When I say at the bar I mean at the bar, like with a bartender involved!
"I want to pay top-shelf prices to have a beleaguered food service worker hand me a can of bottom shelf slop, for some reason. I really have a pressing need to feel power over someone, so I can clap and squeal with glee as I throw money around to make them take a can out of a box for me."
Not everyone can afford to pay a 300% markup on slop for the "fun" of being waited on.
Take your shitty vodka and faygo back to middle school, that is actually disgusting and worth being a snob to avoid!
Vodka and tap water is better than any cheap beer, at a tenth the cost. It's awful, but it doesn't taste like cheerios, sugar, and metal with an undercurrent of rot the way the absolute worst beers do. Bad beers just really have no place: they're way too expensive for how bad they are, and they're not meaningfully cheaper than much better beers. Beer of all fermented drinks has such a cheap practical ceiling on quality that you hit it around the point where you start getting into the price range of bottom shelf wines (which also have no place because they're as bad as bottom shelf beer but cost way more). For bad cheap drinks nothing beats liquor, and for good cheap drinks good beer is still affordable enough to justify over bad beer.
“I want to pay top-shelf prices to have a beleaguered food service worker hand me a can of bottom shelf slop, for some reason. I really have a pressing need to feel power over someone, so I can clap and squeal with glee as I throw money around to make them take a can out of a box for me.” basically yes you have got me exactly, except there is often also loud music and the clapping and squealing is sort of along to the beat.
Just flippin it on you, I don't actually hate vodka. I pretty much like anything. Except malt liquor
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"I want to pay top-shelf prices to have a beleaguered food service worker hand me a can of bottom shelf slop, for some reason. I really have a pressing need to feel power over someone, so I can clap and squeal with glee as I throw money around to make them take a can out of a box for me."
Not everyone can afford to pay a 300% markup on slop for the "fun" of being waited on.
Vodka and tap water is better than any cheap beer, at a tenth the cost. It's awful, but it doesn't taste like cheerios, sugar, and metal with an undercurrent of rot the way the absolute worst beers do. Bad beers just really have no place: they're way too expensive for how bad they are, and they're not meaningfully cheaper than much better beers. Beer of all fermented drinks has such a cheap practical ceiling on quality that you hit it around the point where you start getting into the price range of bottom shelf wines (which also have no place because they're as bad as bottom shelf beer but cost way more). For bad cheap drinks nothing beats liquor, and for good cheap drinks good beer is still affordable enough to justify over bad beer.
“I want to pay top-shelf prices to have a beleaguered food service worker hand me a can of bottom shelf slop, for some reason. I really have a pressing need to feel power over someone, so I can clap and squeal with glee as I throw money around to make them take a can out of a box for me.” basically yes you have got me exactly, except there is often also loud music and the clapping and squealing is sort of along to the beat.
Just flippin it on you, I don't actually hate vodka. I pretty much like anything. Except malt liquor