steelRooster69What generic products do you swear are superior to the name brand?
Canned and processed food. Store brand os usually much cheaper and tastes the same if not sometimes better than the big brand names.
One of my old coworkers dads worked at a canning plant. He said his dad was in charge of the labeling and claims that almost all canned food is the same.
He said they’d run x amount of green giant labels, x amount of del monte, x amount of best choice, etc all from the same batch.
Meow.tar.gzI really like Food Lion’s Dr. Perky over Dr. Pepper. I know it’s like really strange but the Dr. Perky is quite good. Also, Food Lion’s version of Mountain Dew, Mountain Lion, is a lot better.
I mainly shop at Giant and their store-brand sodas are almost all undrinkable (“Mr. Bob” is their version of Dr. Pepper), all with this bizarre medicine-y aftertaste. The only good one is their diet grape soda - it’s possible that I like this only because there’s no brand name version to compare it to.
IMHO, grape soda is awfully hard to screw up. 😜
I love these names. They sound like characters from a low-budget porn spoof of a popular movie.
HAHAHAHA! I never thought about it that way but it would totally work. 😆
Kirkland signature wine and spirits (and tons of other Kirkland brand stuff). Not necessary better, but it’s so much cheaper and so close to quality that it’s a bit brainer to buy it over more expensive stuff. Plus,on a lot of instances the Kirkland signature is made by big companies and rebranded as Kirkland.
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ShortbusTheir malbec is so good. Sometimes I’ll spurge on a sometimes MUCH more expensive bottle and 9/10 I regret not just going to Costco and getting theirs.
Kirkland is at the very least competitive for pretty much everything really.
Kirkland diapers, wipes are an immense value for parents too. And good Lord do I love me some Kirkland branded booze.
I know for spirits, not sure on wine and beer, in many cases it is literally from the same factory that the name brand comes from they get bulk deals and just put their labels on it
Aldi’s brand of bagels is better than Thomas for me and are about half the price. There’s something that tastes oddly “sugary” about Thomas bagels in comparison.
GhostalmediaTo be fair, Thomas’ bagels are about as bad as bagels get. It’s not hard to beat one of those.
Open carrying a Thomas’ bagel is actually a crime in the state of New York.
NewEnglandRedshirtCalling anything made by Thomas’s “bagels” is just plain insulting. It’s round bread, at best.
Trader Joe’s employee reporting in: (cries in non-unionized) Aldi’s bagels are so much better than ours it ain’t even close to a fair fight
WxFisch- Almost all paper goods, specifically Kirkland brand.
- Canned veggies are all the same as well, so whatever’s cheapest
- most dried herbs and spices
- staples like flour, butter, sugar, oil, etc. they are basic and as long as you are getting the kind you need (like AP flour or dark brown sugar) there isn’t any room for differences that the average consumer could notice anyways
ext23As a fountain pen user and fan of stationery, I can assure you not all paper is created equal. For me it’s 100% worth paying for the good stuff.
Paper goods meaning napkins, paper plates (mostly for food prep), paper towels, etc. agreed 100% on actual paper for writing.
Canned veggies
I feel like the generic branded ones have more nasty looking pieces in them
There’s also a noticeable difference with some beans. Cheap ones are tough and taste almost stale, while nicer ones are creamier and more flavourful.
Have you not experienced Kerrygold butter? Because there is definitely a difference! Everything else checks out though.
RustedSwitchI see you
If you make bread you can tell a difference between brands of flour, and the more expensive stuff is usually noticably better.
RoquetteQueenI have heard that Canadian flour is better than American, so maybe that’s why, but I’ve never noticed a difference in flour brands. I’ve been baking bread for years and did it as a full time job for two years.
My children will only accept No Name (it’s a store brand here in Canada) ranch dressing. I’ve gotten name brand ones on sale before and they were not impressed.
The No Name ice cream wafers are also the best around, and the cheapest to boot!
We were actually surprised that not only were they just as good at like ⅓ the price, they were WAY better.
You can get a giant pack of them for literally the price of a checkout line candy bar.
No Name has some pretty solid stuff. Not necessarily always the top quality, but generally decent value.
Hate to praise them too much because Galen Weston can go f* himself, but you kind of have to pick one billionaire or another when talking about store brands up here.
Galen is evil but PC and No Name have so many good products. It’s not fair.
TiffyBellePretty much any store-brand toothpaste is probably going to be a lot cheaper than “branded” products, and will have the required amount of fluoride within it to keep your teeth healthy which is far and away the most important ingredient in any toothpaste. The entire toothpaste industry is mostly all marketing.
AmputretI will say that as someone with sensitive teeth, Sensodyne actually is legit though.
Yeah, there’s definitely exceptions for people with special requirements. Toothpastes for sensitive teeth contain ingredients like potassium nitrate that wouldn’t be in the generic, store-branded ones.
CorkyskogI pay the extra bucks for European Sensodyne because it has Novamin in it.
Novamin is like magic, and there is no reason it should have been taken off the shelves in the US (I suspect it’s heavy lobbying by the American Dental Association and the Teeth Fae People). Novamin binds and helps remineralize your teeth, very helpful for sensitivity and in conjuction with fluoride can get into the subsurface and helps actually repair the teeth.
RadDevonNice try, but I refuse to use any toothpaste that isn’t 3D and HD.
In that case, I’m selling some overclocked toothpaste if you’re interested. Kinda pricy though.
Kratos_AurionGreat value mac and cheese is better than kraft
amen hallelujah
100%, I will die on this hill.
Will will be sooner than later, because I’ve been eating Great Value Mac and Cheese since the 1900s.
Damn you’re old! Who knew secret to immortality was Great Value Mac?
Aldi has Frosted Mini-wheats that keep don’t get as soggy and hold on to the frosting longer.
Aldi generics overall tbh
directorAgreed, Aldi’s stuff rarely worse than equivalent products, and some I prefer more than the name brand. Only things I balk at are fake cheese flavored things and canned goods from their German themed store brand.
Kirkland wet wipes.
No name (Superstore brand) hot chocolate. Blows name brand out the water!
pancakesSuperstore brand frozen desserts are so good. Back when they had salted toffee chunk chocolate covered cheesecake pops I used to get them all the time.
Also their ice cream is killer. Their version of Oreo ice cream has like triple the cookie chunks of brand name.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆Great Value Ranch Corn Chips are superior to Cool Ranch Doritos. Actually, quite a bit of GV stuff is as good if not better than the name brand they are knocking off. Not all of it, though.
Kirkland Hotdogs are superior to Ballpark (but I mean, that’s incredibly easy since ballparks suck) and I think are more comparable to a Nathan’s or Hebrew National; although those last two are still better than Costco’s signature dog.
Clover Valley (Dollar General brand) has the best fig newtons and cake snacks around. Way more flavorful and moist than the name brands Hostess or Little Debbie. Also their pop tarts.
Toast 'em Pop-Ups (a pop tarts generic) had an apple flavor that I miss to this day.
+1 for Kirkland
Kirkland Signature products in general are just as good or better than the name brands because they usually are the name brand stuff.
Their batteries are Duracell, their bagged coffee is roasted by Starbucks, their diapers are Huggies, their canned tuna is Bumblebee, etc.
Kirkland hot dogs are an oddity, though. They used to be Hebrew National, but they got too expensive to be selling for 1.50 at the food court, so Costco bought an old Hebrew National meat plant in California and makes their own hot dogs now.
If you raise the price of the hot dogs I’ll fucking kill you.
I love that ideal LoL…
Costco dogs helped get me through college, I tell ya
walmart thick and creamy mac and cheese > kraft all day every day fuck you fight me.
Kraft is utter garbage so that one’s not really surprising.
Well Food Lion deluxe mac and cheese is absolute garbage. You’ve been warned.
You know those Irwin quick clamps that are very popular, blue and yellow quick release clamps. I have a bunch of them and they’re fine.
I also have a bunch of “craftright” clamps. Same thing, but the clamping force feels so much higher, the Irwin clamps are what I use if I’ve run out of my cheap knockoff clamps
There’s this white cheddar flavour mac and cheese and the store brand where I am is much better than the Kraft version.
There might be a bit of nostalgia though for me as it was one of the go-to “quick and easy” meals my mom would make for us as a kid.
In Canada, Loblaws has a no name brand kd called deluxe white cheddar that is hands down the best Mac and cheese, Kraft white cheese always comes out bland and watery no matter how little milk I add.
It’s as expensive as Kraft though, I think? Or barely any cheaper. President’s Choice stuff is sometimes more expensive than name brands, too.
I honestly couldn’t tell you my girlfriend does all the superstore shopping, I think shoppers has it slightly cheaper if you can find it. I also don’t mind paying 20 extra cents for superior Mac and cheese.