Brand ‘Snobbery’?

I worked in a dairy when I left school and before going to nursing, packing cartons of cream and yogurt.
It amused me that the same product went into different brands packaging with huge variations in price!
Hence going for own brands as much as possible because I refuse to pay extra for posh brands.

Mummer

Tough stringy beand- you're overcooking them/not cooking enough/a rubbish cook.......

Tough stringy beans are old beans.

Anyone who grows beans knows that.

Mummer

Tizliz

At a friend’s for dinner I praised the green beans because they are often tough and these were perfect - they were Tesco’s frozen!

Shock horruer!!! Really? Are you for real? Do you think there are special crops/factories/cows/etc set up specifically for 'own brand' products?! Ha haaaa! Never heard such a load of codswallop! It ALL comes out of the same place, a spur is a spud flour is flour(same mills) drinking choc is same, difference usually may be down to packaging advertising and the strongest difference of all- psychological influence! Taste test. Do it. See?

You don't know a lot about farming, obviously!

There are different grades of produce. They get graded as they are packed on the farm

BlueBalou

I worked in a dairy when I left school and before going to nursing, packing cartons of cream and yogurt.
It amused me that the same product went into different brands packaging with huge variations in price!
Hence going for own brands as much as possible because I refuse to pay extra for posh brands.

It depends on the product of course.

But fruit and vegetables can vary in quality even grown on the same farm.

My GP told me years ago not to pay out for Nurofen, she said that supermarket brands were exactly the same at a fraction of the cost.

It’s true that drugs have a brand name and generic names for the same drug. Generic names can only be used when a drug comes off licence. That’s why drugs on prescription often change, according to which manufacturer is the cheapest, but they are essentially the same as the branded drug.
Food doesn’t have the same regulations and branded and non branded items would not have to be essentially the same.

Someone mentioned the use buy life of cheese . I find if properly wrapped and refrigerated it will keep for months.

I saw something on TV a few months ago about this kind of thing, in particular wheat bisks. When they compared the big brand with the Asda own brand the difference was that the Asda bisk had 0.01g less salt, the rest of the recipe was identical.

With drugs, take a look at the back of the box, there's a number in a little box, which in a great many cases will be the same number whether you're looking at a big brand or a cheaper generic. That number is basically a 'recipe' number, so if two different brands have the same number, they've both been made according to that 'recipe'.

Looking for DF food items for DGG, I have found a lot of cheaper foods mayo, garlic bread etc are actually dairy free too as not loaded with butter. And hence much cheaper than special dairy free ranges!?

Mummer

Tough stringy beand- you're overcooking them/not cooking enough/a rubbish cook.......

Is it necessary to be quite so rude?

Own and branded good do not neccesarily, have the same recipe, even if produced in the same factory. Each supermarket chain will have developed its own recipe to try to copy the taste of the leading brand but use cheaper materials, so they can price them for less.

Oxtail soup, for example will probably have less meat and be bulked out with more vegetables, shortcake biscuits will have less butter. Although DeeJaysmum does illustrate that when you get to basics like weetabix, there is very little difference

Yes I think you have to pick and choose, but if on a budget you don’t have that choice. I object to unnecessary fillers like cellulose added to foods to bulk them out and lower the cost. As a rule of thumb the more ingredients on the label the less fresh ingredients, and more heavily processed.