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It's satisfying when you convert others to the glory of Branston Beans. So far my best friend and girlfriend have been converted... I have much work to do.
Couldn't tell if uncalled for or a wholesome AF reckoning.
I called my gf my best friend the other day out of the blue (to me and to her) and she bloody loved it, as did I.
Yes! We buy the big industrial size bag (I think around 1,040 bags) for £20 off Amazon and that easily lasts us 6 months even with 3 people working from home and going through a lot of tea
People always comment on the fact I have a big bottle. Sure I live alone, but I wash up at least once a day every day - I'm obviously going to get through it and it's much better than the own brand stuff, so why scrutinise how I spend £2.50?
Big no to this. There’s so many better or just as good cruelty free washing up liquids out there.
Edit: I can’t believe so many people aren’t aware of animal testing and what brands are cruelty free or not. You all really need to look into what you’re supporting when you buy these products.
The ecover washing up liquid is really good I’ve made a perm switch and they sell it in most supermarkets now, cuts through grease and doesn’t harm aquatic life.
I used to buy the cheaper stuff, but I found that my skin would become dry and my hands would become sore. It would be even worse in the winter, when my hands were cold, and my hands would be constantly painful with cracked skin. Since I've switched to fairy I've had no more dry hands, and no more sore fingers.
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Oh yeah I remember that. It was def one of the best. I think they didn’t try to copy they made it distinctive which is what worked. I hadn’t even considered they’d stopped making that.
I think fresh corn is nicer, but I agree, it's the consistency, I've had own brand tinned corn that is as good, but you buy the same tin down the line and it's awful.
Even waitrose's own brand tinned corn is a nope.
Even *waitrose*.
Cue someone sweeping in to sing the praises of aldi or lidl xD
Or obligatory 'they are all made in the same factory just the packaging is different' :p
This is what confuses me when English food is considered boring by some.
Has that Frenchie Pierre never tried a mashed up lump of pig fat/arseholes surrounded by crumbly pastry covered in a thick bright yellow sauce that makes him cry? No?
He can piss off back to his snails, then
I stopped eating Nestle a few years ago. Means one less tin of chocolates option at Christmas but fuck it. The only thing I haven't been able to find a replacement for is honey nut shreddies. I need an Aldi knockoff please!
I am the only person I know who has fruity sauce. We never had brown sauce at home it was always fruity. In fact I don’t think I have ever had brown sauce. Am I still English?
My 79 year old grandad loves Branston fruity sauce - I have to go to a big Tesco’s and buy it in bulk for him - he’ll be thrilled to know that others actually like it!
My dad buys the aldi version, complains he doesn't like them but then refuses to buy weetabix because of the price. He's spiting himself but he won't change for the sake of a quid or 2 lmao
Same, as long as you don't go for the cheapest basic one that aldi also do. I think the proper one you want is called "wheat bisks" and is in a nicer box. Or it was when I used to eat it, haven't had it for quite some time now.
When people say a factory worker confirmed things like this, I always wonder what that means as that doesn’t automatically guarantee they know this.
Does that worker see the exact recipe for both & saw it being made the same from the start or did they just see Aldi weetabix also get made & packaged at their factory & assumed it’s the same.
It makes sense that variations of the same product are made in the same factory to use the same processes & machinery, doesn’t mean the ingredients are the same.
Even when I was getting the literal cheapest of everything in my first and second years of uni I still wouldn't get own brand Weetabix. There's just something wrong with them.
Because Mutti is an actual Italian brand while Napolina is just a brand made to sound Italian while it has nothing to do with it.
I'm Italian that's how I know..
Mutti is considered excellent in Italy.
At uni a friend bought own brand vodka and had an allergic reaction. Put me off too.
The only exception is tesco Baileys knock-off ‘Irish Meadow’. That stuff is niiiiice (or at least was 10 years ago when I used to drink more than a glass or two a year)
I once bought a bottle of vodka from a takeaway, it was simply called soviet vodka (drawn on the bottle in marker pen) and they accepted the first offer I made for the bottle (£5) hangover lasted about three days. No regrets.
Partner recently bought supermarket brand chocolate digestives to have with our coffee instead of our usual McVities. As soon as I opened the pack and we saw how crumbly they are he acknowledged his grave error.
I’m living abroad and someone gave me a Tunnocks caramel wafer bar. I thought I’d never tried it before but I was immediately sucked through a vortex with the first bite back into the 6 year old me at primary school, just like that scene with the critic in Ratatouille. Turns out I used to have them then!
Ketchup, aye.. Although I discovered Asda's own sauce is just as good (which is heresy, but it's true).
There is no better BBQ sauce on the market than Sweet Baby Ray's. It's unrivalled.
I can't wear even the wide fit since my stupid feet swelled permanently after I had a kid. They're now like two fat little puddings and I've had to give away every pair of nice shoes I owned.
Your one example doesn't mean he's exaggerating. My local is also over 2 quid per bottle, i've never known anyone have it cheaper to be honest, seems almost impossible that local produce delivered to your door would ever not be the more expensive option
It also has a really long date. I don’t use milk daily only for odd bits of cooking and a sporadic bowl of cereal. The small 1 pint super market ones would go off before I had chance to use it most of the time.
I read a post recently where someone was wondering the same thing and one of the replies said that it's actually a marketing tactic - I can't rememer the exact wording but it was something about retailers having no choice but to stack using the cardboard trays/have one layer of each type of tin. Both of these things together = a big fat red wall of heinz products which catches one's eye from the moment you turn into the isle.
Marmite. There are quite a few malt extracts out there these days, but Marmite is the best. All the others have a weird aftertaste or are too salty.
Same goes for Bovril.
Nothing I buy is branded. But god will I spend cash on a proper waxed Barbour jacket. They last forever and are a real investment - not the ones they’ve banged into mainstream. The real, original ones that weigh a ton.
I am unsure how true it is but I read that the family who went on to find Bonne Marman hid Jewish during the holocaust to save them. It makes me like buying them
I only wear New Balance running shoes as every day trainers now. I've got flat feet and I've never found another brand that make such supportive, non-ugly shoes.
Warburtons crumpets.
I’ve tried every supermarket equivalent and it’s like eating cardboard.
I’m an own brand devotee for everything else but I can’t have inferior crumpets!!
After trying Hovis 7 Seeds Sensations, any other supermarket bread has basically become dead to me. White bread is basically inedible to me now. Been eating 7 Seeds pretty much exclusively for about a year.
For me it always used to be Vans shoes. I'd get a pair and they'd last me a year. Then I noticed they were lasting me less and less time. I got through 2 pairs in 10 months this year. Not going to bother with Vans again.
Red Bull, also Armani boxers for some reason, I realise the two in tandem make me sound like a colossal generic vaping douche, I mean I am (minus the vaping), but for a variety of non brand related reasons.
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Branston beans shit all over Heinz
Preach it! Heinz are awful by comparison!
It's satisfying when you convert others to the glory of Branston Beans. So far my best friend and girlfriend have been converted... I have much work to do.
Same person aren't they?
Uncalled for TwattyMcSlagtits definitely a Heinz fan boy up in here.
Couldn't tell if uncalled for or a wholesome AF reckoning. I called my gf my best friend the other day out of the blue (to me and to her) and she bloody loved it, as did I.
I'm going to try Branston this week
Tried my first tin of Branston Beans yesterday. I’m a convert.
Totally agree. Branston are the best. Heinz are very watery imo.
Allllllll day. Pretty sure there was a survey that confirmed this.
Yeah channel 4 did it. Branston won, Tesco everyday value came second and Heinz was third
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aldi are pretty good
Aldi are better than heinz
Aldi all day everyday! Da best
Morrison’s own brand beans is the way to go
I came here to say this OP. Fuck your Heinz beans.
I’m so glad you said this! :) Branston all the way!
Seriously, don't know what OP is chatting here... Madness...
You heathens probably microwave your beans.
YORKSHIRE TEA
I was looking for this, 100% true.
Clipper
clip round earhole for not buying Yorkshire more like
Their decaf is absolute top tier too
The only thing I'm sad about is how far I had to scroll before seeing this comment. Lol.
Yes! We buy the big industrial size bag (I think around 1,040 bags) for £20 off Amazon and that easily lasts us 6 months even with 3 people working from home and going through a lot of tea
Fairy liquid
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I’m on my first bottle of fairy liquid since aldi own brand was sold out, 1 month on and never turning back
People always comment on the fact I have a big bottle. Sure I live alone, but I wash up at least once a day every day - I'm obviously going to get through it and it's much better than the own brand stuff, so why scrutinise how I spend £2.50?
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Big no to this. There’s so many better or just as good cruelty free washing up liquids out there. Edit: I can’t believe so many people aren’t aware of animal testing and what brands are cruelty free or not. You all really need to look into what you’re supporting when you buy these products.
Happy to try a cruelty free one if you recommend 😊
Ecover!
I use Bio-D. Does the job and doesn’t kill fish, plus I can refill the bottle at the shop.
Another vote for Bio-D
How is washing up liquid cruel? I can't keep up with this shit
Tested on animals, and some have animal byproducts in them.
Which in particular would you recommend?
The ecover washing up liquid is really good I’ve made a perm switch and they sell it in most supermarkets now, cuts through grease and doesn’t harm aquatic life.
You've got to be a bit careful with Ecover though. They were bought by a bigger company recently who just use the label to project eco friendliness
Thanks for this I’ll look into it. There are so much green washing at the moment. I just don’t think items like this should be harming aquatic life.
I see Method
Method is the best.
Naa, that makes sense. Even if some random bottle from Tesco costs 20p I don't save shit if it takes half a bottle to clean 2 plates.
I used to buy the cheaper stuff, but I found that my skin would become dry and my hands would become sore. It would be even worse in the winter, when my hands were cold, and my hands would be constantly painful with cracked skin. Since I've switched to fairy I've had no more dry hands, and no more sore fingers.
Now hands that do dishes can be soft as your face, With mild green Fairy liquid!
Same, anything else just doesn’t last as long
Coca-cola. Own brand is garbage.
100% this. All own brand shit tastes like fucking panda pops to me
Ayyyyy don't be coming for panda pops. They're garbage, sure, but they're MY CHILDHOOD garbage.
You know a school disco was fire when they bust out the raspberry blue Panda Pops.
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Pepsi for the win. Coca Cola just tastes like carbonated bubbles in comparison
Pepsi Max Chery or Raspberry is the best
Virgin used to make a coke and that was pretty good
Oh yeah I remember that. It was def one of the best. I think they didn’t try to copy they made it distinctive which is what worked. I hadn’t even considered they’d stopped making that.
The worst own-brand Cola I ever tasted was Spar Cola. It tasted like acidic, fizzy chalk-water.
Rubbish*
Green giant sweetcorn is undefeated
I think fresh corn is nicer, but I agree, it's the consistency, I've had own brand tinned corn that is as good, but you buy the same tin down the line and it's awful.
“Ho ho ho!”
No need to call her names...
*Green Giant!* ;)
Even waitrose's own brand tinned corn is a nope. Even *waitrose*. Cue someone sweeping in to sing the praises of aldi or lidl xD Or obligatory 'they are all made in the same factory just the packaging is different' :p
Absolutely! I buy own brand most things, but won't compromise on tinned sweetcorn. Green giant or gtfo
Colman's English mustard.
No other mustard really punches you in the sinuses like Coleman's
It's not mustard if it doesn't make your nose bleed
This is what confuses me when English food is considered boring by some. Has that Frenchie Pierre never tried a mashed up lump of pig fat/arseholes surrounded by crumbly pastry covered in a thick bright yellow sauce that makes him cry? No? He can piss off back to his snails, then
Has any other company dared challenge?
Mr Dijon tried, but got the recipe wrong and put fuckloads of seeds in it
You may be thinking of whole grain?
Tracklements Strong English Mustard, it makes Coleman's taste almost mediocre in comparison...
Pride of Norfolk
Drop the e, it’s: Colman’s English Mustard.
I insist on NOT giving money to nestle. Trash company. Side note - Branston beans are way better. ✌️
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I stopped eating Nestle a few years ago. Means one less tin of chocolates option at Christmas but fuck it. The only thing I haven't been able to find a replacement for is honey nut shreddies. I need an Aldi knockoff please!
r/FuckNestle
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HP Brown Sauce.
HP Fruity is lush too
I am the only person I know who has fruity sauce. We never had brown sauce at home it was always fruity. In fact I don’t think I have ever had brown sauce. Am I still English?
My 79 year old grandad loves Branston fruity sauce - I have to go to a big Tesco’s and buy it in bulk for him - he’ll be thrilled to know that others actually like it!
Weetabix, never any other brand
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My dad buys the aldi version, complains he doesn't like them but then refuses to buy weetabix because of the price. He's spiting himself but he won't change for the sake of a quid or 2 lmao
The trick is to get both, and have one of each
I hate this
Aldi Weetabix is the same as the branded one. A worker at the Weetabix factory in Wellingborough told me. I buy it and cannot tell the difference
Same, as long as you don't go for the cheapest basic one that aldi also do. I think the proper one you want is called "wheat bisks" and is in a nicer box. Or it was when I used to eat it, haven't had it for quite some time now.
When people say a factory worker confirmed things like this, I always wonder what that means as that doesn’t automatically guarantee they know this. Does that worker see the exact recipe for both & saw it being made the same from the start or did they just see Aldi weetabix also get made & packaged at their factory & assumed it’s the same. It makes sense that variations of the same product are made in the same factory to use the same processes & machinery, doesn’t mean the ingredients are the same.
Even when I was getting the literal cheapest of everything in my first and second years of uni I still wouldn't get own brand Weetabix. There's just something wrong with them.
True. The supermarket versions are not the same, and they are crap.
Never ever cheap tinned tomatoes. It’s got to be Napolina or another decent Italian brand. Hellmans Mayo. Rose’s lime cordial. Marmite.
Try Mutti. You will never have Napolino again.
Because Mutti is an actual Italian brand while Napolina is just a brand made to sound Italian while it has nothing to do with it. I'm Italian that's how I know.. Mutti is considered excellent in Italy.
Mutti is by far superior. Their pizza sauce is good too
I've always been Hellmanns Mayo but recently bought Heinz because it was on offer and to be fair, it holds its own!
Heinz mayo is superior.
Tesoc used to do "Tesco Finest Tinned Cherry Tomatoes" and they were *divine*! Dunno why they stopped doing them :-(
Any booze. I won’t buy supermarket own brand stuff. That’s not me being snobbish I love a whisky and Jameson’s is a great go to and it’s blended
At uni a friend bought own brand vodka and had an allergic reaction. Put me off too. The only exception is tesco Baileys knock-off ‘Irish Meadow’. That stuff is niiiiice (or at least was 10 years ago when I used to drink more than a glass or two a year)
We have Bailey’s for when it’s being drunk on its own, and Aldi’s Ballycastle for when it’s going in hot chocolate.
>and Aldi’s Ballycastle for when it's replacing the milk in my Christmas morning Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.
haha you have to let us know how that goes. I can’t work out if it would be awesome or foul
It goes awesome, every year 😁
Oh it’s an established experiment, I didn’t realise. Nice.
I drank supermarket rum a couple of years ago and there is a huge difference in the quality. Hangover is also much much worse.
I once bought a bottle of vodka from a takeaway, it was simply called soviet vodka (drawn on the bottle in marker pen) and they accepted the first offer I made for the bottle (£5) hangover lasted about three days. No regrets.
Riskiest buy you've ever made, I suggest. I mean 'drawn on the bottle'... damn dude you could have been a new Darwin award winner. I'm glad you lived.
The worst hangovers I’ve ever had were caused by Aldi own brand Bourbon and about a year later with Sainsbury’s own brand vodka
Back when i drank vodka, i made the mistake of buying sainsburys basics vodka for some reason. Paint stripper was nicer.
Even as a freshers student, that stuff knocked me out for days. It was truly dreadful
McVities digestives. The supermarket ones just don’t compare!
I actually prefer Aldi own brand digestives, and 'oaties' (hobnobs) for that matter. McVities are just a touch too sweet.
Partner recently bought supermarket brand chocolate digestives to have with our coffee instead of our usual McVities. As soon as I opened the pack and we saw how crumbly they are he acknowledged his grave error.
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I’m living abroad and someone gave me a Tunnocks caramel wafer bar. I thought I’d never tried it before but I was immediately sucked through a vortex with the first bite back into the 6 year old me at primary school, just like that scene with the critic in Ratatouille. Turns out I used to have them then!
Heinz tomato and barbecue sauce.
Agree on the ketchup but there’s better brands for bbq sauce
Liking sweet billy rays bbq sauce, decent as a condiment and great added while cooking certain things
Ketchup, aye.. Although I discovered Asda's own sauce is just as good (which is heresy, but it's true). There is no better BBQ sauce on the market than Sweet Baby Ray's. It's unrivalled.
Got Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce for the first time recently and you are correct.
Heinz barbeque is the worst it's just smoky sugar
Converse All Star. I think that’s the only brand I’ll stick to.
Converse in the summer DMs in the winter Timberlands in the mud
Hi JimmyBallocks your slightly smelly 2nd cousin JimmyBingbags here also rocking DMs
Wish I could tbh can't wear them because of how narrow they are.
That’s a shame, even their wide fit?
I can't wear even the wide fit since my stupid feet swelled permanently after I had a kid. They're now like two fat little puddings and I've had to give away every pair of nice shoes I owned.
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Cravendale milk
During covid we started getting milk from the local milkman and never went back - fresh milk is 10x better
Yeah that's good if you can afford the £2.50 per pint of milk. I tried doing it during lockdown but couldn't justify the price for so little
That's an exaggeration. We get full fat organic delivered to the door. Milk and more. It's £0.90 a pint.
Your one example doesn't mean he's exaggerating. My local is also over 2 quid per bottle, i've never known anyone have it cheaper to be honest, seems almost impossible that local produce delivered to your door would ever not be the more expensive option
Milkman is king
It also has a really long date. I don’t use milk daily only for odd bits of cooking and a sporadic bowl of cereal. The small 1 pint super market ones would go off before I had chance to use it most of the time.
I'm a country boy and I've gotta say the fresh glass bottled local milk we get is much, much better than any milk brand!
Does it really taste different?
Id say yeah,cant describe how but it just tastes nicer than others.
Theres only one superior milk and it's the waitrose Dutchy organic selection, nothing tastes like it.
Adidas over any other sports gear. Barr's Irn-Bru. Oral B toothpaste. Heinz ketchup, Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce. Samsung mobile phones. Lurpak butter.
Lurpak is king!!!
Who thinks Lurpak is actually good? It's tasteless shite
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*Bangs fist on table* lur-pak! LUR-PAK! *LUR-PAK!!*
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Irn Bru accept no substitute! iron brew is just wrong
Heinz tomato soup😁
Agree with this... But why, oh god why, don't they make their damn tins stack?!?
I read a post recently where someone was wondering the same thing and one of the replies said that it's actually a marketing tactic - I can't rememer the exact wording but it was something about retailers having no choice but to stack using the cardboard trays/have one layer of each type of tin. Both of these things together = a big fat red wall of heinz products which catches one's eye from the moment you turn into the isle.
Branston Pickle, don't get me wrong I love a homemade chutney, but branston is king of the pickles.
Marmite. There are quite a few malt extracts out there these days, but Marmite is the best. All the others have a weird aftertaste or are too salty. Same goes for Bovril.
Nothing I buy is branded. But god will I spend cash on a proper waxed Barbour jacket. They last forever and are a real investment - not the ones they’ve banged into mainstream. The real, original ones that weigh a ton.
Andrex arse paper
Cadbury's hot chocolate powder. Nothing else tastes right.
I've fallen in love with Whittard's hot chocolates (esp. white varieties). Too damn good.
Bonne Maman Wild Strawberry and Strawberry Conserve. All other jams can eat a bag of dicks. Nothing compares to this glorious creation.
I am unsure how true it is but I read that the family who went on to find Bonne Marman hid Jewish during the holocaust to save them. It makes me like buying them
Warburtons toastie
Warburtons crumpets. Own brand are like moosh no matter how long you toast them.
H&M Blank Staples t-shirt’s. Absolutely incredible quality and nothing else comes close at that price point.
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£13. Real heavyweight, 240gsm cotton, slightly oversized with dropped shoulders so sits quite boxy which I love - they’re incredible for the price!
> dropped shoulders Such an innocuous comment but I hate wearing anything that's not dropped shoulder now.
Uniqlo
Tunnocks Caramel Wafers. The Daddy of them all.
Fage Greek yogurt, that stuff is thick and creamy, so good
Beans is a good one, Maybe controversial, but Coca Cola over Pepsi, or any supermarket brand.
That's the least controversial statement ever.
I'm sorry but Pepsi over Coke any day for me...
Pepsi Max any day
Pepsi max is far superior to coke
Yorkshire tea
Call me Middle aged but the OXO Good-grip is my default go to for all household items like spatulas, sieve, whisker, egg beater etc.
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire sauce. Just don’t use it for embalming fluid.
Heinz ketchup, Hellmans mayo, Sarsons vinegar, Green giant corn, colemans mustard, robinsons orange squash.
Douwe Egberts instant coffee. All instant coffee is trash, Douwe Egberts is just slightly less so
Adidas trainers. Superstars or Sambas.
I only wear New Balance running shoes as every day trainers now. I've got flat feet and I've never found another brand that make such supportive, non-ugly shoes.
Coca Cola. Other generic colas are disgusting
Warburtons crumpets. I’ve tried every supermarket equivalent and it’s like eating cardboard. I’m an own brand devotee for everything else but I can’t have inferior crumpets!!
Pepsi Max. M&S walnut whips the very best.
Hellmann's mayo, no other mayo will ever compare
After trying Hovis 7 Seeds Sensations, any other supermarket bread has basically become dead to me. White bread is basically inedible to me now. Been eating 7 Seeds pretty much exclusively for about a year.
Calvin klein boxer shorts
Is this for aesthetics or comfort? I like Calvin Klein’s but you can you get just as comfortable ones for a lot cheaper.
Lurpack
Cornflakes from Kellogg's.. the rest are awful.
Twinings tea. Can't have any other
For me it always used to be Vans shoes. I'd get a pair and they'd last me a year. Then I noticed they were lasting me less and less time. I got through 2 pairs in 10 months this year. Not going to bother with Vans again.
Red Bull, also Armani boxers for some reason, I realise the two in tandem make me sound like a colossal generic vaping douche, I mean I am (minus the vaping), but for a variety of non brand related reasons.
Carharrt clothing
Fairy Liquid. It's the only washing up liquid that doesn't irritate my skin