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16 years ago

A couple weeks ago, I was at Walmart and was comparing A-1 Steak sauce and the Great Value brand of steak sauce, and they had exactly the same ingredients, so I bought the GV brand to try it. I made roast for supper, and d-stepson and I both like A-1 with our roast, so dss puts some of the GV steak sauce on his plate and starts eating and tells me "I don't like this. It doesn't taste like the real kind." I started eating mine, and I couldn't tell a difference in taste. I told him he was just saying that cuz it was the GV kind and there was no difference. So, over this past weekend, I dumped out the last of a bottle of A-1 we still had, and poured the GV brand steak sauce into the A-1 bottle.

Last night, I made roast again. Dss got his plate (pouring the GV sauce from the A-1 bottle on his plate) and goes and sits down and starts eating. When I came out to sit down and eat, I said to dss "Justin, doesn't roast taste so good with A-1?" and he says "heck yeah." I said "Can you even believe that Jason (my dh) doesn't eat A-1 with his roast?" and he says "Nope." Then I said "Hey Justin. Remember how you thought that Great Value steak sauce didnt' taste good like A-1? Well, I poured it into the A-1 bottle and that's what you've been eating." He looks at me with big eyes and goes "What?"

Then my dh starts laughing so hard he about falls out of his chair! And we are both laughing, and he says "Tammy! I had no idea you even did that! Just before you came out here, Justin was going on and on about how he forgot how great A-1 steak sauce was! ".

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Jasdip
16 years ago
That's exactly what's happening at my step-fathers work. To cut costs, they went in on a coffee-maker and Wally buys the coffee. He buys Maxwell House on sale. Lately one of the girls stopped drinking the coffee, cause she likes Tim Horton's coffee. She offered to bring in her can of Tim Horton's to try.
So he made the Tim Horton's the next day, and they asked what kind of coffee he was making. He said "you tell me". They drank it, and they all thought it was Maxwell House. Maxwell House sells for $5 and Tim Horton's $16 for the same size can.
There was a test on tv recently where generic food was poured in name brand container, just like you did.
Everyone thought the "name brand" tasted better. Manufacturers count on this as well. We eat with our eyes, and they know most people will pay more for the "real thing".
DH and I prefer a lot of generic brands over name brand.
socks
16 years ago
I just did this at home with popcorn. DH thinks he needs Orville Redenbacher, but I don't like to pay the price. I bought Jolly Time or Jiffy Time or whatever it is--and poured it into the Orville jars. Last night he said, see how nice the O.R. popcorn is, it has no hulls. I said, "Oh, yes, it's wonderful." I did not tell him he's eating Jolly Time because I plan to get more and pour it in there.
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nodakgal
16 years ago
That is great!
and funny as heck too!
mariend
16 years ago
Wish they had Tim Horton here, do miss the homemade soups and goodies.
Anyway, do read and compare. Unless it has changed, the dry spagatti sauce from WM has no tomato product. It uses beet juice to make it red.
joyfulguy
16 years ago
Devious Dames ...

... we seem to havea few, around here.

ole joyful
kacram
16 years ago
ahahahahahaa
liz
16 years ago
LOL...I know I've done this with stuff to my kids...my biggest secret is they say they don't like Sweet N Low and want sugar in their tea...Well for the last 3 or 4 years I've been putting in half sugar half sweet n low...they've never noticed and go on about how wonderful my iced tea is...that'll show'm!
country_bumpkin_al
16 years ago
LMBO! This "trick" didn't work with me when I was a kid! I don't think generic was around when I was growing up. Not even sure there were store-brands, but we did have a couple name-brands of milk. One I loved...the other I couldn't stand. My Dad tried the trick of switching...and it didn't work. I took a drink of the yucky milk that had been put in the other carton...and promtly threw up! lol No..it wasn't ruined/soured...I just hated that brand and milk..and knew the difference!
pris
16 years ago
I tried that when the Dr. told the ex to switch to decaf. It didn't work. He could tell the difference right away. So, I waited a while and did a half & half mix and put it in the regular container. Then he couldn't tell the difference. I slowly increased the amount of decaf until he was drinking decaf and didn't know it. We've been divorced since 1996. I wonder how jittery he was before getting used to regular coffee again.

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