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“There was this novel where the protagonist got super wealthy and went and bought a whole bunch of iced red tea [a bottled drink from Kangshifu], and a reader finally couldn’t take it anymore and donated a bunch of money to the author and told him to buy some better drinks.”

It seems reasonable that a character that hadn't been wealthy long would still like the drinks he used to. In the US at least, when they're not drinking alcohol or perhaps coffee or tea, the rich people drink the same Coca-Cola as the poor people; the expensive high-quality high-status version of that kind of thing just doesn't exist.

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