That isn't it, though. Tapas are part of a way of socializing. One tapas joint can't reproduce the experience of ten tapas joints within walking distance of each other. It's part of a bar hopping culture. If that sounds like "dribble" that's because you're ears aren't used to the sounds. There's nothing "hipster" about it.
I'd say it's near 100% hipster. It's the polar opposite of sitting down at one place for a traditional full meal. It's ok to do things that hipsters do, like biking places.
Koop isn't saying bar hopping is "hipster dribble". He's saying that me saying tapas is part of that behavior is "hipster dribble".
We're falling into some sort of Inception-like rabbit hole. I'm out.
Maybe, but we had food fads long before the Internet. My parents threw fondue parties in the 1960s. Gelatin main course dishes were all the rage in the 1950s. The 1970s were full of quiche. Sushi was big in the 1980s. Oh, and blackened everything in the 1990s. These fads were often the result of carefully crafted advertising.
The one in NJ is a beach area just below Atlantic city, so a resort town. In NH they picked the only high population metro region in the state, and it's not near the university. In Maine they picked the most affluent metro area, with some colleges, but not a college town.
I do man.
