“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.
Right? I get it. I mean, I guess the reader's point of view is that Kangshifu iced red tea is the shittiest tea. And if you like tea and you're rich, you can afford better tea. But I strongly believe that Kangshifu iced red tea is only tea-flavoured drink. If I have a craving for iced red tea, making real tea for me would not satisfy that craving. It is a very specific flavour that only Kangshifu and also Lipton lemon iced tea can recreate.
And if I was a billionaire, in addition to whatever fancy rich people tea I may or may not have, I would still buy iced red tea.
“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.
Right? I get it. I mean, I guess the reader's point of view is that Kangshifu iced red tea is the shittiest tea. And if you like tea and you're rich, you can afford better tea. But I strongly believe that Kangshifu iced red tea is only tea-flavoured drink. If I have a craving for iced red tea, making real tea for me would not satisfy that craving. It is a very specific flavour that only Kangshifu and also Lipton lemon iced tea can recreate.
And if I was a billionaire, in addition to whatever fancy rich people tea I may or may not have, I would still buy iced red tea.