That silliness aside, there are very few grocery items that I insist on buying brand names of anymore. Fuck - nine times outta ten Welch's is making ALDI's jelly and Reynolds wrap is making the same shit for the COSTCO branded crap. I do have to buy good tomatoes in cans for sauce, but I got an out for that. I buy (through a friend who owns a restaurant) Cisco's branded crushed tomatoes. More often than not, restaurant supply houses are you best bet for generic quality and pricing - that is if you can get in. Juss' sayin'...
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I don't buy Heinz brand products because I don't support John Kerry through his wife Teresa Heinz.
ReplyDeleteI always check labels for Genetically Modified / Bioengineered ingredients, and avoid when possible.
We buy Simple Truth Organic from Kroger. It tastes virtually identical, is regularly on sale for less than Heinz, and does not contain HFCS as a sweetener. Win, win, win.
ReplyDelete"White label" - that is, store or unbranded - products are a way to use production lines to their fullest, which means absorbing overhead and so on. It's not always obvious which companies do this, OR whether their product formulations change when they do (sometimes yes, sometimes no). One consumer products company that never white labels is S C Johnson. Welches, yeah, probably- they're a farmer owned co-op. Procter? Likely not. Clorox? Likely not. But the second tier guy in the space....yeah, he's probably white labelling to all comers. Green Giant, for example.
ReplyDeleteKetchup is for children.
ReplyDeleteI prefer Hunt's ketchup.
ReplyDeleteAs to tomatoes, Amazon sells good canned diced, petite diced and crushed tomatoes at a very good price. The only bummer is they restrict the amount you can buy at a time, which is easily defeated by placing multiple orders in one day or over a span of days.