
Instead, the reality is that "it's a form of industrially produced, high-calorie, low-cost, high-profit, non-nutritious food", says Kyla Tompkins, an expert in food studies at Pomona College, California. While it's true, she says, that there is cultural capital attached to knowledge of products like coffee, latte's core consumers are sleep-deprived working class people who use it as a stimulant. Likewise, the baristas who serve lattes are, typically, not exactly high-spending elitists.
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