# who can tell the difference between generic and store brands? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2001, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tell-the-difference-between-generic-and-store-brands/91137 "2001-11-02T15:45:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tell-the-difference-between-generic-and-store-brands/91137/41 "2001-11-06T15:25:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tramp \* > **I’ve found Harris Teeter (the strangely named grocery store we have here in northern Virginia) brand 100% juice to be better and alot cheaper than Oceanspray.** Hijack alert! I just had to say this. I went to a Brenda Lee concert a few years ago–she told a story of how her friend Dolly Parton planned to purchase Big Lots, Teeter’s and Piggly Wiggly stores and merge them into one chain called (WARNING! WARNING! BAD JOKE ALERT!!) “Big Wiggly Teeter’s.” Well, I warned you! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tell-the-difference-between-generic-and-store-brands/91137/42 "2001-11-07T21:37:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by techchick68 \* > **Toilet paper, sorry, but generic or off brands suck. If you are going to be wiping your butt with paper or for us women, other sensitive areas, it must not be a single ply that has enough wood chunks in it to put in the gerbil cage. Some feel like sandpaper.** I disagree. Sandpaper has one smooth side. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tell-the-difference-between-generic-and-store-brands/91137.md?page=2)