I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren’t worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.

  • chillhelm@lemmy.world
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    Also beverages when hosting a party. No need to buy name brand when store brand is half the cost and will get drank the same anyway.

    People will drink it, but they may also remember. I have a cousin at whose house I turn tea-totaller, because the beer & wine they offer at parties is literally the cheapest stuff available and it’s fucking horrible.

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      1 year ago

      FWIW I was mainly talking about things like soda. The difference between store brand and name brand drinks is almost unnoticeable in taste but costs half as much. I agree that the cheapest beer is borderline undrinkable though

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        The difference between soda is very noticeable to me. Some store-brand sodas taste almost flat.

        I can’t tell much a difference between wines of the same type. They taste slightly different, but I can’t say which taste “better.”

        Cheap liquor seems “harsher” than more expensive liquor; even with vodka, which doesn’t really have a taste. The difference in taste of say, the regular Jim Beam and a barrel-proof bourbon is pretty noticeable.

        I’ve noticed no difference in 100% fruit juice by brand. Well, except for orange juice.

        Tea quality is very noticeable to me, but I’m a heavy tea drinker.

        Even different water brands have different tastes. But, as long as it’s not my tap water (which is very hard and smells like a swimming pool), I don’t really care.

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      I had this issue. I buy generics and had a couple friends literally complain that I didn’t have anything to drink. Less of an issue as we actually grew up, now less people bitch and mostly got over it.

      People live for those brands, though, man.

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        I make beer, and I take suggestions of friends of different styles (if left to my taste it would be English and Irish ales, and heavily hopped pale ales)

        I am disappointed when people suggest “something like VB?” (Victoria Bitter is a mass market beer tuned to be inoffensive. It’s boring.)

        Beer drinkers are as bad as wine drinkers for being fussy

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        For me it was kind of the opposite. I care less about getting shit faced and more about flavours. Getting buzzed is just a pleasant side effect.