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'Too stupid for sandwiches': NYT columnist mocked for writing about leaving gourmet sandwich shop with friend who has 'just a high school degree' because she felt overwhelmed by the fancy meats on the menu
- David Brooks made the comment in a piece titled, How We Are Ruining America I suspect more a "how-to" than a series of observations. - The 55-year-old writer was trying to discuss informal social barriers in society  - 'Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop,' he wrote, kicking off the awkward story - He recounted how his friend was seeming put-off by item names on the menu - 'I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican,' he wrote, wrapping up the strange anecdote Posted by: Elmotle Phaiger6604 2017-07-13 |
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