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My Spirit Otter posted:2 cool whipTM posts so close together? seems like cool whip hired a young hwip advertiser FTFY I'm confused b/c Cool-Whip is usually sold frozen. On the occasions I've bought it at the last minute, I've always ended up realizing that I have a frozen block of artificial food product and have no time to thaw it, and abandoned whatever I was going to do with it in favor of plan B. Then I find some other upcoming occasion to make whatever I was going to use the Cool-Whip for. This periodically results in me emailing friends asking for help eating dessert.
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If some had asked me to pick up some Cool Whip before I read this discussion I'm not sure what I would have gotten. Could have been aything from canned whipped cream to Miracle Whip, maybe even some mayonaise since I wasn't sure what Miracle Whip was either. I certainly wouldn't have thought there was any special enough about the branded tub of imitation whipped cream to warrant hunting it down specifically.
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May 10, 2024 20:19
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limp_cheese posted:Made me think of this This exchange has lived rent-free in my mind since the movie released. RIP Robert Stack.
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May 10, 2024 20:21
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People really are precious about their brand name food items, aren't they?
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May 10, 2024 20:31
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mystes posted:Oreos are a knockoff of hydrox and I personally think that oreos actually taste worse than most store brand copies All Cookies Are Bad
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May 10, 2024 20:36
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Gonna start a food brand called "gas station" so people blow up relationships over genuine gas station hotdogs
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May 10, 2024 20:56
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People who make a big deal about Name Brand cool whip vs store brand are probably super self conscious about class. Like they know they're not wealthy, but at least they have Standards, unlike the trash that buy store brand stuff! The rungs at the bottom of the ladder are so very close together, so the people there are VERY careful about them. You don't shop here, that's for Poors. You spend a little more and go a little further away because its more expensive and sometimes they have sales. By bringing store brand cool whip, he might as well have brought a case of lovely light beer and a stripper to the gathering! Some people have no class at all! Acid Vat. (but a name brand one at least)
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May 10, 2024 20:59
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Hellblazer187 posted:Gonna start a food brand called "gas station" so people blow up relationships over genuine gas station hotdogs
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May 10, 2024 21:03
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It's simple. If someone asks you to bring an item and they refer to that item by name, you bring that name brand item. If someone says "Bring Cool Whip." You bring Cool Whip (TM). If they say "Bring whipped cream" then you can go hog wild with whatever. Never assume that store brands are okay. If they say "Bring Cool Whip" and you want to bring a store brand instead - ask! If someone says "bring cookies" - then any cookies will be fine. If they say "Bring Oreos" and you bring Hydrox, then you're an rear end in a top hat. If they say "Bring Coke" then you bring Coke. You don't bring Pepsi. It doesn't matter what you would by yourself if you were hosting or just for yourself personally. They asked you to bring something specific. You bring the specific item.
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May 10, 2024 21:04
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Mordiceius posted:It's simple. If someone asks you to bring an item and they refer to that item by name, you bring that name brand item.
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May 10, 2024 21:07
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Mordiceius posted:It's simple. If someone asks you to bring an item and they refer to that item by name, you bring that name brand item. Lmao. It's cool to have an insane person in the thread though.
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May 10, 2024 21:09
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A Moose posted:People who make a big deal about Name Brand cool whip vs store brand are probably super self conscious about class. Like they know they're not wealthy, but at least they have Standards, unlike the trash that buy store brand stuff! The rungs at the bottom of the ladder are so very close together, so the people there are VERY careful about them. You don't shop here, that's for Poors. You spend a little more and go a little further away because its more expensive and sometimes they have sales. This is exactly correct and all the folks saying "he should have gone to another store for the name brand Cool-Whip" are telling on themselves super hard right now. Trying to imagine someone getting mad at me for bringing them a random brand of tissues when they said hey can you pick up some "Kleenex" 
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May 10, 2024 21:11
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AITA For suggesting bridesmaid get a part-time jobquote:
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i had no idea so many adults weren't aware of the tantalizing bucket of cool whip that, upon eating, tastes like sugary oil there was always a middle-aged woman hovering over it who would be like 'haha i'm so bad sometimes i eat the cool whip by itself' Kenshin posted:This is exactly correct and all the folks saying "he should have gone to another store for the name brand Cool-Whip" are telling on themselves super hard right now. wait, is there store-brand cool whip? i thought the issue was that the person got whipped cream, which is entirely another product. So this isn't store brand cola vs Coke, this is if you asked for Coke and someone brought flavored seltzer water. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 21:17 on May 10, 2024 |
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May 10, 2024 21:12
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mystes posted:Their supermarket was out of Cool Whip. Maybe it would have been better to double check but if someone shows up and is like "sorry my supermarket was out of Cool Whip so I got the generic, is that ok?" and it's not like a situation where the generic has an ingredient that someone's allergic to or something where the brand name version wouldn't have, I think it's a bit unreasonable to get that angry at them. It's just an annoying ESH situation all around. Guy waited until last minute in a dumb way and made a substitution without checking. It'd be better if MIL wasn't uptight about not getting the name brand thing she wanted, but understandable in a "I just asked for one thing" kind of way when you're putting in the work to have people over. She vented in an overly harsh manner that wasn't intended for OP's ears and it's unfortunate he heard it. I don't think a lecture about classism is going to change her opinion about just wanting to have the thing she's comfortable with.
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May 10, 2024 21:12
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Tell her you love her and you don't expect her to be a bridesmaid if she can't afford to and you can't afford to cover it for her It's really shouldn't be that complicated you can't force people to have money they don't have if you don't want to give it to them yourself
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May 10, 2024 21:14
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kdrudy posted:Nah, he was fine, family are the weird ones. OP should have snuck into the kitchen and switched the contents of the containers and then dropped that bomb while the weird family was eating because there's 100% chance they would have no idea because generics and name brands are often so identical they are made by the same manufacturer. What a bunch of weird ones indeed.
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May 10, 2024 21:16
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Mordiceius posted:It's simple. If someone asks you to bring an item and they refer to that item by name, you bring that name brand item. True. A guy asked me to pass him the kleenex, and I handed him a box of Royale tissues. He hosed my wife.
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May 10, 2024 21:17
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Steve Vader posted:Miracle Whip calls itself "salad dressing" so it's not technically trying to be mayo. It was the only mayo we had growing up though. https://lowsugarsnax.com/the-best-sugar-free-mayonnaise/
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May 10, 2024 21:19
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Mordiceius posted:It's simple. If someone asks you to bring an item and they refer to that item by name, you bring that name brand item. house of the dad posted:It's just an annoying ESH situation all around. Guy waited until last minute in a dumb way and made a substitution without checking. It'd be better if MIL wasn't uptight about not getting the name brand thing she wanted, but understandable in a "I just asked for one thing" kind of way when you're putting in the work to have people over. She vented in an overly harsh manner that wasn't intended for OP's ears and it's unfortunate he heard it. I don't think a lecture about classism is going to change her opinion about just wanting to have the thing she's comfortable with. jfc I am so glad my friends and family are normal
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also I read those with fragmaster voice in my head
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Here's the thing. Some store brands are as good as the real thing, some even made in the same factory. Some of them use lesser-quality ingredients. I've had store-brand kleenex that sanded off my nose, and now I have to wear a (brand-name, of course) rubber prosthetic. Store-brand canned tomatoes are definitely worse than either Hunt's or Muir Glen. It's good to know which things you can taste the difference between and which you can't. It's possible that OP's relative has cooked with both Cool Whip and the store brand and thinks the brand-name is better. It's possible she's just a slave to advertising. But the straightforward thing to do is to call. "Hey, I can't find Cool Whip/Pepsi/buffalo milk mozzarella, is it okay if I substitute?"
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house of the dad posted:It's just an annoying ESH situation all around. Guy waited until last minute in a dumb way and made a substitution without checking. It'd be better if MIL wasn't uptight about not getting the name brand thing she wanted, but understandable in a "I just asked for one thing" kind of way when you're putting in the work to have people over. She vented in an overly harsh manner that wasn't intended for OP's ears and it's unfortunate he heard it. I don't think a lecture about classism is going to change her opinion about just wanting to have the thing she's comfortable with. As I said before, anyone who feels this way about brand name cool whip is not worth having in your life at all.
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Cool Whip really is not whipped cream, it's its own thing, and that thing does not have a reasonable generic term in vernacular vocabulary. the store brand "cool whip" would still be and is called "cool whip" by everyone i know, because what else could you possibly call it? "please pick up a tub of frozen whipped-style non-dairy dessert" - something a human being would totally say. if you want brand name cool whip you gotta say "brand name cool whip"
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May 10, 2024 21:34
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Oreo couple is dumb. A container of Oreos is less than five bucks, and if the wife is eating them as an occasional treat that package will last a couple weeks. They can afford it, husband is the rear end in a top hat.
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May 10, 2024 21:38
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Getting that angry and publicly passive aggressive over a guest bringing generic Cool Whip instead of name brand is a far greater social infraction than the guest bringing generic Cool Whip. My final ruling is that the OP, while he did make a mistake and should try a bit harder in the future, is NTA. The MIL is using up all of the rear end in a top hat energy for herself, so there’s not even enough left for the OP to make it an ESH situation. Some people here have obviously never read Miss Manners. She wasn’t right about everything, but she was spot on about how it’s actually ruder for a host to point out a guest’s faux pas or gauche behavior than it is for the guest to act in that way.
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May 10, 2024 21:41
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AITA for making my parents replace my "toys" they decided to give away.quote:I'm moving to another city for work. Since I'm an adult and not a college kid I hired movers.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Here's the thing. Some store brands are as good as the real thing, some even made in the same factory. Some of them use lesser-quality ingredients. I've had store-brand kleenex that sanded off my nose, and now I have to wear a (brand-name, of course) rubber prosthetic. Store-brand canned tomatoes are definitely worse than either Hunt's or Muir Glen. But have you tried great value? https://thegreatevaluation.tumblr.com/post/3020945456/cool-whip-vs-great-value in conclusion
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Using lovely fake whipped cream in the first place is the faux pas. Store brand husband is innocent.
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Kurieg posted:AITA for making my parents replace my "toys" they decided to give away.
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FMguru posted:Good strong spine on OP. "As helpful as a bag of used horse condoms" is a solid burn. LOL @ dad making a fool of himself trying to buy an out-of-stock replacement at the Lego Store. Its a lego set Son, how many bananas could it cost!?
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house of the dad posted:It's just an annoying ESH situation all around. Guy waited until last minute in a dumb way How far in advance is it necessary to plan for “pick up Cool Whip?” He didn’t arrive with a sheet cake instead of the custom birthday cake he was assigned. If there are truly no substitutes for this brand, it’s on the host to clarify that. Not the person running an errand for her.
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do you have this in the US?
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mystes posted:Their supermarket was out of Cool Whip. He also specifically waited until the day of and tried to grab it 20 minutes before heading over there. Yeah, I feel like girlfriend's mom overreacted. But also from her POV, it could be the situation where she had spent a lot of time prepping items for this get together and daughters boyfriend who asked to help was given a single item to bring and he didn't even bring what he was asked.
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AceClown posted:do you have this in the US? My granddad used to eat this with corned beef, onions and Smash instant mashed potato. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the British palate did not really recover from the severe rationing of World War II until about 2004.
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wizardofloneliness posted:Getting that angry and publicly passive aggressive over a guest bringing generic Cool Whip instead of name brand is a far greater social infraction than the guest bringing generic Cool Whip. My final ruling is that the OP, while he did make a mistake and should try a bit harder in the future, is NTA. The MIL is using up all of the rear end in a top hat energy for herself, so there’s not even enough left for the OP to make it an ESH situation.
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You should've known. I asked for Cool Whip. And what did you bring me? Generic brand sludge! *dips bull whip in liquid nitrogen* Now you will know the true meaning of the Cool Whip!
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DeeplyConcerned posted:You should've known. I asked for Cool Whip. And what did you bring me? Generic brand sludge! Please stop sharing your slashfic.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Here's the thing. Some store brands are as good as the real thing, some even made in the same factory. Some of them use lesser-quality ingredients. I've had store-brand kleenex that sanded off my nose, and now I have to wear a (brand-name, of course) rubber prosthetic. Store-brand canned tomatoes are definitely worse than either Hunt's or Muir Glen. no, that's impossible. the generic is always exactly the same as the name brand, and any perceived difference is purely a result of advertising's corrosive effect on the mind. your continued insistence to the contrary is counter-revolutionary,
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Mord are you the gf's mom or something? This is an insane position to take.
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