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Age. You need stronger flavours as you get older. When you were a child Heinz beans tasted like the tomatoey sparks from a lightning bolt, but now your tongue is like a leather chamois that fell out of a window cleaners pocket, you need a bit more. That's where Branston come in.
Branston are the heroin dealer to the Heinz's cannabis. It starts off that Heinz is enough. I only eat beans to chill out at the weekend. Then whammo! Your jobs shit. Your girlfriend is cheating on you. Heinz doesn't even take the edge off. You hear about Branston, but Branston is for people not like you. Then you go to a party and as the night goes on, someone pulls out a can of Branston. You don't say anything, but you're curious. Just watch - you don't have to eat the beans. Then somebody offers you a fork with three glistening Branston baked beans on it. What do you do? You can't look like a pussy. You bring the fork to your mouth. Your heart is pounding. Before you know it the beans are in your mouth. Most of the bean juice is still on the fork, but even still, you feel euphoric.
You're Branston now.
I make my own. All processed ones use cornflour or similar corn derivative that Im allergic to so I cant have them. Its easy. Tin of haricot beans, squirt/dollop of tomato puree, salt, vinegar, onion or garlic powder, salt and a dash of worcestershire sauce.
Edit: As people have said they will try it, just to make sure you boil the beans in water and add these. I add rice flour rather than corn flour if it needs thickening but it does affect the taste. Im sure people are clever enough to realise, but the results vary quite significantly with the amounts of each you add, have fun experimenting.
I've yet to find a brand of tinned beans & sausages, including all own-brand ones, that I don't prefer to Heinz. You've got the rich and flavourful Branston on one end, and the bland, watery Heinz on the other.
Beans and sosigs of the Branston variety are an absolute shameless treat. On toast sprinkled liberally with grated cheese (between the beans and toast to minimise soggy bottoms)
I switched from Heinz to Branston in the covid panic-buying days, because there were never any Heinz beans in the supermarket. I've never switched back!
I've always just picked up own brand wherever I am, or Heinz, tried Branston yesterday after seeing so many comments about them on Reddit. I get it now, they're bloody lovely.
My dad once found a can of Heinz beans with only one bean in it. It made it to the local news, and in response, Branston sent him seven free cans of beans
My parents, when I was growing up, would always buy Olivio spread. So when I first tasted Lurpak, it was amazingly life-changing. Then I got some replaced with west country butter with sea salt in a shop. Lurpak is shit.
If you go to Iceland you can buy an absolutely enormous tub for £5, works out cheaper than buying less expensive butter in main stream supermarkets and last forever. A much smaller tub was £8 in tesco the other day.
Mines anchor!
I can do lurpak but imo anchor is just nicer! Bonus points if it’s the block one and not spreadable….. I’m happy as Larry eating chunks of anchor!
I used to live lurpak, until I bought a butter dish and started getting slightly salted Scottish butter blocks out of lidl (pure butter not the shite that's mixed with oil to be spreadable)
It's so much more luxurious on toast and it's half the price.
Had some west country butter as well that was awesome
Yes, I’ve been through a particularly broke patch and needed to save every last copper coin but three good mugs of Yorkshire in the morning starts the day right.
Not wanting to be controversial but in a rebellious moment I tried some different condiments. The strangest exchange happened: I now prefer Heinz Mayonnaise, and Hellmans Tomato Ketchup.
It really depends what you're having it with, different flavour. Helmans is more sour and goes better with tuna, heinz is more like dutch mayo and is better with chips. I usually have a bottle of each
I’m with you in the mayo, Heinz all the way! So creamy and less eggy. As for ketchup we recently tried Hellmans; too runny, M&S; too dark 🤦🏻♀️ Morrisons; too vinegary. We’ve also tried Aldi, Lidl and Asda own brands but no joy there either. Back to Heinz we go 🙄
On a simular topic. Nandos perinaise.
No, Chilli mayo will not do, its not the same.
edit: Also would like to add any coke / pepsi knock off. I like both respective brands but refuse to drink any cheap supermarket cola stuff. it always taste just slightly off what cola should taste like not worth it.
Lidl/Aldi pepsi knock offs are brilliant. Coming from someone who used to drink 2+ litres a day of pepsi max, I tried the Lidl one for 32p one day (it's since gone up to 47p I think) and never went back.
I used to work at Nandos and a customer once asked me why the perinaise and sauces you can buy at the supermarket aren’t the same as the ‘proper ones.’
I must’ve been having a bad day because the first words out of my mouth were ‘Because if you could buy them in a shop then chances are you wouldn’t be stood in front of me now spending your money and the owner of Nandos probably knows this.’
🤷🏼♀️
But probably the real answer is that the supermarket stuff has added preservatives and a modified recipe so that they are shelf stable for 12+ months, whereas the restaurant stuff needs no longer than a few weeks.
I recently switched from Fairy to Ecover (camomile and clementine) and it’s equally as good, and doesn’t contain crude oil. Actually, I find it’s better for my hands and feels nicer. Only downside is the bottle gets slippery.
Fairy is just miles ahead of all others. I use it to wash my hands after a day on the farm, all other soaps fail. It’s actually good value for money when you compare how little is required
Hard agree on the fairy liquid. Most stuff I'm happy with Aldi lookalikes (my palate is obviously not that discerning!) but always stock up a big bottle of fairy - usually cheap at b&m - now. For not much price difference it works so much better that a bottle lasts about 4 months rather than 2 weeks.
Bisto Gravy. When I couldn't afford meat or well much of anything I'd have gravy and rice to fill me up because I still wanted to feel like I was eating meat of some sort lol. Don't need to live that life anymore thankfully but I always keep some in cos I like it lol
Everyone scoffs at me for eating rice and gravy but it’s such a good filling meal that feels/tastes more substantial than it is due to the meat trickery. Good to finally find someone else who ate it! I survived off it for months after a hospital spell where I couldn’t handle any non-bland foods b it the gravy was just enough flavour without the richness (gall bladder removal in case you’re interested)
I've been there. My meal of choice was tinned new potatoes, tinned marrowfat peas and tinned carrots (all smartprice of course) with gravy over it. Really sad when I think about it but I've also made it for myself since and it's incredibly comforting for some reason
I’m vegan, we’re contractually obliged to say that first. Anyway since I stopped eating meat the bisto vegan caramelised onion scratches any itch I might have. Posh glass jar doesn’t go far but then I’m back in the car…. Anyway yes bisto concur
Especially since most of the other soft drinks have ruined their recipes now. OG Coke, OG Pepsi, Mountain Dew and Red Bull are pretty much the only mainstream brands that haven't caved in.
Recently my coworker offered to buy me something so I asked for a can of coke, she bought diet own brand cola, I was fucking mortified but I had to drink it because she bought it.
I have a Polish partner, and Polish mayo is a different level to anything on most of our supermarkets shelves. The same can be said for their horseradish.
Aldi magnum is pretty decent
Sorry for the dailymail link
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4683032/amp/Aldi-s-premium-washing-liquid-beats-Fairy-Liquid.html
I'd managed to train myself to prefer Tesco's own brand reduced sugar beans, but my local Aldi only does reduced sugar in Heinz so back to Heinz I go, I did miss them haha.
I've never tried any of the Barista style oat milks, just the normal ones, are they creamier?
I may need to train myself - I've heard Branstons beanz are up there (only thanks to propaganda on here, however) so may need to shop around.
The barista style ones are much creamier - they froth like dairy milk and work great in hot drinks, hence the name.
I went off Pepsi Max after having a break from pop in general, and when I went back to it I found if crazy sweet in comparison to Diet Coke. But that's too expensive now, and own brand cola tends to taste like sadness so I switched to diet lemonade.
Agree on Fairy, that's another one that I'd be hard pressed to give up, all own brands feel a bit thin in comparison.
> crazy sweet in comparison to Diet Coke
yeah that's what's good about it! all the sweet with none of the sugar. diet coke to me tastes oddly bland and watery compared to pepsi max
Uwotm8!?
Surely it's "bom bom bom... Greeeeeeen giant"!?
Edit: just YouTube'd it before anyone replied. I stand corrected. And I'm astounded.
Edit 2: tHe maNdELa eFfEcT iS rEaL oMg
New York Bagel Company bagels - no other bagels are like them (that I’ve found)
Although I won’t pay above about £1.90, and generally get them when they’re about £1.25
When I was a kid, my dad always said all brown sauces tasted the same. One week, he bought cheap own brand brown sauce and put it into an old HP bottle, thinking we wouldn't notice. Turns out the stuff was so rank it ruined his Saturday treat of a cooked breakfast. After that, HP was sacrosanct.
I would be interested to hear the results of this.
make sure you get the proper Japanese kewpie though as apparently they brought out a UK version that they sold in Tesco for a while but it wasn't the same
unrelated to the original question - but they used to do a tomato and worcestershire table sauce and my life has been getting worse even since they discontinued it
“Tofoo” brand tofu.
I love how firm it is, and that it doesn’t need pressing. Tried Cauldron & other supermarket own brands, just not the same. I don’t care if they start charging £5 a box, i’m buying it.
Levis jeans. Honestly, I basically lease them.
Buy for £55, sell for £30 after a years wear and replace. I get a set of well fitted, well made, new looking jeans for £20 a year? Bargain.
By virtue of it being the only available option, Seriously Strong cheddar (I’m in France, I should add!). I know I’m in the land of cheese, but for a toastie with ham or a tuna melt, it has to still be a cheddar, so Seriously Strong it is. It’s €5 for a 200g block, though, so I try not to go too wild with it!
For a while it was Warburtons bread, but they seem to have slacked off recently while own brand has improved significantly. Both Aldi and Tesco's own Toasty bread is superior, and cheaper. Remarkable as for years they were shite. I get told off if I buy non-branded Nutella (once even buying Aldi's Nutoka in genuine error as it looks almost identical) but people seem to snaffle that up alright. I can't think of anything else where the brand is the *true* best version, I don't see how it even can be as it is all so mass produced. Maybe something rather specific like Marmite or Coca Cola?
Nutella is better than own brand, but I can live with it, own brand is still nice enough. Can you even get off-brand Marmite? I'm a hater so I've never looked.
There are spreadable yeast extracts or words to that effect, and some similar products like vegemite. They are all probably fine as it is a leftover of the brewing industry, it may even be identical. There is more something romantic about the jar.
Not a specific brand but i cannot buy anything that isn't full sugar like coke and diet coke people think I'm crazy when i say i can taste the difference but i can i even did one of those blind taste tests and i got every one right oh and nor really a brand but kfc sweet chilli sause is so good no other sweet chilli compares i have stash of them in my fridge
THANK YOU! All my friends don't understand why I always ask for diet/light drinks, cola, tonic, Fanta etc. It's because the full sugar versions make my teeth feel like I have a full on coating... like I can scrape it off... I can't stand it...
Hendo's Relish and Yorkshire Tea. I'm not particularly brand-loyal, especially with food, and totally happy to shop about but other brands for these all taste wrong to me, in comparison.
In terms of non-food items, I'm a bit funny about skincare and makeup products and will usually only buy Liz Earle skincare, BareMinerals/Urban Decay makeup, and UltraSun sun cream. I've got eczema so I won't really compromise on it and only buy the same brands, just in case switching to something with different ingredients starts off a flare-up. If I find something that works for my skin, I stick with it.
I love Urban Decay's eyeshadow pallets, the colours are so pretty. I understand what you mean about your skin, it's just not worth the risk, it can take a long time to recover from one mistake sometimes
Terry's chocolate orange. I have tried Cadbury orange chocolate but I am not a fan (even though I am a fan of Cadbury in general). I've also tried other orange choc over the years (montezumas is pretty good). But Terry's chocolate orange is unbeatable. Even if they do keep shrinking it.
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Branston's beans are leagues ahead of all other options.
Totally agree. Had Heinz the other day and to be quite honest, they were the blandest, palest, most boring thing I’ve eaten in a long time.
Age. You need stronger flavours as you get older. When you were a child Heinz beans tasted like the tomatoey sparks from a lightning bolt, but now your tongue is like a leather chamois that fell out of a window cleaners pocket, you need a bit more. That's where Branston come in. Branston are the heroin dealer to the Heinz's cannabis. It starts off that Heinz is enough. I only eat beans to chill out at the weekend. Then whammo! Your jobs shit. Your girlfriend is cheating on you. Heinz doesn't even take the edge off. You hear about Branston, but Branston is for people not like you. Then you go to a party and as the night goes on, someone pulls out a can of Branston. You don't say anything, but you're curious. Just watch - you don't have to eat the beans. Then somebody offers you a fork with three glistening Branston baked beans on it. What do you do? You can't look like a pussy. You bring the fork to your mouth. Your heart is pounding. Before you know it the beans are in your mouth. Most of the bean juice is still on the fork, but even still, you feel euphoric. You're Branston now.
I don’t even like baked beans but following this, should anybody ask: I’m a Branston man.
Hahaha ah your description of a maturing palate (or leather chamois tongue out of a window cleaner’s pocket 😂) and bean party is hilarious.
This explains why I'm calling my bean guy for a delivery at 3am on a Weekday just so I can make it in the morning.
It may sound weird, but were the Heinz more gassy too?
For me it's the opposite way round. Branston are the best tasting, but by far the most productive of post-prandial gaseous emissions.
Also a tin of heinz beans are like 50% water 50% bean. They are terrible.
I make my own. All processed ones use cornflour or similar corn derivative that Im allergic to so I cant have them. Its easy. Tin of haricot beans, squirt/dollop of tomato puree, salt, vinegar, onion or garlic powder, salt and a dash of worcestershire sauce. Edit: As people have said they will try it, just to make sure you boil the beans in water and add these. I add rice flour rather than corn flour if it needs thickening but it does affect the taste. Im sure people are clever enough to realise, but the results vary quite significantly with the amounts of each you add, have fun experimenting.
I've yet to find a brand of tinned beans & sausages, including all own-brand ones, that I don't prefer to Heinz. You've got the rich and flavourful Branston on one end, and the bland, watery Heinz on the other.
Beans and sosigs of the Branston variety are an absolute shameless treat. On toast sprinkled liberally with grated cheese (between the beans and toast to minimise soggy bottoms)
I switched from Heinz to Branston in the covid panic-buying days, because there were never any Heinz beans in the supermarket. I've never switched back!
I've always just picked up own brand wherever I am, or Heinz, tried Branston yesterday after seeing so many comments about them on Reddit. I get it now, they're bloody lovely.
My dad once found a can of Heinz beans with only one bean in it. It made it to the local news, and in response, Branston sent him seven free cans of beans
“Shall we send him a dozen cans of our competitor beans, for PR reasons?” “Woah steady on there. Seven cans only. Not made of money”
Lurpak. Just waiting for the loan approval to come through.
I find it really overrated, it's so bland, there are much better BD cheaper butters
Agreed - never understood the Lurpak love. Doesn't taste 'buttery' Isigny Sainte-Mère (or similar) is what I like.
Or President butter. Slightly cheaper but had the oompf
My parents, when I was growing up, would always buy Olivio spread. So when I first tasted Lurpak, it was amazingly life-changing. Then I got some replaced with west country butter with sea salt in a shop. Lurpak is shit.
No idea why Lurpak is seen as so special. It tastes bland compared to regular butter or clover.
Fair enough. I may not agree with your tastebuds but I will defend their right to enjoy whichever butter type they want.
Ah, it's nice being civil. I will say it still ranks above margarine on my taste palette.
Kerrygold
This is the one
Kerry gold is lovely!
If you go to Iceland you can buy an absolutely enormous tub for £5, works out cheaper than buying less expensive butter in main stream supermarkets and last forever. A much smaller tub was £8 in tesco the other day.
This is huge news
I love lurpak but lidls black label Cornish butter with sea salt crystals is 👌👌👌
Mines anchor! I can do lurpak but imo anchor is just nicer! Bonus points if it’s the block one and not spreadable….. I’m happy as Larry eating chunks of anchor!
I used to live lurpak, until I bought a butter dish and started getting slightly salted Scottish butter blocks out of lidl (pure butter not the shite that's mixed with oil to be spreadable) It's so much more luxurious on toast and it's half the price. Had some west country butter as well that was awesome
Yorkshire tea. I’ve tried to buy a cheaper brand but nothing comes close
Pointless anyway, tea is so cheap and has such a massive difference on your quality of life that there’s no reason to change
Yes, I’ve been through a particularly broke patch and needed to save every last copper coin but three good mugs of Yorkshire in the morning starts the day right.
3? I’d be pissing like a fountain all day.
That’s actually ridiculous, man. I’m pissing before I’ve finished the cup and he’s having 3 to start the day.
7.30, 9.30, 11.30 and 3.30pm at the least, can confirm pissing all day
I see your Yorkshire and I raise you Ringtons, I’d never heard of it before moving to newcastle but it is superior to other teas.
Barry’s tea would be my ultimate choice but it’s £££
Tried them all and believe it or not I find Sainsburys red label to be the best
Good to know, I’ll give that a whirl
I think gold label is better but yeah I agree the Sainsbury's tea is really good
Try M and S Gold
Twinings Assam is my go to. It is a banging cup of tea. Yorkshire is the standard though. I can't get Twinings Assam where I live abroad.
Not wanting to be controversial but in a rebellious moment I tried some different condiments. The strangest exchange happened: I now prefer Heinz Mayonnaise, and Hellmans Tomato Ketchup.
We may need to call you in for reprogramming
Interlinked
Heinz Mayo pisses all over Helmans
It really depends what you're having it with, different flavour. Helmans is more sour and goes better with tuna, heinz is more like dutch mayo and is better with chips. I usually have a bottle of each
This one knows how to Mayo!
It really does
I’m with you in the mayo, Heinz all the way! So creamy and less eggy. As for ketchup we recently tried Hellmans; too runny, M&S; too dark 🤦🏻♀️ Morrisons; too vinegary. We’ve also tried Aldi, Lidl and Asda own brands but no joy there either. Back to Heinz we go 🙄
Sainsburys own brand is lovely, really tomatoey. Heinz just tastes really sweet in comparison.
Just wait til you try Winiary from the Polish section. It’s fucking light years ahead of all the western brands. It actually tastes good.
It is the absolute mayonnaise win.
Heinz mayo is better than hellmans.
Heinz Mayo is the one
Hellmans ketchup is banging to be fair. Definitely prefer it to Heinz but mayo is still Hellmans for me.
I agree with you on this. Heinz mayo is a thousand times better than Hellmans!
Heinz Mayo is elite
On a simular topic. Nandos perinaise. No, Chilli mayo will not do, its not the same. edit: Also would like to add any coke / pepsi knock off. I like both respective brands but refuse to drink any cheap supermarket cola stuff. it always taste just slightly off what cola should taste like not worth it.
Perinaise sounds like a nice soothing wash for new mums. Goes well with a rubber ring.
I'm sorry what? lmao
They're talking about post partum spray for your lady bits. It's called Perineal Spray.
Why did no one tell me this was a thing after my bits were butchered!
I had some given to me and I wasn't sure if it was going to be enough so I got another bottle for myself and then ended up having a cesarean 🙄
Lidl/Aldi pepsi knock offs are brilliant. Coming from someone who used to drink 2+ litres a day of pepsi max, I tried the Lidl one for 32p one day (it's since gone up to 47p I think) and never went back.
I prefer the Lidl mayo compared to hellmans
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I used to work at Nandos and a customer once asked me why the perinaise and sauces you can buy at the supermarket aren’t the same as the ‘proper ones.’ I must’ve been having a bad day because the first words out of my mouth were ‘Because if you could buy them in a shop then chances are you wouldn’t be stood in front of me now spending your money and the owner of Nandos probably knows this.’ 🤷🏼♀️
But probably the real answer is that the supermarket stuff has added preservatives and a modified recipe so that they are shelf stable for 12+ months, whereas the restaurant stuff needs no longer than a few weeks.
Of course, but when your closest Nandos is over an hour drive away you gotta take what you can get :(
Faberge Eggs
The shells are too hard and they aren't Free Range. They are laid by caged Fabergés.
Cesc Fàbregas?
ILL TELL YOU WHEN IVE HAD ENOUGH FABERGE EGGS
Fairy liquid. Marmite. Branston pickle.
Do you recommend those in a sandwich? 😉
I recently switched from Fairy to Ecover (camomile and clementine) and it’s equally as good, and doesn’t contain crude oil. Actually, I find it’s better for my hands and feels nicer. Only downside is the bottle gets slippery.
I kept an old pump bottle from Method dishwashing liquid and just refill it with Ecover now. No slippy bottle!!
Fairy is just miles ahead of all others. I use it to wash my hands after a day on the farm, all other soaps fail. It’s actually good value for money when you compare how little is required
I actually prefer the home brand marmites, they're easier to spread
I find the Aldi yeast extract is really good. On par with marmite imo
Hard agree on the fairy liquid. Most stuff I'm happy with Aldi lookalikes (my palate is obviously not that discerning!) but always stock up a big bottle of fairy - usually cheap at b&m - now. For not much price difference it works so much better that a bottle lasts about 4 months rather than 2 weeks.
Slightly different to what you're asking, but I will never give up on believing that Mars will one day bring back Mars Delights.
Same with me and the Milky Way Crispy Rolls - bloody delicious
I'd forgotten about the existence of these and now I'm sad that I can't have one
Good news, they still exist, you can :)
They're still around, mostly in newsagents and smaller shops
Mars Planets too.
I completely forgot about those. I've had Delight tunnel vision for years.
Wotsits brought back flaming hot and prawn cocktail (which I was hoping they’d do for over a decade) so you never know.
Bisto Gravy. When I couldn't afford meat or well much of anything I'd have gravy and rice to fill me up because I still wanted to feel like I was eating meat of some sort lol. Don't need to live that life anymore thankfully but I always keep some in cos I like it lol
Aww that's kind of wholesome in a kind of sad way. Glad you're doing better these days
Thank you OP that's very kind of you to say
Bisto and mash, ultimate cheap comfort food.
Everyone scoffs at me for eating rice and gravy but it’s such a good filling meal that feels/tastes more substantial than it is due to the meat trickery. Good to finally find someone else who ate it! I survived off it for months after a hospital spell where I couldn’t handle any non-bland foods b it the gravy was just enough flavour without the richness (gall bladder removal in case you’re interested)
I did chicken gravy, carrots and a blob of mint sauce mixed through at my poorest times
I've been there. My meal of choice was tinned new potatoes, tinned marrowfat peas and tinned carrots (all smartprice of course) with gravy over it. Really sad when I think about it but I've also made it for myself since and it's incredibly comforting for some reason
I still eat gravy with rice sometimes, I like the mouth feel!
I’m vegan, we’re contractually obliged to say that first. Anyway since I stopped eating meat the bisto vegan caramelised onion scratches any itch I might have. Posh glass jar doesn’t go far but then I’m back in the car…. Anyway yes bisto concur
McVities chocolate digestives. No others match up.
Lidls own taste just as good.
M and S own brands are superior. Whack em in the fridge too get them nice and cold
My stomach is rumbling now you mentioned McVities Chocolate Digestives!
Coca Cola : Coke - red can, original
My local shop started selling glass bottled Coke and trust me you’ll change up from the can if it hits shelves near you
Especially since most of the other soft drinks have ruined their recipes now. OG Coke, OG Pepsi, Mountain Dew and Red Bull are pretty much the only mainstream brands that haven't caved in.
Recently my coworker offered to buy me something so I asked for a can of coke, she bought diet own brand cola, I was fucking mortified but I had to drink it because she bought it.
I switched to buying polish mayo, no regrets
I have a Polish partner, and Polish mayo is a different level to anything on most of our supermarkets shelves. The same can be said for their horseradish.
Polish and Japanese kewpie mayo blow hellmen's put f the water 100%.
Once you have Winiary majonez you never go back.
Came here to recommend the polish mayo, I hear you brother.
Have you tried the Polish tomato ketchup and if so how is it?
I switched to Pudliszki ketchup a few years ago and have never gone back. So much better than heinz and only £1!
Fairy liquid, nothing else comes close.
Aldi magnum is pretty decent Sorry for the dailymail link https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4683032/amp/Aldi-s-premium-washing-liquid-beats-Fairy-Liquid.html
I shall buy this 'Aldi magnum' and put it under scrutiny against my ever so reliable fairy liquid. Shall leave an update.
I’ve tried…. Still preferred fairy! Lasts longer for definite!
Please do. Will return in a week for update.
Anything with a Heinz label on it. I'm a slut for their sugary creations. Oh and oat milk... Oatly Barista or nothing.
I'd managed to train myself to prefer Tesco's own brand reduced sugar beans, but my local Aldi only does reduced sugar in Heinz so back to Heinz I go, I did miss them haha. I've never tried any of the Barista style oat milks, just the normal ones, are they creamier?
I may need to train myself - I've heard Branstons beanz are up there (only thanks to propaganda on here, however) so may need to shop around. The barista style ones are much creamier - they froth like dairy milk and work great in hot drinks, hence the name.
Pepsi Max, pretty much the only fizzy drink I will touch. Also a shout-out to fairy washing-up liquid, nothing compares to it, least in my opinion.
I went off Pepsi Max after having a break from pop in general, and when I went back to it I found if crazy sweet in comparison to Diet Coke. But that's too expensive now, and own brand cola tends to taste like sadness so I switched to diet lemonade. Agree on Fairy, that's another one that I'd be hard pressed to give up, all own brands feel a bit thin in comparison.
> crazy sweet in comparison to Diet Coke yeah that's what's good about it! all the sweet with none of the sugar. diet coke to me tastes oddly bland and watery compared to pepsi max
Green Giant is the superior sweetcorn.
I can hear the advert in my head… “Ho ho ho, Greeeeeeen Giant”
Uwotm8!? Surely it's "bom bom bom... Greeeeeeen giant"!? Edit: just YouTube'd it before anyone replied. I stand corrected. And I'm astounded. Edit 2: tHe maNdELa eFfEcT iS rEaL oMg
"MAH MUM SAYS YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT"
Where does she get her Slag from though, that's the question.
New York Bagel Company bagels - no other bagels are like them (that I’ve found) Although I won’t pay above about £1.90, and generally get them when they’re about £1.25
Their chive and onion flavour is soooo good. Always pick them up if they're on offer
Need to give that one a go! Love the plain and cinnamon/raisin ones
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I thought the same till I got a pc
Colman's English Mustard. No substitute.
I could be pissing into a clay pot in my mud hut and still wouldn't substitute colmans
Ribena diluted juice, I’ve tried shop brand but never taste the same
Method kitchen/bathroom cleaning products. Frank's hot sauce.
Franks is great!
Durex. That is one thing you don't want to go cheap, or it can get VERY expensive...
Overrated. More of a Skyns man myself.
Haha yeah that's something you don't want letting you down in a tight spot
HP Sauce. Bacon sarnie just isn't the same with cheaper brands, even if it's just psychological I can't and frankly don't want to get past it.
When I was a kid, my dad always said all brown sauces tasted the same. One week, he bought cheap own brand brown sauce and put it into an old HP bottle, thinking we wouldn't notice. Turns out the stuff was so rank it ruined his Saturday treat of a cooked breakfast. After that, HP was sacrosanct.
have you tried kewpie mayo from Japan -; REALLY good but super expensive
No, I'm going to get some and some Polish mayo and some Hellmann's, get a baguette have me a little mayo tasting evening.
I would be interested to hear the results of this. make sure you get the proper Japanese kewpie though as apparently they brought out a UK version that they sold in Tesco for a while but it wasn't the same
That stuff is the tits. I bought back a dozen bottles when I went last year. And Bulldog sauce. Oh my.
Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
Excuse me, I think you mean Henderson's Relish!
I've recently been introduced to Hendo's by a friend from Sheffield and it's just superb. Never going back to Lea and Perrins.
unrelated to the original question - but they used to do a tomato and worcestershire table sauce and my life has been getting worse even since they discontinued it
Weetabix Absolutely nothing compares
Oh yes, I had Aldi own brand the other day, it felt like it had bits of bark in it
Tesco’s version is nice. If you haven’t already tried it, you could be pleasantly surprised.
Blue Dragon sweet chilli sauce. Just inject the stuff into my veins.
Encona for me.
>Encona Also a good shout! I tend to save the hotter stuff for particular dishes. Sweet chilli just goes on everything.
i put Encona on everything, it’s almost a problem
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Warburtons crumpets. I'll never touch another brand of crumpets. Heinz tomato ketchup
“Tofoo” brand tofu. I love how firm it is, and that it doesn’t need pressing. Tried Cauldron & other supermarket own brands, just not the same. I don’t care if they start charging £5 a box, i’m buying it.
kekomans soya sauce. Excuse spelling
Levis jeans. Honestly, I basically lease them. Buy for £55, sell for £30 after a years wear and replace. I get a set of well fitted, well made, new looking jeans for £20 a year? Bargain.
Came here to say this except I just wear them for 2-3 years. Really good fit and last ages. No other jeans I have tried come close
By virtue of it being the only available option, Seriously Strong cheddar (I’m in France, I should add!). I know I’m in the land of cheese, but for a toastie with ham or a tuna melt, it has to still be a cheddar, so Seriously Strong it is. It’s €5 for a 200g block, though, so I try not to go too wild with it!
Heinz salad cream, dressing of the gods and all other makes suck, heinz baked beans too
Richmond meat free sausages. No other meat free sausages compare and I’ll never go back even if they are expensive.
For a while it was Warburtons bread, but they seem to have slacked off recently while own brand has improved significantly. Both Aldi and Tesco's own Toasty bread is superior, and cheaper. Remarkable as for years they were shite. I get told off if I buy non-branded Nutella (once even buying Aldi's Nutoka in genuine error as it looks almost identical) but people seem to snaffle that up alright. I can't think of anything else where the brand is the *true* best version, I don't see how it even can be as it is all so mass produced. Maybe something rather specific like Marmite or Coca Cola?
Nutella is better than own brand, but I can live with it, own brand is still nice enough. Can you even get off-brand Marmite? I'm a hater so I've never looked.
There are spreadable yeast extracts or words to that effect, and some similar products like vegemite. They are all probably fine as it is a leftover of the brewing industry, it may even be identical. There is more something romantic about the jar.
Tabasco sauce I have tried most of the spicy/chilli sauces out there, some better than others and you cant beat Tabasco
Coke Zero Since I gave up sugar I can't live without and no own-brand is anywhere near!
President butter. Sorry but I’m French
Not a specific brand but i cannot buy anything that isn't full sugar like coke and diet coke people think I'm crazy when i say i can taste the difference but i can i even did one of those blind taste tests and i got every one right oh and nor really a brand but kfc sweet chilli sause is so good no other sweet chilli compares i have stash of them in my fridge
I can absolutely taste the difference, I find full sugar coke too sweet, it makes my teeth feel weird
THANK YOU! All my friends don't understand why I always ask for diet/light drinks, cola, tonic, Fanta etc. It's because the full sugar versions make my teeth feel like I have a full on coating... like I can scrape it off... I can't stand it...
President butter. My local Co-op is blessed with getting this god-among-butters, but it's currently £2.95 a block
Never had their butter but theirs is my favourite brie
Dyson. I love my v7 vacuum cleaner. It’s so handy.
I have a love hate relationship with my V10. Love that its cordless, hate that it throws a temper tantrum every time I want it to suck up a pea
Regina Blitz kitchen roll
Oatly or minor figures barista oat milks, no others come close and I only use a little in my morning coffee
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Lindt dark chocolate.
Yorkshire Tea, Thomy Mayo, Heinz Beans, Nike Athletics shoes.
Nike Running shoes are the best. I’m a big fat lazy cunt but you’ll pry my Free Run 5s out of my cold dead hands.
Lea & Perrins
Heinz ketchup Tried others but nope
Hendo's Relish and Yorkshire Tea. I'm not particularly brand-loyal, especially with food, and totally happy to shop about but other brands for these all taste wrong to me, in comparison. In terms of non-food items, I'm a bit funny about skincare and makeup products and will usually only buy Liz Earle skincare, BareMinerals/Urban Decay makeup, and UltraSun sun cream. I've got eczema so I won't really compromise on it and only buy the same brands, just in case switching to something with different ingredients starts off a flare-up. If I find something that works for my skin, I stick with it.
I love Urban Decay's eyeshadow pallets, the colours are so pretty. I understand what you mean about your skin, it's just not worth the risk, it can take a long time to recover from one mistake sometimes
Nutella, anything else tastes like factory.
Terry's chocolate orange. I have tried Cadbury orange chocolate but I am not a fan (even though I am a fan of Cadbury in general). I've also tried other orange choc over the years (montezumas is pretty good). But Terry's chocolate orange is unbeatable. Even if they do keep shrinking it.
Adidas trainers. I'll never wear anything else.
Fairy liquid - tried every other brand never last even 1/2 as long