Sqwertz wrote:
> I have a few favorite brands on certain items. Most of the time I'm
> not a brand loyalist, but for certain things I have to have a
> specific brand or I would simply go without. And if for some reason
> that brand was no longer available, I probably wouldn't buy a
> competing product.
>
> So what do you buy that would change our indifference toward a
> certain food/drink?

In our house it is only Heinz brand ketchup. No other brand is acceptable.

Though I was raised in a Skippy peanut butter home, DH will choose other
brands. I don't eat peanut butter any longer so I don't care.

I will only use solid white tuna in water. I once bought chunk light by
mistake and was about to throw it out because it looked spoiled when my
neighbor told me that was what it was supposed to look like. Yuck! My
mother called chunk light tuna "goy tuna" <g>


--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
...
| Sqwertz wrote:
| > I have a few favorite brands on certain items. Most of the time I'm
| > not a brand loyalist, but for certain things I have to have a
| > specific brand or I would simply go without. And if for some reason
| > that brand was no longer available, I probably wouldn't buy a
| > competing product.
| >
| > So what do you buy that would change our indifference toward a
| > certain food/drink?
|
| In our house it is only Heinz brand ketchup. No other brand is acceptable.
|
| Though I was raised in a Skippy peanut butter home, DH will choose other
| brands. I don't eat peanut butter any longer so I don't care.
|
| I will only use solid white tuna in water. I once bought chunk light by
| mistake and was about to throw it out because it looked spoiled when my
| neighbor told me that was what it was supposed to look like. Yuck! My
| mother called chunk light tuna "goy tuna" <g>

If those fish haven't been circumcised by the time they are canned there is
no telling what they might look or taste like...

pavane

Janet wrote on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:07:07 -0600:

> Sqwertz wrote:
>> I have a few favorite brands on certain items. Most of the
>> time I'm not a brand loyalist, but for certain things I have to have
>> a specific brand or I would simply go without. And
>> if for some reason that brand was no longer available, I
>> probably wouldn't buy a competing product.
>>
>> So what do you buy that would change our indifference toward a
>> certain food/drink?

> In our house it is only Heinz brand ketchup. No other brand is
> acceptable.

The Giant store brand of ketchup is so similar to Heinz that I wonder if
it is made in the same factory. Del Monte used to make a ketchup with
pineapple vinegar that was quite acceptable, IMHO.
--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

James Silverton wrote:

> The Giant store brand of ketchup is so similar to Heinz that I wonder if
> it is made in the same factory. Del Monte used to make a ketchup with
> pineapple vinegar that was quite acceptable, IMHO.

They used to all have their own processing plants to make their own
products. There aren't as many plants now and you will find that the
remaining large facilities are making it for everyone.

On Feb 7, 4:25*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> James Silverton wrote:
> > The Giant store brand of ketchup is so similar to Heinz that I wonder if
> > it is made in the same factory. Del Monte used to make a ketchup with
> > pineapple vinegar that was quite acceptable, IMHO.
>
> They used to all have their own processing plants to make their own
> products. There aren't as many plants now and you will find that the
> remaining large facilities are making it for everyone.

There is more than one store brand that seems identical to Heinz.

A lot of SuperValu's store brands seem identical to the most popular
name brands:
http://www.supervalu.com/sv-webapp/

--Bryan

"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
...
> Sqwertz wrote:
>> I have a few favorite brands on certain items. Most of the time I'm
>> not a brand loyalist, but for certain things I have to have a
>> specific brand or I would simply go without. And if for some reason
>> that brand was no longer available, I probably wouldn't buy a
>> competing product.
>>
>> So what do you buy that would change our indifference toward a
>> certain food/drink?
>
> In our house it is only Heinz brand ketchup. No other brand is acceptable.
>
> Though I was raised in a Skippy peanut butter home, DH will choose other
> brands. I don't eat peanut butter any longer so I don't care.
>
> I will only use solid white tuna in water. I once bought chunk light by
> mistake and was about to throw it out because it looked spoiled when my
> neighbor told me that was what it was supposed to look like. Yuck! My
> mother called chunk light tuna "goy tuna" <g>
>
>



I did the same for years but switched to light tuna packed in Olive oil when
I made a pasta dish that called for it. Fell in love with it and won't go
back. I usually use Cento brand but have had some really great imported
jarred stuff from the gourmet shop in town. Lotsa $$$.

Jon