Overrated food and drink (brands)

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.

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.

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.

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

Brew 102!

Right.
Joe Camel - Wikipedia.
The study concluded that the Joe Camel campaign was far more successful at 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]

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

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.

Would those be similar to barley pops?

As a person born in 1982, I can attest that as a small child I thought Spuds Mackenzie and Joe Camel were cool.