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invertedporcupine:

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TIL there are only around 120 anonymous Michelin restaurant inspectors in the world. They spend 3 out of every 4 weeks on the road, and must vacate a region for 10 years if they think a restaurant suspects their identity.

via reddit.com

Imagine thinking your spouse is a sexy secret agent for decades only to find out he’s a restaurant critic for fat tire boy magazine

Michelin restaurant inspector is *way* cooler than secret agent.

Probably, if only because restaurant inspectors rarely have to shoot anybody, but it also matters whether restaurant criticism has substance or is more like wine tasting.

It’s not high status because it’s useful. It’s high status because you eat at Michelin star restaurants all the time.

Oh, right, most people would enjoy that! I forgot.

That is an interesting question, though.  Is “most likely to please a Michelin critic” even close to the same “as most likely to be a satisfying meal for everyone else”?  I am skeptical. 

Well, they’re actually aiming for “likely to please the sort of people willing to pay to eat at Michelin star restaurants”, which is a bit closer.

I still find it hilarious that a tire manufacturer decided that knowledge of the location of high-quality restaurants was a complementary good with tires and so decided to drive up the supply of the former so they could sell more tires and became the most prestigious source of that knowledge that I’m aware of.

Guinness creating the world records because settling bar bets was a complementary good is even better.

That history is more complicated and much less obviously them thinking it was a complimentary good.