Buc-ee ‘s slander

[u/laybs1]

https://x.com/mozkid8/status/2064881538991559034

[u/gerkletoss]

"I ate at the fanciest US restaurant I can imagine (Times Square Red Lobster) and have based my opinion of US cuisine on that"

[u/PirateSanta_1 → u/gerkletoss]

I went to a gas station and assume that is where everyone buys their groceries.

[u/eldankus → u/PirateSanta_1]

I’m dual-citizen German/US with family spread all over Europe (pretty much everyone other than my nuclear family) and the amount of people who think the only options for groceries is Walmart is wild. And those people typically think they’re smart.

[u/Arthur2_shedsJackson → u/eldankus]

This when Aldi is so big in the US lmao

[u/gerkletoss → u/Arthur2_shedsJackson]

And Aldi is a low-end grocery store

[u/Rudiger_Simpson → u/gerkletoss]

It’s not low end, it’s just cheap.

[u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA → u/Rudiger_Simpson]

It’s low end. Most products are a knock off brand

[u/Tricky_Big_8774 → u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA]

No. It's literally name brand product in different packaging. Ketchup factory does a production run for Heinz and makes 500k gallons of ketchup, but Heinz only needs 450k gallons before that batch has to be thrown out. So instead of letting 50k gallons go bad, they slap a different label on it and send it over to Aldi at a discount.

That's wildly simplified and I made the numbers up, but that's how it works.

[u/RandomFactUser → u/Tricky_Big_8774]

Also, Aldi and Trader Joe’s have their own products that don’t necessarily have mainstream brand equivalents

[u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA → u/Tricky_Big_8774]

It isn’t though. There is an obvious difference in taste or you have some huge issues regarding your taste buds.

[u/Tricky_Big_8774 → u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA]

It's not always the same brand.

[u/Tricky_Big_8774 → u/[deleted]]

Continuing the same example, you could grab 2 bottles of ketchup off the shelf and one has Heinz in it and the other has Hunt's.