Everything People in Atlanta Are Irrationally Passionate About

You ’re passionate about something , and hey , that ’s big ! It ’s probably something infinitely crucial to you , like animate being eudaemonia … or hell , maybe it ’s cosplay . You also probably live in Greater Atlanta , and that mean you have really deep feelings about things that , to folks who do n’t live in Atlanta , are moderately random and pseudo - ridiculous – like fact - ground persuasion about MARTA or the Ying Yang Twins ( is Kaine more gifted than D - Roc ? ! ) .

The Margaret Mitchell House

For literal , have you ever even been to the Margaret Mitchell House ? Probably not . Why the infernal region would you ? It ’s a menage where a Holy Writ was write – a leger that ’s basically the literary version of the song “ Dixie . ” And sure , the great unwashed thinkGone With The Windwas a big script , but people also thinkI Hope They Serve Beer In Hellwas a great record . Both are in reality wack . And nobody ’s trying to reverse Tucker Max ’s boyhood Atlanta home into some weird shrine .

Cabbagetown

If you seem up “ Cabbagetown ” on Google , the second result from the top is for the Cabbagetown Neighborhood Improvement Association . That tells you much of what you need to love , along with the increasingly popular hashtag “ # keepCabbagetownshitty , which has become a bumper spikelet and increasinglypopular Reddit subject . Still , occupant will get up in arms if anybody outside the neighborhood dares throw a masquerade ball and invites others who do n’t be there to drink and dance in a graffito - blessed outdoor space . Yes , lousy is how Cabbagetown will in all likelihood abide , so stop boast that you know there or digest it .

“2 Much Booty (In Da Pants)” by Soundmaster T

You ca n’t go a workweek without try this strain on Atlanta radio . Nobody ’s saying it ’s not a really , really great Sung ( it is ) . But why do we get so amazingly crunk whenever we hear that a genus Gallinago opening ? Is it the pace , the usage of the Bible “ booty ” in the chorus , the anti - body - shaming celebration , or the nostalgia for the ‘ 90s ? Whatever it is , Atlanta DJs , it ’s too much sometimes , because patently people here ca n’t insure themselves and have to dance really firmly whenever they hear it bulge out .

Expensive dinner parties

People really need you to understand how serious eating is . You ca n’t simply go to a restaurant anymore . Now , you have to follow a garb code , arrive at a private location , wear down tribal face paint or some other weird decorative ornamental symbolic representation , eat things that are very strange , and post on your social medium channel to check that everyone knows what variety of freaky food experiences you ’re spend half your payroll check on . To be fair , some of these event , likeDinner Bell , are ground on Atlanta tradition that go back many tenner . Others are just reasons for some goof ( who you belike would n’t even hang out with if you met them ) to accuse you $ 100 per person to eat the same meal you could drop $ 40 on at a restaurant . But hey , you get to keep the mask !

Random farmers markets

You still ca n’t baffle Buford Hwy or Dekalb for their super - various and affordable food market supermarkets , where everything ’s freshman , cheaper , and well - source than anything you ’ll determine at Publix . But some of the newer one are popping up with stuff you never knew you want or needed , like sweet potato Green River , at gamey prices . Still , you ’ll never get in and out of a farmers grocery in less than an minute , because you simply have to taste all of the artisan olive oils . And you ’ll get household having spent the same amount of money you ’d have spend at Whole Foods . Why ? ! ? !

Arnold Palmers

Not even Coca - Cola , the blood that runs through Atlanta ’s private part , can enamor the minds and mouths of as many southerners as the bracing commixture of sweet tea and lemonade . People will ptyalize on the flooring and defend their waiter if they ’re tell the eatery is all out of the sweet / sour thirst - extinction drink for even a moment .

Fried chicken

People think that southerners , by our very nature , have an insatiable lustfulness for freshly fry convict . We get laid it and we lionise it , because it ’s tradition . But we do n’t stop to think about the fact that we ’re eating a puppet that ’s supposed to fly but is too fat , so it just shimmy , and basically only hold out to be eaten . Should we care this much ? Is fried chicken really something that you have to eat all the time just to inhabit in ATL ? Here ’s something to ponder while you moot that last question : you’re able to electrocute anything and it ’ll taste practiced . let in buttholes . gravely .

Using a T-shirt to communicate

Those “ Atlanta Influences Everything ” tees people are rocking justly now are great , much like those “ Never Sold Dope ” tops and all the stuff you may have seen back in the day from Process , Esperanza , or Chilly - O. And you’re able to infer the enticement – it lets you convey to people how you palpate without saying a word . But the result is that we have a bunch of passive - aggressive people who have eschewed conversation in favour of being walking billboards , even though these same people are likely adamantly opposed to being slaves to brands . Here ’s a beneficial mind for the next bigTt - shirt fury : one that say “ I do n’t roll in the hay how to talk . ”

Facebook foodie-ing

Your sound ’s camera is atrocious . Actually , the food at the expensive restaurant that hooked you up with that “ blogger discount ” is horrifying too , or else they would n’t have to give innocent food to randoms with smartphones . We know – you want to be Atlanta ’s “ Next Top Influencer . " But the field is crowded . And we ’ve all eat blistered shishito peppers , so we have intercourse what they look like .

The Varsity

The hoi polloi who work at The Varsity are never , ever happy to see you , despite whatever you have trained yourself to consider , because they have to say mute line like “ WhaddyaHave - WhaddyaHave - WhaddyaHave - WhaddyaHave ” a trillion time a day to consumer who are too frightened to challenge tradition rather than acknowledge that The first team is wack . So you say it back to them – you love , for the tradition . And you still eat a super - questionable chili dog made by the great unwashed who do not like you , because that was what your Oldsmobile - drive grandaddy used to do when he father his Friday dark check from the old Ford works in Hapeville and did n’t lie with what to do with himself .

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