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"I got owned because I reflexively lied" is a great way to start an article. Builds a lot of confidence in the narrator.

Even if this was real, which it wasn't, mentioning a fancy and expensive sandwich is probably not gonna be a problem just as long as you talk about what you love about the sandwich rather than how expensive it is.

It's journalism anyways, people are gonna be used to having to hang out with rich assholes.

Also took a look at the article itself and he thinks doing right wing whataboutism and "this superficially sounds like this other thing" type shit was brave internal truthtelling at NYT.

People started snapping their fingers in acclamation.

Fuck Chick-fIl-A but if this happened to me I would walk out and never come back. Absolutely caucasian behavior

There are inception-level layers of internalized antisemitism here.

-my actual favorite sandwich is too Jewish

• I need to come up with another sandwich -but it can’t be too expensive
• or too cheap
• guess I’ll pick the culture war chicken -time to blame my coworkers for being too woke.

“We don’t do that here. They hate gay people.”

So does the NYT. If you make up a story about how you got scolded because you came off as a bigot because you lied to avoid coming off as a nepo baby, at least pick a minority the NYT cares about, like landlords or secretaries of defense.

"Of course $19 is very expensive for a sandwich, so I only get it as a special treat."

There, I just fixed your problem without you having to endorse the homophobic chicken.

I often found myself asking questions like “Doesn’t all of this talk of ‘voter suppression’ on the left sound similar to charges of ‘voter fraud’ on the right?” only to realize how unwelcome such questions were.

These things that happen are the same

Love the idea of being snapped at like I was on the wrong side of the street in West Side Story

That sandwich name sounds like an ethnic slur

Ah yes what do the poors love to eat? Not the $19 sandwich from Bourgeois Food And Sons

My man is actively trying to become a Chapo reading series

Americans be like:

Oh yeah my favourite sandwich is the Chick-fil-A™ Spicy Pollo Surprise instead of just saying "spicy chicken sandwich"

???

Absolutely deranged.

"Waiter, could I please get some Hellmann's™ brand Real Mayonnaise and Grey Poupon™ brand Dijon mustard to go on my Tyson Foods® brand chicken sandwich and a glass of Minute Maid™ orange juice?"

Like you don't have to specify what chain your BLT comes from to give off the "I like bacon, lettuce and tomato together on bread" message across to someone.

If this happened when Chick-fil-A first got called out for this shit, I'd believe it. Libs were falling head over heels about how they didn't eat there. For like 3 months.

this never happened. i am prepared to believe a lot about the nyt (especially them being rank hypocrites who care a lot about the appearance of being bigoted but not any actual material harm done) but i disbelieve any anecdote by an atlantic writer sight unseen

The New York Times does fun little introduction games with candy and storytime about sandwiches because it's an adult daycare facility for people who've never had a single obstacle in their entire lives

https://web.archive.org/web/20240226125852/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/tom-cotton-new-york-times/677546/

Unpaywalled archive.

My Uncle actually works as a journalist for NYT (not joking), and he can confirm that this definitely happened (joking)

How the fuck does a sandwich cost 19 American dollars?

Looks like rats fleeing a sinking ship

If it's a thing that actually happened - why didn't everybody cheer at the end?

I didn't know the NYTimes wrote AITA posts on reddit

And then they started circling, shrieking, tearing bits of my flesh piece by piece, throwing their heads back and swallowing like birds

THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY

Not the politics, the chicken

No, I meant I don't like the homophobia, just when the sentient beings are killed for my tasty treat 😋

meat on sandwich

Into the gulag he goes

$19 for a decent sandwich at a restaurant is not all that crazy, especially for someone in NYC who *works for the "paper of record".

Heck even Panera's menu is mostly above $12 these days.

EDIT: I looked it up, and the exact same sandwich was $10.50 in 2010.