I find the things that Dan considers 'fancy' both hilarious and tragic. If these are the things in the entire sum of human experience that are fancy then he must live right at the bottom. On the other hand, it's hilarious to see someone with completely different experiences and value judgements. So, lets make a list! I'll start off...

• Boxers with buttons on the front
• Any wine

I feel like it would be quicker to list things he doesn't think are fancy.

@mister_v: You might be right, but I want to be able to remember the specific examples.

I wish I was so easily impressed in life :C

I would save a lot of money and wouldn't be disappointed and bored nearly as often.

Plates

I didn't know boxers didn't come with a button.

What's the crown prince of Monaco doing posting on a videogame forum?

He's not above (below?) sous vide, and those sound prrrretty fancy to me.

@ripelivejam: Except for the part where he's Sausalitoing stuff and then re-freezing it.

The avoidance of wine is the actual tragic part, though. You don't need to be a connoisseur to realize why it's better than beer (because the occasional craft beer is great, but most beer tastes just north of piss).

Prescription glasses?

@andrewb: Except beer is delicious and wine tastes like sour grapes.

I hate both. I only drink cider, if I drink. They're completely different tastes so you can like one and not the other... or not like both in my case.

Wine tastes like shit, even 'nice' wine is barely tolerable.

You're both wrong (and right). Wine and beer are both delicious.

@droop: You're all wrong. Beer and wine are both disgusting.

They're no single malt, but I think that's a bit unfair. At least to good beer and wines. Not the stuff Dan drinks, obviously.

Vegetables...

Except he's not easily impressed with "fancy" things, he hates them with a passion for no reason other than that he's a "cool guy" not a "fancy guy."

Oh you mean the Sausalito Maker? :D

Wrapping meat in plastic for freezing..

@amafi: I'm not much of an alcohol drinker at all, but every beer and wine I have ever had have been 100% terrible. Maybe I've tried the wrong stuff, but this has been my experiences so far.

Are you saying that to Dan, a classy night is one spent in button-up boxers with a box of wine?

@toowalrus: This is correct, and it's why Dan annoys me so much. He doesn't say fancy like its a good thing, it's a term of derision for him. The same way he calls people nerds for liking Lord of the Rings or dorks for liking anime. He's too busy being a bro drinking bud lites and being in bars for all that shit, he's a man god dammit.

dan is ignorant

but in the harmless dumb way so its more funny than anything else

vienna sausages.

Every other type of cheese besides American.

I picture him regarding beer in a bottle a tad on the fancy side - and beer in a bottle that's not brown? He might not even believe you!

I'm in.

He made Hot Pockets in the oven once. That was apparently "fancy".

Toilets, condiments, plates, pants, hats, Sausalito, basic culinary skills, signs that say "No shirt, no shoes, no service", Olive Garden, any fast food place with seating, that WWF cookbook that J.R. did, J.R. himself, any music not consisting of guitarist/bassist/drummer/vocalist, Salad Shooters, public swimming pools, the works of R.L. Stine, turducken, and the Double Down chicken sandwich.

(I say all of this with love in my fancy-ass heart. Dan is great)

24 hour time judging from the CDI strem

Dan is ignorant. But at least he is committed to being the person he is and isn`t a hypocrite. Also he admits when he is wrong which is more than you can expect from most people. I like him, even if he annoys me when he talks about something he considers "fancy".

PS.: Also good beer is good and so is good wine. That does not include budweiser and buckfast.

On the podcast the other week Dan saying saying Buckfast sounded a bit too fancy was hilarious. As someone from Glasgow, Buckfast is the poller opposite of fancy.

Wasn't there an Art museum that he thought was a 'fancy guy thing'?

If you can't buy it in a rural, southern Wal*Mart, it's fancy. And even then, those fancy folk have infiltrated the sanctity that is Amurica, Wal*Mart and have introduced things like Dijon Mustard into the fine walls of Wal*Mart.

Drake doesn't think so. He's convinced Dan will doom us all and destroy the world.

Which...I'm not willing to rule out.

Any museum, and by extension I'm guessing he thinks paintings are fancy.

I think it's pretty obvious he's playing up his persona there. It's pretty apparent that he's fully aware that his tastes and hobbies are just as nerdy as something like watching anime. Not that he's actually open-minded enough to go outside his comfort zone and experience it himself, but you could say the same about a lot of the Giant Bomb staff.

@gaspower: What about the Savio Vega machine?! Dan has made the site so much better.

If it's not for "dorks" or "cool guys," it's fancy.

Anything outside of these three things probably just doesn't exist in Dantown.

i love that he can neatly put things in his life into 3 categories. i hope one day i can be as cool of a guy as Dan. :')

Flip flops and jorts maybe.

Actually completely university properly.

As someone that had to actually work hard in university that story was sort of offensive to me.

Walmart is an "American Institution", so does that mean K-Mart, Shopco and Target are fancy?

@sterling: No one - not even Dan - thinks K-Mart is fancy.

Did you know an anagram of daniel ryckert is dryer lint cake, which sounds suspiciously like something Dan would make, right.

Carpet on floors

I don't have anything to add to this list but I think David Letterman's cameo in Cabin Boy is Dan's cinematic equivalent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X8istCTeQE

@bigsocrates: hahaha!

@oscar__explosion: Beer is definitely an acquired taste. Not saying it could be for everyone if they stuck it out, but very few people enjoy beer at first. Beer is my jam now, but for a long time in my late teens/early 20's I found it absolutely gross. Now I enjoy them.