# Overrated food and drink (brands) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [October 12, 2023, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-food-and-drink-brands/991515 "2023-10-12T11:40:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-food-and-drink-brands/991515/401 "2023-12-24T03:55:36Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Your facts are a little conflated. If I am, I’m not the only one. > **[AMONG 6-YEAR-OLDS, CAMEL\`S \`OLD JOE\` JUST AS RECOGNIZABLE AS MICKEY MOUSE](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-12-11-9104210442-story.html)** ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-food-and-drink-brands/991515/402 "2023-12-24T05:53:28Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > If I am, I’m not the only one. Not a hill I’m interested in dying on, but the results of the study seem clear enough to me - having put the horse before the cart and not the other way around. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-food-and-drink-brands/991515/403 "2023-12-24T19:52:18Z")
Was Lucky Lager the one with rebuses on the bottom of the bottle cap? I always got better at those after a couple oat sodas. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-food-and-drink-brands/991515/404 "2023-12-24T20:01:23Z")
Yes!!! It isn’t just my luck then, but holy shit has their service been terrible the last few years. We went a couple months ago for the first time in awhile, and it was barely passable for a change, but not as good as I remember it a decade ago when refills came almost reflexively, and we were constantly plied with refills of fries and mac and cheese and whatever other bottomless sides there were. We typically go to the one in North Riverside. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-food-and-drink-brands/991515/405 "2023-12-24T21:07:46Z")
Those are the ones. The edges were _sharp_ on some of those caps! To find the true Southern Californians: What numerical beer brand did you always see taking the 10/101 West into Union Station? On the east side of the river. Brew 102 ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-food-and-drink-brands/991515/406 "2023-12-24T21:21:29Z")
Brew 102! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-food-and-drink-brands/991515/407 "2023-12-24T22:22:45Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > I don’t know the particulars of that study but I think it misses the point. Joe Camel wasn’t bad because he was as popular as MM, but because he was specifically targeted youth. And at that, he was very successful. Right. [Joe Camel - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Camel#:~:text=The%20study%20concluded%20that%20the,three%20years%20at%20that%20point). _The study concluded that the Joe Camel campaign was far more successful at [advertising to children](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_to_children) than adults. The authors also wrote that Camel’s share of smokers under 18 had risen from 0.5% to 32.8% during the campaign’s three years at that point.[[11]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Camel#cite_note-:2-11)_ > **[Camel\_History.pdf](https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/microsites/camel/Camel_History.pdf)** > > 51.67 KB _Guilty of Racketeering. In a landmark federal court ruling, Judge Kessler found R.J._ _Reynolds and other tobacco companies guilty of violating civil racketeering laws and_ _engaging in a decades-long fraud to deceive the American public about the health risks_ _of smoking and their marketing to children. Highlighting the Joe Camel campaign, she_ _found that from the 1950s to the present, R.J. Reynolds and the other tobacco company_ _defendants “have intentionally marketed to young people under the age of twenty-one in_ _order to recruit ‘replacement smokers’ to ensure the economic future of the tobacco_ _industry.”18_ ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-food-and-drink-brands/991515/408 "2023-12-25T02:26:49Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Brew 102! Of course. I can still see the sign in my head. Gawd was that stuff awful. As a less-than-well-healed college freshman who had some challenges buying alcohol despite being 4 years underage even I wouldn’t drink that stuff. > [@Paintcharge](#): > > after a couple oat sodas. Would those be similar to barley pops? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-food-and-drink-brands/991515/409 "2023-12-25T02:36:13Z")
As a person born in 1982, I can attest that as a small child I thought Spuds Mackenzie and Joe Camel were cool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-food-and-drink-brands/991515.md?page=20)