/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Good for you anon.
People who talk shit like that need to back it the fuck up with blind taste tests.
This should be a thing.

>>5958438
PROTIP

for the blind taste test, make both meals offbrand/real deal. you wanna eliminate the chance of a 50-50 guess

>>5958473
Haha, that seems like an amazing idea. Thanks, anon!

>>5958477
no problem. funny story, i was just thinking of what would happen if someone blind taste tested me with cage-free eggs vs shit-tier eggs as i was eating my breakfast sandwich and perusing /ck/

>eats your food
>complains that it's not the brand he likes
i would have punched him in the nuts and told him to buy his own

>>5958438
>be poor
>snacks
You do realize that snacks are just a waste of fucking money, and if you just ate proper meals there'd be no need for snacks. You may have saved a buck and a half on the off brand crackers, but buying crackers at all is a waste of money for someone who is truly poor.

>>5958498
>poor people aren't allowed to enjoy things

>>5958483
You would fail that test anon.
Especially if blindfolded to you can't see the color difference

>>5958498
I'm not fucking homeless poor, just middleclass. I make less than my roommate was what I was getting at. I don't need to waste money on saltines that are the same shit.

>>5958508
Saltines are much better than the knockoff garbage.

>>5958517

>>5958438
The proportions matter. Also many of the ingredient labels use the words artificial or natural flavors to disguise the true ingredients so you can't make such a comparison. Show us the labels.

>>5958438
Is the stupid person you?

Offbrand DOES taste different. You wouldn't say McDonald's and Burger King tastes the same, even though they use the same ingredients.

>>5958584
but they do taste the game

>>5958498
Humans were originally hunters and gathers. We can eat great quantities all at once for survival and store energy but we are meant to eat through out the day by snacking rather than eating according to meals only a couple times during the day.

>>5958588
Only to poor people. But they have to think that.

>>5958438
>Supposedly 1st world country
>Having to share an apartment with some whiny faggot because you can't afford a place of your own
It still surprises me how little the state supports it's citizen over there. I've been living in a huge place of my own solely on welfare euros for a few of years while going to uni.
Which is free, as education always should.

>>5958596
babbys 1st troll

>>5958592
>well off people can tell the difference between mcdonalds and burger king

>>5958588

You have dead taste buds.

>>5958601
We talking crackers here, nigger. Keep up.

>>5958600
It's not trolling if I'm telling the truth.

>>5958601
>all crackers taste the same
>all hamburgers taste the same

>>5958606
>muh autismbux
>why can't you be a leechfag like me?

This is how it goes:

>Cheapest
1. Store brand (cheap, and also disgusting with poor quality control)
2. Off-brand (Tastes as good as the real thing)
3. Name brand item
4. Slightly fancier rendition of the name-brand item (Tastes like off-brand but double the price)
>Most Expensive

>>5958588
No, BK is disgusting shit, McD is okay shit.

>people thinking that offbrand tastes different
kek
>people thinking that offbrand crackers taste different
topkek
>people arguing about burger king vs mcdonalds
multikek drifting

>>5958601
I would be able to tell the difference between McDonalds and Burger King in a second, first off Burger King burgers have a smokey flavor to them, and their pickles are substantially thicker than McDonald's, also the bun is more dense. I like them both but they have a lot of differences between them

>>5958588
>the game

>>5958473
That's rigged as fuck. The person being tested could just say they're the same (which is true in this case), and then the person orchestrating the test (OP) could just lie and say they were different after all, forcing the tester to believe both brands taste the same, while also allowing OP to buy the cheap brand.

>>5958508
>be middleclass
>exaggerate my circumstances and say that I'm poor
fucking kill yourself

>>5958503
>Never actually been poor

I once saw a handwritten notice at a buffet:

"please use the tongues provided"

Well, guess more crackers for you then.

>buy ice cream store brand b/c sale
>anon why didn't you buy Dreyers at least or something else?
>Because the ingredients were exactly the same and it's just vanilla (best flavor). The other ones were more expensive, almsot double the price.

>>5959426
Expensive brand ice cream really is good as fuck compared to cheaper stuff but I've never had ice cream that actually tasted "bad". It would be hard I think to screw up ice cream to the point that a simple flavor like chocolate or vanilla would taste "bad".

Here's a fun fact about item manufacturing, licensing and distribution.

Many, many times, there is 1 factory.
That 1 factory produces the exact same item on multiple licensing or distribution agreements.

So one day, the factory might make crackers that are put into NAME BRAND X boxes.
The next day they might make crackers and put them into STORE BRAND Y boxes.
On another day they might make the crackers for GENERIC LABEL Z boxes.

It's the same cracker, but the Licensor has contracted with the factory to produce certain Q for "their" box, that box then goes through distribution and then the store where it is labeled with $Price$ that the licensor demands from that product; hence the "Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price" you might see printed on some items.
Store have some discretion on what they can SELL to the consumer the product for, but the $$$ going to the Licensor is generally fixed by contract.

The era of separate companies, having separate factories producing the near-same item is LOOONG over.

So, save the shekels, get the cheaper item, as it is almost guaranteed to be the exact same item as the more expensive NAME BRAND item, just a different box.

>>5959447
It can be done. There's a local ice cream shop (truly local, not a chain), but the last time I went there, it was completely flavorless. The bowl they put it in would've had more flavor than that abomination.

>>5959463
>almost guaranteed to be the exact same item

I find that to be true about 50% of the time, not nearly always. But heck, why not try? Worst case scenario you wasted a couple bucks on something you won't buy again.

>>5959463
>This is what /Paul/ thinks

>>5959492
Oh yes anon let's waste money to save money. Instead of buying the products I like I'll buy the mystery brand.

>>5959463
Several years ago I even had this same mini-argument with a guy about NAME, HOUSE and GENERIC brands.

He was sooo obstinate about coke and pepsi and other flavors must come from different brand owned factories.
I told him to shut up and get in the truck, and I drove him for 40 minutes to a central bottling distribution facility, a plain as fuck no-signs factory.

BUT! At the loading bay you can see the COKE trucks, PEPSI trucks, FAYGO trucks, Dollar store trucks, etc. etc.
All being loaded up at the same factory... it's only the packaging that's different.

Fun Fact; I was able to meet the man that invented the expanded plastic soda bottle and got to see the mini-working prototype he had in his office that took a thin tube of plastic like 2 feet long, and POP! faster than the eye could see it was a bottle.
Also got to briefly meet the guy that invented the pop-top tab soda can... of course he saif he invented it for beer, not soda.

>>5959520
Except coke and pepsi taste different and they still use coca leaves minus the active ingredient to flavor the coke plus kola nuts. Bottling in the same place doesn't mean they use the same recipe. J&J is a big snack foods supplier and people will come to them with their recipes to produce the food for them.

>>5959504
>>5959496
>>5959492

Let's move to another item.
Because of my geographical area and my job I come across all sorts of these issues, which is why I browse /ck/.

Packaged donuts, the kind that are in a box.
Kroger's, ALDI's, Sam's Club, there were probably a dozen other companies there as well.
Almost ALL the packaged donuts for the Indianapolis IN, Columbus OH, Nashville TN distribution circle are made in 1 factory in Sharronville Ohio. Also where they make Dunkin Donuts for pretty much the same distribution region.

Point I'm making is that BRANDS are bullshit. Save your shekels.

>>5959520

coke and pepsi objectively taste different

>>5959520
Even though they are produced at the same facility, there will be minor variations (necessary for patents, at least in medicine) for each brand. The factory is capable of adjusting recipes, adding a few ingredients, or taking a few out.

Tylenol and off brands may have the same quantity of acetaminophen, but tylenol has a combination of caffeine, sugar and various other minor compounds to sufficiently differentiate it from the off brand stuff.

Not 100% if this applies to food though, I'm just a pharmacy assistance

>>5959558
>>5959582

Yes, yes, the coke/pepsi debate.
I'm sorry I mentioned those 2.
Yes, some times there's going to be a recipe variance that the Licensor demands. Coke/Pepsi being the 2 worst asshole companies is this regards.

But there's companies like Cott, and all they do is produce soda for off-market- generic brand soda labeling.

>>5959618
Generic brand sodas taste terrible. Have you never tasted them back to back with the big brands or are your taste buds dead?

>>5959913
I don't care for soda, I might have a cup or two a month; only drink I'm picky about is my German coffee.

>>5958596
Get your socialist shit out of here, Habeeb.

Don't you have some swedish flags to burn?

>For the win, Alex... {Lifeson cast as Trebek} What is R.C. Cola?

If they tasted the same then they could sue.

>>5958473
>these beef jerkeys i like as a kid
>ask dad to get me the spicy ones
>he comes home and blindfolds me
>asks me to taste the meat stick
>bite into it
>it's regular, disappointed
>he asks me to taste this one
>bite into it, a little different, slightly spicier
>say I prefered the 2nd one
>he calls me a dumbass and says they were bites of the same one
>he just opened one thing from both ends
>that proves I don't prefer spicier beef jerkey

;_; okay

>>5960323
>he comes home and blindfolds me
>asks me to taste the meat stick

gb2/y/

>>5958584
Sewer rat might taste like pumpkin pie, but I'll never know 'cause I'm not gonna eat that nasty shit.

Aldi has good butter crackers. ( aka Rits )

>>5958503
No they aren't. They should be spending their time improving their situation.

> upper middle class masterrace reporting in

>>5958625

>BK is disgusting and McDonalds is not

No John, you are the shit

>>5958438
>I only like this brand of margarine
Worst fucking one I've ever heard

>>5958487
This

>>5960323
Anyone else think this story was going in a way different direction?

>>5958617
Super store brand chips are amazing faggot. They're perfect. My favorite being "poutine" flavor.

>>5959426
Breyers isn't even actual ice cream anymore. Go check the ingredients. It's "frozen dessert". Have you ever noticed how it has a weird gum texture and isn't as cold in your mouth as it should be?
Safeway brand is actually really nice, I've only had French vanilla though.

>>5964099
Oh god damn it. Enough with this stupid conspiracy shit.

>>5964099
"dreyer's" isn't "breyer's", fuckface

>>5964128
Its not conspiracy shit, it's exactly what is on the label. cream wasn't on the label at all. But now they released a now has cream Breyers. I think they were doing a "new Pepsi " thing

>>5964128
>mfw when he's right
>yfw the next time you pick up a container of breyers and find "frozen desert"
>yfw when you read the ingredients

>>5964087
yes
I was worried he was going to get hit for biting

>>5964142
>>5964141
Well shit, I just looked it up and you're right anon.

What the fuck were they thinking?

>>5963979
Funny, my real name is Johan.

>>5958761
You might be eating too much fast food

Shredded wheat > store brand. I've had both, and storebrand is a flattened, burned, disgusting hunk of tree bark. But that's about the only thing that brand is better for.

>>5959578
>Packaged donuts

I hit up a local place for home made donuts, and I will never eat a chain/factory pastry again. There's no point. By comparison, it tastes like sugar-coated cardboard compared to the orgasm that is handmade.

All this efficiency of modern life, and we've only lost our dignity of eating decent food.

>>5964350
>eating shredded wheat
What are you? A 70 year old man?

>>5964372

Fuck you, it's delicious. Plain with honey, or the frosted kind. My usual breakfast is oatz though--cereal is a rare treat.

>>5959426
>store brand ice cream
I've definitely noticed a difference between store-brand ice cream and name-brand. Besides, when I can get a Blue Bell half-gallon for ~$3 with a sale and a coupon, why bother?

>>5964094
Yeah there ketchup chips are pretty good i would say they are like 90% the same, but like almost half the cost.

>>5958706

> Oreos
> store off-brand "Mr. Creamy"
> ohgodwhathaveidone.png

Never again.

>>5959426
>not buying premium ice cream
enjoy your air, anon. Non-premium ice creams are pumped full of air to make them fill the container. That is why they are so much less expensive... you are getting less ice cream.

>>5964094
The "Loads of " Jalapeno Poppers chips are fucking amazing. They had them way before Ruffles brought out their inferior knock off.

>>5966641
>Mr. Creamy

>>5966641
my dad calls them pooreos
he thinks he's clever

>>5958438
>not thanking you for buying snacks

>>5966703
hey tell your dad that a degenerate on the internet thinks he's funny

>>5964350
>Shredded wheat > store brand. I've had both, and storebrand is a flattened, burned, disgusting hunk of tree bark. But that's about the only thing that brand is better for.

There are a few (though not many) products I buy which are like this. Yes, much of the time the generic and "branded" items are relatively indistinguishable. But many times they are not. I have absolutely hated every generic-brand shredded wheat I've tried. Oftentimes, generic cheerios have a stale texture, but usually not. I still can't tell the difference between Cheerios and the equivalent my grocery store slaps its name on.

Anyway, my point is that the brand name isn't necessarily the only thing you're paying extra for. Sometimes there really are corners cut.

>Work in packaging
>mfw a "Product Change" is just packaging the same shit in a different box

>>5958767
>2007

>>5964136
How do you get that backwards b?

>>5959520
>Went to a central bottling DISTRIBUTION facility
>Distributing more than one beverage
>ILERMINATI

>>5966703
>>5966708
Two degenerates at that

>>5959447
Depending on whether your ice cream is using cream or hydrogenated vegetable oil, oh trust me it can go bad.

this just in: some brands of things taste different and some don't or are actually better
more at 11 on this shocking discovery

>>5964350
Kelloggs and a few other companies do not allow cereal licencing so the knockoffs taste like ass.