In article .com>,
"Switch" > wrote:

> 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

Yep!
In a can of "Green Giant" BRAND, and Del Monte!

Never have yet in the generic. ;-)

>
> > 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...

Do some serious label reading.
You will find a lot of the same "plant" codes for canning location
between brands vs. generic.

Seriously.

Some generic pet foods are made by Purina.

> --
>
> 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.

So just be pickier. ;-)
And maybe the generics you are buying are crap?
Generics vary from store to store too!

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>
> Toothpaste is definetely not the same

I don't buy regular toothpaste.
I use Nutri-biotic from the health food store.
There is no generic equivalent!

> Medicine is not the same - excluding prescription alternatives, i don't
> have any.

OTC meds are the same.
In fact, the generic ibuprofen works BETTER for me than Advil!

>
> 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.

Try the caplets.

Sorry, but that is one that works better (for me) and is about 1/2 the
price.

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>
> 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.

You got a bad can of beans.

Switch stores!

>
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Om.

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