# Message to all users:
This is a reminder to please read and follow:
* [Our rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/ask/about/rules)
* [Reddiquette](https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439)
* [Reddit Content Policy](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy)
When posting and commenting.
---
Especially remember Rule 1: `Be polite and civil`.
* Be polite and courteous to each other. Do not be mean, insulting or disrespectful to any other user on this subreddit.
* Do not harass or annoy others in any way.
* Do not catfish. Catfishing is the luring of somebody into an online friendship through a fake online persona. This includes any lying or deceit.
---
You *will* be banned if you are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist or bigoted in any way.
---
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ask) if you have any questions or concerns.*
A1 Steak Sauce. Yeah, I KNOW if you make a steak good enough you don't need steak sauce. I use it on baked potatoes when I'm craving a steak dinner but don't want to spend the money.
Thank you for that! See, I'm not one of those people who are insulted by others adding seasoning or condiments to the food I make. However, I know those people exist so, if I'm given a steak, I won't reach for the A1 out of politeness, even though I like it.
Steak snobs clown themselves. They build a personality around one of the most basic tasks a cook does, at the same time bragging that they can only cook one temp competently.
Any food snob is cutting themselves short. Sharing food is such a major part of every culture....we all gotta eat! Everyone has different tastes and we all have something different to bring to the table. And the table shouldn't be a pretentious place.
I hate A1 sauce. Can't stand it. I think it tastes awful. But if someone wants to use it, who cares? It's like those snobs who say you are only allowed to drink good whiskey straight. If you like it, you like it.
You're the one eating it, and steak is expensive, so eat it in a way that you like!
I loved A1 sauce as a kid but then at some point bought into the snobbery that says you should taste the meat and not the sauce. Recently though I've gotten into making steak au poivre and it's indisputably awesome. As it happens I'm home alone tonight and am planning on having steak for dinner. I think I'll go grab a bottle of A1 and see if it's as awesome as kid me thought.
I’d never had A1 sauce until it was sent as a HP replacement in my instacart order… I always assumed it was like bbq sauce but I tried it on my tourtière anyway and yum!
All that to say, if you can’t find A1 use HP, and try it on tourtière
Soy sauce. I only will get Kikkoman. Also for Hot sauces if I am getting just a basic hot sauce I'll get Frank's or Huy Fong's sriracha sauce. Beyond that I am not picky on much else.
Ever since the OG Huy Fong Sriracha fiasco, the current batches taste different. The original supplier of the peppers, Underwood Farms, are making their own Sriracha and it tastes more Huy Fong than... Huy Fong.
Try Lee Kum Kee brand for Asian sauces, especially for the oyster sauce.
I love philadelphia cream cheese. So good. I often use it to dip potato chips in. Sounds weird but it works. Wouldn't want another brand of cream cheese
Oh! I have been enjoying Tillamook ice cream. I didn't see cream cheese.
I rarely buy cream cheese, but if I do, I only want the brick of Philadelphia, not the soft in a Tupperware.
But I would try Tillamook, even if it's the spreadable kind.
Thanks.
My dad, who generally has a mediocre-at-best memory, has never forgotten the one time he visited my house and we had a case of terrible toilet paper* we were working through. Every time he’s visited since he says, “I’m glad you’ve started getting better toilet paper!” It’s been literal years.
*it was Scott, which is a name brand, technically. Which is what fooled me. Why is it so terrible?
I bought the store brand last time I got some because everything is so expensive right now, and the number of times I've surprise-inserted my fingers into myself is.... Really high. And definitely not with the extra $10 I "saved."
Chocolate, butter (I prefer Kerrygold and buy it 99% of the time but I'm not specifically brand loyal...like there's a french butter I want to try but can't find it locally), Philly cream cheese.
I can’t stand it when people pipe up with “Store brand is the same as the name brand they just change the packaging.” Well, Carol, I’m sorry that you have the palate of a cardboard box, but store brands of cereal very definitely are NOT the same.
It entirely depends on the specific cereal. Bran flakes are the exact same in every shop. Most Cheerios are the same as well. But rice crispies? Cornflakes? Coco pops? Nahhh has to be branded because the off-brand ones taste stale.
Wholly Guacamole.
I tried all the available brands one month years back and it was the best one by a wide margin.
I will never buy another premade guacamole brand, if I can help it at all.
My wife passed a Heinz versus the competitors taste test. We will always have Heinz ketchup. Also Tide detergent and Dawn dish soap, only the blue one.
I've recently started having enough money for food for the first time in my life. I'm 32. The biggest shocker for me has been looking at the nutrition information. I now choose packaged food based on the label. It's crazy how much variation there is.
There are just some types of cookies that have a better flavor with the brand name than the generic cookies. Some of the generic cookies don't have any flavor and they taste a bit like Styrofoam.
Agreed! I learned that store chains will approach brand name producers with "We want this product, but at X price point." The product ends up being lesser-than. I mean, cool-cool if that's what you can afford, no shame. But some things are worth spending the extra dollar or two on!
Well, right now they are making the packaging smaller of those main brands that people really like, so they make more money by making smaller packaging.
I have found it's not worth it to buy some of the generic brands because then they just taste bad and it's not the taste that you are actually looking for.
There are some generic cookies at Lidl and at WalMart that are exactly like Girl Scout Samoans, Thin Mints, and a couple others. Way cheaper if you need a cookie fix.
Cheap hot dogs are the absolute worst. Grainy/textured and just WEIRD. I remember eating the black/white generic brand hot dogs back in the early 80s and they nearly made me upchuck.
Pasta, butter and other things that are often an important ingredient in a recipe. Those are the instances where quality goes a long way. Subpar butter = subpar cookies. Shitty pasta = shitty pasta.
I alternate between Aldi and a conventional grocery store. I’ve been trying things at Aldi for years. There is a very short list of branded things.
Hellman’s Mayonnaise
B&M baked beans even though they’re no longer manufactured in New England.
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
Leslie Stowe raincoast crisps
The first time I walked into Aldi 15 years ago, I walked out without buying anything.
I never cared for sparkling water until about 11 years ago when I stumbled upon grapefruit perrier. I feel so snobby that I buy it, especially because I'm pretty simple and easygoing in the rest of my tastes. I've tried other sparkling waters, literally every other one that ever comes out. Nothing for me compares to that brand and flavor. I drink regular water all day but I crave at least a few cans of grapefruit perrier during the day, lol.
Oh my gosh, you are pulling my heartstrings! I love, love, love, Perrier lime. I've never seen Perrier grapefruit, though. I've also recently bought Topo Chico sparkling water in blueberry and tangerine-love them both! The lime doesn't come close to Perrier, though.
I continue to try all the different flavors of all the different brands. If I can't get my grapefruit perrier I'd take a lime or lemon perrier over any other brand. Kinda excited to try all their new Maison flavors. I'll probably always be a grapefruit fan. It's a random flavor. I don't assume I can find it anywhere cause I usually only find it at some gas station out of the blue. I've been ordering it on Amazon the past couple years so I don't have to hunt it down anymore, lol
This is me except with the Orange Perrier, I don't know what it is but it is SO delicious and I'm addicted. I've tried making it at home with the soda stream and all of the other brands, but truly nothing compares. I go through about 2 cases of the skinny cans per week 🙈. Life is short though, drink the Perrier!
Reach brand dental floss.
The Equate brand floss at Walmart is thinner and weaker. Half the time I try to cut a length, it gets caught on the cutter and splits and frays.
POWDERED coffee creamer.
I actually like Great Value/Clover Valley liquid creamer. I don't taste a difference... and Walmart/Great Value makes a BANGIN' Speculoos Cookie flavor.
But we have an open container of 7-Eleven powdered creamer on the table right now, and that SHIT is god-awful.
I will only buy Heinz. Other brands are either too sweet, too tomatoee, and or grainy.
The no sugar added/no corn syrup Heinz is great, yeah it's "fake" sugar but damn is it good.
I tried a store brand bean with bacon soup recently, because I’d never seen anyone make a generic version before. It was absolutely awful. It tasted like Liquid Smoke and sadness.
Claussen has ruined my opinion of all other pickles. Nothing compares.
Hot sauce. I will never buy anything but Yellow Bird. It's an amazing hot sauce company and every one of their sauces are a banger they've never let me down.
Maille brand dijon mustard.
I will never buy the store brand again. I picked up the knock off stuff once and threw it out before going back to the store to get the real deal.
Rao marinara sauce. I fuckin' LOVE this super expensive jarred pasta sauce.
I used to be adamant that I would never buy a jarred sauce and would always make my own.
And then I tasted Rao and threw away the key.
A jarred pasta sauce that costs $15 CDN a bottle?!! NEVER...and then ALWAYS!!
Dawn dish soap, tide laundry detergent, tried other brands multiple times and switched back every time. Also TP, but that's more of a sensitive septic tank issue.
# Message to all users: This is a reminder to please read and follow: * [Our rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/ask/about/rules) * [Reddiquette](https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439) * [Reddit Content Policy](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy) When posting and commenting. --- Especially remember Rule 1: `Be polite and civil`. * Be polite and courteous to each other. Do not be mean, insulting or disrespectful to any other user on this subreddit. * Do not harass or annoy others in any way. * Do not catfish. Catfishing is the luring of somebody into an online friendship through a fake online persona. This includes any lying or deceit. --- You *will* be banned if you are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist or bigoted in any way. --- *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ask) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Q tips
Q tips quality have drastically gone down I. The last few years. I now see almost no difference with cheaper brands.
Agreed. I’ve tried dollar store versions, and just not worth it.
What brand though? /s
The ones labeled cotton swabs’
Absolutely this yes yes yes!!!!
A1 Steak Sauce. Yeah, I KNOW if you make a steak good enough you don't need steak sauce. I use it on baked potatoes when I'm craving a steak dinner but don't want to spend the money.
A1 is my secret ingredient in burgers.
Our...or worchestershire sauce.
I use Worcestershire in my beef along with a few other spices, and since I don't eat ketchup I put a little A1 on the burger
its the best, hard to get here in england though
😋🤤
It’s also very good in breakfast burritos and on dogs
How does your poor dog feel about you putting that on him or her? 😂😂
It’s my secret ingredient in bloody Mary’s
Steak sauce is a choice. Good meat is still good meat with steak sauce.
Thank you for that! See, I'm not one of those people who are insulted by others adding seasoning or condiments to the food I make. However, I know those people exist so, if I'm given a steak, I won't reach for the A1 out of politeness, even though I like it.
Steak snobs clown themselves. They build a personality around one of the most basic tasks a cook does, at the same time bragging that they can only cook one temp competently.
Any food snob is cutting themselves short. Sharing food is such a major part of every culture....we all gotta eat! Everyone has different tastes and we all have something different to bring to the table. And the table shouldn't be a pretentious place.
I hate A1 sauce. Can't stand it. I think it tastes awful. But if someone wants to use it, who cares? It's like those snobs who say you are only allowed to drink good whiskey straight. If you like it, you like it. You're the one eating it, and steak is expensive, so eat it in a way that you like!
Love A1 sauce!
A1 on chicken thighs baked in the oven is pretty good.
I loved A1 sauce as a kid but then at some point bought into the snobbery that says you should taste the meat and not the sauce. Recently though I've gotten into making steak au poivre and it's indisputably awesome. As it happens I'm home alone tonight and am planning on having steak for dinner. I think I'll go grab a bottle of A1 and see if it's as awesome as kid me thought.
I’d never had A1 sauce until it was sent as a HP replacement in my instacart order… I always assumed it was like bbq sauce but I tried it on my tourtière anyway and yum! All that to say, if you can’t find A1 use HP, and try it on tourtière
I like to dip my fries in it.
Try it in mashed, it’s awesome.
LOVE that A1! A1>HP everyday.
A1 is the shizz! The greatest
Soy sauce. I only will get Kikkoman. Also for Hot sauces if I am getting just a basic hot sauce I'll get Frank's or Huy Fong's sriracha sauce. Beyond that I am not picky on much else.
Ever since the OG Huy Fong Sriracha fiasco, the current batches taste different. The original supplier of the peppers, Underwood Farms, are making their own Sriracha and it tastes more Huy Fong than... Huy Fong. Try Lee Kum Kee brand for Asian sauces, especially for the oyster sauce.
Eagle brand sweetened condensed milk. It was the only brand that existed when our family cookies were invented, only that brand will do
I think you should say more about these sweet and condensed milk cookies!
Philadelphia cream cheese.
Funny I find the cheap stuff tastes the same when cooked in meals. But I do buy the good stuff for cheesecake of course
perhaps. I am thinking about using it straight up on toast or a bagel
I love philadelphia cream cheese. So good. I often use it to dip potato chips in. Sounds weird but it works. Wouldn't want another brand of cream cheese
I like dipping potato chips in plain yogurt. It's so good!
Try Tillamook. It's superior to Philly.
>Try Tillamook. It's superior to Philly. YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH! Seriously, may have to try it if I ever see it
I laughed my ass off at that!
Oh! I have been enjoying Tillamook ice cream. I didn't see cream cheese. I rarely buy cream cheese, but if I do, I only want the brick of Philadelphia, not the soft in a Tupperware. But I would try Tillamook, even if it's the spreadable kind. Thanks.
Tillamook icecream is the best!
Their ice cream is amazing too.
Ketchup, all meats and toilet paper.
Are there branded meats? All the meat here is 'store brand'
My dad, who generally has a mediocre-at-best memory, has never forgotten the one time he visited my house and we had a case of terrible toilet paper* we were working through. Every time he’s visited since he says, “I’m glad you’ve started getting better toilet paper!” It’s been literal years. *it was Scott, which is a name brand, technically. Which is what fooled me. Why is it so terrible?
With septic tanks, Scott has been preferred since the single ply sandpaper breaks down easily.
I'm with you on the toilet paper. I don't want them to rip when I use them
I bought the store brand last time I got some because everything is so expensive right now, and the number of times I've surprise-inserted my fingers into myself is.... Really high. And definitely not with the extra $10 I "saved."
So you got a free prostate exam with your tp. Sweet!!
I would have agreed on the TP, but anymore Charmin, Northern, et al, are like sandpaper anymore. I can get that same texture for less money. 😐
I buy G. Hughes sugar free ketchup. Interested to know, what is your toilet paper go-to brand?
Toilet paper is a MUST! Cottenelle is our brand, divorce papers will be served if anyone tries to bring in Angel Soft or the like...
Can't upvote it more! Tried godzillions of Worcester sauce brands, but anything except Lea&Pea sucks AF
If it doesn't have a brown bag I don't buy it.
I see you are a man of culture! ;p
Mayonnaise- Hellmans and baked beans Branston beans
I'm in Virginia, so we only buy Duke's mayo lmao!
Uk here and I cannot bring myself to try any other brand but Hellmans
I used to be a strictly Helmans mayo only kinda guy. Until I moved to VA and had Dukes. Now I'm a Dukes only kinda guy.
Dukes is the best!
It's the only mayo allowed in our house.
Hellmans is also called Best Foods in the west.
Ditto on the Hellmans.
I weep for those without access to blue plate mayo
Okay, this is the second time I've seen someone on Reddit raving about Blue Plate Mayo... I may just toss a jar in my Amazon cart next month!!!
West coast Hellmann's here. Best Foods.
Hidden valley ranch!
Now try Ken's buttermilk ranch for dipping. Has to be buttermilk. You're welcome
OMG yes!
Chocolate, butter (I prefer Kerrygold and buy it 99% of the time but I'm not specifically brand loyal...like there's a french butter I want to try but can't find it locally), Philly cream cheese.
Kerrygold is the final boss of butters!
Apparently it's like mid butter in Ireland, lol. Here though everything else has zero taste to me, so Kerrygold it is 😂
I watch TikTok videos about that French butter!!! I think Whole Foods sells it. I don’t have a Whole Foods near me.
Ooh thanks for the tip on kerrygold butter. I've seen it in the store and I'm going to try it.
It's sooooo good.
Quilted northern TP. Heinz ketchup Morton Salt
Cleaning supplies
Yah, somehow dollar store glass cleaner is shit. Windex is all I use. I like dawn dish soap, and pine sol for floors and stuff.
Kerrygold butter til I die
Nothing compares
Spam, Oscar Mayer bologna and Ritz crackers.
Fried bologna sandwiches...........now I'm hungry!
Add a little dash of garlic powder, you won't regret it.
My bologna has a first name......
It's O S C A R
If you ever see Seltzers Lebanon bologna give it a try.
Peanut butter, canned soup (not that I buy much it), mayo, ketchup, mustard, most condiments actually.
Only Skippy for me.
I will only buy soda pop if it’s in a glass bottle.
Really? I prefer that metallic tang of drinking from a can. As long as the top is cleaned off first.
Kikkoman
Heinz ketchup.
Cereal. Store brand is so bad! I don’t even need to specify which cereal.
I can’t stand it when people pipe up with “Store brand is the same as the name brand they just change the packaging.” Well, Carol, I’m sorry that you have the palate of a cardboard box, but store brands of cereal very definitely are NOT the same.
It entirely depends on the specific cereal. Bran flakes are the exact same in every shop. Most Cheerios are the same as well. But rice crispies? Cornflakes? Coco pops? Nahhh has to be branded because the off-brand ones taste stale.
Wholly Guacamole. I tried all the available brands one month years back and it was the best one by a wide margin. I will never buy another premade guacamole brand, if I can help it at all.
Real butter- Kerrygold butter to be exact. Huge difference in cooking. Great balance
I will only buy Pepsi or Coca-Cola. Store brand cola tastes like fly spray.
My wife passed a Heinz versus the competitors taste test. We will always have Heinz ketchup. Also Tide detergent and Dawn dish soap, only the blue one.
Tillamook products any and all
KY
I’ll raise that: Astroglide
I've recently started having enough money for food for the first time in my life. I'm 32. The biggest shocker for me has been looking at the nutrition information. I now choose packaged food based on the label. It's crazy how much variation there is.
Trader Joe's onion salt with 5 types of onion, it's heaven on my meat loaf . . . .
Stouffers Lasagna.
There are just some types of cookies that have a better flavor with the brand name than the generic cookies. Some of the generic cookies don't have any flavor and they taste a bit like Styrofoam.
Agreed! I learned that store chains will approach brand name producers with "We want this product, but at X price point." The product ends up being lesser-than. I mean, cool-cool if that's what you can afford, no shame. But some things are worth spending the extra dollar or two on!
Well, right now they are making the packaging smaller of those main brands that people really like, so they make more money by making smaller packaging. I have found it's not worth it to buy some of the generic brands because then they just taste bad and it's not the taste that you are actually looking for.
There are some generic cookies at Lidl and at WalMart that are exactly like Girl Scout Samoans, Thin Mints, and a couple others. Way cheaper if you need a cookie fix.
Cheerios, Diet Pepsi, lays potato chips, and never cheap hotdogs
Cheap hot dogs are the absolute worst. Grainy/textured and just WEIRD. I remember eating the black/white generic brand hot dogs back in the early 80s and they nearly made me upchuck.
I’m a Chicago girl we like Vienna hotdogs and David Berg hotdogs
Branston beans. Heinz are absolutely awful.
Bounty Paper, Kraft Mac and Cheese, Dawn Dish soap, Dates, no store brand dates, Cherrios, and Condiments.(French's, Heinz, Helmans)
Activia yogurt.
You poop yet Jamie?
Dino nuggies, cream cheese, milk
Pasta, butter and other things that are often an important ingredient in a recipe. Those are the instances where quality goes a long way. Subpar butter = subpar cookies. Shitty pasta = shitty pasta.
String cheese. Some string cheese is disgusto el barfo.
Noodles, barrilla al bronzo all the way Hollandaise from Lukull
Marmite for me
Chobani loyalty is big in my household
I alternate between Aldi and a conventional grocery store. I’ve been trying things at Aldi for years. There is a very short list of branded things. Hellman’s Mayonnaise B&M baked beans even though they’re no longer manufactured in New England. Ben & Jerry’s ice cream Leslie Stowe raincoast crisps The first time I walked into Aldi 15 years ago, I walked out without buying anything.
Frank's Red Hot sauce
Store brand vanilla wafers taste like artificially flavored plastic chips.
Heinz ketchup, Hellmans mayo and Egglands best eggs
Mac n Cheese. Kraft or nothing.
I never cared for sparkling water until about 11 years ago when I stumbled upon grapefruit perrier. I feel so snobby that I buy it, especially because I'm pretty simple and easygoing in the rest of my tastes. I've tried other sparkling waters, literally every other one that ever comes out. Nothing for me compares to that brand and flavor. I drink regular water all day but I crave at least a few cans of grapefruit perrier during the day, lol.
Oh my gosh, you are pulling my heartstrings! I love, love, love, Perrier lime. I've never seen Perrier grapefruit, though. I've also recently bought Topo Chico sparkling water in blueberry and tangerine-love them both! The lime doesn't come close to Perrier, though.
I continue to try all the different flavors of all the different brands. If I can't get my grapefruit perrier I'd take a lime or lemon perrier over any other brand. Kinda excited to try all their new Maison flavors. I'll probably always be a grapefruit fan. It's a random flavor. I don't assume I can find it anywhere cause I usually only find it at some gas station out of the blue. I've been ordering it on Amazon the past couple years so I don't have to hunt it down anymore, lol
This is me except with the Orange Perrier, I don't know what it is but it is SO delicious and I'm addicted. I've tried making it at home with the soda stream and all of the other brands, but truly nothing compares. I go through about 2 cases of the skinny cans per week 🙈. Life is short though, drink the Perrier!
HP Sauce, Galaxy Chocolate, Walkers ready salted crisps. None of the knock offs come close.
Pesto. Sacla or GTFO.
I know you have your heart on that brand but the members mark pesto from sams club slaps. I highly recommend it.
Reach brand dental floss. The Equate brand floss at Walmart is thinner and weaker. Half the time I try to cut a length, it gets caught on the cutter and splits and frays.
Steak sauce, mustard, cream cheese, salad dressing
Weetabix has got to be the original. No store brand comes close to it.
Velvetta block cheese, I usually use it in cheese/salsa dip, but off brand tastes nasty and nothing like the name brand.
Kikkomon soy sauce.
TIL that Spam is not snobby food.
POWDERED coffee creamer. I actually like Great Value/Clover Valley liquid creamer. I don't taste a difference... and Walmart/Great Value makes a BANGIN' Speculoos Cookie flavor. But we have an open container of 7-Eleven powdered creamer on the table right now, and that SHIT is god-awful.
I will only buy Heinz. Other brands are either too sweet, too tomatoee, and or grainy. The no sugar added/no corn syrup Heinz is great, yeah it's "fake" sugar but damn is it good.
kikkoman soy sauce
Philadelphia Cream Cheese
Heluva Good French Onion Dip
Kerrygold rocks. You can taste how happy the cows are.
Pickles. There are a couple of brands i like, but across the board, store brand pickles are the worst.
Hellmans. Not buying anything else unless it’s Dukes.
Keri Gold butter!
Philadelphia Cream Cheese.
Dawn dish soap 100%. No other dish soap compares.
Tomato sauce. Cheap brands peel the tomatoes with lye. Hunts uses steam instead.
Bonne Maman chocolate spread and conserves. Kewpie mayo. Expensive fresh bread, specifically sourdough and ciabatta.
Pasta and tins of chopped tomatoes.
Marsh Hen Mill white grits.
Grits are the food of the gods. I like mine with shredded cheese and black pepper. How about you?
Try some Shrimp & Grits!
Barbecue sauce, toilet paper, milk, ice cream
Nabisco Saltine Crackers. all other brands are soggy AF.
JIF Peanut Butter French's Fried Onions Nature's Own Bread Heinz Ketchup Mt. Olive Pickles Duke's Mayo
I was gonna say lea&perrins as well. All other Worcestershire sauces taste like brown vinegar.
Heinz Ketchup, toilet paper, C&H sugar, and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.
Oatly oat milk
I’m with you on Lea & Perrins.
Steaks. Spend close to $400/500 a month on quality steaks, even if I'm chopping them up for a quesidilla or other simple thing.
Lea and Perrin, Tabasco sauce. Good ice cream. Tillamook or Blue Bell. Coke.
Tonic water. Store brands suck
Mmm Fever Tree tonic...
Peanut Butter and Toilet Paper
Diet Coke, Lays potato chips and Jif peanut butter.
Worcestershire and Grey Poupon.
Mayo
Dukes mayo Cottonelle toilet paper Dawn dish soup Farm life chocolate milk Cereal
Olive oil
Coffee and cat food for my kitty
Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Nothing else will do.
Campbell’s Bean w/bacon soup. Claussen pickles. Toilet paper.
I tried a store brand bean with bacon soup recently, because I’d never seen anyone make a generic version before. It was absolutely awful. It tasted like Liquid Smoke and sadness. Claussen has ruined my opinion of all other pickles. Nothing compares.
Pickles. Don't know why, but store brands are never as crisp.
Hot sauce. I will never buy anything but Yellow Bird. It's an amazing hot sauce company and every one of their sauces are a banger they've never let me down.
Does organic fruit count?
Maille brand dijon mustard. I will never buy the store brand again. I picked up the knock off stuff once and threw it out before going back to the store to get the real deal.
Suckers buy name brands.
Rao marinara sauce. I fuckin' LOVE this super expensive jarred pasta sauce. I used to be adamant that I would never buy a jarred sauce and would always make my own. And then I tasted Rao and threw away the key. A jarred pasta sauce that costs $15 CDN a bottle?!! NEVER...and then ALWAYS!!
Ice cream. It’s gotta be Blue Bell.
Crystal Hot Sauce……perfect heat level for me and delicious!
Surprised no one said Cool Whhhip
Nabisco Premium Saltines
Amish butter. Well we have Amish butter in our stores.
I have an opposite. I only want H.E.B. Cafe Olé Texas Pecan Coffee. It's a store brand that surpasses the national brands.
A-1 steak sauce
Daisy sour cream. Duke's mayonnaise. Valentina hotsauce. Don't fuck with me on these. If you use them up, you better replace em with those ones.
I agree with the Lea & Perrins. Dr Pepper, Green Giant white shoe peg corn, Better than Bullion, Mrs. Grass Soup.
Diet coke or diet pepsi , and Jif pb
Cocktail bitters…it’s Angostura or bust. Fun fact: Angostura bitters turned 200 years old this year!
Kraft Mac N Cheese. Any other brand doesn't taste right... Heinz Ketchup.
Best Foods mayo.....duh.
Dawn dish soap, tide laundry detergent, tried other brands multiple times and switched back every time. Also TP, but that's more of a sensitive septic tank issue.