"Switch" > wrote in message
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> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>> In article .com>,
>> "Switch" > wrote:
>>
>> > Generic sux
>>
>> Not always......
>
> ah! I do buy housebrand, colombian coffee when Im too poor to buy the
> beans I like.
>
>> and more importantly, it saves money.
>
> yes it did
>
>> You just have to learn to pick and choose. A LOT of generics
>> are canned by the same places as the name brands! It's all in the
>> labelling.
>
> now this Im not sure....you know, you ever gotten a string in the grean
> beans?
> an end piece with the stem still on it
>
>> Same with turkeys. All those "name brand" turkeys come from the SAME
>> turkey farms and the SAME processing plants! They just get bagged with
>> different labels, or special injection treatments to order.
>
> elaine fixed a KILLER turkey potpie the other night, im good for a
> while in this category.
>
> --
>
> Oh sure, I've bought most things generic before; chicken can be the
> worst as far as taste and appearance; I think cheap chickens are
> routinely stressed before they get wrapped.
>
> but I do appreciate the quality I can trust by paying just a tad more.
>
> Far as the foods coming off the same assembly line, I don't know about
> this.
> Everyone seems to be using words like, virtually and probably the
> same...
> --
>
> so far every can good I've ever saved 10 cent on is not worth the
> reduction in quality.
> or there is actually less food in the can but more juice you
> know...inevitably there is going to be something less than desireable
> inside the can. The color, or the texture, or a mystery.
> --
>
> Toothpaste is definetely not the same
> Medicine is not the same - excluding prescription alternatives, i don't
> have any.
>
> I buy ibuprofens, I can't stand the generic ver of ibuprofren...it just
> does not work on me like
> Advil brand does. The pills are even harder to swallow.
> --
>
> I think most of us could do a blind comparison and pick out the shitty
> generic versions.
> like when you blind taste test the green beans and you put a big stem
> in your mouth..you would know that was the generic version.
>


There is some differences in 'store brands' and named brands.
A few years ago, Pathmark had their idea of 'generic' foods-mostly canned
stuff. It was marketed in plain white labels. The quality was inferior to
named brands and many store brands. But the idea was a cheap alternative for
those who couldn't afford better. The idea died and the line was
discontinued.
For the most part, store brands of canned goods are about the same, with
only some differences. Dry goods, (napkins, etc) are the same.