Foods in which you only consume a particular brand name

[Tarik One]

Oreos - sandwich cookies, nothing else
Brisk - Iced tea
Chef Boy Ar Dee - Canned ravioli
Oscar Meyer/Ball Park - hot dogs

[MavsSuperFan]

sriracha, chili garlic sauce, sambal Oelek-huy fong foods

[OhNoTimNoSho]

Doritos, cheetos

[Tarik One]

Doritos, cheetos
Generic Cheetos or any other brand are horrible.

[kNIOKAS]

Wow you're a good consumer. Really good consumer. Your mother would be proud... She raised a particular brand consumer.

Way to go, kid!

[HarryCallahan]

Coca-Cola.

[Loneshot]

Wow you're a good consumer. Really good consumer. Your mother would be proud... She raised a particular brand consumer.

Way to go, kid!
:roll:

[TylerOO]

Arizona Ice Tea.
Oreo's
SCHICKHAUS BOLOGNA. Only bologna I'll eat, its ****in amazing
Tyson Chicken Nuggets

[Meticode]

I'd rather buy whatever's cheapest.

The only thing I've found that you can't quite replace with generic or another brand is Dr. Pepper and Coke... Even though I don't drink soda anymore.

Generic colas are basically Pepsi, and Dr. Pepper is just so wonky that you can't replicate it.
Odd. Mr. Pibb in my opinion used to taste EXACTLY like Dr. Pepper.

[L.Kizzle]

Is this thread serious?

:biggums:

Nothing like a jumbo bag of Fruity O's.

Generic soda taste the same as the other brands.

Generic cookies, the store brands go ham.

[Random_Guy]

I actually prefer pepsi for some reason

[HardwoodLegend]

Odd. Mr. Pibb in my opinion used to taste EXACTLY like Dr. Pepper.

It was a very similar taste, but Pibb is sweeter.

[DukeDelonte13]

Is this thread serious?

:biggums:

Nothing like a jumbo bag of Fruity O's.

Generic soda taste the same as the other brands.

Generic cookies, the store brands go ham.

this is true. I'd bet anyone that they would not be able to pick out coca-cola at a blind taste test amongst other colas.

[AintNoSunshine]

Lamborghini - car

McDonald's - food

[embersyc]

Mt Dew

[DukeDelonte13]

I used to love those planters cheese balls that came in the blue canister. They are superior to all other cheese balls.

[Jailblazers7]

Tito's Vodka

^Honestly the only thing I can come up with right now. Everything else I generally buy all different kinds of brands.

[hateraid]

Dymatize- Protein powder. All others are cheap and inferior

[tmacattack33]

A "mexican pizza" from taco bell. I don't care if it's not authentic or whatever or if they don't really eat such things in mexico, but i've never tasted anyone else's mexican pizza that tastes good.

[Jasi]

Is there anything more archetypal than Nutella for hazelnut chocolate spread?

https://danyanca.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/nutella.jpg

[niko]

this is true. I'd bet anyone that they would not be able to pick out coca-cola at a blind taste test amongst other colas.
It's absolutely not true, we always drank the generic crap at home growing up, it's tastes different. People who don't drink soda think it tastes the same. Coke tastes like coke, generic soda is not the same.

[DeuceWallaces]

this is true. I'd bet anyone that they would not be able to pick out coca-cola at a blind taste test amongst other colas.

You couldn't be more wrong. I don't drink pop much these days but if you lined up Coke, Pepsi, RC Cola, and any diet version I could pick them out easily.

Only broke ass nuckahs try to tell you Kroger Cola is the same as Coke.

[magic chiongson]

i was thinking hard until this was mentioned


Is there anything more archetypal than Nutella for hazelnut chocolate spread?

https://danyanca.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/nutella.jpg

yep, i guess that's pretty much it

[KevinNYC]

Malcolm Gladwell on why Heinz Ketchup, Hellman's Mayonaise, Coke and Pepsi are preferred to other brands. (http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/09/06/040906fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all)


There are five known fundamental tastes in the human palate: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami. Umami is the proteiny, full-bodied taste of chicken soup, or cured meat, or fish stock, or aged cheese, or mother’s milk, or soy sauce, or mushrooms, or seaweed, or cooked tomato. “Umami adds body,” Gary Beauchamp, who heads the Monell Chemical Senses Center, in Philadelphia, says. “If you add it to a soup, it makes the soup seem like it’s thicker—it gives it sensory heft. It turns a soup from salt water into a food.” When Heinz moved to ripe tomatoes and increased the percentage of tomato solids, he made ketchup, first and foremost, a potent source of umami. Then he dramatically increased the concentration of vinegar, so that his ketchup had twice the acidity of most other ketchups; now ketchup was sour, another of the fundamental tastes. The post-benzoate ketchups also doubled the concentration of sugar—so now ketchup was also sweet—and all along ketchup had been salty and bitter. These are not trivial issues. Give a baby soup, and then soup with MSG (an amino-acid salt that is pure umami), and the baby will go back for the MSG soup every time, the same way a baby will always prefer water with sugar to water alone. Salt and sugar and umami are primal signals about the food we are eating—about how dense it is in calories, for example, or, in the case of umami, about the presence of proteins and amino acids. What Heinz had done was come up with a condiment that pushed all five of these primal buttons. The taste of Heinz’s ketchup began at the tip of the tongue, where our receptors for sweet and salty first appear, moved along the sides, where sour notes seem the strongest, then hit the back of the tongue, for umami and bitter, in one long crescendo. How many things in the supermarket run the sensory spectrum like this?

.....

After breaking the ketchup down into its component parts, the testers assessed the critical dimension of “amplitude,” the word sensory experts use to describe flavors that are well blended and balanced, that “bloom” in the mouth. “The difference between high and low amplitude is the difference between my son and a great pianist playing ‘Ode to Joy’ on the piano,” Chambers says. “They are playing the same notes, but they blend better with the great pianist.” Pepperidge Farm shortbread cookies are considered to have high amplitude. So are Hellman’s mayonnaise and Sara Lee poundcake. When something is high in amplitude, all its constituent elements converge into a single gestalt. You can’t isolate the elements of an iconic, high-amplitude flavor like Coca-Cola or Pepsi. But you can with one of those private-label colas that you get in the supermarket. “The thing about Coke and Pepsi is that they are absolutely gorgeous,” Judy Heylmun, a vice-president of Sensory Spectrum, Inc., in Chatham, New Jersey, says. “They have beautiful notes—all flavors are in balance. It’s very hard to do that well. Usually, when you taste a store cola it’s”— and here she made a series of pik! pik! pik! sounds—“all the notes are kind of spiky, and usually the citrus is the first thing to spike out. And then the cinnamon. Citrus and brown spice notes are top notes and very volatile, as opposed to vanilla, which is very dark and deep. A really cheap store brand will have a big, fat cinnamon note sitting on top of everything.”


There's tons of hipstery restaurants near me that try to look gourmet by making their own ketchup. None has ever come close to Heinz.

[Jailblazers7]

do you drink vodka straight or mix it?

Both. Normally shots if I drink it straight but I will mix it with cranberry juice or make a vodka martini or a vodka gibson.

[Jailblazers7]

Malcolm Gladwell on why Heinz Ketchup, Hellman's Mayonaise, Coke and Pepsi are preferred to other brands. (http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/09/06/040906fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all)




There's tons of hipstery restaurants near me that try to look gourmet by making their own ketchup. None has ever come close to Heinz.

I had homemade ketchup at an oyster house in Baltimore recently that was much better than Heinz. It was call the Thames Street Oyster House and the food was phenominal and it was the best ketchup I've ever had.

http://www.thamesstreetoysterhouse.com/

[GOBB]

Simply OJ, Simply Cranberry, heck a lot of Simply beverages except Tea. I get Golden Peak sweet Tea. I need these brands or else I don't drink.

[hateraid]

This thread just gave me diabetes

[Jasi]

Come to think of it, there are some niche products which have very dominant brands here in Italy.

Saffron is mostly "Leprotto".
http://www.eatitmilano.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/0.jpg

Most culinary herbs and spices are "Cannamela".
http://www.cannamela.it/media/424856/gammaprodotti2013-_1_.jpg


"Paneangeli" yeast for cakes.
http://cdn.gingerandtomato.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/lievito-paneangeli.gif


It also very unlikely, albeit not impossible, that anyone in Italy uses a ketchup other than this one.
http://supergenio.it/image/cache/data/Immagini%20Prodotti/Kraft-Mato-Mato-390g-watermark-600x600.png




Interesting thread.

[highwhey]

There is no generic for these
http://www.taquitos.net/im/sn/Chesters-FHF.jpg

[Jailblazers7]

straight or martini/gibson I'd like tito's because it's pretty smooth. If I mixing with juice or liqueur I don't really care as long as it's not like aristocrat

Yeah, I normally don't mix it with juice because I think it is kind of a waste to make mixers with any kind of liquor. Tito's is at a great price point tho. It is $19.99 here in Pittsburgh so you can't really beat it for the quality at that price.

[Levity]

i wouldnt say i exclusively get these, but its pretty damn close,

haribo gummy bears.

[Thorpesaurous]

When I drank soda, I was so much a coke guy, that if I went to a diner or something and ordered a coke, and the waitress said "pepsi ok?" I would get something else.


Otherwise the thing that comes to mind is that I'm a bit of a lunch meat snob. I only buy Boar's Head for any meat. I know it's expensive. I don't care. I don't go to deli's that don't use Boar's Head. There are some meats that waiver with. Salami and Roast Beef can go either way, but Ham and Turkey it's Boar's Head or nothing.

I have a similar taste as GOBB apparently for Juice. Golden Peak is awesome. But I will bounce around a little, and go through long phases. Right now I'm in a Golden Peak phase. But a month ago I'da been all Newman's Own. And The Simply stuff I'm pretty committed to, but the good Trop stuff I'll drink too.

[DeuceWallaces]

I think Stoli, especially if you can find Gold, is a much better buy at 20 dollars than Tito's. I still get Tito's or Russian Standard if they're on sale, but they must be less carefully distilled with more impurities because they'll bring a hangover much harder than Stoli.

[DukeDelonte13]

You couldn't be more wrong. I don't drink pop much these days but if you lined up Coke, Pepsi, RC Cola, and any diet version I could pick them out easily.

Only broke ass nuckahs try to tell you Kroger Cola is the same as Coke.


my wife said the same bullsh*t and I did just that. I lined up 4 or 5 different colas.

She wasn't able to pick out what was coke.

She thought the best tasting one was some off brand generic.

I'd put money on the table and make the same bet with anyone.

[niko]

my wife said the same bullsh*t and I did just that. I lined up 4 or 5 different colas.

She wasn't able to pick out what was coke.

She thought the best tasting one was some off brand generic.

I'd put money on the table and make the same bet with anyone.
That's absolutely false. If you like soda and drink it, you can easily pick it out. I can pick out diet coke vs. coke zero vs. regular coke. You just don't like soda. You can't say it's the label either, soda companies have changed formula's secretly and had sales go totally to shit and had to change back. Or changed the type of sugar and lost sale. Mexico for example. They use cane sugar. They went to corn syrup and had to change back because the taste changed.

You're wrong. Note: I have friends who say the same thing about beer. People who don't drink say "wine is wine". People who don't like a product tend to thing it's all the same.

[johndeeregreen]

Heinz ketchup.

[Scholar]

Only Oreo's. :confusedshrug:

I don't buy brand names just because they're brand names. I go with the cheaper items whenever possible.

Why Oreo's make the exception, though, I really have no clue.

[Jailblazers7]

I think Stoli, especially if you can find Gold, is a much better buy at 20 dollars than Tito's. I still get Tito's or Russian Standard if they're on sale, but they must be less carefully distilled with more impurities because they'll bring a hangover much harder than Stoli.

Hmm, interesting to know. I used to buy Stoli a lot but for the past year or so I've been drinking Tito's pretty much exclusively. Maybe I'll have to go back experiment.

I normally don't drink enough vodka to worry about a hangover tho. That usually happens when I'm drinking whiskey.

[DukeDelonte13]

That's absolutely false. If you like soda and drink it, you can easily pick it out. I can pick out diet coke vs. coke zero vs. regular coke. You just don't like soda. You can't say it's the label either, soda companies have changed formula's secretly and had sales go totally to shit and had to change back. Or changed the type of sugar and lost sale. Mexico for example. They use cane sugar. They went to corn syrup and had to change back because the taste changed.

You're wrong. Note: I have friends who say the same thing about beer. People who don't drink say "wine is wine". People who don't like a product tend to thing it's all the same.

I didn't say I did the test, i set it up for my wife, who is a pop drinker and exclusively drinks coke and coke zero. She told me the same thing as you... "I def. could pick coke out; generic pop tastes like shit; etc."

Niko, I guarantee you would not be able to pick out coke from a line up of 4 different colas.

Talk is cheap though. Spend the 5 bucks, get some different colas and see if you can do the coke challenge.

EDIT: same shit with beer and wine too. I love wine and beer. Its been proven that those people who claim to be able to taste all these nuances in wine are really full of sh*t. Your eyes play a huge role in how your brain perceives taste.

[CelticBaller]

You couldn't be more wrong. I don't drink pop much these days but if you lined up Coke, Pepsi, RC Cola, and any diet version I could pick them out easily.

Only broke ass nuckahs try to tell you Kroger Cola is the same as Coke.
True, the moment you give me a generic soda I can tell that is not coke. Cheap ass ****** need to gtfo with that bs

[TheReal Kendall]

Screw that I'm cheap, so I tend to buy the cheap stuff.

Only name brand thing I buy is probably trojan condoms and vastic pickles.

I kinda feel y'all on the coke thing cause I buy cheap sodas at kroger and walmart for like 60 cent and once I taste a sprite or coke they seem to be much stronger.

[highwhey]

Only Oreo's. :confusedshrug:

I don't buy brand names just because they're brand names. I go with the cheaper items whenever possible.

Why Oreo's make the exception, though, I really have no clue.
For me it's not to be loyal to a particular brand but because their product is simply superior to other brands. Especially if im going to use the food products while im away from home like on a trip or camping. I dont mind paying extra for the peace of mind that the ketchup isnt going to taste like sh1t or the bread is gonna taste horrible. Obviously the same logic applies to more than just ketchup.

[Twin Beadles]

Dymatize- Protein powder. All others are cheap and inferior
Hey, what preworkout do you recommend?

Also for thread purposes: charmin ultrasoft toilet paper, paul mitchell shampoo

[reppy]

I have never found a box of generic Wheat Thins that was anything like the real deal. It's like they don't even try to get it right.