What are some examples of fancier, expensive, boutique versions of things that are worse than the mass market version?

wait did someone just out themselves as a fluoride conspiracy theorist

xp I aim to please - we don't really have ushers here tho

I go to the cinema fairly frequently tho & can sit still for 2 hours without needing to chug strawberry laces constantly or whatever, because I am not six. I'm glad that the ppl who choose to do so pay inflated prices on the whole

we don't really have ushers here tho

well whoever's job it is to keep roaches from crawling across the projector lens like the tingler.

i unexpectedly stopped being able to eat popcorn without becoming violently ill around age 25 for some ominous reason so now i just drink sprite at movies. when i did get multiplex popcorn tho it was always gone before the end of the trailers. maybe that has something to do with it.

haircuts, sometimes

poutine

I think Coke and ketchup are the only two of these I can really get behind so far. Being a snob is more fun for me than being a reverse snob.

yeah, i bought a fancy poutine last week, it was a mess

i would extend to brunch in general: low-end cheap brunch = good, high-end cheap = good, then things get incrementally worse the more you spend

brunch is a great pick.

I'm in favour of banning cinema popcorn at any movie below a certain volume threshold since seeing Solaris. It's okay at King Kong or whatever, but some movies should not have to compete to be heard over nonstop popcorn munching.

I must have posted this before, but the boutique snack at my local arthouse is WASABI PEAS. Like well done, you have found the snack that is not only crunchier than popcorn, it's louder than literally all snacks. Dried fucking peas, my god. Let's just go the whole hog, like, I'll have one for last year at marienbad and some m&ms and a fucking vuvuzela

I've had some pretty great artisanal/boutique ketchup, though the difference in quality between it and mass produced ketchup isn't as big, as stuff like bread, popcorn, chocolate ... many things ... but the fancy (lol) ketchup is no worse than the store brand "fancy ketchup" at the supermarket.

fancier version tends to be not as good as the cheaper version: fried chicken

Strongly disagree with that one.

peanut butter

Car audio systems.

I don’t know what it is, but my Toyota Echo’s sound is so much better, punchier, and more fully-defined than what I’ve heard from fancier systems.

cats
dogs

peanut butter cups

fancier version tends to be not as good as the cheaper version: fried chicken

Is there a flouride conspiracy? If so, I'm unaware. I thought it was well established and known that ingesting flouride is bad. Then again, I use activated charcoal toothpaste that stains my sink black, yet leaves my teeth sparkly white. Anyway, back to topic, I'll say most vinyl pressed these days is no better than or inferior to the digital source. Plus, LPs are like $25-40! I still buy CDs tho.

Hot sauce, too. I prefer Crystal (under $2 a bottle) to most probiotic, small batch, whatever artisan types.

Consider me dumb, but isn’t activated charcoal too abrasive for the tooth enamel?

I don't know. I hope not. It was an impulse buy at the co-op. On my second tube and doing fine.

Is flouride American for fluoride?

I like Bud and Coors but to say there aren't like hundreds of really good craft beers (most of which just have a couple completely different taste and purpose) is some contrarian bullshit

and there are craft beers that try wacky ingredients and flavors but also 80% of the market is pretty down the center IPAs, Porters and ales that are not particularly adventurous

The best cranberry sauce is the canned-shaped glop

Healthcare

Is there a flouride conspiracy? If so, I'm unaware. I thought it was well established and known that ingesting flouride is bad.

lol

I use charcoal to make draw murals of communist utopias, then brush my teeth with fluoride.

Shampoo, moisturizer, face cleansers, that kind of stuff

I like Bud and Coors but to say there aren't like hundreds of really good craft beers (most of which just have a couple completely different taste and purpose) is some contrarian bullshit

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, November 12, 2017 5:09 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh totally, but the worst craft beers are literally undrinkable results of production mistakes that bud and coors will never make, and they hit the market with a craft markup.

and does anyone still think Advil or Bayer or Tylenol are superior to the generic or is it just my mom

And lol paracetamol tbrr

lol

Fluoride is a known toxic substance, so, yes ingesting it is bad. If you look at the instructions for using fluoride toothpaste, they specifically tell you to spit it out and swallow as little as possible. Fluoride toothpaste is not recommended for children too young to understand how to spit it out.

As for fluoride in water, the theory is that the amounts of fluoride ingested via treated water are minimal enough to be harmless to one's system, or else the harm done is small enough that the benefits outweigh the harm. The same was once thought true of lead in gasoline and paint. That turned out to be wrong. Fluoride is still innocent until proved guilty, but this approach is not a guarantee of innocence.

and does anyone still think Advil or Bayer or Tylenol are superior to the generic or is it just my mom

And lol paracetamol tbrr

― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Sunday, November 12, 2017 5:45 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's just your mom

Big branded clothing obv

and does anyone still think Advil or Bayer or Tylenol are superior to the generic or is it just my mom

OK this one is just consumer dumbness. Theyre all paracetamol. The brand matters not. Doesnt stop some brands re-branding stuff though. In Aus recently some co got pulled up by the ACCC for selling all these differently boxed paracetamols for "arthritis", "period pain", "Migrane" and they were like $5 more than the regular one in the same brand. All of them were just regular old 500mg paracetmol tablets.

GENERICS ARE GOOD.

Have we said trainers/sneakers yet? As in the difference between these £400 designer trainers and a pair of Adidas

Well that applies I think to most clothing dunnit. Unless its like hand-tailored by tibetan monks or something.

I think I started a thread on that concept but I don't think it's quite what this thread is dl?

Ooh another one is fish and chips in the UK. Fancy places that charge for ketchup sachets and stuff give small portions and the food is no better than your local shop

toilet paper

"boutique" maybe no difference but there is a biiiig difference within the supermarket shelf offerings between the cheapest stuff and the priciest

and does anyone still think Advil or Bayer or Tylenol are superior to the generic or is it just my mom

I don't see a difference in this case but Advil and Tylenol are nothing if not mass-market.

And, like, with poutine, are you guys actually saying that A&W is better than chipwagons or casse-croutes or are we comparing to some sort of wacky $15 poutine with kale and lemongrass added? Because I'd probably be with you in the latter case but it's more a case of winning by default.

random late night poutine at la belle province > some fancy version at a restaurant with table service

i’ve never had canadian fast food poutine outside of quebec so this mcdonalds/a&w/whatever having poutine concept remains foreign to me

Oh yeah, totally. I thought "mass market" = New York Fries/A&W as opposed to La Belle Province but you're right that what I'm comparing it to is more small business/street food than 'fancy, expensive, boutique'. I do agree that fancied up expensive versions of things like poutine and tacos are wrong enough that the fast food version is preferable.
xp

You can get A&W poutine at ONRoute stops all over the 401!

Electric guitar.

Theyre all paracetamol.

Hate to quibble but this is not right. In the US, Advil is a brand of ibuprofen, Bayer is a brand of aspirin, and Tylenol is a brand of acetaminophen (paracetamol).

Those are all pain relievers, but they're different drugs, and they may have different uses, different warnings, different risks, and different levels of effectiveness for different sorts of pain.

I agree that there's no interesting difference between generic ibuprofen and brand-name ibuprofen. or generic and name-brand acetaminophen. But it doesn't follow from that that ibuprofen and acetaminophen are the same thing.

But! The drugs aren't the same. People who drink a lot should probably steer clear of acetaminophen because it has been said to cause liver damage in heavy drinkers. Low-dose aspirin, while useful for heart ailments, might not be great for someone with a fever, particularly a kid, because of a (probably very slight) risk of Reye's syndrome.

(Oh and while Advil, Motrin, and store-brand ibuprofen are identical chemically speaking, I still think the coating on Advil tablets is tastier.)