Oreo vs. Aldi: Shoddy Goods 048
3Given where I work, you might not be surprised that I’m not big into the value of brand names. I think half the time you’re just paying their marketing budget. but I realized I use Band-Aids rarely enough, and just want it to work the best, that it’s worth the extra buck or two to get the ‘real’ thing.
When do you buy knock-off, and when do you stick to the brand stuff?
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Third-party equivalent or compatible, sure, it it all works well. Full on knock-off/counterfeit, no.
If the quality is definitely better for the price difference and/or the price difference is minimal.
@narfcake
well said
Not the well known name brand is not the same thing as off brand or knock-off
i often like a ‘named brand’ (see what I did there) better than the one with the marketting budget. Sometimes it is just better and doesn’t give a fucktard. Sometimes the so called off brand / store brand is actually better (TJ’s sells a toasted oat meal for dirt cheap and it’s better than other brands, bothe elite and the big Q)
That being said, sometimes the other brand is actually better in some ways but looses out to the ‘big marketting budget brand’
and sometimes the big marketting budget brand is better if you buy the product as it is manufactured for somewhere outside the US.
Oreo is in the title. If you have not had Korean Oreos you have not had ones where the cookie actually tastes chocolatey yummy
I stick to brand names for dishwashing detergent (Dawn), ice cream (Ben & Jerry’s, Talenti, Haagen-Dazs), and butter (Cabot, Kate’s, Plugra, Kerrygold, any butter from France).
@ItalianScallion I was just learning about making ghee a day or two ago, and happened upon Chef Jean-Pierre. This is his video on how to make your own French [style] butter:
(fwiw, it was the first I’d heard that butter from France was anything unusual)
@ItalianScallion @xobzoo
Fun fact … Plugra sounds like plus gras in French (= more fat in English).
@ItalianScallion I actually hate Dawn. It stinks to me.
Basically if the function is the same I’m fine with off brands. My pallette is generally not sophisticated enough to discern between store brand and brand name for most items. In fact, I love the vanilla sandwich cookies from ALDI.
Most of my wardrobe comes from t-shirts given to me by the blood bank or stuff bought at Kohl’s. Most of those are Kohl’s brands with an occasional clearance Izod or similar shirt thrown in at a steep discount (or gifted to me).
My one fan-boy brand is Ryobi. Love my bright green tools.
Curious if this thread was inspired by the recent lawsuit: https://apnews.com/article/aldi-sued-packaging-oreos-ritz-trademark-b5324899c62143359a45ecad5314d914
@njfan I would bet on it
and likely by the Hydrox vs Oreo history.
Hydrox really were better