I'm sorry and I'm not picking on you or trying to be smart, but this doesn't make sense: anything you buy for $5 in a supermarket is neither rare nor luxurious, by definition. Why do people fall for this.
When it's sitting next to a $0.89 box of Kraft macaroni, the $5.00 box definitely feels like a luxury.
These things may seem commonplace locally, but to people on the other side of the country these "cheap" things can be a rare luxury.
I didn’t realize that truffle oil doesn’t come from truffles, so TIL as well. I don’t really like the flavor anyways but it is certainly unique.
Nor is buying a Lexus (by Ferrari's standards) since its essentially just a Toyota with a nicer interior and more gadgets.
People are dumb.
This is exactly my point. Lexus is sold as a "luxury" car.
> A Mercedes is also essentially a Toyota with nicer interior and more gadgets - if you want to put it that way.
You missed the point - which is Toyota and Lexus share the same owner and are literally the same platform of a car: https://www.quora.com/Which-Toyota-model-is-the-same-as-a-Le...
Lexus (レクサス, Rekusasu) is the luxury vehicle division of the Japanese automaker Toyota.[0]
Think about Starbucks. You don't need a $7 coffee drink, but its sweet and tasty, maybe you like the homey atmosphere and fake friendliness from the staff, maybe you like using the fancy names, maybe you like being seen with your Starbucks cup, all because you too can afford a luxury lifestyle. Its all marketing to sell you overpriced coffee and milk.
I much prefer the abundance of smaller privately owned shops you tend to find in Europe over the factory made franchise options you see all over the US. Most Americans seem to have no idea.
The truffle flavor is no different from the fake "college t-shirts"[1] that big pseudo-american chains like NewYorker[2] sell all over the Europe.
[1] https://www.newyorker.de/products/#/detail/05.03.105.0679/00...
Oh phooey. Ferraris are Italian.