Brand name vs generic

Switch said:

Generic sux

well, I think wasting money sucks, but maybe that's just me 🙂

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On Mon 06 Feb 2006 07:08:10p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Switch?

Quoted message said:

Generic sux

Obviously, just your opinion!

I've found that most generic products are at least as good as brand names.
Some are even better.

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Wayne Boatwright said:

On Mon 06 Feb 2006 07:08:10p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Switch?

Quoted message said:

Generic sux

Obviously, just your opinion!

I've found that most generic products are at least as good as brand names.
Some are even better.

name one

please, name one

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Switch said:

Generic sux

I think it depends on the item. When you say "generic" are you talking
about store brands? I think some things are fine, some are lacking.
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Switch said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

On Mon 06 Feb 2006 07:08:10p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Switch?

Quoted message said:

Generic sux

Obviously, just your opinion!

I've found that most generic products are at least as good as brand names.
Some are even better.

name one

please, name one

the "sebree" iodized salt is just as granulated and salty as morton's.

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saerah

http://anisaerah.blogspot.com/

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a
disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
-Baruch Spinoza

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly
what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear
and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There
is another theory which states that this has already happened."
-Douglas Adams

Switch said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

On Mon 06 Feb 2006 07:08:10p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Switch?

Quoted message said:

Generic sux

Obviously, just your opinion!

I've found that most generic products are at least as good as brand names.
Some are even better.

name one

please, name one

Ok, here's just a few. Food related: My grocery store's housebrand of
geen beans, tomatoes, and tomato paste, and tomato sauce are
outstanding. So is their canned chicken stock, just to name a few.
I've barely scratched the surface. Pain killers: Housebrands of
Tylenol, Advil, Aleeve, aspirin, and Emetrol are great and can save you
many many bucks.

Bad experience with a generic? Were you scared by a generic when you
were a child?

Melba's Jammin said:

I think it depends on the item. When you say "generic" are you talking
about store brands?

all of em

if you wanna stay on top you gotta produce the best

this is why i pay a tad more...I know they are striving tooth and nail
to bring me the best
damn some floor sweepings

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Switch said:

Generic sux

Not always......

and more importantly, it saves money.

You just have to learn to pick and choose. A LOT of generics
are canned by the same places as the name brands! It's all in the
labelling.

Same with turkeys. All those "name brand" turkeys come from the SAME
turkey farms and the SAME processing plants! They just get bagged with
different labels, or special injection treatments to order.
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Switch said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

On Mon 06 Feb 2006 07:08:10p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Switch?

Quoted message said:

Generic sux

Obviously, just your opinion!

I've found that most generic products are at least as good as brand names.
Some are even better.

name one

please, name one

HCF (local store brand generic) veggies, both canned and frozen.
Their canned soups are also better as most are lower in salt.

Their boxed mac and cheese is better than Kraft.

dry pasta is dry pasta, and dry rice and beans are dry rice and beans.

Their baked goods, (bread and corn or flour tortillas) are FAR better
than, say, Mission brand. Mission sux!

I could go on....... but I'm probably pissing in the ocean since you
have already made up your mind. ;-)
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Om.

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On Mon 06 Feb 2006 07:38:08p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Switch?

Quoted message said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

On Mon 06 Feb 2006 07:08:10p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Switch?

Quoted message said:

Generic sux

Obviously, just your opinion!

I've found that most generic products are at least as good as brand
names. Some are even better.

name one

please, name one

House brands of kidney beans, tomato products, beef and chicken broth,
tomato soup, flour, sugar, butter, most other dairy products, frozen
vegetables, bread, and on and on.

Sounds like you simply have a preconceived notion.

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Switch said:

Melba's Jammin said:

I think it depends on the item. When you say "generic" are you talking
about store brands?

all of em

if you wanna stay on top you gotta produce the best

this is why i pay a tad more...I know they are striving tooth and nail
to bring me the best
damn some floor sweepings

all you are paying more for is advertising.

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saerah

http://anisaerah.blogspot.com/

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a
disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
-Baruch Spinoza

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly
what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear
and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There
is another theory which states that this has already happened."
-Douglas Adams

Switch said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

On Mon 06 Feb 2006 07:08:10p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Switch?

Quoted message said:

Generic sux

Obviously, just your opinion!

I've found that most generic products are at least as good as brand names.
Some are even better.

President's Choice.
Some No Name stuff sucks. I have been on a Cream Cheese kick lately (on
crackers with some red pepper jelly on top). I bought some No Name cream cheese
a few weeks ago thinking that if it was as good as the Philadelphia Cream Cheese
I would be saving about 30% on it. I was not impressed. The next week I came
across a three pack of Philadelphia Cream cheese for $6 instead of the usually
$3.27 per pack. It turned out to taste exactly the same as the no name stuff.
Go figger.

Switch said:

Melba's Jammin said:

I think it depends on the item. When you say "generic" are you talking
about store brands?

all of em

if you wanna stay on top you gotta produce the best

this is why i pay a tad more...I know they are striving tooth and nail
to bring me the best

I hope you know that a lot of "generic" products, as in store brands, are
produced by the very same companies as the store brands. One recent example
I came across was powdered laundry detergent. The boxes was identical (other
than the name), the scoops was identical, the contents were identical. One
box was a major name brand, the other the store brand.

Aside from laundry detergent, here are some of the many products where I've
found the store brand to be equivalent (or sometimes better) than the brand
name:

butter
Cheerios cereal
Rice Krispies cereal
Rice, Corn, Wheat Chex cereal
corn flakes
mustard
cookies
extra virgin olive oil
shortening
salt
sugar
flour
fruit juices
tissues
dishwashing liquid
dishwasher detergent

Sometimes things might be "different", but one is not necessarily "better"
than another. Even two brand names of the same product might be different,
such as Post Raisin Bran vs Kelloggs Raisin Bran. I remember a coworker
who's husband wouldn't eat more than the first spoonful of the store brand
of a common breakfast cereal she had bought. She ended up having to throw
out the rest of the bowl and the rest of the box because he didn't like it.
As I had eaten both and knew them to be virtual equals, I found it to be
very amusing. I'm certain her husband had been brainwashed by all the
marketing and didn't have an open mind judging the products.

If you want to waste your money and be under the spell of the major brands,
be my guest. I evaluate every product for myself.

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sarah bennett said:

Quoted message said:

damn some floor sweepings

all you are paying more for is advertising

saerah

Sarah hit the nail on the head. My local grocery store chain, Kroger,
has some fantastic frozen biscuits. Guess who makes them and packages
them with the Kroger brand? Pillsbury.

Why such a brand snob?

Wayne Boatwright said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I've found that most generic products are at least as good as brand
names. Some are even better.

name one

please, name one

House brands of kidney beans, tomato products, beef and chicken broth,
tomato soup, flour, sugar, butter, most other dairy products, frozen
vegetables, bread, and on and on.

Sounds like you simply have a preconceived notion.

There aren't as many canneries for fruit and vegetables as there used to be.
Every brand had their own canneries. Most of the operations have been
centralized to regional canneries. They are pumping out the same products and
slapping other people's labels on it.

The father of a friend of mine had a soft drink bottling plant. They had only
a small share of the local market, but they also bottled and distributed some
of the national brands in their little plant. So the people who did like
their product could grab a bottle of the national brand and pay a lot more for
it, and they were virtually indistinguishable.

itsjoannotjoann said:

Sarah hit the nail on the head. My local grocery store chain, Kroger,
has some fantastic frozen biscuits. Guess who makes them and packages
them with the Kroger brand? Pillsbury.

The biggest local cannery in owned by Nabisco. I have never seen the
Nabisco brand on canned fruit or vegetables.

sarah bennett said:

Switch said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

On Mon 06 Feb 2006 07:08:10p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Switch?

>Generic sux

Obviously, just your opinion!

I've found that most generic products are at least as good as brand names.
Some are even better.

name one

please, name one

the "sebree" iodized salt is just as granulated and salty as morton's.

Salt is not a food, salt is necessary to life like air and water, but
they're are not foods. Camparing generic salt to the big name brands
is like comparing generic drug store items to the big name brands...
you gonna tell me that Rite Aid rubbing alcohol is different from
Johnson & Johnson's... there's no difference in these types of products
but they are not foods.

But with foods the name brands are superior, not necessarilly
nutritionally but in all other respects, such as taste, texture,
appearance... even the packaging is better, better packaging means
easier opening and better resealability, means less spoilage. There is
no way some $1.99/lb "Deli" cold cuts are better than say Boar's Head.,
not unless you have TIAD.

Sheldon

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

You just have to learn to pick and choose. A LOT of generics
are canned by the same places as the name brands! It's all in the
labelling.

Same with turkeys. All those "name brand" turkeys come from the SAME
turkey farms and the SAME processing plants! They just get bagged with
different labels, or special injection treatments to order.

It's not like the big companies have their own poultry farms. There are plants
around with processing facilities and there are poultry farms. The eggs go to
hatcheries. A farmer goes in and orders a bunch of hatchlings and sticks them in a
big bran to eat and grow for 6-8 weeks. Then it gets to the point where they are
not growing enough to get a return on the money it costs to feed them, so off they
go to the processing plant. If someone else in the area has a barn full of birds
ready to go at the same time, they don't get as much for the birds. If no one else
has birds ready to go they get a better price. The consumer has no idea what farm
their birds are coming from, and sometimes not even what country they are coming
from.

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Sheldon said:

sarah bennett said:

Switch said:

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

>On Mon 06 Feb 2006 07:08:10p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Switch?
>
>
>>Generic sux
>
>Obviously, just your opinion!
>
>I've found that most generic products are at least as good as brand names.
>Some are even better.

name one

please, name one

the "sebree" iodized salt is just as granulated and salty as morton's.

Salt is not a food, salt is necessary to life like air and water, but
they're are not foods. Camparing generic salt to the big name brands
is like comparing generic drug store items to the big name brands...
you gonna tell me that Rite Aid rubbing alcohol is different from
Johnson & Johnson's... there's no difference in these types of products
but they are not foods.

But with foods the name brands are superior, not necessarilly
nutritionally but in all other respects, such as taste, texture,
appearance... even the packaging is better, better packaging means
easier opening and better resealability, means less spoilage. There is
no way some $1.99/lb "Deli" cold cuts are better than say Boar's Head.,
not unless you have TIAD.

Sheldon

Maybe not Boars head, but generic lunch meat is every bit as good as,
say, Oscar Meyer. ;-)

Cheers!

Om -> Who does not buy luncheon meat of ANY brand anymore due to the
rediculous sodium levels, and nitrites......
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Om.

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