Brands that succeed despite being shite...

Cirrus

Heartfeltdawn said:

Hungry Horse and selected other brands owned by Greene King. 

Abominable places. If the food takes too long to come, you can tide yourself over by licking the food-stained menus and sticky table tops.

Heartfeltdawn

Cirrus said:

Heartfeltdawn said:

Hungry Horse and selected other brands owned by Greene King. 

Abominable places. If the food takes too long to come, you can tide yourself over by licking the food-stained menus and sticky table tops.

@Cirrus today is my first day of unemployment after leaving a GK pub (not HH, next level up). The GK cost cutting on staff numbers is absolutely mental. After talking to a couple of guys who have done Hungry Horse cheffing as a stopgap and comparing it to my own experiences, I'd easily rank Greene King as the worst employer I've had. 

Gassage

Hellemans Mayo is the worst one for me. Every time I go to France I go and get a supply of Delouis Fils.

Hellemans is like dog smegma.

57Deluxe

Walkers Crisps - how 20 individual crisps per bag constitutes a 'Bag of Crisps' is beyond belief

jellyroll

Coke, Pepsi, Man United, Barclays Bank, The Daily Mail.....

Reverend

richardhomer said:

Ernie Ball....

Does anyone else do a set of 11-54 though? I can't seem to find any alternative.

Strat_a_tat_tat

Gassage said:

Hellemans is like dog smegma.

Hellmans is not exactly top drawer.... but I can't say I've ever tried the other brand that you mention. :-)

SimonC

starwarsnosebleed said:

Fosters any lager.

FTFY

Reverend

Gassage said:

THere are some brands that dominate despite being eternally average...

In music, Marshall spring to mind- never found one offering in recent years that's even usable, let alobe good.

But others:

Richmond sausages- can't believe people buy them- made of corn IMO.
Hellman's mayo- an insult to any decent French mayos- horrible processed slime
Bremont Watches- no heritage whatsoever so they use tenuous historical 'memorial' pieces.

What others are there?

Marshall haven;t made a new amp that is any good for years, but no one else can touch them for the classic 2203/super lead/super bass amps when it comes to rock and metal. 

mikeyrob73

Carling & Carlsberg pish water 

ICBM

Sony.

Overpriced and with a noticeable tendency to die just after the warranty runs out, in my experience. Not totally shite, but no better than any other mid-market Japanese brand and not worthy of the higher rating they seem to get.

Garthy

Volkswagen. Utter, utter shite with exceptional advertising & brand power. If they spent just 10% of the budget they spend on the door handle action on something more important like the water pump it would be a massive improvement. 

crunchman

Brand Beckham
MacDonalds
Nescafe
Jamie Oliver
Various London restaurant chains.  Bill's is probably the worst.

Snap

Ted Baker. Over priced and relatively low quality.

hywelg

Doom Bar......

digitalscream

Marshall - not made anything interesting in decades, much less years

Blackstar - I know they have their fans on here, but they just feel like sterile Marshalls to me

AMD (graphics cards) - never come across one which felt like genuine competition to Nvidia, and all AMD's Linux drivers are shocking

Apple - quite possibly the worst software quality control I've ever encountered, and a development approach which seems to revolve more around removing features than adding them

Acer - laptops guaranteed to fall apart within 10 minutes of the warranty expiring

That's it off the top of my head. I'm sure more will occur to me later...

mikeyrob73

Jamie Olivers Italian restaurants 

utter utter shite 

SimonC

Tesco

professorben

Dyson, unreliable, heavy, gimmick based products, if their design dept was as good as their marketing dept, they would be world beating. 

MrBump

professorben said:

Dyson, unreliable, heavy, gimmick based products, if their design dept was as good as their marketing dept, they would be world beating. 

This.