Compared To Generic

It can be tough. You try to get your money’s worth. You have to make decisions, and yet, the decisions, the options, they’re increasing daily.

There’s a generic option of every thing. There’s Avatar: The Last Air Bender and there’s the generic Highschool of the Dead. With the first one, you may laugh, you may find edge-of-your-seat action, you may wish you had your own sky bison, and you know you’re going to be entertained. The second option has the potential to turn you into the living dead.

Some choices aren’t so easy as that last example. If you need to save some money, you might choose the lower quality, knock-off brand of chili and cheese corn chips instead of the Chili-Cheese Fritos on the next shelf. You might save a couple of dollars. You might have the lingering aftertaste of ferrous fungus for a day or two. What matters is that you made the choice that was good for you.

In a similar vein, what do you do when you look straight at the generic tarts right before you see the Pop Tarts, and the generic ones cost one dollar less? On the one hand, you know you won’t be wishing for more flavor. On the other hand, you saved a dollar so you could buy twice as many. Twice as many flavorless tarts. In this case, it all depends on how desperately you want to save that dollar.

Another top-of-the-line versus generic comparison is that of gospel singer Lauren Daigle and her pop music sound-alike Adele. Adele is good. Her music will temporarily fill a void. Listening to Lauren Daigle though, you might wonder where she’s been all your life. Her sublime melodies will fill the hole in your soul in such a way you’ll never know the hole was even there.

Musical comparisons are extremely abundant so here’s another for your rumination. Consider the generic blues sound of The Black Keys for a moment. Now consider the amazing, unstoppable blues sound of Blackwater Fever. Suddenly The Black Keys look like unfrosted, flavorless tarts, don’t they?

Now we’re getting into the dramatic differences. Beware of this next comparison. Beware doing your own research on the subject. Some people don’t even like the Transformers, so they’ll say, “Well, how could Transformers be the higher quality choice?” Trust me, if you had ever seen a movie as bad as Transmorphers, you would agree the choice should be easy. You could probably find the generic, knock-off brand of this comparison for less than nothing, but, in this case, the price reflects its worth. So be extra cautious, this generic could be like the first one mentioned in this post and leave you brainless.