To say some people say things are great when they aren't?!

[tvdinners43]

Posting a little bit tongue in cheek here following a chat with my hubby at the weekend.

Round where we live there's quite a few small indie businesses that have flourished during lockdown (mainly those that have set up selling food and local restaurants that have changed their menus to offer deliveries and cocktails at the door... so all great stuff!)

Now I do know that we should all support small local businesses and I feel passionate about this, we regularly buy from local eateries and eat out.

But I noticed that with many I've seen friends who have given shout outs on social media to say that these places are "amazing" "outstanding" "incredible service" and then when I've used them... I've found some of them to be substandard or average.

I'm a happy customer, always polite and never demanding so it's not that. I just wonder whether some people will say things are "amazing" on social media, when really they're average....

This happens a lot, hasten to add I don't have high standards and am not posh! Just love good well cooked food and good service.

Does anyone else find there's a distortion between what they see posted online and reality, in this context?

YANBU.

I think it's natural people are going to be enthusiastic about things on social media. It would be weird to post a nice picture of you and your family out for brunch/ dinner/ whatever and say 'out for an average meal with slightly stilted service with my beautiful family!'.
Add to it the fact that people are excited to be back out and about and it's understandable.

I don't really get what being posh would have to do with it though - posh people don't have to have good taste.

YANBU

I always wonder if people have very low standards
or are related to the owners!

Its a shame, because no one will believe a genuinely enthusiastic post about something.

My mum had a friend like this in the 80s and 90s. She would recount say, a meal somewhere, in glowing terms, with exquisite attention to detail. My mum would think "wow! That sounds amazing!" before coming to the realisation that she had been there at the time. Mum just lacked the gift of making an ok meal into something worth writing home about.

Well I think it’s a bit like when someone comments on a photo of someone looking perfectly nice and they say ‘stunning’. Or a loaf of bread someone’s baked is ‘incredible’. People are over-zealous with their adjectives on social media 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

These responses have made me smile. I guess if you wrote about your "average meal with dodgy service" on social media it wouldn't be quite the same

I had friends just like that... everywhere they went they would apparently have come away "best friends" with the managers/owners, have shared their life stories, laughter and tears all in the course of an incredible meal.

It was tough because I then thought "gosh j must have a real resting bitch face! Restaurant managers never try and be my best friend "