I'm having a hard time distinguishing "premium mediocre" from "bourgeois" as the term is applied to tastes and preferences.
As with so many other neologisms, I think this concept is already amply covered in English's huge vocabulary.
As with so many other neologisms, I think this concept is already amply covered in English's huge vocabulary.
The money is the difference, Premium Mediocre have none.
What irks me is that mediocre implies a lack of distinguishable quality, but this is separate from how much something costs. To use the avocado toast example given in the article, if the avocado toast is healthy and genuinely tasty, is it still mediocre? Are all cheap products like bread by nature 'mediocre'? I don't think so. This is where I see that the term falls down, it conflates price and quality where this relationship is not necessarily direct.