Feb
16
Breakfast with Luxirare (Recession Style)
Ikea food, what can I say? The only place that is less expensive than McDonalds. Ikea is probably one of the most powerful brands in the world, I’d have to say in terms of power, McDonalds takes the cake, but just imagine how many young struggling families Ikea has helped, from couples who have had their first kid, to the newly married…
Today I had to meet my landlord here, don’t know how we chose Ikea, but I love to have breakfast here. He is leaving for Dubai soon so we needed to tie up some loose ends. Everything is from my iPhone, I thought it would be way too strange to bring my DSLR to shoot arty photos of maple syrup dripping..Though I have endured humiliation at the fanciest of places to shoot photos for this blog…
Walking in, got here first, and saw an adorable, beautiful young girl with plates of food in front of her eating happily. She got the french toast sticks, I guess I didn’t need to look at the menu now.
Two coffees and breakfast, nice ambiance, comfortable chairs, and a friendly discussion with my landlord. Chill vibes, what more could I ask for?
Just when I thought it couldn’t get better…my eyes quickly glance at the bill. All that food and the total is the same price I pay for coffee at Starbucks. Total childish behavior on my part when I continue to support Starbucks nearly day in and day out.
Aside from buying overpriced coffee from Starbucks..my childish behavior continues sitting in this chair..If you want to know how I dressed in high school, this is it. Baggy track pants, long sleeve shirts, 6 inch platforms, if it was platform sandals I wore them with socks. If it was cold a sweater over it. Anyone who knew me in high school that reads this blog might have a moment of familiarity right now. What can I say? 10 years later and not much has changed. Looking at how I dressed, it makes sense that I wasn’t part of the popular clique. I just couldn’t wrap my head around wearing butt tight miss sixties jeans. I tried my best possible not to get any attention from boys. Baggy things tend to cover everything.
..Checking out, lady in back of me is buying french presses by the box full. Is she starting a cafe?? Jealous.
This will probably be the highlight of my day. Scanning the bar codes and waiting for the sounds to go off, so satisfying!
I think its neat and probably throws (narrow minded) people off at how high-end and luxurious your clothes and food posts generally are, even though you’re also a sucker for McD’s & good, cheap Swedish breakfast!
It’s all about balance!
Somehow to me, I find McDonald’s and vastly successful chain stores pretty luxurious too. Don’t you think that for them to be so largely ubiquitous, they would have to have gone through extremely tedious and rigorous experiments and brilliant innovations to ensure the most profitable and sustainable methods, not unlike what we see Luxirare offering? I find products of rigour and the thirst for excellence to be luxurious, because what can be more precious than time and effort put in!
will you come to london and be my BFF?
hail to the baggy sportswear wearers!
totally coool!
I wore my brother’s baggy sean john sweat pants. I wish I kept them, they were incredibly well made believe it or not.
-ps. totally random but your eyebrows look flawless.
I love eating at Ikea. Their $1 frozen yogurt cone is a must.
Yeah – sadly that’s not what they serve at the breakfast buffet at IKEA in Sweden. French toast sticks sounds delicious.
Not quite sure how, but you make IKEA food and track pants chic.
Step into Estherina’s World
yes to the high school familiarity! Sidenote: I had coworkers asking me what was so funny after I read the “butt tight miss sixties jeans” Ridiculous how on-point that comment is. Refer to the yearbook for the “typical wear” of our high school–pin straight hair, rzr cell phone, butt tight miss sixties jeans, and a northface.
Keep up the great work!
Angel,
Your blog/website is stunning, your persona delicious. If I had bothered to reproduce, you would be the perfect child. I hope your Mom is proud. I predict a very bright future with such talent.
OK, finished gushing.
Would you mind sharing the sunglass brand? You mentioned “real” Raybans don’t suit your face. I have the same issue, and at my age I need the glasses to maintain the cool.
Thanks a million.
Hi! I’ve been reading your blog for years now, and I want to start off by saying that I am a huge fan of your work. Your mind is absolutely incredible.
I just want to address the title of this post – I know most likely that you didn’t mean it to come off and sound this way, but my visceral reaction to the “recession style” wording was a very negative one. I think there’s a problem among those with privilege (myself included) where we tend to forget the hardships of those that are around us. People who jokingly call their style “homeles chic” or something of the sort, I feel, are in a way caricature-izing the plights of those who have lost their homes, just as blackface was usually done with harmless intentions but was actually incredibly demeaning towards African Americans and their history of subjugation in the US.
People have been hit hard in this recession, something that I probably don’t need to tell you, and I just ask that you chose your words carefully when talking about hardship, if anything just to be sensitive to the lives and experiences of your readership.
Thank you again for the excellent work that you do! My days always brighten when my RSS feed says that luxirare has updated.
Au contraire… I read the title and found it to be light-hearted. I’m not sure where you’re from, but it’s a very common thing in the boroughs of New York is for delis and pizza places to advertise their prices and lunch combos using the phrase “Recession Special” or “Recession prices”… I’m sure their intention is not to insult the middle-to-low class passer-by’s as those are their potential customers, they merely want to provide an affordable lunch and find that “recession” reads better than “cheap”. I’m not sure anyone would take it personally, too often I think the recession is over-sensitized, but I’m sure her intention was not to offend anyone…
Could you be any more ridiculous?! Comparing her use of the word recession to BLACK-FACE?! YOU are the one who needs to choose your words carefully. In fact, I would suggest you choose none at all as you’re obviously a fucking moron.
i think she just is being aware of what’s happening in the world and not poking fun at anything.. it’s just a cultural observation. it doesn’t mean anything in particular. just a note on what’s going on.
No, no, I don’t think that she meant anything negative by the title at all. I’m just wary of making light of this situation is all. I just moved into a working-class neighborhood, and I’ve been hit hard over the head with the varying forms of structural oppression and violence, and many of these folks do take offense with things like this. Simply because the phrase might be common doesn’t make it correct. I appreciate all your comments, and I realize that she is simply commenting on what’s happening in the world. I’m just politely stating my opinion that these words and phrases should be used with caution.
while I think that comparing class privilege to racial privilege is not quite accurate, I agree that the use of the word recession could be seen that way. I’m hoping that it was meant in the way the Nire has described, but it’s a bit different as the target audience for this blog is not the same. While I’m not offended by it, I definitely see how it could be seen as insensitive: luckily , and unlike some commenters, however, Luxirare always seems chill and open to new perspectives.
Can’t say I’ve ever eaten at IKEA, but that breakfast looks surprisingly good.
Loulou
I remember watching K dramas with girls wearing baggy pants under their skirts… That picture of you up there conjured up that image.
Can I have breakfast with you every day? =D
why do you look so chic in your high school outfit???? im not sure many ppl can work that. and btw, last time i was at a mall, aka yesterday, i found everything distasteful and bland and drab and boring bc you have completely altered my conception of what is “good-looking” and how i want to dress. way to be a tastemaker
now i want to be completely original and cool and in black and skinny, like you. instead of a generic mall rat. instead of all these girls and all the people in the world who are chasing this conception of what “good” is. thanks a lot. dont know where im going to find that/how im going to reconceptualize my outer identity.
jk! i love you. thanks for existing for our consumption.
sorry, i didnt mean existing for our consumption..
i meant.. thanks for you know, blogging, and being available, its like i can have a bit of luxirare or luxury even in my life. you know? like thanks for introducing us to this new conception of luxury.
and now that i hope to not chase that one conception of what is “good” or “pretty”, will i just be chasing this new conception of luxirare “good” or pretty? i hope that i can just be an individual, fully, once and completely. i think it’s not that easy..
do other people face this dilemna too? or are they just normal? i think im somewhere in between.
i’ve never eaten at ikea before! gotta try the next time im there!
Nice.
I like your high school style, as it would have been hard for me in France to have that laid back style during high school. I’m envying you.
Ikea is way too far from inside Paris for me trying to get there to eat anything. But now I’m craving McD. which I haven’t had in several years. Huh!
You are sitting on my kid’s chair!
I love ikea food. Lox and meatballs are my favorite
track pants are by far the best type of pants.
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I do love my trackpants….Where’s the sweater from?
i love your gabber mood of this day…and now I need an adidas suit
only you can make scrambled eggs with ketchup look this appealing
IKEA serves cheap food so you get enough energy to assemble their furniture.
Ooof, I already commented on another post but too bad I didn’t meet you in high school. So pretty . o .