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Which items do you prefer the low-end form of? (1 Viewer)

People. I like most people but I'll take the blue collar person over the higher-class, pretentious humble-bragger any time. Those people exhaust me. 

 
All you can eat Korean BBQ. I feel gross and sloppy whether eating at a $13 spot or $29 restaurant.

 
Not a popular opinion, but I like cheap Aunt Jemima or store brand maple syrup over the real deal. 

 
Mr. Ected said:
The best way to solve this problem is to make it not an option. Just don't buy it! If it ain't there, you can't eat it! ;)

One of the benefits to my doing all of the grocery shopping in our house!!
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Well if I'm at a BBQ or something where the host has opted for American cheese, I'll take it.  Better than nothing!

I prefer Muenster on my burgers!

 
Gally said:
Wine.  I have no idea what I am doing with regards to wine so as long as I like the taste I really don't care if it is the cheap stuff.  You could give me a blind taste test and I probably pick out the low end stuff every time. 
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Yeah, this is a good one.  I generally keep my wine to under $15 per bottle unless it's a special occasion.  There are so many good wines for ~$11ish.

 
Hair products.  I buy Suave Mousse and have for decades.  $3 and it'll last me 5-6 months.  46, still have all my hair, hasn't greyed up yet.  Dance with the one who brung ya....

 
Gally said:
Wine.  I have no idea what I am doing with regards to wine so as long as I like the taste I really don't care if it is the cheap stuff.  You could give me a blind taste test and I probably pick out the low end stuff every time. 
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Ever try Black Box?  Literally a black box with the equivalent of four bottles in a pouch inside the box ...costs about $20-22.  I've struggled to find a favorite red wine for $12-18, so I've just gone back to the Black Box Pinot Noir.

 
General Malaise said:
Hair products.  I buy Suave Mousse and have for decades.  $3 and it'll last me 5-6 months.  46, still have all my hair, hasn't greyed up yet.  Dance with the one who brung ya....
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My sisters used that in the 80s. In a pinch I recall repurposing it as a lubricant and it not going well.  

 
tri-man 47 said:
Ever try Black Box?  Literally a black box with the equivalent of four bottles in a pouch inside the box ...costs about $20-22.  I've struggled to find a favorite red wine for $12-18, so I've just gone back to the Black Box Pinot Noir.
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I like the Black Box for whites.  Haven't found a good Rose yet.  

 
Nigel said:
Nothing says "I have zero regard for the #######s of my guests" like spooling up a roll of that one-ply, see-through, sorry excuse for tp. 
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As you might recall from the 10K thread: I stayed at an expensive Westin in National Harbor, near D.C., last summer.  The rooms were a bit small, but very well appointed ...except for the single-ply TP.  So before leaving, I grabbed some TP from the porta-potty along a nearby trail (while out running) and then went to the front desk later on when a couple managers were there along with a few of the staff.  I held up a few sheets of their TP and the sheets from the porta-potty and asked them whose was whose.  They had to think for a moment before making the (right) selection.  But ...point made.  They were very embarrassed.

 
tri-man 47 said:
As you might recall from the 10K thread: I stayed at an expensive Westin in National Harbor, near D.C., last summer.  The rooms were a bit small, but very well appointed ...except for the single-ply TP.  So before leaving, I grabbed some TP from the porta-potty along a nearby trail (while out running) and then went to the front desk later on when a couple managers were there along with a few of the staff.  I held up a few sheets of their TP and the sheets from the porta-potty and asked them whose was whose.  They had to think for a moment before making the (right) selection.  But ...point made.  They were very embarrassed.
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love it

 
Kraft Mac and Cheese over real/homemade stuff. The real stuff is super oily and seems to have less flavor. Maybe it is just because I only had Kraft growing up. 

 
huthut said:
Kraft Mac and Cheese over real/homemade stuff. The real stuff is super oily and seems to have less flavor. Maybe it is just because I only had Kraft growing up. 
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That is all on the person making the homemade mac&cheese.  If you don't spice it up or use flavorful cheeses then it can be bland.  That's chef error.....

 
I'm forgetting self-esteem on pretty women, too. 

Okay, that's pretty much right in the incel shoot-to-win bracket, I know, but is sort of funny...

maybe?  

 
Mexican food.  Not Taco Bell level but I have found that the food at an inexpensive Mexican restaurant is usually as good or better than high-end Mexican restaurants.

 
Snoopy said:
Hunt's canned spaghetti  sauce over the the fancy sauce in the glass containers.
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I'm not sure what brand we use as I don't make it (I'll cook but not pasta) but agreed on the concept.

Ilov80s said:
I know it's some kind of nostalgia but fresh McDonalds fries are the best there is. 
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They were. Then the health Nazis got involved. 

Wine. I'm completely happy with the gallon for $12 deal. 

 
Godsbrother said:
Mexican food.  Not Taco Bell level but I have found that the food at an inexpensive Mexican restaurant is usually as good or better than high-end Mexican restaurants.
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With the caveat of it being local, yep.

I'll take mine from the taco bus.

 
Godsbrother said:
Mexican food.  Not Taco Bell level but I have found that the food at an inexpensive Mexican restaurant is usually as good or better than high-end Mexican restaurants.
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every time Bill Clinton would campaign in Albq, he'd never fail to load up his plane with takeout from Garcia's Mexican Kitchen, the low-end kind of place Gary & you are talking about. the top NM restaurants tried to get him to switch, but that li'l rim o' grease around the styrofoam was what Slick Willie's wanted & got. Only thing i ever liked about him...

 
wikkidpissah said:
every time Bill Clinton would campaign in Albq, he'd never fail to load up his plane with takeout from Garcia's Mexican Kitchen, the low-end kind of place Gary & you are talking about. the top NM restaurants tried to get him to switch, but that li'l rim o' grease around the styrofoam was what Slick Willie's wanted & got. Only thing i ever liked about him...
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Garcia's is pretty good.  Whenever we fly out to ABQ, my wife leaves around 10 extra pounds under the 50 pound limit in the suitcase, so she can bring back 2-3 dozen tortillas from Garcia's to freeze for later.

 
Don Quixote said:
Garcia's is pretty good.  Whenever we fly out to ABQ, my wife leaves around 10 extra pounds under the 50 pound limit in the suitcase, so she can bring back 2-3 dozen tortillas from Garcia's to freeze for later.
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no doubt. that's why i loved the foodsnobs getting their flautas in a bunch about it. Garcia's, Molly's in Santa Fe and the abuelita kitchens of my first Hispanic gfs are what got me in love w NM cuisine in the first place 40 yrs ago and i've never liked it going gourmet at all. to be charged $25 for a Mexican entree when the entire cuisine is based on dirt floor ingredients, it's almost insulting. when i think of Burque, i think of those joints, steak fingers @ Mac's and green chilli cheesefries @ Bob's Burgers a LOT more than i do jicama or blue corn tortillas.

 
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General Malaise said:
Yeah, this is a good one.  I generally keep my wine to under $15 per bottle unless it's a special occasion.  There are so many good wines for ~$11ish.
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Yup. I rarely go even to $15 but that's mostly because we drink too much of it. Usually around $12. Used to be a bunch of options in the $10 range but they've all gone up. I'll still get a few bottles of Il Bastardo for $7.99 but not much else in that price range.

Box wine would be too dangerous for us. 

 
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wikkidpissah said:
no doubt. that's why i loved the foodsnobs getting their flautas in a bunch about it. Garcia's, Molly's in Santa Fe and the abuelita kitchens of my first Hispanic gfs are what got me in love w NM cuisine in the first place and i've never liked it going gourmet at all. when i think of Burque, i think of those joints, steak fingers @ Mac's and green chilli cheesefries @ Bob's Burgers a LOT more than i do jicama or blue corn tortillas.
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I’ve never been to Bob’s Burgers and Mac’s, but will have to check those out.  My usual burger places there are Blake’s or Frontier (also love breakfast at Frontier).  I could use some more for the rotation.

 
Don Quixote said:
I’ve never been to Bob’s Burgers and Mac’s, but will have to check those out.  My usual burger places there are Blake’s or Frontier (also love breakfast at Frontier).  I could use some more for the rotation.
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Mac's is probably more greasy nostalgia for 70s Albq than quality and the burgers @ Bob's were nothing special, but i'm typing w a tongue erection thinking about them chili cheesefries

ETA: the payoff to dates backinaday was usually getting a girl to help you see the dawn at the natural springs of the Jemez Mts or by driving to the Crest, getting freakydeaky in the crisp pre-dawn then racing back down to town once the sun was up there to see it rise AGAIN over the Sandias. You knew you was w a f'real Burque girl if you both wanted to stop @ Frontier for huevos rancheros or green chil stew BEFORE going back to your place. Frontier green chili was the perfect way to melt Peruvian crystal remainders from one's sinuses.

 
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wikkidpissah said:
Mac's is probably more greasy nostalgia for 70s Albq than quality and the burgers @ Bob's were nothing special, but i'm typing w a tongue erection thinking about them chili cheesfries

ETA: the payoff to dates backinaday was usually getting a girl to help you see the dawn at the natural springs of the Jemez or by driving to the crest, getting freakydeaky in the crisp pre-dawn then racing back down to town once the sun was up there to see it rise AGAIN over the Sandias. You knew you was w a f'real Burque girl if your both wanted to stop @ Frontier for huevos ranchers or green chil stew BEFORE going back to your place. Frontier green chili was the perfect way to clear Peruvian crystal remainders from one's sinuses.
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That's the name of my Gene Simmons tribute band.

 
Agree with cheap beer and on that note, a dive bar over some fancy place.   But that goes back to what someone else posted about prefer blue collar folks over rich people.   

 
General Malaise said:
Yeah, this is a good one.  I generally keep my wine to under $15 per bottle unless it's a special occasion.  There are so many good wines for ~$11ish.
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We are lucky with a market a block away, but the only time we leave the $7-8 range is when one of our regulars are the $5 weekly sale. 

 
Godsbrother said:
Mexican food.  Not Taco Bell level but I have found that the food at an inexpensive Mexican restaurant is usually as good or better than high-end Mexican restaurants.
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Nice one. Good street tacos for $1.25 are as good if not better than any sit-down restaurant.

 
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