You’re Anna North and you have to write an “Op-Talk” for the New York Times called “If You Read This, You Might Never Drink a Latte Again” So how the hell are you going to fill up a column with that?
If you’re smart, you’ll talk to Kyla Wazana Tompkins, a professor of English and gender and women’s studies who opines that “it’s important to think about the explosion of all of these industrialized lattes, all these frozen lattes, all the Frappuccinos, as links to a larger problem of creating cheap, high-calorie, low-nutrition food for working-class people.”
Kyla, why is it a “problem” to create “cheap, high-calorie, low-nutrition food for working-class people”? Just walk into a Seven-Eleven. Problem solved!
I guess what Kyla “means” is that it’s a problem for “capitalism” to invent cheap, bad food with which to exploit the masses, but, again, it isn’t. What capitalists are struggling with is not getting Americans to pig out, but rather to get them to pig out with their product.
Afterwords
A large point of Anna’s rap is that lattes really aren’t as la-dee-da as you might think. They’re actually tacky! And, thus, so are you, you pretentious, latte-sucking snob/slob!
