# Do you buy generic or store brand foods?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-buy-generic-or-store-brand-foods/616468>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 22, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-buy-generic-or-store-brand-foods/616468 "2012-03-22T03:20:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-buy-generic-or-store-brand-foods/616468/81 "2012-03-31T16:51:13Z")

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Hunt’s is better.

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**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-buy-generic-or-store-brand-foods/616468/82 "2012-03-31T21:34:24Z")

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For the Trader Joe’s crowd…does anyone eat their Raisin Bran? I bought some last week and IMO it tastes like sawdust with raisins. Awful, REALLY awful and I tossed it–and back to Post (and only POST) Raisin Bran.

Dina Merrill can have my money…LOL.

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**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-buy-generic-or-store-brand-foods/616468/83 "2012-04-01T00:05:28Z")

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> [@silenus](#):
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> Hunt’s is better.

I agree. It also beat out Heinz in the Cooks Illustrated tests as well, so that’s another point in its favor.

On a related point, what’s it called when there’s a clearly dominant name brand, a lesser brand, and then the house brands? Like, for example ketchup- Heinz is the 800 lb gorilla, Hunt’s is the lesser brand, and everywhere has a house brand.

I’m very likely to use the lesser brand- Schick instead of Gillette, Hunt’s instead of Heinz, All instead of Tide, B&L instead of Alcon (contact lens solution), etc…

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**Author:** ![LynnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@LynnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LynnM)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-buy-generic-or-store-brand-foods/616468/84 "2012-04-01T14:27:09Z")

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> [@bump](#):
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> I agree. It also beat out Heinz in the Cooks Illustrated tests as well, so that’s another point in its favor.

I recall trying Hunt’s once, but don’t remember my reaction. At the time I was probably too absorbed watching the monster truck rally on TV.

Maybe I’ll try a bottle. I was thinking that if Homer Simpson endorsed it, I’d try it. Slight hijack here, but does anyone know if the Simpsons characters endorse any products? Seems to me for a ketchup manufacturer, a Homer Simpson endorsement would be gold.

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**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-buy-generic-or-store-brand-foods/616468/85 "2012-04-02T04:24:33Z")

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Bart endorses Butterfingers, but that’s all I can think of.

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