# Put back that supermarket brand and get the REAL stuff, will ya! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2001, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-back-that-supermarket-brand-and-get-the-real-stuff-will-ya/48435 "2001-01-04T18:33:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-back-that-supermarket-brand-and-get-the-real-stuff-will-ya/48435/61 "2001-01-06T21:15:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by psychobunny \* > \*\*Mac and Cheese-must be Kraft-anything else is vile! > Oreos-must be real (Won’t even eat the Ben and Jerry’s ice cream since they changed the cookies). > Mayonnaise-Miracle Whip > Ketchup-Heinz > \*\* Read the label closely **psycho** and I think you’ll find that Miracle Whip does not use the word mayonnaise anywhere. They make a “dressing”, not a mayonnaise. Having not looked at a bottle of it in decades, I might be wrong, but I doubt it. At least we’re on the same page about ketchup. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-back-that-supermarket-brand-and-get-the-real-stuff-will-ya/48435/62 "2001-01-06T21:31:48Z")
I stand corrected. Mayonaise-like consistency “salad dressing” used for the same purposes for which one would generally tend to use mayonnaise-Miracle Whip.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-back-that-supermarket-brand-and-get-the-real-stuff-will-ya/48435/63 "2001-01-06T22:09:22Z")
Since I’m British, I don’t know many of the brands you’ve all mentioned. Non UK Dopers won’t know some of the ones I’m about to mention. Ketchup has to be Heinz. I haven’t ever found another that isn’t too sweet or too vinegary. Sliced wholemeal bread (yes, I buy sliced bread) is Today’s. Not Hovis, not store’s own, not Kingsmill, but Today’s. It tastes like real bread, and it’s delicious toasted. Ready made curry from the chilled cabinet has to be Mumtaz. Any other ready meal is inferior. Porridge oats are always Mornflake. ---
**Author:** ![redtail23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@redtail23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redtail23)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-back-that-supermarket-brand-and-get-the-real-stuff-will-ya/48435/64 "2001-01-08T23:04:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by smackfu \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by redtail23 \* > > **I’ve never heard of knock-off Doritos, for example. Now, we do have umpteen kinds of _tortilla chips_, including local manufacturers and house brands, but that ain’t the same creeter at all.** > > So you don’t have store brand triangle shaped nacho-cheesed coated corn chips? That’s weird! They have the most interesting variety of off-tastes of any store brand item that I’ve tried. \*\* Hee hee. Nope. We have tortilla chips of all shapes & sizes, but I don’t believe I’ve ever seen any “store brand triangle shaped nacho-cheesed coated corn chips”. (Well, Tostitos _may_ do one, but they’re another major label.) But that does remind me of a question I’ve asked for years (dunno why I didn’t think of it before). Has anyone ever seen non-Frito’s corn chips? I’ve actually _looked_ for these, and never found any. I tend to prefer local or house brand chips & dips. French onion dip (the only _real_ kind) must be the creamy kind that comes in the deep tub - not the pastewax sort in the shallow container. National label salsas are disgusting. Purchased guacamole is vile. Soy sauce - forget Kikkoman’s. Hie thee to your closest Asian market and get some Thai soy sauce. MMMMMMM!! ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-back-that-supermarket-brand-and-get-the-real-stuff-will-ya/48435/65 "2001-01-08T23:46:58Z")
Haven’t seen this yet, since it’s not food… But it HAS to be real NyQuil. Store brand knocks me out for 3 hours, and I wake up even worse than before. NyQuil knocks me out for the night. Any other medicines, store brand is ok. But not for NyQuil. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-back-that-supermarket-brand-and-get-the-real-stuff-will-ya/48435/66 "2001-01-09T00:03:05Z")
Pretty much everything, actually - how sad is that? (But then, most 5 year olds are less picky about their food than I am.) For almost any food that I actually will eat, I can list off what brands are and are not acceptable. But the one thing that sticks out is Tillamook Cheese. No other brand will do. I took it for granted while I was growing up - and had to go to extreme lengths to buy it when I was stuck on the east coast. Life is almost not worth living without it… ---
**Author:** ![kirk280980](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@kirk280980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk280980)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-back-that-supermarket-brand-and-get-the-real-stuff-will-ya/48435/67 "2001-01-09T02:09:15Z")
I just go with whatever I happen to like best. Some of them are store brands, some aren’t. The quality is more important to me than the label. Having said that, there are a few brands which _nothing_ can compare to. It has to be Coke, not Pepsi. And I always buy Heinz ketchup. I also like Tide laundry detergent and Colgate shaving cream. We can’t get either of these in the UK, so I have them shipped over to me from the US. Nothing we have over here compares to either of those. We can get Right Gard, but it’s not the same as the stuff you get in the US, so I have that sent across the pond, too. A little bit extreme, but I’d rather have the things I like than waste my money on something I think is second-best. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-back-that-supermarket-brand-and-get-the-real-stuff-will-ya/48435.md?page=3)