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Michelin Man
*Bibendum
he was lettening cars.
that’s diabolical
Saying the Pledge of Allegiance during school was a tradition that was invented by a company which made American flags, they did it as a sales tactic.
America doesn’t really have a culture it just has capitalism.
And the best part, Michelin is French. It was French capitalism that created this.
goddammit.
Oh there’s definitely more. Do you want me to regale you with the tale of how the Red suited Santa Coke invented came to be? Or do you want to keep thinking a holiday about giving gifts wasn’t invented by corporations? How about how giving pre-made cards on a variety of holidays became to be a thing because of Hallmark?
Greetings cards predate Hallmark by quite a lot.
I never said they invented greeting cards. I said they normalized giving them on a variety of holidays that previously were less commonplace for cards. For example the person that created Mother’s day fucking HATED Hallmark.
damn
You’re certainly a riveting conversationalist. I’ll leave you with this. How influential on the design of our very cities has the auto industry and oil industry been? Are our cities designed around using as little fuel as possible, or the exact opposite?
Stop jacking yourself off, this is a public post
Damn, I was just starting to really work the shaft.
Aaaand… the flavors of the food have vanished.
How so
French-style cooking is quite infamous of “entrying” other cultures. Hungarian here, people often try to minimize seasoning in the food they cook, because they saw some French star chef on TV doing things that way, often they’re going even further. I.e. instead of replacing bouillon cubes with soup stock, they just use tap water, jet still claim it’s more “luxurious cooking” that way.
That’s not it at all.
Multiple scientific studies done by the big food corps have shown, consistently, that the majority of people in the world prefer blander food.
You may not personally, but multiple double blind studies have shown that the average Joe prefers blandness, and bland unspiced food tends to sell better than the opposite.
I think there’s some context missing here, otherwise cooked unsalted chicken would be a common treat (it’s not). Do you mean it more like “1 or 2 spices is better than 5?”
I was so confused when I realized that the restaurant thing is the same as the tire company. I’d assumed my whole life that it was just random that both happened to be associated with the same name. Honestly it still doesn’t make much sense to me.
To be fair , the restaurant reviewed need to be decent at serving their menu at minimum in order for this to work.
This was from the cool time when companies used their money to make things even if they’re only tangentially related to their business. The mickelin guide and the gennis book of records are cut from the same cloth.
Now companies just spend money on stock buybacks and other financial chicanery.
mickelin
gennis
Jesus H. Christ
Jebus A. Crist
He’s talking positively about major corporations, are you really surprised at the spelling and grammar?
i see what you’re getting at, however along the same vein this seems like a good time to point out that it literally says in her name that she’s not a he :P
Gave away the joke with the title
Michelin is the exact opposite of AMC
You expect AMC theaters and the AMC channel to be the same thing
They’re not
It is weird when you think about it.
Similarly, the Guinness book of records was started by Guinness the beer brand to settle pub arguments.
Yeah. I always assumed the name Michelin was just a coincidence. I was incredulous when I found out that it’s the same company. Genuinely weird thing for a tire company to do.
Nah, originally it was just a complementary map for those who bought tires. They ended up just being the most reputable reviewer with their star system that it became a prestige thing afterwards.
They did not start it for the reason in the comic. That is a complete fabrication.
It was an internal list of restaurants to wine and dine fine clients, and it was a massive success and many people who wanted to know where to take their own clients kept trying to find out about the Michelin list
I always knew because my parents had this book with the tire guy on it:
I don’t remember if it mentioned restaurants in it as well, but the association with them and travel guides made the connection for me, I guess.
Nah that’s the green guide. It’s focused on sight seeing and cultural attractions.
The red guide is the restaurant one.
That’s a cool looking booklet.
Michelin also edited road maps and built milestones to help early time drivers find there way on the roads !
I mean, when you’re a tire company and not a lot of people have cars or good reasons to put lots of miles on them…
All that food sampling has made his body lumpy and bloated.
And ribbed for her pleasure
Does it actually make money for them somehow? Or does it just keep their name in the public’s collective mind?
It helped them sell more tires, it associated the tires name with higher quality, it made money by itself, and it pushed the mascot into an icon capable of making money by itself.
All for something that sounds like a dr. Doofenshmittz plan.
Maybe it associates their name with high quality as well.
You have to remember that Michelin is a French company, so the Michelin star guide was originally about getting the French public to drive to French restaurants.
The French car-owning public… In 1900. So basically getting the ultra rich to drive to very expensive restaurants.
They were famous for referencing good restaurants, not only stared ones.
Even a restaurant with one star nowadays is a $60 seat minimum. The best restaurants in the world are expensive.
They also have given stars to hole in the walls and hawker stalls. Like this one
There’s one in Hong Kong that is famously inexpensive for a 1 star, like $10-15 USD for a meal of dim sum. I think I read somewhere it’s the cheapest 1 star restaurant in the world.
Is that the one in the airport? It’s fantastic.
The one I had in mind was Tim Ho Wan in Sham Shui Po, but they have restaurants throughout the city. But looking at the current Michelin Guide, I see it’s just “Michelin recommended” as opposed to 1 star. I’m not sure if the rating has been changed since I went or if I’m mixing it up with a different one, but either way it was very good and service was crazy efficient! Gonna have to check out the one in the airport if I’m ever in HK again. The whole food scene in HK is great, never had a bad or even average meal there.
The state/county/province/whatever pays several million dollars for the guide to judge its restaurants.
Its a very valuable tourism and service industry development tool.
They make a bunch of money selling the guides.
It’s become a whole side business.
It’s leeching money. The fine dining bills are through the roof. The cost of the guides, that few people actually buy, stand in Pqle comparison of having to buy multiple courses in the most expensive restaurants in the world.
Got a source for your claim Michelin loses money on the guides?
The source is the podcast ‘no such thing as a fish’, which is generally well sourced.
The quote in particular is from a Chicago chef, and it’s localized. However the sales of the book themselves are marginal considering the cost of the system.
A bit of a tangential aside, but I always disliked that podcast name. Fish is a reasonable morphological and ecological term and the fact that people have tried to stretch it into a phylogenetic term is silly. Morphology is a perfectly legitimate way to describe something; it just gives you a different set of information.
Yeah it’s a bit of an unfortunate name. They call it ‘fish’ for short, which is a bit contradictory too, as there now is a thing called fish.
I don’t think they previsioned the shows succes
Shrugs. I have never eaten at a starred restaurant and I have never specifically purchased tires from Michelin.
I have, because they’re amazing tires for my climate- the cross climate ones.
Meanwhile the Michelin OEM tires on my car were the worse tires i ever had. Didnt last 20k miles and they didnt have much grip on dry pavement from day one.
Michelin tires are fine, I bought many of them because my favourite tire place sells a shitton of heavy truck tires from them so they have great discounts. And I’ve eaten at a starred restaurant because it was my friends’. Haven’t loved the latter tho.
I have both accidentally eaten at a Starred restaurant and unintentionally bought their tires. Happened to eat at a restaurant around the corner from a hotel in Spain that was Starred and only found out after. And got the garage to put new tires on and asked for the not totally cheapest but affordable and got their All Seasons.
I would think it would be really hard for them to tell if it’s working or not, but at this point the restaurant ratings are kind of their own institution and there would probably be a backlash if they shut it down.
The cost of eating in the finest establishments in the world, together with hotels, air-fare and double blind secrecy makes that it’s a net money sink.
What an evil plan XD
Imagine traveling for about two hours to get to a place that serves garbage instead of food, and then getting a flat tire on the way back. Now you’re hungry and need a new tire. Stress level: Pro Max. XD
If all the restourants you go in are shit, I am starting to wonder where you live or how many bad choices you make
…why would anyone do this? How about I imagine something not idiotic?
