S/D: Shop's own brand

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By own brand I mean Tescos Value or supermarket equivalent, not their own brand mid-range stuff.

S: Chopped tomatoes, eggs, all cleaning products
D: Cola, cornflakes.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Destroy: Eggs and every other "value" animal product
Search: Jam tarts, crumpets

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Search: cookies
Destroy: tinned baked beans

― Stress Pig (kate), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Search: tins of tomatoes, totally
Destroy: any kind of meat

Starry posted a picture of tescobluestripe gin on Pumpkin not so long ago. Has anyone actually tried it?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

There's some kind of evaluatory process that goes through my mind every time I go shopping. I think if I'm buying something that I enjoy eating or that I use every day (like bread) then I'll probably not go for the own brand but if it's ingredients for a meal or if it's bogroll or something (don't get me wrong, I use this every day but I don't eat it) then it's Tesco value all the way.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Probably also search: cartons of orange juice. I mean, they're not as good as the freshly squeezed stuff, but are perfectly acceptable with vodka (or possibly bluestripe gin).

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Destroy: washing up liquid (false economy)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Value bogroll? Fucking NO WAY. I use the moistened stuff too these days. Good bogroll is ESSENTIAL.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Search: liquid detergent. Destroy: fabric softener.
Search: vacuum-packed tuna. Destroy: canned tuna.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

SearcH: Sainsbury's cheapo baked beans
Destroy: Tesco Value Lager

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Search: Pharmaceuticals, especially cold/flu stuff
Destroy: Cereals and sodas

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Search: lemonade (posh expensive lemonade never taste as good)
Destroy: bread

― jellybean (jellybean), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Yeh, the parmaceuticals rule. I only got told last year that own brand stuff, by law, had to be exactly the same as branded stuff. How annoying.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Starry posted a picture of tescobluestripe gin on Pumpkin not so long ago. Has anyone actually tried it?

http://www.chethams.org.uk/img/gin_lane_detail.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

search: canned tomatos, beans (these are the stuff that are the same as the expensive ones!), bin bags, cling film, tin foil, kitchen rolls(who cares about low quality?), minced meat (cos it's supposed to be shite anyway).

destroy: washing up liquid (why buy soap water?), crisps, soup (fucking sick).

dilemma: sausages (decent sausages do taste better, but then if all you want is a fatty hangover tastebuds don't work fry up then YAY 49p for 8)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

haha and yes omg the lager! aren't they like 2% or something.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

and taste like the grim reaper's piss

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Search: aspirin, ibuprofen, any other OTC med whose active ingredients are required by law to be identical to the name-brand item.

Destroy: almost anything else. I'm a total snotball. I refuse to use dish soap with perfume in it that makes me wanna puke, or shampoo that's been squeegeed across lab bunnies' eyeballs, or toilet paper that makes my asshole bleed (even if it means passing up recycled. Sorry, trees). I refuse to eat anything that's not completely delicious, I refuse to buy factory-farmed meat and eggs. So that doesn't leave much in store-brands.
YOU ONLY LIVE FUCKING ONCE!!!!! THIS IS MY MANIFESTO!!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha ha! Markleby just made me laugh like a drain! I have a sense of humour after all! Just an ownbrand sense of humour I guess.

― Stress Pig (kate), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

I try not to buy meat from supermarkets at all - the butcher in Cowley Road is fantastic. However yes ken, cheap sausages are brilliant for sausage and mash and oniuon gravy, esp. with my onion gravy which is SOOO amazing and scrummy and tasty that it eclipses almost any sausage you put next to it.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Johnny B is mental. Cheap sausages are only for nasty hangover sausage sandwiches. You need a GOOD sausage with mash and onion gravy.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

johnny b have you tried that bangers and mash shop in jericho.. it's lovely.

― jellybean (jellybean), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

It's more his recommendation of the eggs for me, I still have nightmares about Tesco Value eggs. Most of the vegetables are pretty workable though. Also I drink about four litres of Teco ginger beer per week

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Yes, re: drugs - mmm, aspirin. Must draw the line at cheapo clingwrap, toilet paper, dishsoap, etc. I've tried it, it sucks, and is economically crappy in the end as you do need to use more of it! I agree with Beth! But now I really want some cheap (but not too cheap) breakfast sausages anyway...

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

easy way to get nice eggs.

1. open organic freerange yay hippy egg container.
2. open tesco value egg container
3. transfer organic freerange yay hippy eggs from TOFYHE container into tesco value egg container
4. transfer tesco value eggs from the tesco value container to the TOFYHE container

YAY! Now you have deliciouser and happy eggs, at tesco value price!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

is there already a thread on "shops own brand s/d" as in the brands versus?

Sainsbury's Basic (formerly Sainsbury's Economy) vs Tesco Value vs Morrison's Bettabuy (RIP Safeway Saver) vs Asda Smart Price.

Do Kwik Save No-Frills still exist? That was my favourite brand when I had access to a Kwik Save. Really good orange juice.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

the black and white rubber stamp font was what did it.

i once made a friend a "no frills" get-well-soon card, too, that was very funny it made him laugh.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

haha, that's cute, ken.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

The only reason I buy eggs is for cakes etc, so they don't have to be brilliant, just eggy enough. And in fear of opening up a whole can of free-range worms, animal well-fare is never really on the top of my priorities when grocery shopping.

I've tried nice sausages with my onion gravy, but the gravy just beats up the sausage flavour - to be honest even veggie sausages would taste good with it. I could probably make sausages out of cardboard and they'd be lovely with my onion gravy. It's the GOOD sausages that you want for fry-ups - when I'm hungover I'd rather eat my own toes than bad food.

Jellybean, I've heard good things about the sausage and mash restaurant - my housemate took his girlfriend there for a romantic dinner, and he tells me its brilliant. I must check it out sometime.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

sainsbury's value toilet and kitchen roll are terrific. i've never bought tesco value anything, because the packaging is so totally off-putting.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

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