supermarket own brand stuff....

[withnail71]

recently started buying asda's own brand stuff to save a few quid. This week i thought i would give their own brand special k a go.

so there i was , happily munching away on my cereal at 6.30 this morning when all of a sudden there was a huge CRACK ! and a searing pain in my gob.

i spit out the contents of me mush, to find a fucking whole cherry stone and half of my left upper molar !

It cost me £250 today to have a cap put on my tooth !!

Injured by Asda and robbed blind by a fucking dentist :telloff:

 

 

moral of the story, dont try to save money on cheap grub.

[Strontium]

There are cherry stones in regular Special K too, you know.

 

Sometimes I swear to god that some people here are paid shills.

[Section_31]

What's this urban myth about own brand stuff being the same as the top brands just in different packaging? They're pretty much all shite. Morrisons smatrpirce (or whatever) peanuts are the shittest food product I've ever encountered, they're like chippings of peanuts which have been scooped up off the floor.

[Furmedge]

I too have fallen for the Morrison peanut scam. Thinking back, I could hear them snigger as I parted with my 21p for a ton.

[RJ Fan club]

What's this urban myth about own brand stuff being the same as the top brands just in different packaging? They're pretty much all shite. Morrisons smatrpirce (or whatever) peanuts are the shittest food product I've ever encountered, they're like chippings of peanuts which have been scooped up off the floor.

 

I think some stuff is of comparable quality. But like you I doubt much smartprice shit is.

 

Supermarkets own crisps are shit, unless they're the kettle chip type big bags. I can't stand cheap crisps, really twists my melon.

 

Sandwich pickles, beans and soups are the fucking worst though. But equally tinned tomatoes, peaches et al are all good.

 

Jaffa cakes and the like passable.

 

Never the cheapest shit though. It's well... Er.... Shit

[redsoxs]

When it comes to "home brand" products i only get them as raw ingredients....smartprice veg,100% meat joints (beef/Ham/chicken), juices, tinned fruit or peas etc... never cornflake or the likes....

[RobbieOR]

Yeah, crisps are an excellent shout, Ste.

 

Another thing that is shite is Supermarkets own brand of Coke and Lemonade.

[Section_31]

RedKnight is well known for his love of supermarket cola.

[RJ Fan club]

Yeah, crisps are an excellent shout, Ste.

 

Another thing that is shite is Supermarkets own brand of Coke and Lemonade.

 

Lemonade I can stand, not as good as Sprite; Coke never. May as well just mix your piss with soil and drink it.

[Sugar Ape]

Smart price stuff is shit. My bird went to asda the other day to get some naan bread and bought the smart price ones because they are ' the same as the dearer ones. ' The picture doesn't do it justice, they are about the same size as my hand and went brittle after about 2 minutes in the oven.

 

[RJ Fan club]

RedKnight is well known for his love of supermarket cola.

 

Yeah, I'd imagine advocating cheap cola is a serious negging offence in Jules' book.

[RedKnight]

RedKnight is well known for his love of supermarket cola.

 

Don't get me started on that horrible filth.

[She Knows It]

Half the own brand stuff is dearer than the leading brand. They just hope you don't notice because you assume it'll be cheaper. Buyer beware!

[Red Banjo]

It was mentioned that own brand tinned tomatoes are the same.

 

They are not. Had some tonight in my ratatouille, and while it was still decent, it was nowhere near the same as usual. Really watery, no flavour. Unimpressed. Mind you - it was clearly my fault as i was equally unimpressed by the price of the tinned tomatoes i normally buy.

 

Supermarket brand chocolate is also shite. Really shite. Embarrassingly shite.

[Sugar Ape]

The pizzas from the Asda pizza counter are sound though. £3.18 for a 14" one, freshly made in front of you. Loads of choice of toppings, can't go wrong.

 

 

[RJ Fan club]

Half the own brand stuff is dearer than the leading brand. They just hope you don't notice because you assume it'll be cheaper. Buyer beware!

 

Shit, just realised I'm get old.

 

I went to Sainos earlier, walking round saw Twinings every day tea was £1.50 for 80 bags.

 

After making an excited noise, turned round without a hint of Partridge or irony and said to the missus... " that's a fantastic price shall we stock up?"

 

To which she replied... "We did that with Yorkshire tea two weeks ago".

 

Now I'm online doing it. What happened to using the Internets for porn and making weapons and illegal shit?

[VladimirIlyich]

I can hardly notice the difference on most of it to be honest. Some of the lemonade,cola or whatever is just as good in my book especially the stuff with a twist of lemon or lime etc.

 

You can notice with breakfast cereals though,especially cornflakes.

[RedKnight]

The pizzas from the Asda pizza counter are sound though. £3.18 for a 14" one, freshly made in front of you. Loads of choice of toppings, can't go wrong.

 

 

 

I had severe food poisoning off of one of those. Needless to say I disagree.

[Red Banjo]

Asda's curries are also immense

[Redder Lurtz]

I can only speak for Asda's stuff but some of their smart price stuff is poor, some of it's good. Most of it - well you get what you pay for. As for their "chosen by you" stuff, it's very good and they've won awards and plaudits with it. They've spent many millions on customer feedback and making their own label midrange items exactly how customers want it. The idea was that "Asda tinned peas" for example, were perceived by the customer as the same quality as smart price. And that wasn't far off the truth. They realised there was a market for smart price but that people would pay more for better quality but unbranded items so they upped the quality of the mid range own label stuff and "Chosen By You" was born.

 

I rarely buy any of their smart price stuff unless it's cheap chocolate powder or something but their Chosen By You is very fucking good.

 

As for own brand being more expensive than branded - piffle. Unless the own label is "Extra Special" range or the branded item is on a price offer.

[VladimirIlyich]

The pizzas from the Asda pizza counter are sound though. £3.18 for a 14" one, freshly made in front of you. Loads of choice of toppings, can't go wrong.

 

 

 

I used to like asda pizzas but gone off them a bit but had a dominos pizza a few weeks back and it was worse than asdas and nearly 3 times the price.

[Sugar Ape]

I had severe food poisoning off of one of those. Needless to say I disagree.

 

I don't eat meat so I only get the cheese one. Hard to get food poisoning off that. To be fair the people behind the counter do a look a bit unhygienic and Stoke like.

[Jim MM]

recently started buying asda's own brand stuff to save a few quid. This week i thought i would give their own brand special k a go.

so there i was , happily munching away on my cereal at 6.30 this morning when all of a sudden there was a huge CRACK ! and a searing pain in my gob.

i spit out the contents of me mush, to find a fucking whole cherry stone and half of my left upper molar !

It cost me £250 today to have a cap put on my tooth !!

Injured by Asda and robbed blind by a fucking dentist :telloff:

 

 

moral of the story, dont try to save money on cheap grub.

 

Noone has ever chipped a tooth on a cherry stone in a fry up, have they?

Moral of the story: Eat proper food.

 

Special K? I have absolutely no sympathy at all for you.

[Trumo]

Special K? I have absolutely no sympathy at all for you.

 

Agree with that. Quite literally bird food.

[RJ Fan club]

I hate going The Asda. Makes my skin crawl.

 

Always full of ugly people. Can't stand the static in the air from all the polyester and man make fibres the majority of the meffs shopping in there wear.