Food Snob #4: Excess in Lieu of Duress

While affordable luxuries are in high demand during The Suckage, as the economy starts to look up we should focus on something more palatable than frugality: excess. It might not be politically correct to talk about this in a time when people are using terms like “stealth wealth” and “staycation” to hide such indulgence, but let’s face it: more is more, and more tastes damn good.

Which would you rather do: eat Manwich from a can every night or sit down to an occasional lobster dinner? Ordering a dozen Fanny Bay oysters and cocktails is going to do a lot more for your soul than sitting around and talking about how good it used to be to order oysters. Yes, we all have to build our nest eggs, but once in a while it’s nice to have an omelet.