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Very good NBA starter
Re: Foods in which you only consume a particular brand name
I used to love those planters cheese balls that came in the blue canister. They are superior to all other cheese balls.
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NBA Legend
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Tito's Vodka
^Honestly the only thing I can come up with right now. Everything else I generally buy all different kinds of brands.
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Is it in you?
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Dymatize- Protein powder. All others are cheap and inferior
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Very good NBA starter
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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.
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Quality?
Re: Foods in which you only consume a particular brand name
Is there anything more archetypal than Nutella for hazelnut chocolate spread?
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I Run NY.
Re: Foods in which you only consume a particular brand name
Originally Posted by DukeDelonte13
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.
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NBA Legend
Re: Foods in which you only consume a particular brand name
Originally Posted by DukeDelonte13
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.
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I post-up midgets
Re: Foods in which you only consume a particular brand name
i was thinking hard until this was mentioned
Originally Posted by Jasi
Is there anything more archetypal than Nutella for hazelnut chocolate spread?
yep, i guess that's pretty much it
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Perfectly Calm, Dude
Re: Foods in which you only consume a particular brand name
Malcolm Gladwell on why Heinz Ketchup, Hellman's Mayonaise, Coke and Pepsi are preferred to other brands.
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?
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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.
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NBA Legend
Re: Foods in which you only consume a particular brand name
Originally Posted by The Macho Man
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.
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NBA Legend
Re: Foods in which you only consume a particular brand name
Originally Posted by KevinNYC
Malcolm Gladwell on why Heinz Ketchup, Hellman's Mayonaise, Coke and Pepsi are preferred to other brands.
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/
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Sixers|Eagles|Phillies
Re: Foods in which you only consume a particular brand name
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.
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Is it in you?
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This thread just gave me diabetes
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Quality?
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wet brain
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There is no generic for these
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