bougie

“I’ve always been a foodie, I just always been bougie, I’ve always been opinionated. And I’m always gonna talk my s–,” says White.

When seeing a play in downtown, Angelica Reyes, a teacher at Santee High School, admitted she was expecting a more “white and bougie” looking space — instead, she said, “It looks like brown people actually created this.”

“When people find out what I do, they think I work with bougie people all day,” registered nurse injector Lindsey Kincaid of New Leaf Restorative Medicine—located not in a “festooned marble apartment building” along a “leafy stretch of Park Avenue,” but in a nondescript brick medical building a half mile from my go-to grocery store where I live in Asheville, North Carolina—told me, “but it’s everyday people and everyday guys coming in to get freshened up.”

On Sundays, we like to take my son to the Polo Lounge because he’s bougie.

I know some people say it’s this bougie grocery spot, but I’ve actually been going there for years before it was even popular.