Put back that supermarket brand and get the REAL stuff, will ya!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Are there any foods that have to be the REAL DEAL in order for you to consume it?

For me it’s the following:

French’s mustard
The cheap stuff is to vinegar-y.
Heinz Ketchup
Any other brand is just vile.
Barilla Pasta
If I’m gonna get boxed pasta, it’s the only brand I’ll buy.
Lunch Meat from the Deli Counter
I cannot, nay will not, eat that pre-packaged stuff.
Tropicana or Florida’s Natural OJ
I don’t like any ‘From Concentrate’ brand of orange juice.

I can’t think of any others right now, but how 'bout you?

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Mozzarella cheese - must be whole milk, in a solid brick. Store brands are always part-skim and frequently pre-grated.

Parmesan cheese - must be in a solid block. The pre-grated stuff in the green can tastes like dust.

Store brand cereals seem to have a problem with quality control. Every so often you bite into something that’s at least 5 on the Mohs’ hardness scale.

Store brand ice cream is disgusting - when it melts all the filler gums separate and it looks like dog snot.

I don’t know what store brand spaghetti sauce tastes like, because it would be a sin against nature to try it.

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Mayo has to be Hellman’s.
Dorito’s have to be Dorito’s.
Canned soup has to be Campbell’s or Progresso.
Bottled tomato sauce has to be Ragu.
Canned stewed tomatoes have to be Del Monte.
Yogurt has to be Dannon.

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lOl… I’m with you on that one. I shop at the Giant and there’s always a brand of 'ghetti sauce I like on sale. I’ll eat Barilla, Five Brothers and a few others but the supermarket brand is not acceptable.

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Get the real Huggies!

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Cheese slices have to be cheese, not imitation, artificial, simulated cheese-food-like product.

I agree about the cheap store brand ice cream, but there are some premium store brand flavors that are quite good - at Publix, anyway.

Laundry products and dishwashing products must be name brands.

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Just thought of three more:

Clausen Pickles
Ewwww. Pickles that aren’t refrigerated?!?!?
Progresso Soup
It’s the only brand of canned soup I’ll eat.
Lunchables
I just can’t buy the supermarket or ‘off’ brand for my kid.

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With lots of things, I’m a brand whore, and I will opt for the <gulp> store brand or whatever’s on sale. These things include: flour, sugar, (real) butter, milk, white bread, hot dog buns, frozen veggies – basic stuff like that. I only recently became loyal to a shampoo brand (for reasons which have nothing to do with its performance), which I understand is unusual.

But some things are just wrong. For instance: store-brand pop. The colas are always funky and cinnamony tasting. Other things:
Bacon: Oscar Mayer or Lazy Maple
Bologna: Oscar Mayer; hot dogs: Vienna, Best’s Kosher, or Hebrew National (although Oscar Mayer is okay for hot dogs ‘n’ eggs)

I am picky about my meat products.

And most of the stuff said here. Fake Doritos, in particular, are horrendous.

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I can only think of two things that have to be brand name:

Claussen Dill Pickles: I could eat some every day and not grow tired of them!

And Mac&Cheese has to be Kraft Deluxe (with the little foil pouch of cheesy goodness. I accept and will tolerate no substitutions.

Oh, thought of one more:

Tater tots must be Ore Ida. One of this world’s Perfect Foods.

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I’ll buy just about anything in the store brand (feeding a family of five on one income will do that to you), but I refuse to compromise when it comes to:

Ice Cream - It’s gotta be Breyers (even if it’s just plain ol’ vanilla)
Ketchup - It’s gotta be Heinz
Diapers - When we need to get disposables, I only get the name brands (Huggies or Pampers). Every store brand we have tried has been a leaky disaster.

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It must be Charmin or Cottonelle for toilet paper (bathroom tissue for you shrinking violets). I would never buy a store brand.

Same for tissues. Kleenex or Puffs, please, not the particle-board feeling stuff marketed as a store brand.

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I guess I don’t buy much from the “aisles” of the supermarket. Mostly, I shop from the perimeter. But of the things I do buy:

Mayo: Hellmann’s.
Ketchup: Heinz
Tomato Sauce: Classico (one of the few without added sugar)
Canned Tomatoes: Redpack
Hot Sauce: Tabasco
Mac and Cheese: Annie’s (sometimes Kraft). The “off brands” are just horrible.
Canned soup: Progresso

Most staple items (rice, flour, sugar, etc.) I do buy the supermarket brand.

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I hate alot of store brand “generics”, in fact, the ONLY items I’ll buy generic are paper products like tissues, t.p., paper towels, etc…just because I really can’t tell the difference except price…

I don’t understand why they even bother making those bagged cereals. Their “Lucky Charms” rip-off, “Magic Stars” has chewy marshmallows…s’up wit dat?!?

And I agree…generic ice cream is fit only for using as a frost-growing experiment in your freezer.

And store-brand soda…we’ll not even go there…Wildwood Cola…Ick!!

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Got Ukrop’s here. Store brand is usually just fine. I’m curious about lunch meat though. Isn’t fat/salt/lips/nitrosimines the same no matter what brand you stick on it?

Store brand will not do for

ice cream (Breyer’s or HD)
bread (health nut original)
Triscuits

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Salad dressing: Miracle Whip
Yogurt: whole milk types only. I despise low fat and no fat yogurts.
Toothpaste: Arm & Hammer gel
Butter: any type will do but it has to be real butter, not margarine (an abomination of nature, IMO).
Ice Cream: Breyers. I don’t like all the fillers and artifical crap they put in the other stuff.
Frozen Waffles: The ones in the red bag…my mind is drawing a blank here on their name!
Soup: Campbells or Chunky. Actually, any name brand. Store brand soups are foul.

That being said, I don’t mind the store brand cereals, bread, paper products, crackers, etc.

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Especially their frozen yogurt; I’ll buy Publix’ over a name brand any day.

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There aren’t to many name brands I have to have. Store brand soft drinks? Mayo? Mustard? Ice cream? All fine with me.

However, I did try the Eckerd brand equivalent in place of Edge Shaving Gel. Never again. Only Edge for me.

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Call me crazy, but I actually prefer the Grade-B toilet paper. There was one (I think it was Cottonelle, but I can’t remember) that was too thick. It was like wiping my ass with a blanket.

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blessedwolf, you ARE crazy.
Great, now I can’t get that image out of my mind. Arrgh!

For me:
Pop-Tarts, not the generic “Toaster Pasteries”, or the other brand “Toast’Ems” (or something like that) - like eating dried cardboard slices.

Still can’t get the blanket image out. d@mnyou!

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You’re crazy. :smiley:

I dunno; when I’ve been super poor, it seems all the store brands are pretty much 1-ply, which is wasteful because one has to use more, and I think women use a LOT more TP than men.

However, I HATE the one now (I think it’s Cottonelle) that has the ridges on it. Like speed bumps for one’s skid marks. No thanks. And I refuse to believe that this will make me any “cleaner,” as those ridiculous commericals opine.

On the other hand, re-reading the OP I just noticed that it’s about what store brands you won’t eat. Oops. I wouldn’t eat name-brand or store-brand toilet paper.