That’s so damn funny. Yes, you’re right, there is a brand of TP that’s too thick for my preferences, too. I will never buy Scott’s again. That stuff’s for prisoners of war!
dustMagnate, I buy real ham, turkey, corned beef and (rare, Italian style) roast beef. I prefer them fresh, thank you very much! 
Never been particularly brand loyal. One exception Excedrin…the headache medicine. Works for me.
I bought store brand paper towels once. It came off the roll in pieces. I needed half a roll to clean up an icetray spill. It was not worth the price.
I love Scott’s. It lasts forever. Charmin and Cottenelle have to much smelly powder and it scratches my ass.
Store soda is fine. Sure it doesn’t have enough fizz, but at 1.30$ for 3 liters it can’t taste so bad I wouldn’t buy it.
<catsup hijack> So have any of you Heinz lovers ever tasted Hunts? Try them side-by-side sometime. I bet you’ll be suprized.</catsup hijack>
As for the OP, I never buy house brands.
Yes, I’ve tried Hunt’s. It’s too tomato-y. It’s yucky. Hunt’s is, actually, the last brand I’d buy!
I noticed you typed catsup. Whence are you?
*Especially * when it’s plain ol’ vanilla.
I forget what it’s called, but it’s the only kosher marinara sauce they sell at Price Chopper. If that’s of any help in identifying it. It comes in tiny jars, it’s more expensive than I can afford, and it tastes great.
I refuse to by store brand and/or low brand bread for me. You know…like wonderbread where if you barely touch it and it becomes instantly flattened. Put it in a lunchbox and bamn its like a flattened piece of raw dough.
I will and DO drive the extra hour to the little european village in LA to buy the freshly made european breads >that kind that you could eat alone for hours and adds on all those extra pounds< or if i can’t get out that far…i will only get freshly baked bakery bread.
I’m not much of a brand whore myself. In most cases, the store brand is just fine. There are a couple of exceptions, though:
Cheese slices: Kraft or Velveeta. I’ve got little kids, so we MUST have cheese slices. House brand cheese slices suck. There’s just no other word for it.
Peanut butter: Jif. That’s it. End of story. No arguments tolerated.
As for spaghetti sauce, I’ve become quite partial to Five Brothers. It’s really good! 
Raised near Pittsburgh, PA. Please don’t tell anyone back home I switched to Hunts. 
I spelled it ‘catsup’ because today’s date is an even number. I alternate.
Hmm. Usually, I buy whatever’s on sale but I won’t buy store-brand soups or sauces, and if I get store brand canned veggies I get the salt-free kind. There’s way too much salt in the off brands IME.
Oh, and no off brand detergents or cleaners either.
–tygre
LOL.
Some of these must be regional things…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. Doritos are fine (nacho cheese, thanks), but they just don’t stand up to real tortilla chips for lotsa things.
And hot sauce! Is Tabasco the only kind you have there? Poor thing! Tabasco is fine (plus the green kind is very tasty, and the garlic is killer), but it just depends on the food. Sometimes Louisiana Hot Sauce is the ticket, sometimes it’s the chicken sauce, or maybe the Iguana … I’ve been in stores with entire sections of hot sauce.
There are the big-name national brands, the local brands which are not store related because they’re sold in most or all of the groceries but most of which are made in this state or region, the knock-off brands (dunno where they come from, but again they’re in multiple stores), then the house or store brands, then the generics. At least in these here parts.
Bacon & sausage - the local brands are usually better than the big-name. Best sausage going is the stuff that the FFA kids (and now other school-related groups) sell several times a year. Blue & Gold, yes! Available ONLY around here, nyah nyah.
Parmesan cheese - house brands I’ve tried are fine, but I only buy blocks. That grated stuff IS vile, even Kraft’s.
Melty cheese - the house brands can be NASTY, depending on the store. Some are OK, tho. There’s one knock-off brand that I can sometimes find (Golden Melt by name) that I like better than Velveeta.
I’m not sure about TP - we generally buy one local or knockoff (never looked). I like it better than several of the big brands & it’s cheaper. MUST BE 2-PLY!! Isn’t it Scott that’s only one - nah, must be something else from the previous posts. Ick!
I’ve not tried store-brand cereals, but there is one knock-off here (can’t remember the name) that makes many of the big-name cereals. They’re fine by me.
Soup - name brands only. Except the cheapo onion mix is OK for cooking with (burgers & such).
Soda - store brands are gross.
Miracle Whip only, please. Cheap fake mayo is nasty. If I want real mayo, I’ll make it. Butter, however, must be real - store brands are fine.
Ice cream - some of the local brands are pretty good. Breyer’s is great. Braum’s is yummy (frozen CUSTARD is the best), but you have to go to Braum’s to get it. (Y’all prolly don’t have Braums, now, do ya? <g> ) Marble Slab is on another level entirely - are they local or national?
Canned veggies - depends, but usually not the house or generic. Those can be yucky.
All I can think of for now.
I gotta agree here. A roll of Scott’s will last our family about a week. Plus, I’m allergic to anything with perfume in it.
Saint Zero is fanatical about Coke. It has to be Coke. Not store brand, not Pepsi (ewww!), not anything else. Me, I’ll drink almost anything.
I prefer Kraft Mac and Cheese, but the store brand is fine by me. I also prefer Star Kist Tuna, but once again, the store brand is okay.
Diapers: One brand we won’t buy, and it happens to be an off brand, but we buy more off brands than name brands there. Wipes, however, are another story. It’s the Huggies Supreme Care Unscented. I can imagine the problems my children would have if they inherit my sensitive skin…
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.
Mayo: MUST be Hellmann’s! Miracle Whip doesn’t taste “right” to me.
Ketchup: Heinz
TP: Charmin (unscented) or Cottonelle (or Bounty if I run out of TP 
) Shouldn’t happen now that I bought a million rolls of Charmin at Costco.
Canned corn: Green Giant!
Tomato sauce: Ragu!
Soup: Chunky or Progresso
Soda: Anything except store brand
Sliced Bread: Wonder
Cotton swabs: Q-tips
Maxi-pads. Stayfree. Gotta be Stayfree.
American cheese. MUST be Land O’Lakes from the DELI!!!
As for Parmesan-you know, you can get some pre-grated from the deli that tastes like the real stuff. Or is it romano? Oh well.
Wait…you guys eat already made spaghetti sauce? We buy that stuff for pizza only! (Clasico four cheese). My mother MAKES tomatoe sauce. The cook all day, toss the ingredients in. It’s the BEST.
And sorry, here in Pittsburgh, Heinz is the ONLY way to go.
Shortening has to be Crisco
Mayo " " Hellman’s
Butter can be store brand,just not margerine
Coke, 7-up only, store brand ginger ale or root beer is OK
Barilla pasta, though home made is best
Soup only Campbells or Progresso but again I prefer home made
I prefer fresh veggies to frozen but only eat canned if nothing else is available.
I would bet a month’s salary that the above is the first time in human history that particular concatenation of words has ever been written.
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SINNER!
Spam - none of that crap my grandma used to “butcher and can herself.” yeah right grandma.
Mcdonalds fried chicken heads are the only chicken heads I can eat. I hate the generic stuff in the grocer’s freezer that doesn’t include the beak or eyes or anything.