Blah blah... rich ... blah blah ... white. Those who've decided this is all about a privlidged demographic came to that conclusion, called it nasty, and left it at that. Epic fail. Look a little more carefully. In the last couple of decades, the population of the US has experienced a dramatic increase in obesity and related health problems. The content of our available food HAS CHANGED correlated with that. There are other factors, like suburban sprawl, but food content is a HUGE factor. What is cheap, quick, readily available, and produced in a global fashion, is reducing our lifespans in many cases.

Those of the cited and derided "upper middle class and beyond" who eat differently aren't impacted, and don't see a problem with the food supply. Why don't they see a problem? They don't consider this type of eating to be exclusive. And they're right. It is more expensive; it does take more time, and it is so much healthier.

Try this: Look at a packaged food product's advertised features / components. i.e. a can of chicken soup. Enumerate what you'd put in to re-create that dish. Then read the label. Do this again with something simple: a can/bag of roasted nuts for example. You'd probably say salt, nuts... oil perhaps. Now read the label.

Call it classist all you want. Then consider if those of means want / have longer life spans and better health. Is it all based on them having better doctors? Good health starts way before your doctor... Don't dismiss it; learn how you can participate and partake of the same! There's more at stake here than sustainable domestic business (which helps more than upper-middle-class types too).