Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "American Reacts to Why "Bad" Coffee Took Over The USA" video.

  1. 11:20 Yeah, there's no way every Australian can assess every individual US coffee cart, or even the independent roasters of which there would be thousands in the US. But that works both ways, as there's many of them here too. As an expatriate Melbournian in Brisvegas, I get that also there's the regional preference, the subjective, that "I'm used to this flavour and therefore consider this to be good" issue too. I'll be honest, I HATE one of the most popular coffee brands here (yeah, Merlo, I'm looking at you). When I first moved here it was everywhere as a supposedly premium coffee and I'd rather have drunk instant. Or muddy water from a puddle to be honest. I couldn't get a good Turkish Coffee, or a good Latte, or a decent Flat White, or a passable Macchiato to save my life, so I got used to drinking instant to save some coin. Coffee, like most things consumer, is in part an art, a science and a brainwashing experiment on the masses. In the end you can get great product, you can get cheap product, you can get accessible product, but you can never have all three together so you make your own choice as to what you can live with.
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  2. In Italian circles you don't drink the same coffee all day - there are cultural rules of when you should drink certain types of coffee. Other cultures it is different. But at least the advantage of the Italian way is it encourages you to try different things.
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  3. 7:39 It's conservatism. Only doing things you're used to. America IS a very conservative country, not just politically but socially. This may shock a lot of Americans, who think they are the ones leading the direction of the free world but it's totally true. If you look at the current US positions on many things, without getting into any specific politics or topics (let's dodge those fights) America lags behind most European nations, or even the greater Anglosphere on metrics to do with food quality standards, voting rights, women's rights, environmental practices, corporate responsibility and absolutely on religious activity. Conservatism can be both a positive and a negative. It depends on WHAT you are trying to preserve and more importantly the reasons you are trying to preserve it, and WHO benefits. Americans are great at preserving beauty through National Parks, and breeding programs for certain endangered species, for instance, as well as certain cultural behaviours. But it can also be a trap that encourages backwards thinking that disadvantages certain groups within your society and provides economic or social benefits to others. Of course, America is far from monolithic, too. So there's plenty of free thinkers out there who break new ground for business and we certainly have America to thank for the insane variation in the craft brew scene. What this video shows is conservatism can just be a method to push bad consumer product for profit on the masses, a weapon of control and manipulation. Don't be manipulated. Choose the good.
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