can we (all friendly-like) discuss Hipsters? and a butcher shop.
 

i dont get it. on the way in..some man was coming out, mumbling about hipsters..

i just went to a butcher shop. it is a local, small operation. spot-less, well decorated (with vintage knives, and vintage meat posters)..all the workers had waxed mustaches..and i would guess there was a man-bun somewhere in the room. even the way they stacked the meat was artistic. as a home-cook..i thought the place was badass! the prices were super competitive. way lower than WholeFoods. on the wall was a sign showing the farm that the animals came from for the week. i found hanger steaks..which i never see. i bought two. and a half pound of the best damn bacon i have ever eaten. they make it themselves. they even had local rabbit.

just what exactly is a hipster? isnt it just a way of dressing? a style? like GOTH?
growing up in El Paso..i saw more people dressed like cowboys..boots, western shirts, the belt buckles etc. they work nowhere near a ranch or farm. is there a style called cowboy? that was never a thing right? why is "hipster" even a word? i dont remember any one refered to as "western" growing up.

damn..my face smells like bacon this morning. :)

They are called dime store cowboys or goat ropers. At least that's what we called people that wear that western style when I was growing up.

And there were bars they could go to and do line dancing. And even a dance hall for square dancing.

My nephew has two boys that actually worked on a ranch in HS. They are both out of HS and college and have regular jobs one continues to wear the western attire and drive a pickup truck, the other not.

Another nephew has a boy that all thru HS and College, and even now works on a dude ranch. He does the western wear thing legitimately.

They liked it before it was cool and mainstream.

"It" is variable but if the word "artisanal" is a dead giveaway that hipsters are involved in "it."

Bring some of them bacon, come down to my house and cook me a meal. I will show you wha ta hipster is. I live right in the middle of hipesterville. I can't say I like them or dislike them. For the most part, they are just guys who's trendy (so they like to wear their girlfriend's tight jeans out in public). Oh, they are also all skinny, never fat. Like we used to say about the gay guys, they are all good looking, slim and fit.

Whatever the hottest trend is in town, you will find them.

What I can't find is female hipsters? What do they look like? The men, you can spot them 10 mile away, but female hipsters?

cowboy thing is funny

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I dont get the hipster thing either but I'm pretty much out of the loop. Just like so many things, strive for individuality by mimicking a group you like. Could be worse, funnel haircuts, old clothes and 'artisanal' meat aint so bad.

They dress the same. Maybe even the exact same clothes as their male counterparts (efficient!).

They have beards too!?

man bun....friggin gay as the day is long.

naming the farm the meat came from seems to be a trend in the 'organic' movement. the implication being you, the customer, have good taste and are 'in the know' when it comes to the best quality food products. All just marketing to make the customer feel special. And it works well.

They're all good-looking? You haven't seen Ugly Hipster Girlfriend and Ugly Hipster Boyfriend! All body types wear skinny jeans but not all of them look good in them, alas.

Not all hipsters have beards. The beard-less hipster is often found with glasses and a beanie.

I don't understand skinny jeans on men. Where do their testicles go?

duh they don't have them! clue 1 is the man bun, clue 2 is the skinny jeans!

I often wonder bout' dat. Its 100 degrees outside and they have that stupid beanie on and sweating like a fooking pig:rolleyes:

to my great surprise I figured I might be one of them a few months back. I found it ironic...
however i have lots of trouble staying skinny and no man bun or skinny jeans...i supposed I'm just borderline, not fully hip.

no, just the gay guys are good looking. I used to work steadily in West Hollywood. Gay capital of north America. My wife and I would have a cup of coffee in Starbucks. She notice all the men that walk through the door are good looking, trim and fit. Even the old bastards. Maybe I should say good looking, but presentable if you will

But, the steak is good the bacon is good, and their passion for doing the "real butcher" thing is great. I'd shop there instead of the supermarket meat department.

Generally hipsters are identifiable as going way overboard on whatever the fashion trend is hot today; earrings on guys? Too mainstream - let's put a set of Fuchs in our ears. In addition to overdoing what's current, they try to get ahead of the heard in fashion tidbits that normal people laugh at, such as the man-buns and Snidely Whiplash waxed mustaches.

When I was in Boston I went into a Swiss Army Knife store that was so hipster that they didnt carry extra springs for the scissors or replacement tweexers or toothpicks. The fake outdoorsman was aghast at the thought of the tool actually being used.

My kids told me this joke....

How do you drown a hipster?

Throw him in the mainstream! :D

Sort of. Getting certified by the USDA in food is hard and requires a lot of work. Naming the farm is a way of providing credibility.

They can, of course, be full of organic *****.

There it is.

My wife shops at a real butcher store for specific cuts.

BTW, I have no idea what a hipster is or does.

Got a new smoker and wanted to try some turkey. Went to the local butcher shop and was able to buy a turkey breast cut into 4 2lb chunks. It was $45. Still was a LOT of turkey breast.

Hipsters - "a person who follows the latest trends and fashions, especially those regarded as being outside the cultural mainstream." I'd say that's accurate, but I think these days most folks use it to specifically refer to the current generation of hipsters. They are sort of the modern hippy or beatnik, basically, anti-establishment in a way. They are not just a fashion/style, but include other things like yuppies or whatever.

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I don't get it either.

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I call them hyper fags myself.

I see a few around where I lives but when I get to LA and get on a bus. 1/3 of the bus has these people on it with brown hair. White stupid guys and I can't help but not laugh as its funny like living in a SNL skit.

Its like Grizzy Admans meets a white supremist.

Now you can spot them.

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Over decades we have had:
Beatnicks
Hippies
"Dime store cowboys or goat ropers" (first time I have heard this one)
Now Hipsters
Have there been other names for the so called trendy folks over the decades.
What were the disco crowd called?

Wise man once told me "this too shall pass."
To which I'll add "until it loops around again."

Atleast none of them will be Marines or cops.

This guy. They are all over as soon as I go down the hill. I drive out to 10 min out to Pasadena and do most of our stuff because I don't want to be near them.

Y'all sound like grampa Simpson!

I'm not sure how butchers got roped into this thread; there's a grocery store next to my office (Local Foods, for north side Chicagoans reading) that may easily be considered 'hipster' by all you fogeys. It has a fantastic meat counter / butcher - they get in a whole cow (re: beef) at a time and have all sorts of unusual cuts and will give you anything you ask for ( in beef, pork, chicken, whatever) with a little notice, and it is really, really, high-quality meat. Well worth the $$ premium. If that's what a hipster butcher is like, I'll take more, please.

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Agree on that for sure.


Btw, 'hipster' was used in Seinfeld years ago (I feel so old). Elaine called Kramer a hipster doofus iirc.


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Read some were Hipsters are making butchering and Barbering a prestigious career choice these days.
Maybe that's just here in the S.F. bay area.

Hipsters are making any trade that was done in the early 20th century prestigious. As long as they get to dress like Ernest Shackleton they are happy

There is some level of cool to buying food that is associated with a certain farm, but there is a practical reason for it too. The food may indeed be "be full of organic *****," even if approved by the USDA, but if you know the farm it came from you know if it is truly organic and ethically raised. (Ethically raised is important to me, after seeing how chickens are raised in factory farms.) Merely knowing the name of the farm a carrot came from is trendy, but meaningless unless you actually know something about the farm.

It's fun to see the term "hipster" making comeback. In the '50s being "hip" meant knowing what was going on. A hipster was a person who kept up with the latest trends in pop culture. Now it's knowing what's trending on facebook and youtube. "Beatniks" were anti-hipsters who eschewed pop culture, but they were hip to the latest trends in beat culture.
I remember back in the early 60s my older cousin would say, "I'm hip to that," in place of "I know" or "I understand."
The more things change the more they stay the same.

We got em thick in Portland. My favorite? A guy dressed as a ventian gondolier. Just grabbing a burrito.

Damn good humor!

We have lots of folks wearing western wear around here. Some are real and for sure Cowboys or Cowgirls. I saw a F450 extended cab pulling a two-horse horse trailer pull up at the local gas station. Out hopped a 85 to 90 pound woman. She had the boots, hat and full western wear outfit. She pumped the fuel and some moron had pulled up in front of her so he could not pull forward. Then like a pro, she backed that rig up between two other cars and drove away with no issue. I was impressed. She was the real deal.

One of my friends was Orren Mixer. He was a fantastic western artist and he had a nice ranch with longhorn cattle and horses and donkeys. He never left the property without his cowboy hat. He was the real deal as well. He sounded and looked like a cowboy and was proud to say he was. And the "soil" on his boots was often the real deal bullcrap right from the barn. No one would ever call him a hipster.

Porsche "hipster"???
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