CasterTroy
Faster'N You
- Joined
- Mar 21, 2005
- Location
- Wallburg
I have nothing new to add to the numerous reviews out there...other than my silly commentary. Just enough to create a 5 minute distraction from doing "actual work" today 
This is a review of my recent purchase: Ozark Trail tumbler from Walmart (Fake Yeti….or FETI)
I’m no fanboy. I never had a “Salt Life” sticker, or bought into the whole “Tapout”, and I DON’T believe a lifted truck should be drive WITHOUT the rear portion of the lift installed. But I DO believe if a product works, and is WORTH it then I will invest.
However, I was around and even old enough to be a gearhead when the fiero debuted. If you were too you understand where I’m going with this.
Rarely do I rush out and buy the latest and greatest dinglehopper as soon as it hits the store shelf. There’s always a guinea pig time frame where the bugs of anything new are worked out (see Fiero, Remington R51, Suzuki TLS, the democratic party…..still working on major bugs there) but aside from the guinea pig era, there’s also the “copying is the greatest form of flattery” that comes along after a great invention. Typically China is the first to go after a new product, duplicate it for 1/100th the price and sell it for ½. MOST of the time it’s utter crap and not worth the investment. But after reading multiple reviews, I decided to take a plunge myself. And all I have to say is; this time, I think they hit a home run!
The boy and I ran by wallyworld yesterday after lunch and snatched up 3 of these as well as a beer-titty for less than what one Yeti would cost. I got 3 because I wanted one for water, and one for coffee. And of course I wanted the boy to have one too. And the beer-titty? Well, why not?
The boy went home and immediately washed his and loaded I up with ice around 2. He STILL had ice around 9 last night, so I was excited for my test today.
I brewed coffee at 5:45 and headed out around 6:20, pouring my FETI with dark gold and creamer (like my women, blonde and with a kick). Typically I fill a shelf-quality coffee container and rarely is my coffee still warm enough to enjoy by the time I get to the office around 6:45. But today? My coffee was actually too HOT to drink until I was at the office a good 30 minutes. It’s as if my coffee actually GAINED temperature after I put it in the tumbler.
I carefully sipped my dark nectar for the next 2 hours. All the while maintaining a relatively consistent temperature of “molten lava”
I’m impressed. As I write this (9:12am) I am finishing off the last of my coffee, and it’s every bit as hot as the first sip usually is from a standard tumbler at 6:25 in the car. Now it’s time to switch to water and see how long this ice lasts me that I filled up a 6:00 am!
OH...and FETI came from my Son's girlfriend giving him crap about having a Fake Yeti but hey it works!
This is a review of my recent purchase: Ozark Trail tumbler from Walmart (Fake Yeti….or FETI)
I’m no fanboy. I never had a “Salt Life” sticker, or bought into the whole “Tapout”, and I DON’T believe a lifted truck should be drive WITHOUT the rear portion of the lift installed. But I DO believe if a product works, and is WORTH it then I will invest.
However, I was around and even old enough to be a gearhead when the fiero debuted. If you were too you understand where I’m going with this.
Rarely do I rush out and buy the latest and greatest dinglehopper as soon as it hits the store shelf. There’s always a guinea pig time frame where the bugs of anything new are worked out (see Fiero, Remington R51, Suzuki TLS, the democratic party…..still working on major bugs there) but aside from the guinea pig era, there’s also the “copying is the greatest form of flattery” that comes along after a great invention. Typically China is the first to go after a new product, duplicate it for 1/100th the price and sell it for ½. MOST of the time it’s utter crap and not worth the investment. But after reading multiple reviews, I decided to take a plunge myself. And all I have to say is; this time, I think they hit a home run!
The boy and I ran by wallyworld yesterday after lunch and snatched up 3 of these as well as a beer-titty for less than what one Yeti would cost. I got 3 because I wanted one for water, and one for coffee. And of course I wanted the boy to have one too. And the beer-titty? Well, why not?
The boy went home and immediately washed his and loaded I up with ice around 2. He STILL had ice around 9 last night, so I was excited for my test today.
I brewed coffee at 5:45 and headed out around 6:20, pouring my FETI with dark gold and creamer (like my women, blonde and with a kick). Typically I fill a shelf-quality coffee container and rarely is my coffee still warm enough to enjoy by the time I get to the office around 6:45. But today? My coffee was actually too HOT to drink until I was at the office a good 30 minutes. It’s as if my coffee actually GAINED temperature after I put it in the tumbler.
I carefully sipped my dark nectar for the next 2 hours. All the while maintaining a relatively consistent temperature of “molten lava”
I’m impressed. As I write this (9:12am) I am finishing off the last of my coffee, and it’s every bit as hot as the first sip usually is from a standard tumbler at 6:25 in the car. Now it’s time to switch to water and see how long this ice lasts me that I filled up a 6:00 am!
OH...and FETI came from my Son's girlfriend giving him crap about having a Fake Yeti but hey it works!
