>>5011538
Some people just don’t like certain flavors. It doesn’t mean that they are right when they say that oysters or cheese or fish or whatever is bad. It’s fine to not like something that’s good. It’s insane to decide that the people who do like some widely well regarded luxury good only like it for reasons unrelated to taste.
>it is scientifically proven that knowing how much something costs has a massive psychological effect on the consumer. Maybe I'm just not very sensitive to that phenomenon; I can't understand it.
is hilarious cope. The sane opinion is “I tried caviar and didn’t particularly like it. It’s not for me.”
Pappy Van Winkel is hilariously overpriced bourbon, absolutely not worth the price difference between it and Blantons if you aren’t wealthy enough you’ll never notice your drinks budget. But it is better than Blantons, and is the best bourbon in the world, there is just not enough supply to meet demand, so the price became outrageous. The same thing happened with caviar. In the pre-cold war era, caviar was only as expensive as the shipping to get it to you. It was the best roe in the world, enough so that it was a premium good that was not out of place at the table of a king, but it was abundantly available. It’s expensive now because the Soviets cratered the fisheries for these sturgeon in order to get enough foreign exchange to continue to purchase western made machine tools throughout the Cold War.
