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Two things that have been very relevant to me recently:
Car washes. If you want the best outcome, wash it yourself. If you're just trying to knock some grime off, the cheapest one will do. The finishing sprays don't last a week.
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.
I think you may have meant teetotaller
Huh. Cool stuff. Today I tee-totally learned something new.
Nice. Although someone only ever drinking tea does humour me. They're being a tea-totaller XD
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
Fair enough I can see that.
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.
He can bring his own then
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.
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.
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
Some people will absolutely know the difference.
Used to do this in college all the time... drink the good shit myself then bring the shit that tastes like paint thinner to the party in the same bottle. Just make sure you pour the first drink so no on realizes it's open already.
Bro it was college. You could've brought the vlad bottle and people would still drink it.
This is borderline KenM. I almost want to upvote you.