From the same issue of Cool News of the Day referenced in the previous post, here’s another luxury category they’ve identified:
These days, at least in Geoffrey’s neighborhood, goatskin gardeners would be appalled by anything less than Smith & Hawken
brand "implements … even these have lost a little cache lately. The
real status tools are made by a Dutch concern called Sneeboer &
Sons, sneeboer.com. They are
stainless steel and hand forged, and you pay a premium for them that
you would for a Lexus." Of course, as Geoffrey points out: "I believe
my dirt will not notice whether it is being turned by a True Value fork
or a Sneeboer." Ha! Oh, but about that dirt — it’s not dirt, actually.
It’s soil. And for fertilizer, well, it "must have passed through some
creature’s large intestine — or have been composted from organic
material," available commercially as "MooDoo", "ZooDoo", and "The Real Poop."If that’s too pedestrian, you can spring for some Peruvian Seabird Guano or Indonesian Bat Guano
— at $4 a pound. How long before Starbucks is selling this stuff? Then
there’s the matter of the seeds: "A few packages of Burpee’s best, burpee.com,
bought at the local fuel and feed, might have been all right for your
parents’ generation, but they just won’t do now," writes Geoffrey, who
went online to order heirloom tomato seeds called "Brandywine from
Johnny’s Selected Seeds, johnnyseeds.com, in Winslow, Maine.
Methinks armageddon is upon us.
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