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Well, it had to happen. NOTE: The Voice credits someone named “David Camp” for the illustration of Kurtis Blow. The illustration is in fact by Ross MacDonald. There is no one involved in The Rock Snob*s Dictionary named David Camp-with-a-C. Though “David Camp” would’ve made a good name for a sub-Jobriath glamster. April 20, 2005 More Rock Snobbery »
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Stone fruit. The large-pitted fruits of the prunus genus, among them peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots and cherries; exalted by Fruit Snobs for their sensual juiciness and delicacy as compared to hardier fruits like apples and pears. The received Snob wisdom is that most Americans have never properly experienced stone fruits in their ideal ungassed, unshipped, unhybridized state, in which they are so succulent and dribbly that eating them qualifies as an erotic experience. In the tumid fullness of the August night, we feasted on just-picked white peaches, the most luscious of stone fruits, their effluvia streaming down our heaving, perspiring chests.