Brand ‘Snobbery’?

I usually buy supermarket own brand washing powder and toilet rolls as I think they are just as good as the expensive brands.

I have brand habits but am always willing to give a cheaper alternative a try. Have had great success in this arena with hot chocolate, walnuts and set honey so far and I'm always on the lookout for new competitive alternatives in my purchase regulars.

I have always bought own brands, unless we preferred the taste and texture of a more expensive alternative.

This applies to everything I buy. I start with the cheapest and work up, if necessary, until I reach an acceptable and enjoyable product.

Marmite. No substitutes will be accepted!

Otherwise lots of non-branded foods are more than adequate.

Oddly, beans I don't mind any brand - but tea, coffee, mayo I haven't yet found substitutes.
M&S bakery cheese scones ?

Most big food brands will not allow supermarkets to use their recipes, so the idea that branded products are the same is not strictly true. A non-recipe product such as frozen veg might be the same, but things like chips or (even more so) ready meals are absolutely not.

What is true, however, is that the main difference is advertising. There is no inherent reason why Brand Beans are better than Supermarket Beans, but we are probably more used to their taste, and have been told since childhood that they are the best.

When it comes to non-food goods, such as drugs, the difference is stark. Generic ibuprofen, for instance, in places like Home Bargains is about 37p a pack, whereas the 'Leading Brand' is £2.99. The active ingredient is identical, and is even printed on the pack, but some people still insist that the branded one is better, which shows the power of advertising.

Some own brand products are indistinguishable from the named brands. Cereals are a good example and the price difference is enormous.

Like Terribull only one brand of beans for me. Also same brand of mayonnaise. I've tried others.

When products are advertised “as good as the leading brand” they are the leading brand, many items are the same product, produced in the same factory just with different packaging.I have a friend that works in purchasing.

Many own brands are more than ok, but there's only one brand for beanz imo, and we all know which one that is, no other supermarket's own, or indeed any other well known producer of the humble baked beanz doez it for me

Own brands are much improved these days. We buy all sorts of them now. I said I would never buy own brand tea bags but I buy Aldi or Lidl Red Label tea bags now. They're great.

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!