"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> Sqwertz wrote:
>> I have a few favorite brands on certain items. Most of the time I'm
>> not a brand loyalist, but for certain things I have to have a
>> specific brand or I would simply go without. And if for some reason
>> that brand was no longer available, I probably wouldn't buy a
>> competing product.
>>
>> So what do you buy that would change our indifference toward a
>> certain food/drink?
>
> In our house it is only Heinz brand ketchup. No other brand is acceptable.
>
> Though I was raised in a Skippy peanut butter home, DH will choose other
> brands. I don't eat peanut butter any longer so I don't care.
>
> I will only use solid white tuna in water. I once bought chunk light by
> mistake and was about to throw it out because it looked spoiled when my
> neighbor told me that was what it was supposed to look like. Yuck! My
> mother called chunk light tuna "goy tuna" <g>
>
>



I did the same for years but switched to light tuna packed in Olive oil when
I made a pasta dish that called for it. Fell in love with it and won't go
back. I usually use Cento brand but have had some really great imported
jarred stuff from the gourmet shop in town. Lotsa $$$.

Jon