Dr. Pepper.
It’s the only thing I can think of that has tons of copy-cats but not one of those copy-cats comes even remotely close to replicating the original.
Fellow Dr Pepper enjoyer here! 😃 same here, it just has such a specific and indescribable taste and I’ve yet to drink anything that is even remotely close to the flavour of Dr Pepper
Barbeque water
Did you know that Dr Pepper was once marketed to also be drunk hot - a bit like mulled wine? Search for “hot Dr Pepper” on YT and prepare to look at your drink in a whole new light.
I still haven’t gotten over the loss of the original Mr Pibb flavor
The prices have become insane, but I will never cheap out on toilet paper. This is a Charmin household gdi.
Also JIF peanut butter, and Hellmann’s mayo.
get yourself a butt showerhead or a bidet
When it goes on sale at Costco, it’s just like Christmas
blasting shit from ass It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Paper towels. Nothing quite compares to bounty.
Botox. I got paralyzed from the waist up. Everyone calls me Riverdance now.
Mountain Dew. Fuck Culver’s and any other restaurants switching to Coke products
Plastic food storage bags, at least since I saw this: https://lemmy.world/post/13153346
Mmm, marinated chicken with a pinch of PFAS.
The solution here isn’t to buy brand name, it’s to not buy plastic bags. Put your stuff in hard sided Tupperware or old pasta jars. Brand name plastic bags probably have just as many ptfas.
Shoes. You don’t end up saving money and it’s not worth the pain. I tried for years back when I couldn’t afford a thing and concluded that there’s simply no such thing as cheap good shoes.
Damn right. My backpack is >25 years, my jacket is >40.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
Exactly. I’m cheap but won’t buy cheap shoes. First they are a slip hazard that will cost you in pain and medical bills. Secondly, they don’t last for shit and are uncomfortable. Also, they make your feet smell bad.
My expensive shoes last so they end up being way cheaper.
Chocolate. Really cheap, off-brand chocolate is horrific, waxy, and has some weird aftertaste, like mint when it isn’t supposed to be, or ketchup (for real).
Really cheap, off-brand chocolate
Who in 2024 is still buying Palmer’s? How does this brand still exist?
Easter.
Palmer makes enough chocolate bunnies to sustain them for the rest of the year, and no one cares about the quality of chocolate given to a 5 year old.
Cream cheese. If it’s not Philadelphia, it just isn’t quite right. I’ve tried every other brand, and I’ve, so far, always been disappointed.
I’ve had good luck with Aldi
Whole Foods cream cheese is great for bagels but Philadelphia is the one for cheesecake, the only one for cheesecake.
I had knockoff coco pops once and they tasted like cardboard
Generic Froot Loops are usually trash too.
Ketchup is always Heinz and mayo is always Kewpie .
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