Canned and processed food. Store brand os usually much cheaper and tastes the same if not sometimes better than the big brand names.
One of my old coworkers dads worked at a canning plant. He said his dad was in charge of the labeling and claims that almost all canned food is the same.
He said they’d run x amount of green giant labels, x amount of del monte, x amount of best choice, etc all from the same batch.
Lidl has two levels of Oreos knockoffs (much cheaper ones, and even cheaper ones) and both are better than proper Oreos.
I always hear about Lidl and Aldi just Google maped a Lidl store. Closest one is over 1300 miles away. Sad days. Aldi is a lot closer though. Only 650 miles to an Aldi. La sigh.
Here in Europe they’re everywhere. I have two within 5 minutes walk.
But I’ve heard the same being said about other Oreo knockoffs, so I believe you’ll find some.
In the UK Aldi and Lidl are everywhere. I have 14 Aldi and 15 Lidl stores within a 15 mile radius of my house.
In the UK Aldi and Lidl are everywhere. I have 14 Aldi and 15 Lidl stores within a 15 mile radius of my house.
The 90s Piggly Wiggly brand of cola with the red, orange and yellow stripes on the label.
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Kirkland wet wipes.
No name (Superstore brand) hot chocolate. Blows name brand out the water!
Superstore brand frozen desserts are so good as well. Back when they had salted toffee chunk chocolate covered cheesecake pops I used to get them all the time.
Also their ice cream is killer. Their version of Oreo ice cream has like triple the cookie chunks of brand name.
You know those Irwin quick clamps that are very popular, blue and yellow quick release clamps. I have a bunch of them and they’re fine.
I also have a bunch of “craftright” clamps. Same thing, but the clamping force feels so much higher, the Irwin clamps are what I use if I’ve run out of my cheap knockoff clamps
I really like Food Lion’s Dr. Perky over Dr. Pepper. I know it’s like really strange but the Dr. Perky is quite good. Also, Food Lion’s version of Mountain Dew, Mountain Lion, is a lot better.
I love these names. They sound like characters from a low-budget porn spoof of a popular movie.
HAHAHAHA! I never thought about it that way but it would totally work. 😆
I mainly shop at Giant and their store-brand sodas are almost all undrinkable (“Mr. Bob” is their version of Dr. Pepper), all with this bizarre medicine-y aftertaste. The only good one is their diet grape soda - it’s possible that I like this only because there’s no brand name version to compare it to.
IMHO, grape soda is awfully hard to screw up. 😜
Aldi’s brand of bagels is better than Thomas for me and are about half the price. There’s something that tastes oddly “sugary” about Thomas bagels in comparison.
To be fair, Thomas’ bagels are about as bad as bagels get. It’s not hard to beat one of those.
Open carrying a Thomas’ bagel is actually a crime in the state of New York.
Trader Joe’s employee reporting in: (cries in non-unionized) Aldi’s bagels are so much better than ours it ain’t even close to a fair fight
Calling anything made by Thomas’s “bagels” is just plain insulting. It’s round bread, at best.
Soda comes to mind. I like generic fudge sticks better than the Keeebler stuff too.
Drumsticks- those chocolate dipped ice cream cones with the nuts on top. The generic in my experience usually has way more nuts, sometimes more ice cream, and more caramel filling.
If you live in the UK, Lidl’s in-house cola brand, Freeway, is better than Pepsi or Coca-Cola, IMHO.
Great Value Fudgicles
Real fudgicles just taste weird at this point.
Kroger Nutter Butters. Aside from just tasting better, the packaging is also way less flimsy. (Plus, resealable!)
walmart thick and creamy mac and cheese > kraft all day every day fuck you fight me.
Well Food Lion deluxe mac and cheese is absolute garbage. You’ve been warned.
Kraft is utter garbage so that one’s not really surprising.
There’s this white cheddar flavour mac and cheese and the store brand where I am is much better than the Kraft version.
There might be a bit of nostalgia though for me as it was one of the go-to “quick and easy” meals my mom would make for us as a kid.
In Canada, Loblaws has a no name brand kd called deluxe white cheddar that is hands down the best Mac and cheese, Kraft white cheese always comes out bland and watery no matter how little milk I add.
That’s literally the brand I was referring to, haha. I haven’t actually bought it in a while though, since for several years the closest Loblaws store was too far away.
I’m now closer to one, but still haven’t picked any up. Haven’t timed any of my visits with when it’s on discount, and otherwise it’s around the same price as KD. Haven’t been eating much of that sort of food anyways.
Check out shoppers of its closer, the one near my house doesn’t have it in stock ever but they do stock it.
Yeah I really only eat it like once a month when I feel like being lazy and I don’t have to cook for anyone but myself. Lived off this stuff through uni though.
It’s as expensive as Kraft though, I think? Or barely any cheaper. President’s Choice stuff is sometimes more expensive than name brands, too.
I honestly couldn’t tell you my girlfriend does all the superstore shopping, I think shoppers has it slightly cheaper if you can find it. I also don’t mind paying 20 extra cents for superior Mac and cheese.
Pretty sure PC is cheaper when it’s on discount, but I haven’t paid attention to it in ages.
Gloves idk.
I use my $10 gardening gloves at the batting cages where they try and sell me on some $65 Franklin brand baseball bat glove grippers.
Dawg they’re gloves.
