23 Underrated, Overrated, and Appropriately-Rated Things
Fall 2025 Edition.
Underrated
🌳 Fever-Tree Mediterranean Tonic Water. Let go of the Spindrift. Tonic is the way.
🪩 Blowing off steam by dancing to 90s and 00s hip-hop before 9 pm on a weekday: Enter Mom’s Club.
🪱 Healthier Halloween candy that kids actually like: Rotten Candy.
👓 Baseball players who wear glasses.
🧼 Bar Soap. Release yourself from the gels.
👃 Sneezing. It’s a form of physical satisfaction that has few peers.
🍱 Sugarfish gets most of the glory, but there’s a new hand roll box in town—and it’s a build-your-own beauty: Temaki ToGo.
📴 OK this one is for friends who can take a burn: Putting your phone on “silent mode” *while* someone is actively texting you.
🐑 Crew neck fleeces like this 686 x Mystery Ranch collab.
🍇 Grapes. Have you ever had a bad one?
👂 Asking questions because you are genuinely interested in someone, not because you want to impress people with your listening skills.
🧣 Neck gaiters?
Appropriately-Rated
🔪 Martha Stewart.
🍁 L.L. Bean Rubber Mocs
🍔🍸🍣 The Hillstone Restaurant Group.
🌊🥔 Nori Dust + Potato Chips. Those seaweed sheets in your kid’s lunch can be ground up and dusted on kettle chips.
🛂 Dual passports as a casual flex. OK, honestly, I’m jealous.
🤎 Brown car exteriors.
💡 Making up new words like: Enshittification (the expectation that social media platforms will start out fun and then turn to shit) and polyjamorous (a person who likes multiple genres of music).
Overrated
🥤 Erewhon. We got to the end. Thank you.
🤏 Small plates as the whole identity of a restaurant.
🌪️ Dyson vacuums. They just need to suck a little more?
🇬🇧 Oasis. Sorry.
🦃 Thanksgiving Break. It is just way too many days for one meal.
📱 Your gross little phone.
We’re going to to Newport Beach for a long weekend later this month and the thing I’m most excited about is eating at Gulfstream. Sent from my gross little phone