Chit-Chat: the reason for the party season
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Yea we don't have them either. All snack-bars and caf?s and canteens inside teh faculties' grounds and campuses belong to the university.
ahaha just seems weird like. as i said above, no-one here can afford to buy food when they're out. that and most universities offer their own food in one way or another so there's little demand for that kinda stuff.
no-one cares about brands either - staying alive off as little money as possible is all that matters, at least over here, haha. hell, even "random cafeteria food" is WAY too expensive to eat on a regular basis. you're better off making your own food at home and bringing it with you
Again. US=/=Europe.
And nope, not here when it's much cheaper and it's edible. We don't care about brands. Every saved euro counts.
Pretty much this too
The only loyalty Portuguese people have to non-human entities is football clubs.
Oh we have that too, we just don't eat at the branded fast food places, rather at the faculty snack bar or the Planetarium canteen. The latter is quite good tbh, and cheaper than fast food, so why fast food?
Well, we like to save every euro we can so we can waste it on beer on weekends :D
it could actually be interesting to see how these considerations differ between countries. i'm willing to bet for example you'll see almost the exact opposite in the uk to what you see in the us (to most students in the uk, the price is 100x more important than the quality or the brand, for example). that might be a nice discussion point to include in your project 8)
it's actually really interesting that you say this because, at least where i am, there's a pretty significant anti-brand loyalty mentality going around right now which i'm a big fan of. people are starting to say that your loyalty as a customer means little-to-nothing to mainstream brands, while the mainstream brands are taking advantage of the monopolies they hold to bring people very mediocre products. moreover, local businesses which give areas a feeling of integration and character are pushed out by big names, making them bad for communities. lots and lots of people are abandoning places like starbucks for local cafes and mcdonalds for long-term food trucks or burger bars because what you get is of way better quality and isn't tied into a massive toxic co-operation. your purchase means more to them than to a big name, and their presence means more to you than a big name's. or at least, that's how it's viewed. i'd be on-board with it myself if i could afford to be, haha.
probably just a combination of ease and familiarity. i can't honestly say i've ever heard someone say "nah, mcdonalds does better burgers than [literally any local place]". i'd even go so far as to say that the quality of the food isn't a consideration. people like familiarity and comfort and those things are what give big brands their monopolies.
you've got me rambling now, haha. a big example of this would be how people in the uk react to american chains which aren't usually here. there's a taco bell in this shopping centre near me, for example, which is a very rare sight in the uk and unsurprisingly, regardless of how good or bad its food might be, absolutely no-one goes there. this is despite the fact that there are no other major mexican fast food chains in the uk (to the best of my knowledge anyway - there are a few smaller, more upmarket, ones but i don't think that they're major to the level of something like taco bell) because it's completely unknown to us. meanwhile in the same centre there's a smaller, independent (and much much nicer) mexican takeaway place which has people queueing for miles because it's not losing on familiarity. inversely, in the same shopping centre, a kfc absolutely dominates anywhere else you can buy chicken from. familiarity is everything.
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What the actual fuck!?
yeah exactly. seeing it makes me feel really deeply uncomfortable
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nz tends to be a mix of american and british attitudes, but we're decidedly more british in this aspect. like, given that my uni is in the biggest city in the country, there are naturally going to be branded things everywhere and the big chains (subway being the most notable example, as that particular store's clientele is almost 90% students) make most of their money from students making their way to campus and what not. but the campus itself is totally free of chains and the students association would rather close the cafeteria section entirely than allow, say, burger king to set up shop on campus.
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There are apparently another nine in the UK. Attacking the north and Essex, it would seem. Zero in London.
i like how they felt the need to specify "uk" twice in that url as if to say "yes, you read that correctly, we really ARE invading your country"
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hangovers are the worst, do not recommend .
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yea, I've stopped with them. Much prefer waking up feeling fine :D
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Well, a little bit is nice! Yesterday I had a simply magical coffee-ish Stout. It was like drinking candy. Alcoholic candy. Aaaaa good beer is good. Trash beer is trash.
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