But now there is a pleasant, more authentic alternative.
Curtained Legoland Billund in Denmark is the birthplace of fantastic plastic and offers a more authentic alternative to its British cousin in Windsor.
And while some of the people staying at such holy spots are among the 300,000 religious travelers fueling the booming $18 billion faith-tourism industry, others are simply ordinary vacationers seeking a more authentic alternative to an anonymous hotel.
Eating pancakes with meat, mushroom or sweet fillings and watching folk dances and games in Pirohovo museum in Kiev on this occasion is a more authentic alternative to dressing up for Mardi Gras.
There is a new, more authentic option in town.
With such tasty, populist, well-marketed products, those looking for more authentic Mexican alternatives have always had trouble tearing themselves away from the tortillas and tequila.
With regimes that spouted western-inspired slogans of nationalism, secularism and socialism singularly failing to deal with acute economic and social problems, a supposedly more authentic, faith-based alternative had mass appeal.
When the overheated, increasingly academic art scene of the 1980's fueled widespread new interest in folk and self-taught art as more "authentic" and affordable alternatives, Edmondson once again became a star.
Such stories would provide a more authentic and badly needed alternative to the cliched, often patronising tales by "white saviours", with their echoes of Kipling and Conrad.
What is crucial about the "identity" of identity politics appears to be the experience of the subject, especially his or her experience of oppression and the possibility of a shared and more authentic or self-determined alternative.
Finally, for a genre that has sought many times over to create an independent alternative more authentic than the mainstream, it makes sense to choose the typeface for its connotative powers of imparting "ye olde" authenticity.
