Knock-off food products are not as good as the original.

[Anonemous]

/likes Trader joe's mayo, best foods mayo also works.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Kraft Mac&Cheese used to be blander than it is today. I'm not sure when they fixed their recipe. I used to prefer store brand to Kraft, but not anymore.

 

[Tristicus]

Wal-Mart used to sell "Dr. Thunder" and "Diet Dr. Thunder" which I found to be almost identical in taste to the Peppers. I never set up a blind taste test though.

I consider myself a connoisseur of Dr. Pepper :awe: (I drink around 4-5 2 liters a week), and Dr. Thunder, Mr. Pibb, Dr. Perky, etc. come nowhere close to the taste of a cold Dr. Pepper.

 

[drebo]

I shop at Raley's, and their store brand is 95% as good as the real thing for almost all food items. Their cereal is great, their sodas are great, their boxed dinners are roughly the same (though no boxed dinner is really "great"), their spices are good. We buy almost exclusively Raley's Fine Foods (Nob Hill Foods) brand stuff cause it's cheap and it tastes good. They've got some Crunchy Granola Raisin Bran which is better tasting than Raisin Bran Crunch. I just wish they made a knock-off Quaker Squares, cause those things are awesome.

Also, Kirkland stuff is usually very good.

But, Hytop (Winco Foods), on the other hand, is shit.

 

[CZroe]

Not always. I can visually identify name-brand Cheerios from any knock-off "Toasted Oats" by the texture alone.

:hmm:

I know I already replies to you but:
I guess you have the same reaction to the "Enlarged to show texture" message on the front of nearly every cereal box. Am I right?

 

[Rhoxed]

Winn-Dixie brand (also Check) is crap - Publix and Sweet Bay brands are pretty good most of the time.

Wal-Mart blows

 

[Slimline]

Pepto Bismith. enough said.

 

[Nebor]

This thread is interesting. I've never thought about this before. I never had any "generic" brand stuff growing up, so I never consider buying it. The only "generic" thing I can think of buying are OTC sleeping pills, since they write the ingredients and amounts on the box, so I know they're identical, but one of them costs half as much.

Fascinating stuff.