't desire the thing itself, but the thing whose absence it symbolizes. What you're really consuming when you drink a PSL or a McRib is its innate mechanical predictability.

[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Have you considered the possibility that some people like the taste of pumpkin spice lattes? Or do you just get to dismiss everything you personally dislike as "The Lacanian 'object a?'" You could substitute literally any food or drink for PSLs in what you said, it's completely meaningless.

It's just empty words and phrases for you to feel superior to others based on what treats you enjoy or don't enjoy.

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