Agree. I buy both. The good stuff gets used to wrap the grate on the grill we use on the pontoon boat. Or if we wrap leftovers for guests to take home. The generic works fine for most other applications.
Well, that was sort of a tongue-in-cheek response. Sort of.
I will never be seen in a generic, hospital loaner chair. Ti-Lite or bust, baby. 
Ditto. Our grocery now has a heavy duty generic which is equivalent to brand name regular and costs less.
Playing cards slapping against the spokes; is it done, and if so, cool?
Mixers. Never buy store brand or Mr. Boston mixes or mixers. Spend the money on Schweppe’s and Canada Dry and Coke.
Pickles. Vlasic or some other major brand. Never Mt. Olive or a store brand. They taste off or mushy.
LOL. Not done by this guy. Although I’m sure it’s done. And I’m sure someone thinks it’s cool.
Nabisco Saltines and Best Food Mayo. BMWs. 
Cascade dishwashing detergent, the kind that says on the box that you don’t have to pre-wash dishes. I’m not going back to doing that.
Since I got pregnant, Diet Pepsi. I know how much caffeine it has per 12-ounce glass, and therefore how much I can have in a day (200 mg when I was pregnant, 300 now that I’m breastfeeding). With generics, I don’t know that. Some days I need to get as close to my daily maximum of caffeine as possible to be functional, so I need that information. Normally, I’ll drink either Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi, whichever is on sale, but not store-brand.
Pampers. Other brands don’t fit the same way, and might not have something like the blue stripe to indicate when they are dirty. I have allergies and am too stuffy to tell by smell when the diaper is dirty, so I need the stripe.
The cats eat Eukanuba food. I don’t want to risk digestive upsets or angry cats over a switch. They also get Arm & Hammer litter, also because I don’t want them to get pissed off over a change. I say pissed off quite literally in Luna’s case- she has been known to express her displeasure over some change by peeing outside the box. Not a risk I’m willing to take to save a few dollars.
I get Tide Free detergent, because we know it will not trigger Mr. Neville’s skin allergies.
For some things, I buy a kosher-certified brand over one that isn’t. I’ll read labels to determine if something that isn’t kosher-certified is OK, but I’d rather get something certified. La Victoria salsas, for example, are kosher certified, and some other brands are not, so I generally buy the La Victoria.
That reminds me.. Hot Dogs. Only Hebrew National will do.
I couldn’t really think of anything until the following came along.
Yes. And only the Zesty kind everything else is a waste of nutrient space in my body.
When I got my cats they were being fed Purina One Indoor Advantage and that is what they eat to this day. And cat litter is Arm & Hammer Multi-Cat. It’s a quality litter.*
Also cereal has to be brand name. No generic crap even though it’s like $1.50 for a 5 lb bag but I’d still rather pay $5 for a box of brand name.
*I don’t think I’ve ever said that before and I can’t really see myself saying it ever again.
Thought of another one. When it comes to orange juice, it has to be Simply Orange. We hardly ever use it for anything other than screwdrivers (and that’s mainly my husband) so he gets his preference.
Pineapple juice and canned pineapple - must be Dole.
Nobody yet has mentioned cannabis. I’m old enough to remember the days of ditch weed, and generic “pot”. Nowadays it’s Sour Diesel, Bubblegum, Sweet Tooth, etc.
I’ve heard.
Absolutely!
Also, for me: tampons - I switch between Kotex, Playtex, or Tampax, so I don’t have a particular brand loyalty, but it does have to be a brand-name. I don’t know why, but I get kind of squeamish about the thought of shoving ‘knock offs’ inside me.
Also - condoms. I don’t currently use them (IUD, LOVE!!) but when I did they to be name brand, preferably Kimono Micro-thins.
Flinttown Brown…
I’m not sure they have ketchup that is not Heinz here in Pittsburgh. You might have to go outside the city limits to buy it.
Cola must be Coke.
Ice cream almost certainly must be a brand name, though there is one premium store brand I like.
No chocolatey frosted donut is like an Entenmann’s.
Just about everything else we buy is a store brand.
Doritos, obviously.
My kitties get the good stuff too, of course. Usually Friskies, both chow and cans, and Tidy Cat Crystals Blend litter. Good lord, is that litter amazing! I could go a month without a change (not that I would!) and it still wouldn’t smell. I recently bought Walgreen’s generic litter, rather than run to Walmart just for that one thing, and dumped the whole pan after two days. The rest went to the garage to clean up oil.
The only other thing I have to have brand name is conditioner. I have thick hair, and tons of it, so cheap will just not cut it. I can deal with Herbal Essences or Fructis or some other drugstore brands, but Suave and VO5 and the like are out of the question. Shampoo, I could really care less about, but I do tend to buy the same brand/scent as my conditioner, to avoid an odd smell about my head.
This. Q-tips.
fourth person to mention Heinz ketchup.
Sad in a way I guess - but it’s honestly they only thing I can think of where alternatives are worse in every single way.
In my first year of college (1991-1992), I smoked GPC Lights or General Product Cigarettes.
Eventually my throat and lungs couldn’t handle them any longer and I took the price hike to by Marlboros. But the GPCs were probably some 33% cheaper.