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<blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 416667" data-attributes="member: 649">I don't think it's a shame that Bud Light is the bestselling US beer, followed by Budweiser: there's nothing objectively wrong with those beers. Taste is subjective.Let's say that hamburgers are the most popular food in America (don't know if they are, but let's pretend). Is there something inherently good about that because you happen to like hamburgers, too? Something bad about it because you prefer pizza? Our favorite soft drink is Coke. Is that because it's somehow objectively better than all other soft drinks?I do think it's a shame that more Americans don't try beers that have flavors different from the very light flavors we seem to favor, but I don't think that means we have bad taste, just different taste. Personally I much prefer beers with more flavor and body (love Guiness Draught), but I don't use my preference to look down my nose at Bud drinkers, just like I don't use my preference for Dr. Pepper to look down my nose at Coke drinkers. (I use other subjective criteria!) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fast Learner, post: 416667, member: 649"] I don't think it's a [i]shame[/i] that Bud Light is the bestselling US beer, followed by Budweiser: there's nothing objectively [i]wrong[/i] with those beers. Taste is subjective. Let's say that hamburgers are the most popular food in America (don't know if they are, but let's pretend). Is there something inherently good about that because you happen to like hamburgers, too? Something bad about it because you prefer pizza? Our favorite soft drink is Coke. Is that because it's somehow objectively better than all other soft drinks? I [i]do[/i] think it's a shame that more Americans don't try beers that have flavors different from the very light flavors we seem to favor, but I don't think that means we have bad taste, just different taste. Personally I much prefer beers with more flavor and body (love Guiness Draught), but I don't use my preference to look down my nose at Bud drinkers, just like I don't use my preference for Dr. Pepper to look down my nose at Coke drinkers. (I use other subjective criteria!) :) [/QUOTE]

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