Big Brand names whose products are way overrated

Adyx

Budweiser is in serious decline in Ireland. We got rid of our last Bud tap a couple of years ago. I'd say Diageo are glad to see the back of it now since they off-loaded it here.

murpho999

I see Bewley's Grafton St closing (again!) and people saying it's a shame and it's part of Dublin.

I don't get this, always found it overpriced, particularly after latest relaunch, poor quality (It's breakfast all under hot lamps).
Average coffee too.
It has been this way for years and I don't get how it had a good repuation and don't think it's a loss at all apart from those who lost their jobs.

fryup

its the decor, its the location, its the history of the place

Cienciano

ShatterAlan wrote: »

And Anheuser-Busch was bought out by Belgian outfit InBev. One would think that the Belgians would have improved the recipe. Nah. Same watery crap that gives you a blinding hangover that makes even your hair hurt.


I was in the US in September and went to a bar that only had the domestic crap like Bud and Miller on draught. I settled on a Bud and it just reminded me of how low my standards were when I used to live there. Like you said AB just seem to sponsor everything and get the masses to drink their piss.


Bud and Coors are the McDonalds / BK of the beer world.

It sells, why would they change it? I don't think it tastes bad, it has almost no taste. That's why it's successful, it's so inoffensive.

Strumms wrote: »

Never understood why anybody would like Budweiser, pîss. Ok taste is subjective but still. With the absolute multiple of beers now available and on draft too, I just wonder if they are selling Budweiser as much as say the last number of years.

I would assume Bud doesn't have the same market share as before (in the US anyway), not because people don't like it, it's because so many more bland beers have taken some of their market share. Miller, coors, anything with the words "lite" or "ice" are popular now and they all are similar to bud so like watered down beer versions of beer.

Blitzkrieger

Oreos. Taste like sugared dirt.

Hotblack Desiato

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

But you could get a poverty spec Amstrad for £399 when a genuine IBM started at £1,429. Like comparing a Lada to a Ford Sierra.

Sinclar were another company that cheaped out on components.

Rubber keyboards and all - but could do a hell of a lot for the money.

Ironically the 'membrane' type keyboard with hard plastic keys on the top, as in the Sinclair QL and Spectrum+, is the granddaddy of pretty much all keyboards in use today - Model M fans apart, nobody uses expensive clackety mechanical switches any more.

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

What has happened Heinz?

Mondelez is what happened to Heinz.

giles lynchwood wrote: »

Any American made professional loubspeaker

Any American made anything. I mean look at the shítheap cars they drive, ffs.

ShatterAlan wrote: »

And Anheuser-Busch was bought out by Belgian outfit InBev. One would think that the Belgians would have improved the recipe. Nah. Same watery crap that gives you a blinding hangover that makes even your hair hurt.

They're just giving Bud customers what they want and are used to.

Hotblack Desiato

ozmo wrote: »

Id like add Heineken to the list - amazing when I was in Netherlands what ever way they make it, just meh when made locally here.

Heineken is sold at 5% pretty much everywhere else, but is specially watered down to 4.2% for the Irish market... and they try to sell this muck at a premium price too!
Anything brewed under licence is generally muck though.

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Not in the slightest. The major difference is Android allows the user to decide their own security.

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

*Maybe* in terms of what the app developer gets hold of (if they're honest, and you've no way of checking.) But make no mistake, if you use an android device, Google own your ass. At least Apple make enough money out of their overpriced hardware that they don't need to sell your data (but that doesn't necessarily mean they don't, either.)

murpho999 wrote: »

I see Bewley's Grafton St closing (again!) and people saying it's a shame and it's part of Dublin.

I don't get this, always found it overpriced, particularly after latest relaunch, poor quality (It's breakfast all under hot lamps).
Average coffee too.
It has been this way for years and I don't get how it had a good repuation and don't think it's a loss at all apart from those who lost their jobs.

A great example of boom-era property owner greed back in the day and landlord greed today.
They used to own the property, which should have ensured the survival of the business basically forever. But then they made out like bandits by selling it and leasing it back. The landlord then screwed the arse out of them with upward only rents and refused any cuts when the shít hit the property market fan. But the owners don't care, they still have their massive profits from the property sale and the fact the business was left permanently marginally viable as a result doesn't bother them in the slightest.

Similar thing happened to Peats, except one part of the family owned the retail business and another part was the landlord... awkward!

micar

murpho999 wrote: »

I see Bewley's Grafton St closing (again!) and people saying it's a shame and it's part of Dublin.

I don't get this, always found it overpriced, particularly after latest relaunch, poor quality (It's breakfast all under hot lamps).
Average coffee too.
It has been this way for years and I don't get how it had a good repuation and don't think it's a loss at all apart from those who lost their jobs.

I worked in the Bewleys Grafton St for 2 summers back in 1996/1997

The lasagne was bought in pre cooked and put in a fridge and the heated in a microwave before being bought up stairs.

The tomatoes were cut up and put in the dishes and brought up and put under the lights to "cook".

Even back then, the food was way over priced.


There was a decent size kitchen in the basement. Definately made soup down there and cooked other food.

Since I left, I've been in it on my once.

murpho999

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

A great example of boom-era property owner greed back in the day and landlord greed today.
They used to own the property, which should have ensured the survival of the business basically forever. But then they made out like bandits by selling it and leasing it back. The landlord then screwed the arse out of them with upward only rents and refused any cuts when the shít hit the property market fan. But the owners don't care, they still have their massive profits from the property sale and the fact the business was left permanently marginally viable as a result doesn't bother them in the slightest.

Similar thing happened to Peats, except one part of the family owned the retail business and another part was the landlord... awkward!

I'm not talking about the rents and owners.

I'm talking about the food and prices.

Low quality and overpriced. I'm not talking about recently but for years.
Coffee is not great either.

I don't get people's sentimentality for it.

Agfa cameras: Worse than Kodak for not being able to adapt to digital era.

Hoboo

Cadbury chocolate..........yet another thing ruined and bastardised with corn syrup and sugar by the Murcans.

Blaze420

All this talk of Miele and Dyson - has nobody got love for that creepy little bastard Henry? His goofy eyes betray the fact he can nearly pull the dead out of the ground, serious power.

touts

Won't be popular today but Bewleys Coffee was never the best.

Class MayDresser

Blaze420 wrote: »

All this talk of Miele and Dyson - has nobody got love for that creepy little bastard Henry? His goofy eyes betray the fact he can nearly pull the dead out of the ground, serious power.

You should see what Henrietta can do!

jack presley

Blaze420 wrote: »

All this talk of Miele and Dyson - has nobody got love for that creepy little bastard Henry? His goofy eyes betray the fact he can nearly pull the dead out of the ground, serious power.

It's always sad seeing a Henry in a skip. He's lying there with his big smile not knowing the fate that awaits him.

Feisar

touts wrote: »

Won't be popular today but Bewleys Coffee was never the best.

True but people say that about damn near every coffee, unless it was roasted between a virgin's thighs.

raddoc

Mad_maxx wrote: »

You're thinking of the range rover which wealthy lifestyle ranchers and equestrian types go for

Landcruiser were never about immage, all about reliability

What is a better jeep than a landcruiser?

You gotta get the right tool for the job.

CosmicFool

Feisar wrote: »

True but people say that about damn near every coffee, unless it was roasted between a virgin's thighs.

I think any coffee can be good when it's brewed right. A really great coffee bean could be **** if it isn't brewed properly.

keano_afc

I dont understand the obsession with Starbucks in this country. The coffee is awful, its served lukewarm and is massively overpriced.

I work in mobile IT and I really dislike Apple. Massively overrated.

touts

keano_afc wrote: »

I dont understand the obsession with Starbucks in this country. The coffee is awful, its served lukewarm and is massively overpriced.

I work in mobile IT and I really dislike Apple. Massively overrated.

In my opinion Apple make the best phones & tablets.

But are they €1000 better than a "Mid-price" phone like a Moto G or a Huawei P-Smart? Not a chance.

Hotblack Desiato

Deleted User wrote: »

Agfa cameras: Worse than Kodak for not being able to adapt to digital era.

Ironically Kodak invented and patented digital photography, but the suits forced them to shelve it and by the time everybody was making digital cameras and killing their business, their patents had expired.

Henry Ford III

Tesla. They go well but crikey they are horribly built. They also look awful. Owners are mainly idiots.

Dacia. Cheap and horribly nasty. Vehicle of choice for miserable people who hate driving and got priced out of Skoda and Korean dog boxes

Apple. No thanks. Xenophobic, overpriced, and used by the terminally blinkered.

lawred2

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Tesla. They go well but crikey they are horribly built. They also look awful. Owners are mainly idiots.

Dacia. Cheap and horribly nasty. Vehicle of choice for miserable people who hate driving and got priced out of Skoda and Korean dog boxes

Apple. No thanks. Xenophobic, overpriced, and used by the terminally blinkered.

huh!?

razorblunt

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Tesla. They go well but crikey they are horribly built. They also look awful. Owners are mainly idiots.

Dacia. Cheap and horribly nasty. Vehicle of choice for miserable people who hate driving and got priced out of Skoda and Korean dog boxes

Apple. No thanks. Xenophobic, overpriced, and used by the terminally blinkered.

Hey! that's not on.






Or off. Or on...

RandomViewer

Snails pace wrote: »

The 08 up to recent models had issues with injectors and the O rings in them going. The older machines are bullet proof. the new ones not so much

Injectors common issue in common rail diesel, 2000 Isuzu Trooper being the most famous failure, nearly all them had engine failure, the Landcruissr we get here isn't the proper cruiser it's a Prado , real ones are the ones you see on the news with the anti-aircraft guns mounted on the bed.

RandomViewer

Blaze420 wrote: »

All this talk of Miele and Dyson - has nobody got love for that creepy little bastard Henry? His goofy eyes betray the fact he can nearly pull the dead out of the ground, serious power.

We've had one for 15 years ,never a grumble

whisky_galore

Hersheys chocolate, vaguely chocolate flavoured slabs of lard suitable for army rations.

keano_afc

whisky_galore wrote: »

Hersheys chocolate, vaguely chocolate flavoured slabs of lard suitable for army rations.

Hershey's kisses taste like actual vomit. They're vile.

murpho999

keano_afc wrote: »

I dont understand the obsession with Starbucks in this country. The coffee is awful, its served lukewarm and is massively overpriced.

I work in mobile IT and I really dislike Apple. Massively overrated.

Whatever about the quality of the coffee, regarding the temperature it's not lukewarm but below boiling (93-96 degrees) but a lot of people in Ireland seem to have a problem with that.

I find Insomnia really guilty of this. Coffee served far too hot and it ruins the taste.

Ipso

Blaze420 wrote: »

All this talk of Miele and Dyson - has nobody got love for that creepy little bastard Henry? His goofy eyes betray the fact he can nearly pull the dead out of the ground, serious power.

Never trusted Miles Dyson