Which Hipster Food Trend Matches Your Personality?

By: Zoe Samuel
Estimated Completion Time
3 min
Which Hipster Food Trend Matches Your Personality?
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About This Quiz

Hipsters, as we know them today, began in the 1990s. At first, the trend was seen as an evolution of the retro obsessions of the 1990s, like the return of 1970s fashion, only the hipster focus seemed more fixated on the 1980s and 1950s. This subculture has had plenty of years to evolve, and it has affected the cultures of everything it touches, from tech to art to food.

Hipsters have popularized dietary trends as unique as their beard styles. From the food trends of the 1980s (the infamous juice cleanse) to the thoroughly contemporary (avocado toast) to the futurist throwback (paleo) hipsters have put their spin on food and changed the way menus are set up from Park Slope to Cupertino.

Of course, no two hipsters are the same. Hipster culture includes hipsters of all shapes and sizes and styles. Some hipsters prefer to wear simple clothes with ironic messages printed on them, while others go for a specific theme like retro video games, or simply "lumberjack." Being a hipster is a mutable concept, one that allows the same freedom of expression as cooking, and offers us a window into the other hipster choices hipsters make.

Answer a few short questions for us, get for a brief ride through Williamsburg on your fixie bike with us, and we'll tell you what hipster food trend is for you!

How actively wacky are you?
I'm not wacky.
I'm wacky in subversive ways.
I'm a bit wacky.
I'm so wacky!

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What is the name of your improv team?
Skinny Genes
Kraft Bier
Threepee
Gryffindor

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How much are you into the ironic combination of things?
Not at all
It tickles me a bit.
I live for that.
I prefer to stick with a theme.

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Do you think life can be improved through technology?
Make every device "smart"
Simplify things
Combine useful things
Make everything more "me"

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How do you approach the word "elegant" in your personal style?
Simple color scheme
Combine as many things into as few things as possible, like
Fewer objects
I don't!

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What is the overarching theme to your hipsterdom?
I'm almost a goth.
I cherry pick things from different cultures.
Treat every problem like a nail.
I'm as "me" as possible.

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Do you enjoy appropriating things from cultures different from yours?
No, not so much.
I prefer to think of it as an homage.
Only if they are delicious!
I'm pretty ecumenical about these things.

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Do you think the best things are a combination of opposites?
No, I think the best things are all one way!
Yes!
No, there should be some similarity.
Sometimes

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How would you describe your belt buckle?
Blackened steel
It's made of bamboo.
It's a wooden laminate.
It's a Nintendo controller.

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Which video game system is the best one?
PS4
X-Box
PC
Sega Genesis

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What is your trouser situation?
Boot cut
Skinny jeans
Cargo pants
Shorts

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What glasses do you wear?
Ray Bans
Warby Parkers with the lenses removed
Aviators
Rimless Hugo Boss frames

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How do you style your facial hair?
The full Hammurabi
Carefully groomed stubble
Handlebar mustache
Ham hocks

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What is the name of your synth band?
Omega 3
Out of Qui
Pezla
Monocoque

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What haircut do you sport?
Short back and sides
Curtain cut
Man bun
Ponytail

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What is written on your current t-shirt?
Nothing, it's just black.
An ironic quote
A brand of beer
A Tab logo

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What sort of tie do you wear?
Black
Plaid
Piano
Bowtie

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What sort of movies do you watch?
Old black and white classics
Italian Neorealism
French New Wave
Disney animation

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What kind of shoes do you wear?
Black boots
Brown wingtips
Vintage sneakers
Modern Keds

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What socks are you wearing right now?
None
Tabi socks
1980s style athletic socks
Mismatched dress socks

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What sort of winter outerwear do you don in the cold?
A black great coat
Many layers of wool
A lined leather jacket
Shorts

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What sporty clothes do you prefer?
Matching workout clothes
Japanese baseball jerseys
Track suit
Harry Potter quidditch outfits

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What kind of music do you listen to?
Industrial music
K-pop
Ska
Fusion Jazz

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What kind of computer do you use?
A brand new Apple, in black
An Apple with a Japanese keyboard
A second hand Apple
An Apple I've covered in stickers

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What's your favorite TV show?
"Burn Notice"
"Brooklyn Nine Nine"
"Great News"
"Care Bears"

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What phone do you use?
iPhone X
iPhone 6S
iPhone 7
iPhone SE

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How would you describe your neighborhood?
Old industrial
It used to be rough.
It's mostly immigrants from Eastern Europe.
It's so cool.

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What have you named your growler?
Cujo
Hachiko
White Fang
Falcor

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What's your favorite book?
"The Prince"
"The Hagakure"
"If Chins Could Kill"
"The Cat In The Hat"

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What philosopher do you like best?
Marcus Aurelius
Takuan Soho
Aristotle
Mister Rogers

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