Instant Snob: just add countries

It’s amazing how quickly you can become a snob by visiting other countries.

I never really thought of myself as someone with a particularly refined taste, or someone who was particularly picky about things. In other words, I wouldn’t call myself a snob.

But after I took a trip around the world for a few months, and I catch myself constantly saying things like:

“This hummus doesn’t taste like it does in Israel”

“This tea is so American. They make it better in England,” or

“They just don’t have any proper chip shops around here”

Which clearly makes me a snob. I figure that, if you want to become a snob like me, all you have to do is actually go visit some other culture. This is because America is really just a mixed down version of basically everything you find everywhere else.

Things that are spicey here are a bit more spicey there. You think it’s fresh here? It’s a little bit fresher there. The tradeoff is that I can get to Thai, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Southwestern, French, Spanish, Mexian, Italian, and countless other styles of food without spending more thant fifteen minutes on the road.

What an odd country this is.