Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 1:23 pm
What on earth do you mean by "bamboozled" and "awful"? I know what tastes good. i know what I like. And I can taste the difference.
If you're saying you understand that sometimes you want to slum it when it comes to food- fine.
No, I
never "slum it." I eat what tastes good. I do not buy on price alone. I will pay extra for better products. If I tried something and it did not taste good, I never bought that product again. I do not buy garbage.
In your opinion. I disagree. To paraphrase The Mythbusters, "I reject ypur opinion and substitute my own." I have a really simple solution. Don't eat frozen pizza if you don't like it. End of problem.
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 1:23 pm But sometimes you don't want "good." Sometimes you want something you can shove into your gob 20 minutes after you get home and the dogs have shat all over the carpet and Christ kill me.
First, i never had a dog. Second, I have never stooped that low. When I was in University Park iIf I had nothing good I'd go get something. With a Whole Paycheck err I mean Whole Foods literally across the street, and a burger place, a sub shop, and a pizza place all 1 block further, I had lots of choices.
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 1:23 pm Pizza Hut in the 80s was a 3.5 out of 10, but now it's 0 out of 10.
In your opinion. I disagree. To paraphrase The Mythbusters, "I reject ypur opinion and substitute my own." I have a really simple solution. Don't eat Pizza Hut if you don't like it. End of problem.
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 1:23 pm Any time a corporate chain in the US takes over some industry they suck.
Not true. There are some companies known for building quality products. They are often the market leader in their industries. Many are known for paying much better than their competitors. Sure, they aren't always the cheapest but they are better, since that's how they can justify a premium price.
No, it doesn't. Short term, cut costs "by any means necessary" thinking is what demands they suck, Places run by beancounters. Companies having long-term vision, considering how they can build a product that is superior to competitors and make more money, those are the ones that last and do better.
Now, if you operate in a market where cost is everything and those who don't cut prices die, then it's not the company who is causing the problem, it's the customer buying on price only. In which case, the customers who decided better taste (for food) or better quality (for manufactured goods) is not worth it, then they are the ones who have chosen shoddy merchandise.
Companies that decide to focus on quality can do well when there is a significant differentiator. And that includes franchises. McDonalds used to be known for cheap eats, which is why its stores didn't pay much. There are other chains, like Five Guys, and In-N-Out, who make better product, are only slightly higher than the so-called low price place, and they pay more, and they still do quite well.
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 1:23 pmJERRY'S is a regional equivalent and terrible and everyone here knows it.
In your opinion. With the exception of Ben, there probably isn't any of you that's been within shouting distance of a store, and probably none within smelling distance of a Jerry's Pizza, let alone tasted one. Or actually eaten one.
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 1:23 pmBut let me ask you, how many Jerry's Subs and Pizza New York-style pizzas have you eaten?
I'm going to leave you with a quote...[/quote]
That's not an answer, A simple number - which you did not provide but I'll presume to be 0 - was all you had to say.
[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=108589 time=1588796621 user_id=3from either one of the Thor movies or one of the Avenger movies. Loki... is making a speech about how humanity is a bunch of sheep.
Loki: "In the end you will always kneel."
Old Guy (rises): "Not to men like you."
Loki: "There are no men like me."
Old Guy: "There are always men like you."
You probably don't recognize the quote, not because you haven't seen the movie but because the quote is accurate.
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Don't proceed to tell me what I do or do not recognize. No, I did not see the movie, but I recognize the trope even if I don't know its name.
In one of the Superman movies, General Zod and his two associates escape from their glass prison after Superman becomes mortal so he can nail lois Lane. Zod & Company defeat the combined armies of the world, and effectively destroy the White House, demanding the world surrender. So, A man claiming to be the President of the United States offers to surrender on behalf of the world.
Zod tells him to kneel before him, and when the guy subserviently obeys, Zod says this cannot be the true President, no leader of his stature would be that spineless. The real president agrees, coming forward, saying he'll do it if it will stop further deaths. As he kneels, Zod says, "Including your own."
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 1:23 pm I don't need to have a "Jerry's" pie to know what it's all about,
Commander.
"I've never tried it, don't know what irt's like, and won't want it. I don't like carrots. I certainly won't like carrot cake."
A man who has never tried it, doesn't know what it's like is certain it's not going to be any good. Well, that's fine, because, chances are, you will never be near one of their stores.