You know what is fucking delicious? Lemonade. Even the instant stuff, if you throw a lemon slice or two in with it, is the best.
I dunno, nothing makes me less likely to buy/drink/eat something than seeing the general populace doing it, unless it’s television commercials for the same. I’m not saying this is right (although I believe it is) but man, no bigger turnoff than a bunch of slack-jaws with their collars turned up all cavorting around the same can of piss.
And really, WTF with the collars? Happy Days was NOT cool, people!
I dunno, nothing makes me less likely to buy/drink/eat something than seeing the general populace doing it,
Well, lemonade is one hell of an iconoclastic choice of beverage!
Speaking as an imitative primate myself, I am generally very likely to do things because others also do them: that is why I wear jeans, eat pasta, and listen to Beethoven.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go groom myself for lice.
I have friends exactly like that. They’ll ignore something they’d otherwise really like just to protest the fact that it’s popular. I’ve seen it a lot with music. Some people stop liking bands only when they become popular and justify it by saying “they sold out!” instead of considering that maybe they’re popular because, you know, they make good music.
It’s like the opposite of people doing stuff just because it’s “cool”. It’s sort of like how a lot of us probably started drinking beer. I don’t know a single person who liked the taste of beer when they first tried it, but because their friends who started drinking before them told them it was an “aquired taste”, they kept doing it. I’m actually guilty of that and while I’m not a big beer drinker, I do enjoy a good one every now and then. When I first tried it though? Rancid.
And screw you! Happy Days was and will forever remain awesome!*
Even lemonade might not be immune. Over the past five years, I’ve noticed more restaurants carrying flavored lemonades, like strawberry and raspberry. I eat at Red Robin often and they put actual sliced straberrys in lemonade. Yum.
EVERYBODY GET OUT OF HERE, THERE’S A LOBSTER LOOSE! COVER YOURSELVES IN THAT BUTTER, AND CARRY LEMONS JUST IN CASE! YOU GOTTA SQUIRT 'EM RIGHT IN THE EYES. EVERYBODY GET OUT OF HERE THERE’S GONNA BE A TRAGEDY!
I have friends exactly like that. They’ll ignore something they’d otherwise really like just to protest the fact that it’s popular. I’ve seen it a lot with music. Some people stop liking bands only when they become popular and justify it by saying “they sold out!” instead of considering that maybe they’re popular because, you know, they make good music.
It’s like the opposite of people doing stuff just because it’s “cool”. It’s sort of like how a lot of us probably started drinking beer. I don’t know a single person who liked the taste of beer when they first tried it, but because their friends who started drinking before them told them it was an “aquired taste”, they kept doing it. I’m actually guilty of that and while I’m not a big beer drinker, I do enjoy a good one every now and then. When I first tried it though? Rancid.
And screw you! Happy Days was and will forever remain awesome!*
[size=2]*LOL, I’m a kidder![/size][/quote]
Classics remain classics. It’s the new stuff that seems to be the most susceptible to my subconscious dislike triggered by trends. Like Red Bull, hell it might be delicious for all I know, but I’ll never drink the crap simply because of association.
In regards to beer, however, I think alcohol has a pretty significant part to play in why we keep drinking it after that first taste.
I’ve been burned a few times, I started playing casino poker about a year before the craze hit, just on a whim. It soured me pretty quickly, and illustrates why I think I dislike popular things; they lose their intrigue when everyone jumps on. Poker was a cool underground thing to play five or six years ago, you could hardly find a poker room, everyone was old and crusty, etc. Now it’s all baseball hats and sunglasses. While a lot of it may just be my contrariness, the object/act itself does change in some respects once it becomes popular.
