One of the rare misfire jokes of old/classic Simpsons was Bart's class being taken to visit the boring "box factory" while right next door was the exciting "toy factory" they didn't go to. Weird assumption that if X is more fun than Y, factory(X) is more fun than factory(Y).
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I've visited 2 actual chocolate factories. They're not actually that interesting. I suspect toy factories are not that fun either, unless there's a manufacturing angle (like tolerances in lego bricks). Your average toy isn't that special a product. It would be dull.
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Otoh, seemingly dull things can have fascinating manufacturing. For instance a link chain factory I once visited. I'd expect box factories to actually be quite interesting. At least for some kinds of boxes.
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Busch Gardens in Florida. I think I was eight.
Watching beer get bottled and canned.
They had trouble getting me to leave.
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Fully agree, it's probably inversely correlated. Banal everyday things are often highly automated or even have exotic machinery to produce them very cheaply en masse.
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