• mech@feddit.org
    52·
    4 天前

    Genuine leather is not a lie.
    It’s leather that’s so low quality, the only positive thing you can say about it is that it’s actually leather.

    • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
      244·
      4 天前

      Genuine leather is leather in the same way that an egg taped to a box of Betty Crocker cake mix doused in a cup of oil is a cake.

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
      14·
      4 天前

      “genuine leather” is often reconstituted leather, that is leather scraps ground up and bound together with a binder, like MDF.

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      4 天前

      We live in an age where something actually being what it is is a surprise.

      • Chocolate (often brown sugar paste)
      • Ice cream (often frozen oil)
      • Social media (often antisocial or parasocial)
      • Tower@lemmy.zip
        5·
        4 天前

        I’ve seen recycling labels that indicate the only part that’s recyclable is the recycling label itself.