Attachment to Brand Names

jackinthemix94

prinzeugen wrote: »

This thing that "its made in the same factory so is the same" is absolute rubbish.

Sure factories may make stuff for many chains, but it is done in batches and the ingredients vary according to the shops own recipe using ingredients from the shops own suppliers.

Channel 4's series "Food Unwrapped" pointed this out many times.

The same goes for non food products.

Absolutely. People justify being stingy be claiming it's all the same :rolleyes::o.

Wigglepuppy

Really? That's news to me. To me, a tin of tuna is a tin of tuna, a tin of beans is a tin of beans is a tin of beans, salad veg is salad veg, a block of white cheddar is a block of white cheddar etc.

I don't care what brand a mayonnaise is, as I only have a tiny bit so don't really taste it.

Generic basics - makes sense to me to buy the cheaper alternatives, then have money left over to splash out on clothes or going for a lovely meal. No need for the "stingy" presumptions.

Thargor wrote: »

Ive been eating Aldi and Lidl chocolate for months now, my mother had a box of Cadburys Milk Tray down home a few weeks ago and I honestly couldn't eat them anymore, sickly sweet and nearly completely tasteless.

Aren't they two opposing things?

Muahahaha

Billy86 wrote: »

It's called Pepsi, and it wins the taste tests for a reason. To each their own really, but Coke is actually the first time I remember being aware of branding, when a few of my friends agreed "it doesn't taste as good when you take the label off the bottle." :pac:

Some smaller brands blow them bPoth out of the water, though might be harder to find in Ireland.

Pepsi wins taste tests when people are given a small sample, Coke wins it overall when entire cans are drunk. Reason being is that Pepsi is sweeter so when you get a small sample of it people prefer it on their tongue. But overall Coke wins out, the sales figures dont lie

fussyonion

I am loyal to certain brands but I have tried cheaper alternatives.

I do a lot of shopping in Aldi and like others have said, their foods are made by companies we are already familiar (without the label we're familiar with) and taste either the same or nicer!

I really love the Extra Mature cheddar from Aldi; €2.09 for a 395g block and it's the strongest cheese I've tasted.
I also love their Multigrain Hoops ("Cheerios"). Much nicer than Cheerios and only €1.79 for a huge box.

I DID love McGrath's tea but they went and changed them so now I stick with Lyons.

When it comes to tea, hair products and feminine hygiene products, I will stick with the brands I know and trust, but for everything else, I'll choose a cheaper alternative if there isn't any difference in taste/quality.

Irish Guitarist

lawlolawl wrote: »

They used to sell biscuits that were called "Disco Biscuits".

They changed the name to something innocuous recently

I bought a box of those yesterday. They were called Groovy Biscuits.

prinzeugen

fussyonion wrote: »

I am loyal to certain brands but I have tried cheaper alternatives.

I do a lot of shopping in Aldi and like others have said, their foods are made by companies we are already familiar (without the label we're familiar with) and taste either the same or nicer!
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Did you not read my post? All bollox. Its why they can't say "like brands but cheaper" anymore..

Look at the cheapest products you buy. They are bulked up or have tons of flavorings added to make you think it tastes the same..

Look at the back of the packet/tin etc and compare..

Billy86

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I bought a box of those yesterday. They were called Groovy Biscuits.

Made by MollyCorp, no doubt.

Muahahaha

prinzeugen wrote: »

Did you not read my post? All bollox. Its why they can't say "like brands but cheaper" anymore..

Look at the cheapest products you buy. They are bulked up or have tons of flavorings added to make you think it tastes the same..

Look at the back of the packet/tin etc and compare..

are you saying that a branded form of processed food is healthier than a non-branded one?

fussyonion wrote: »

I do a lot of shopping in Aldi and like others have said, their foods are made by companies we are already familiar (without the label we're familiar with) and taste either the same or nicer!

I really love the Extra Mature cheddar from Aldi; €2.09 for a 395g block and it's the strongest cheese I've tasted.
I also love their Multigrain Hoops ("Cheerios"). Much nicer than Cheerios and only €1.79 for a huge box.

theres a whole thread over on the Cooking forum about Aldi products that outshine their branded equivalent. The extra mature cheddar pops up quite a lot, its a bargain for €2.09 for the weight of it.

kowloon

I find if a supermarket has an own brand and a value own brand that the own brand can be really good, but the value brand is muck that is a cheap to make as possible, even if it ends up being barely palatable.

mansize

It's 99% marketing

learn_more

I find own brand Tea less flavoursome than the big tea brands. I still buy the own brand tea though because it's a way cheaper and I believe it's cheaper for reason.

Actually I just had some McVitties Choc digestives at my mums yesterday and I was just thinking how much better they were than the own-brand pack of similar that cost only 59c. Again, they are that much cheap for a reason. It's not just the packaging.

FanadMan

bubblypop wrote: »

My mother works in a creamery where they make butter.

Would that be in Monaghan? As far as I can remember, Town of Monaghan Dairy used to package butter for both Kerrygold and Lidl. The only difference was the price.

Samaris

Muahahaha wrote: »

Pepsi wins taste tests when people are given a small sample, Coke wins it overall when entire cans are drunk. Reason being is that Pepsi is sweeter so when you get a small sample of it people prefer it on their tongue. But overall Coke wins out, the sales figures dont lie

Coke used to win out when they used...now, what was it. They used a particular recipe in terms of the sweetener (after they stopped using cocaine!), and then changed to something else. Probably from sugar to corn syrup, as that seems to be America's main sweetener.

Actually, a lot of American bland or weird sweet food comes down to corn syrup. I see why they use it, they have tonnes of the stuff to get rid of, so it's dirt cheap compared to sugar, but ...yuck. The chocolate (as I've muttered about before) is candy-flavored thick, gritty, over-sweet gunk and coke is only eh as far as I'm concerned.

As for what they do to innocent cheese...

Speedwell

Samaris wrote: »

Coke used to win out when they used...now, what was it. They used a particular recipe in terms of the sweetener (after they stopped using cocaine!), and then changed to something else. Probably from sugar to corn syrup, as that seems to be America's main sweetener.

Yes, it was a switch from sugar to high-fructose corn syrup. The full story is that they changed the recipe slightly, called it "New Coke" in a completely tone-deaf marketing effort, and the country thought it was the end of the world. But wait! They brought back "Coke Classic" and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Especially the marketing reps who were wondering HOW ON EARTH Coke could diversify its iconic brand. Success was had on all fronts, except that later New Coke was decommissioned and regular Coke got made with corn syrup anyway. In Texas we all went down to Hispanic grocery shops where they imported the Mexican Coke still made to the old recipe with sugar, Coke sales boomed in Mexican border towns, and Coca-Cola turned a blind eye.

On the actual subject of brand names, in the American South you can go into a restaurant and order a Coke, and they will ask you, "What kind do y'all want, we have Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, and Dr Pepper [no full stop in that, mind you!]". In most households "a Coke" means any sort of fizzy drink poured over ice from a bottle.

You will hear that old Coke was made with cocaine, and so it was, but they got rid of that extremely early. Reportedly the recipe then contained coca leaf for a while. Now there is no trace of any coca in the product.

Actually, a lot of American bland or weird sweet food comes down to corn syrup. I see why they use it, they have tonnes of the stuff to get rid of, so it's dirt cheap compared to sugar, but ...yuck. The chocolate (as I've muttered about before) is candy-flavored thick, gritty, over-sweet gunk and coke is only eh as far as I'm concerned.

As for what they do to innocent cheese...

You mean that "pasteurized process cheese food" euphemistically referred to as "American cheese", particularly when wrapped in plastic as "singles"? Hear, hear. On the subject of American cheeses more generally, though, I have rarely had better cheese than the monumentally silly but extremely tasty Cheddar style "Cougar Gold" produced and sold in tins by the University of Wisconsin: https://creamery.wsu.edu/cougar-cheese/ I kept a tin of that stuff on the bottom shelf of my refrigerator for three years to age, and it was even better than a new tin.