What do people think is fancy, but is actually tacky or trashy?
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a unique quality to the feeling of it's drive
I have to admit I'm skeptical, and not just because it sounds written by a marketing team.
Things like the subjective feeling of something are strongly socially determined. When we're told something is fancy or high quality we have a different and better experience of that thing.
As humans it's rarely possible to separate our experience of a thing from our judgements of the people and identities we associate with it.
Both things can be true though, bmw does have marketing which will effect our impressions of driving one but at the same time there are objective differences in quality between a 3 series bmw and say a Honda Civic that you will definitely notice when driving one.
You can argue the beemer is overpriced and that marketing had an effect but that doesn't eliminate the differences entirely.
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Food with gold leaf. It doesn't add to the taste, it doesn't add to the look, but rich people and wannabe alike love it because it has gold and they have trash taste. If i went fine dining and see a gold leaf covered food, imma send it back because it's aurum contaminated. And i said it as someone who won't ever set foot in fine dining restaurant.
Why is it an objectively trashy: it's a simplest way to appease those wealth chaser and showoff, yet it takes 0 effort to apply it and overcharging their food.
Saw a thing about the world's most expensive pizza ($2k+) the other night. Squid ink pizza dough, caviar, truffles, gold leaf, etc. It looked revolting.
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Most cars especially BMW, Cybertrucks, corvettes, cameros, Hummers. Chat gpt, caviar, phone ring tones, expensive weddings, store bought cakes/cupcakes, fake grass/colored rock landscaping, overpaying/over borrowing for higher education.
store bought cakes
All store bought cakes?
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I'm still holding my judgement on caviar. I assume there's a reason that it's so popular, and not just because it's expensive, which is to say that I think the people shelling out to eat it wouldn't do so if it tasted like fish ass.
I used to work in the seafood industry and I got invited to a seafood expo once. There were tons of vendors and since I'm super poor and not fancy, i ate everything. Figured I'd never get another chance. I ate so much caviar and roe that day.
It's fuckin' nasty. Every species and preparation I tried. Tbf I was at an expo, not a nice resturant, but also tbf, it was an expo, they were trying to market their best products.
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The Kardashains
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Making champagne bottles pop.
To quote one of my old sommeliers, opening a bottle of sparkling wine should be "as quiet as a nun's fart in Mass".
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Food with gold leaf. It doesn't add to the taste, it doesn't add to the look, but rich people and wannabe alike love it because it has gold and they have trash taste. If i went fine dining and see a gold leaf covered food, imma send it back because it's aurum contaminated. And i said it as someone who won't ever set foot in fine dining restaurant.
Why is it an objectively trashy: it's a simplest way to appease those wealth chaser and showoff, yet it takes 0 effort to apply it and overcharging their food.
wait till you figure out that some rich people like the fact it makes their shit gold flecked
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And gold leaf isn't even that expensive
A single leaf is so thin, that is costs only a little over a buck. The tiny piece of gold on your fancy food? Only a couple cents
But you can bet your ass that you will pay way more than that
wrote on last edited by [email protected]fine dining's price is loosely coupled to the ingredient cost for everything but the most expensive ones
Gold leaf is cheap yes, but they are paying for 'the experience'
Is it stupid? Yes
But not even close to the moderately stupid spectrum of human idiocy
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that was salt-baes thing, overpriced, overcooked food with a little gold.
and for some reason his forearm sweat...
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MAGA apparel and flags.
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I have had 2 BMW's, both 3 series. The feel of the road is something very different from all the other cars I have driven.
That is why I asked if this person had ever driven one. Its one thing to judge it because others think its popular, its another thing to experience and have an opinion based on that.
their steering wheels have a special feel to it, rarely have I felt it on other cars. They say you should be able to feel rolling over two stacked coins. IDK about that but the way you can feel the little things in the road while also not feeling the full impact of a pothole or something is really a truth.
I have never spent more then $15k to acquire one, so I am not suggesting you have to spend big bucks to get into the seat of one. But if you have the chance to test drive one, you should take it. You might have a full on different opinion afterwards.
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Making champagne bottles pop.
To quote one of my old sommeliers, opening a bottle of sparkling wine should be "as quiet as a nun's fart in Mass".
But...why? Popping the cork is fun and festive, and considering most people only have that experience a handful of times in their lives, why try to stifle that little joy?
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But...why? Popping the cork is fun and festive, and considering most people only have that experience a handful of times in their lives, why try to stifle that little joy?
You can buy a bottle of sparkling wine for $20.
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You can buy a bottle of sparkling wine for $20.
Even less, a bottle of niceish Prosecco costs like 10 USD here(European country with fairly high alcohol taxes). If you just want any sparkling wine, there are stuff down to like 7 usd.
