What do you refuse to get generic versions of?
diet Dr Pepper. Maybe diet Dr Shasta if it’s all they have
I used to have a friend who was hooked on Diet Dr. Thunder (walmart brand I think). I asked why not Dr. Pepper and he said “it doesn’t have the same artificial metallic zing!” lol
Diet Dr Pepper is incredible and the only thing I prefer the diet version over the regular flavor.
Have you tried Dr Pepper zero? Tastes even more like regular Dr pepper than diet Dr pepper. Lacks that sort of sharp taste many diet sodas have.
Dawn dish soap is simply unbeatable
This was my answer dawn is the shizz
We ran trials in my middle school home economics class on various popular dish soap brands, and at the time (23 years ago) Palmolive absolutely blasted the shit out of every other brand, Dawn included. So my wife and kid now ride or die with that brand. It’s green, too…
It smells and feels awful, though.
That’s what Consumer Reports concluded as well, when they independently bought and tested all the brands.
Dawn doesn’t seem to dry out my hands like Palmolive or every other dish soap. I think they all work good enough but I hate the way they make my hands feel.
Interesting. I have a huge jug of Palmolive at home because it was the cheapest dish soap. Didn’t expect it to also be the best. I’m curious, what did you measure to determine that it was the best one?
I don’t remember precisely what properties we scored it on, but we had cooked a very messy/crusty/greasy meal of some sort, and afterward we washed the pans with two or three leading dish soaps. I think Joy was the third. Anyway, Palmolive seemed to perform the best overall at cutting through grease and grime in fewer passes. I know there were other aspects to it, but it was just too long ago to recall. I never forgot how impressed I was with Palmolive, though. And it’s green!
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Game console controllers. Miss me with that flimsy shit.
Except the Xbox Series X controller. That thing’s a nightmare. I use my old One controller for that.
What’s wrong with the series x controller? I bought one for my pc when my xbox one controller died. I haven’t really used it loads yet to be fair, but it seems fine to me. I preferred the +style dpad on xbox one but other than that it feels basically the same to me.
It’s extremely loud. Once someone tells you about the loud click that every button press makes, you can’t unhear it.
Sorry.
Haha well then fuck you in advance I guess
Interesting. I still use the 360 controller on my PC because that thing is a tank. Basically indestructible. But my One controllers are garbage. The plastic was so badly formed I got aftermarket grips because it was constantly pinching my hands. It also feels like I could twist it in to pieces with by hand. The Series X controller fails to live up to the 360 but it feels significantly more solid and the pieces at least fit together.
I do feel I could break my xbox controller easily if I twisted it. It’s got some heft but not much. The 360 controller did feel a bit more solid.
The series x controller is also nice. Disturbingly light but I appreciate that it’s good for long sessions to have a light controller. It’s just the damn button sound. It makes a nasally little twing-click sound each time the button is pressed. Drives me nuts.
Levis. Cheap pants are never worth it, the 501 is always in style and perfect.
I usually wear Levi’s 511 but they’ve been going down in quality over the last 10 years. Newer pairs didn’t last nearly as long as old pairs. Sizing is inconsistent now too. I’m looking for a better brand in the same style…
511/512 last years for me.
Ironically, the next time I am in the market for jeans, I will be specifically avoiding Levis due to their inconsistent sizing. I have owned probably 15 pairs of the same cut in the same size, but some are too big and some are too small. I can never know until they get here (brick and mortar stores never have my size, so I must order online).
I’ve never had that happen, within the same type. I had some loose-fit Levis 568 which were very different, but the 501s never change. Just switched from 40w to 38w, got exactly the size change I expected.
Maybe they fixed it? I remember having this issue years ago but recently they seemed more consistent (or I was just lucky)
I have had this issue as recently as one year ago. Half of the ones I ordered fit perfectly, half I couldn’t even button. All the same size. I went online to find many people with the same complaint, and even videos of how they manufacture their jeans and why it happens. It was the last straw for me. I got fed up with sending my jeans back every time.
The Pilot 30000 unchanged for millenia because it’s the perfect writing utensil. Well, unchanged other than them adding blue and red ink versions.
The Parker jotter for me
I’ve had the same stainless steel Parker jotter for over 20 years. I love it.
You should try some Uniball Jetstreams
Pilot is king
Had a generic refill in one of my zebras and holy crap was that crap. I could not reliably get it to write off a cold start. And it was fresh, just constantly getting stuck.
Uni Jetstream.
Nutella
Edit: I am FLABERGASTED at how many people disagree, I genuinely thought this was obvious, pls recommend anything you prefer to nutella (and whether it’s more or less expensive)
The really fancy stuff (in Germany, don’t know if it exists somewhere else) is Samba. Nutella is just sweet slime in comparison
I’ve never had Samba or any other brand of chocolate spread, but I agree Nutella tastes like chocolate slime. It’s as if they melted (vomit flavored) Hershey bars down into a spread.
Googled it, never seen it around unfortunately
I think ebl supermarket has it, but yeah it’s a little hard to come by sadly
Nah, there’s stuff out there that’s better. Just try out a few.
Nutella is the holy one! There’s other good stuff and I don’t say Nutella is better, it’s just in a one-and-only category: if you want Nutella, you buy Nutella, if you want some chocolate cream, you buy what you like best
I get that, although Nutella has gotten worse in my opinion since they increased the milk powder content relative to the hazelnut content a few years back. So even Nutella isn’t really Nutella anymore in my opinion, therefore I can just as well buy something with more hazelnut centered flavour.
I am one of the Nutella buyers but even so I would mention that the flavour varies wildly amongst different countries to the point that I now can say I like it from very specific places. Just thought I’d mention that each of us could actually have a slightly different version and not like it as much.
Ah, that would explain some things. Thx.
Forget the name but one with the squirrel on top is very good.
one with the squirrel on top
Maybe you’re thinking of Nutino?
Interesting, that looks good too, but no that’s not the one. I looked it up it’s Nocciolotta.
Aldi has a really tasty version that our whole family prefers.
Aldi is US only I think unfortunately
Aldi is German.
In Germany we have Nudossi which has less sugar and a lot more hazelnut. There’s a variation without palm oil so this is what Ive been buying instead of nutella.
i started to buy kraft instead of nutella. just as good but sunflower oil instead of palm
I’ll try that, thanks
Stuff a certain company or organization can simply do that others cant
- Fedora
- GrapheneOS + stupid Pixel phones
- Coreboot laptop, whatever brand
- actually sustainable products
- some Bike components but if I find something better here I go!
1 and 2 are BS
Ketchup for sure. There is a hierarchy of quality, and store-brand is the bottom rung.
And the brand is Heinz, right?
Right you are!
I’d really like to know why all types of off-brand ketchup taste like ass.
I think it’s because the more expensive brands actually use more tomatoes. The cheaper the brand, the more additives!
Butter. Kerrygold is simply the best.
Would you say it’s better than all the rest?
Oh, better than anyone!
Soda, chips, candy, etc. If I’m gonna buy it, I’m buying the good one. I’ve tried many different off/store brand peanut butter cups, and they’re always fucking horrendous.
Surprisingly, frozen pizza is the opposite. The store brand ones are really good (at least the ones I get at Shaw’s and Market Basket). Meanwhile, I’ve payed much more in order to try out the big name brands. They are usually smaller, lower quality, and taste worse than the store brand ones that cost nearly half as much.
Kroger salt and vinegar chips tho
i got a bootleg version of vans slip-on (aka vans asher) and in less than a year they’ve got destroyed already, it looks like the sole is about to come off the shoes themselves
i got a bootleg version of vans slip-on (aka vans asher) and in less than a year they’ve got destroyed already, it looks like the sole is about to come off the shoes themselves
The non-bootlegs do the same thing. Crap quality all around.
yeah they’ll do it eventually too but hopefully at least they’ll resist more that a year
Computer hardware
which brands do you trust for GPU heatsink+board (not chip) manufacturers? there’s so many to choose from and I don’t know who to trust.
I personally trust Asus, EVGA (Rip), Gigabyte, Palit, PNY, Sapphire and XFX when buying graphics cards.
My current card is a Geforce GTX 1060 6GB from Asus that I bought in 2017, and it hasn’t skipped a beat.3A
Fisherman’s friend cough drops. They’re not the tastiest cough drops out there, but they fucking work.
These and “Sucrets” - for when you throat hurts and you want novacaine in tablet form.
Source: professional singer. These two have saved me many times.
“The name Fisherman’s Friend” makes me think the cough drops are going to taste like fish oil or Powerbait.
Nothing quite so disgusting, they’re the usual sorts of flavors you would expect to find in a cough drop. I taste mostly menthol and a bit of licorice, but they are definitely something that was made to be an effective cough drop first and foremost and tasting good was not a major consideration
They are kind of ugly brown tablets that don’t look too dissimilar from maybe a pellet fish food for a koi pond or something. I have a hunch that I haven’t tested that you could probably get carp to bite on them if you tried to use them as bait, carp will go for some weird stuff
