Aldi rip off/copies....how do they get away with it ?

[icowden]

I just tend to buy the brands I want these days, although the Lidl version of spreadable butter is very nice.

I also vote for this. Two tubs for the price of one tub of Anchor. What's not to like!?

 

[presta]

I could never taste the difference tbh along with most of Waitrose food.

Psychologist Prof Richard Wiseman likes doing experiments to debunk 'connoisseurs', most can't tell the difference they claim to when put in a double blind trial. Give people drinks where the flavour is mismatched to the colour (eg: raspberry flavour coloured orange), and they taste the colour not the flavour. Martin Lewis did some tests on premium vs budget food, and a large number couldn't tell the difference, or preferred the budget products.

In the bar at a local hotel I watched as they got a blindfold, and put four identical glasses on the bar with lager, bitter, Guinness & water in. Everyone howled with laughter when the first one got it wrong, and people were falling over themselves to show how it's done, but by the time a dozen or more had all got it wrong the volunteers were a lot thinner on the ground.

 

[AndyRM]

Psychologist Prof Richard Wiseman likes doing experiments to debunk 'connoisseurs', most can't tell the difference they claim to when put in a double blind trial. Give people drinks where the flavour is mismatched to the colour (eg: raspberry flavour coloured orange), and they taste the colour not the flavour. Martin Lewis did some tests on premium vs budget food, and a large number couldn't tell the difference, or preferred the budget products.

In the bar at a local hotel I watched as they got a blindfold, and put four identical glasses on the bar with lager, bitter, Guinness & water in. Everyone howled with laughter when the first one got it wrong, and people were falling over themselves to show how it's done, but by the time a dozen or more had all got it wrong the volunteers were a lot thinner on the ground.

The psychology of senses really is interesting. Ages ago I watched a programme where they used lamps to alter the colour of food, same thing absolutely every time but depending on the colour some people just wouldn't go near it, even though they knew.

 

[icowden]

Psychologist Prof Richard Wiseman likes doing experiments to debunk 'connoisseurs', most can't tell the difference they claim to when put in a double blind trial. Give people drinks where the flavour is mismatched to the colour (eg: raspberry flavour coloured orange), and they taste the colour not the flavour. Martin Lewis did some tests on premium vs budget food, and a large number couldn't tell the difference, or preferred the budget products.

There was an experiment with wine experts and red wines. IIRC given a selection of wines from £5.99 to wines worth hundreds of pounds the one voted the best was the £5.99 bottle from Waitrose.

There was also the Brochet study where wine science students were given a white wine dyed red and none of them spotted that it was white wine.

 

[presta]

There was an experiment with wine experts and red wines. IIRC given a selection of wines from £5.99 to wines worth hundreds of pounds the one voted the best was the £5.99 bottle from Waitrose.

Conversely, if you leave the price labels on they'll prefer the taste of the most expensive one, even if the labels have been swapped over. Same with paintings, people say they like the one with the highest price tag, even when the prices are swapped.

Here's a really intriguing one:

An experimenter shows the subject two photos of people of the opposite sex and asks them which one they find most attractive. After they've chosen, he hands them the photo they picked and asks them to explain why they chose it, which they do. Unbeknown to the subject, the 'experimenter' is actually a conjuror who's swapped the photos and handed them the one they rejected, and yet the majority of people don't notice, and still describe what they liked about it.

 

[MontyVeda]

in a nutshell, we're gullible f*£&wits.