Oh there's definitely more. Do you want me to regale you with the tale of how the Red suited Santa Coke invented came to be? Or do you want to keep thinking a holiday about giving gifts wasn't invented by corporations? How about how giving pre-made cards on a variety of holidays became to be a thing because of Hallmark?

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Jesus H. Christ

He's talking positively about major corporations, are you really surprised at the spelling and grammar?

damn

You're certainly a riveting conversationalist. I'll leave you with this. How influential on the design of our very cities has the auto industry and oil industry been? Are our cities designed around using as little fuel as possible, or the exact opposite?

Greetings cards predate Hallmark by quite a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeting_card

Is that the one in the airport? It's fantastic.

I never said they invented greeting cards. I said they normalized giving them on a variety of holidays that previously were less commonplace for cards. For example the person that created Mother's day fucking HATED Hallmark.

Stop jacking yourself off, this is a public post

Damn, I was just starting to really work the shaft.

And the best part, Michelin is French. It was French capitalism that created this.

he was lettening cars.

Jebus A. Crist

I think there's some context missing here, otherwise cooked unsalted chicken would be a common treat (it's not). Do you mean it more like "1 or 2 spices is better than 5?"

i see what you're getting at, however along the same vein this seems like a good time to point out that it literally says in her name that she's not a he :P

The one I had in mind was Tim Ho Wan in Sham Shui Po, but they have restaurants throughout the city. But looking at the current Michelin Guide, I see it's just "Michelin recommended" as opposed to 1 star. I'm not sure if the rating has been changed since I went or if I'm mixing it up with a different one, but either way it was very good and service was crazy efficient! Gonna have to check out the one in the airport if I'm ever in HK again. The whole food scene in HK is great, never had a bad or even average meal there.

Michelin Man

*Bibendum

Meanwhile the Michelin OEM tires on my car were the worse tires i ever had. Didnt last 20k miles and they didnt have much grip on dry pavement from day one.

Missed the pronouns, I guess my bad for misgendering. I'm a child of the 90s, male, female, or whatever spectrum you fall on, it's still largely dude and bro in my vernacular. I'll still support you playing sports, and whatever else it is you crazy kids do that you think will make you happy. Just don't expect me to personally participate or pretend to give a shit about pronouns.

Holy shit really? Do you have a source for this?

I dont cook pasta in water I used glacial ice

OEM tires are engineered for gas mileage, not usefulness. It's all about the epa rating

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pledge-allegiance-created-sell-flags/

Flags and magazines lol

Well damn. Amusing how sometimes something can be both funny and sad.

You'd think after ford and firestone was sued for faulty tires they would change that.

Kinda similar to how an Irish beer brewery became the arbiter of world records. Yeah, the Guinness Book Of World Records is that Guinness.

Know how McD's they have both a real egg vs the flat yellow thin precooked one? In a blind taste test most people prefer the flat one because it's less 'eggy'. I mean strong spices, most people prefer blandness, at least in the US.

Thx ❤️

Fun fact, the michelin man gets his shape from the way rubber looks when the sap is drying on a (probably congolese) rubber worker's arm. They would wrap it around their wrist and push it up the arm where it would scrunch up into rolls like the michelin man has.

i know about this but i never understood why no one thought "why do i give a shit what a tire company says about food"

edit: seems some people are missing my point and thinking this is about capability rather than motive.

Well it just so happened that the reviewers were people who knew fine dining, and the awards DID drive business to restaurants.

So it could have been a joke from the start, but accidentally became a prestigious award, that happens to be becoming a joke.

The flaw in your reasoning is that you are assuming that everybody whom Michelin could hire is a tire expert. Michelin is just as capable of hiring food critics. They hired eminent critics and experts to write travel guides, and when people realised that, "hey, their reviews are actually accurate, because they have incredibly strict criteria on which to base their rating system", people understandably began to build trust in that system. The fact that Michelin still doesn't seem to have sold out is why there's such longevity to it: they have no reason to make their criteria any less strict (quite the opposite, and I've never been to a restaurant that was even mentioned in the Michelin guide that wasn't some of the best food I've ever experienced). The title of most eminent food review is theirs to lose, so they can't afford to betray that, especially in a world with increasingly-ready access to information. There's nothing that can outmatch the brand loyalty and name recognition.

Though what was their angle? Credibility for their advertisements or was there something else?

I miss the days when companies realized that improving everyone's lives meant they'd have more time and money to spend on their products

It's ok, I was today years old when I learned about this. Also about the Guinness World Records. "Wtf ever" is how I'm handling it

The reason was literally so they could have some interesting facts for customers to talk about at the "pub" 😭

Lol, I gotta admit that there's something adorable about that approach to capitalism. Like they are actually adding some value in their attempt to attract sales (both this and the Michelin star system), unlike these days where it's more of a race to the bottom and someone doing something shitty to their product is an excuse for their competition (or "competition") to do the same rather than a chance to capitalize on having a product without that shitty aspect (or both, brag about being better while they develop the version that isn't better and then never mention it again).

I've only been to one Michelin star restaurant, but it was easily one of the best meals I've ever had and I only ever knew about it because I decided I wanted to see if there was anything to the fuss about those stars. Though ymmv as a friend of mine who has been to a lot more of them says they can be hit or miss; better than average on average but can still have bad days.

Settle bets and drinking games.

It is my understanding that the Guinness Book Of World Records was started because of a discussion/argument in a pub that had no resolution, a couple of blimey blokes fussing about what's the longest bridge in the world or something, so publishing a book of world records would allow that kind of thing to be settled. It then became a marketing gimmick; people start mentioning Guinness in contexts they never would otherwise. The book itself has been a sales phenomenon, and then they started selling the records themselves.

So...Guinness sells the service of awarding a world record, sometimes at exorbitant prices, and often to brutal dictators. The likes of North Korea, Qatar etc. are fond of these. Kim Sick Fuck will order 90,000 people to dance at gunpoint and Guinness will send a white chick in a stuffy blue skirt suit with a framed certificate, for tens of thousands of euro, to certify it as World's Largest Interpretive Dance.

I wonder if they make more money doing that or selling Bud Dark?

Edit to add, off the top of my head I can think of the Guinness World Record book being mentioned offhand in media as diverse as Happy Days, The Brady Bunch, House and The Abyss, among others.

The early ones are fantastic too. They go into real depth on a lot of the records.

Jesus B. Christ

Kinda revealing of our country right? I prefer our old motto on money. E Pluribus Unum was what it originally said which is Latin for out of many, one. Benjamin Franklin then designed a coin that was "mind your business", and another that said "we are one". Now it's "in god we trust" which as an anti-theist I've gotta say, doesn't fit me at all.

Fine dining like making mashed potatoes out of 50 % butter...

Can you link those studies? My 5 minute "research" was pointing the other direction. There are people who like bland more, but not the majority or something.

Not seeing the problem here.

It’s also not unusual for companies to branch out into weird things like this for one-off promotional stuff. The Guinness Book of World Records was not originally intended to impress grade schoolers in the library

Are suggesting there’s a way to go higher? Was someone holding out on you?

I want to see your reaction to Skordalia lmao, fucking like 90% garlic with a wee little tater all mashed up.