Only if one of the partners is named Red.
Well, actually, there is an official USDA designation for “fancy ketchup”, but it’s not all that different from the stuff the proles consume:
“…fewer specks and particles and less separation of the liquid/solid contents” than lesser ketchups, don’t you know.
That reminds me, there was an historic diner in Sacramento (it just closed back in January) that had been in business since the 1930s. Behind the counter there were old wooden signs advertising “Fancy Jumbo Hotdogs 10¢”, “Fancy Cheeseburgers 20¢”, and “Fancy Cube Steak Sandwich 25¢”. The sign says they’re fancy, so it must be true, right?
Toilet brush. :eek:
Love the math.
Bullshit. No doubt Nepalese restaurants prettify their cuisines in restaurants in the US and elsewhere in the West, the same as other Asian cuisines do. But if you’re in Nepal, you’ll be eating Indian, Italian even (there was an excellent Italian restaurant in Kathmandu), anything but Nepalese.
My single experience with a Nepalese restaurant in the US was that the menu was essentially a mix of Indian and Chinese style dishes, which made sense to me at the time with me having no prior experience with Nepalese food and considering where Nepal is.
$3.20 a pair, common cotton
$24 a pair, Modal blend
$48 a pair, Merino wool
Here are $84 Italian briefs made of Egyptian cotton.
I hate to keep using my wife as an example, but she finally got tired of my $5 underwear. I think she’s spending over $50 per pair now. I must say, they are super comfortable. I would not be surprised if the top end men’s stores had underwear over $100/pr.
I don’t have a site, I just like to try most of the new varieties. I usually have at least 30 available at any one time. I’m down to only 28 because of the shelter in place, since now I can’t get to Target (my prime source). I eat all of the cereal I buy, but I do save the front of every box for my collection. I have been known to spend a lot of time traveling in order to get hard-to-find cereals, and I have paid extra money to order particularly rare ones online (with cereal, paying $15 for a box is a serious commitment).
I also have a friend in Canada who sends me Canada exclusives (like Timbits, the Tim Horton’s cereal). She actually works in the U.S., and just before the shutdown she bought a box of a new cereal and brought it to the office to mail to me, but didn’t have a chance. Now the border has been closed for another 30 days, so my cereal is being held prisoner in Canada. 
My favorite source for cereal news is Cerealously (“your most important blog of the day”).
The fact something like that exists bowls me over.
I like it.
Yup, I wanted to chime in that I’ve seen high-end chicken (small farm, heritage breed, pastured) and I have friends who buy high-end pork (similar) which they grill/smoke/etc.
Er… I actually buy laundry detergent that makes fancy claims (although I notice their claims are less fancy than they used to be.)
• EPA Safer Choice Certified
• Leaping Bunny Certified
• USDA Certified Biobased Product 96%
• Contains no dyes or fragrances
On the other hand, I buy it at the supermarket, and it doesn’t cost much more than any other laundry detergent. (And no one in my family is allergic to it!)
Bagels.
The best bagels are made in someone’s kitchen in New York. The second best ones at small bakeries, often devoted either just to bagels, or to bagels, and a few other Jewish traditional things: challah bread, chamantashen for Purim, brick-fried matzah, babka, marble rye, Passover desserts.
The third best are made in Jewish kitchens around the world, and not quite as good as New York, but very, very good.
All the rest are crap.
Crocs - even if they’re encrusted with diamonds and rubies, they’re still crocs.
Saxx’s Kinetic line or Tommy John’s Air line of men’s underwear are for me, unfortunately worth the money. Goodbye to groin irritation while running in the swamp called Houston in the summertime. Thankfully, they go on sale enough that I can find them for 8-10 or so, and therefore don’t have to spend the 45 bucks I’ve seen them for at Saks.
Looks weird but it’s ultimately correct. $985 - 20% + the extra cost of the brass finish = $1220.
Even more crazy expensive; $295 silk boxer shorts from Tom Ford.
As to the general question, there will always be things for those with more money than sense to spend their money on.
Yeah, but I’m pretty sure that stuff isn’t actually made to be used; I mean, they have a silver ball of string; that’s meant to be a knick-knack since it can’t actually be used. Same for the paper plate.