[Closed] Food brands you "must" buy.

Craster Kippers. Or are Swallows Kippers better...

Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup. Nothing else is.

Sagres beer.
Branston beans.

I'm sure neither of them are the best, but they are widely available and I like them both.

Other than that, I'm quite flexible on everything else.

Lidl's muesli. Nothing else will do

McVities Jaffa Cakes.

Warburtons Toastie loaf.

Can't think of anything else.

HP.

Nutella - any attempted replacements will be severely punished

Diet Coke

M&S Barbecue sauce.

Irn Bru

Froot Loops from Canada. I don't know what the 'Made under license' things are that I have seen for sale here, but they don't taste anywhere near as good as real, honest-to-goodness Froot Loops the way I knew them back in the Great White North.

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Oh, on that note, Canadian Mountain Dew. The recipe is different to the us and uk version, and tastes much nicer.

Smuggled 3 litres back this last visit, lasted a week.

HP.

Branston Pickle

Mountain dew used to just be lemon/lime-ade, the new stuff is utterly rank.

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HP.

I once went to a greasy spoon for a fryup and was pleased to see HP bottles on the table. Poured said condiment onto breakfast, and discovered on the first mouthful that they had REFILLED HP BOTTLES WITH SOME SORT OF VILE BROWN NON-HP GOOP THE ****ING MONSTERS.

Anyway, I burned the place to the ground and killed the owner and all his relatives and friends which, as I'm sure you'll agree, was quite restrained, considering.

Tinas, yep, that's pretty much what the Canadian stuff is. It's caffeinated, but nowhere near as much as our stuff.

HP
Jaffa Cakes

Heinz Beans.

Case closed.

HP
Heinz TK

Soreen Malt Loaf
HP
Bassett's Liqourice Allsorts

E45.

SunPat peanut butter

Heinz ketchup AND mayonnaise much better than that Hellman's stuff

Bovril, porky whites sausages, crisps of all varieties must be the proper ones not copies, honestly can't think of any other brands I'm 100% fixed on.

Anyway, I burned the place to the ground and killed the owner and all his relatives and friends which, as I'm sure you'll agree, was quite restrained, considering.

There is not a court in the land that would find against you.

HP sauce
Coleman's Mustard
Weetabix
Tunnock's chocolate wafer biscuits

Just descent beer. Almost everything else can be substituted with aldis equivalent.

Marmite.

We had near on household mutiny when we veered from heinz Tommy ketchup.

I'll never repeat this if challenged but, I have a thing for cheap shit vinegary ketchup. (Only ever buy Heinz though.)

KP Space Raiders (beef flavour)

El Avion smoked paprika (Imported in bulk - pungent, deep, smoky, dense and reassuringly moist like no other paprika I've ever tried. So smokey can almost be used like mesquite)

Daddies sauce. HP is ok but is just not Daddies.

Garners pickled onions & shallots. These are the tittz. Every other brand is alarmingly inferior. You have to go home-made to equal or beat Garners.

Think am ok with just about everything else.

Mrs MR challenged me to a baked bean blind taste-off. Mozzers 27p beans won over both Heinz and Branstons. We both chose the Morrison's own brand. Surprising. *

Would like to do the same with English mustard, ie Colmans vs 3 or 4 supermarket brand's own. Reckon you'd guess the Colemans?

* Same blind tests were conducted with Rich Tea biscuits. IIRC McVities beat Lidl, Co-op and Morrisons. Didnt stop me buying Lidl though. Hey? 26p!! 20 packs later I've saved enough to buy some more poncey paprika 🙂

Aldi, bloomer loaf !!!!!!!!

Just descent beer.

Agreed. It goes down better.

I'm with the OP on Kellogs cornflakes - it's the one cereal where the own brands are noticeably worse.

We also buy Heinz beans, solely because they do microwave packs.

Davidstow chedder. There's usually other cheeses in the fridge but there's always Davidstow.

Or "davvid-stow" as the cretin-who-should've-known-better on the M&S advert said.. I only heard that second hand, there's a reason I don't watch TV.

T2 tea. Leaves not bags

Marigold Veg Boullion
Baxters Soups
Meridian Peanut / Almond / Cashew butter

Pretty much it. There are a few other brands I like but they all have acceptable substitutes in Aldi or Lidl.

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2 pages in and no one has mentioned lea and perrins?

Maldon sea salt you heathens

Volvic water, daahling.

Henderson's relish...
Vegan you know...

Both myself and my partner agree that it has to be Branston Beans and M&S caramel waffles. Nothing else will do. She says it has to be Heinz Ketchup whereas I'm less fussed but for me broon soss has to be HP.

I'm with the OP on Kellogs cornflakes - it's the one cereal where the own brands are noticeably worse.

Agreed, although as a coeliac who mourned the loss of Kellogs for many years I must say the new Nestle gluten free cornflakes are pretty damn good.
Sure the taste is different but at least the texture is good, not these horrible hard knobbly things that other brands try and pass off as cornflakes.

We also buy Heinz beans, solely because they do microwave packs.

You know you can microwave the tinned ones too, yes? You just have to tip them out of the tin first. Those little 'snap pot' things were massively overpriced last time I looked.

I won't have a microwave in the house, don't like them. I have to repair them at work sometimes and I like that even less. 2000VDC running around in there, no thanks.

+1 On the Flying Goose sauce, lovely stuff. That along with Encona original and Cholula are always in the cupboard here.

I'm going to disagree on the sriracha and say that I prefer the rooster to flying goose. May have to have a blind taste test though :p

Sainsburys ketchup is better than Heinz.

I bought some San Miguel beers the other day. They had a best before date. Yrs you cs. Best before you started making it in f**** Northampton.

Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce (special edition)
Branston beans
Daddies sauce

McVities plain chocolate digestives.
Heinz baked beans, tomato ketchup, tomato soup, salad cream.
Daddies brown sauce.
Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce

+1 for Mcvities digestives, in any form. Forgot about those.

I'm going to disagree on the sriracha and say that I prefer the rooster to flying goose.

Rooster is the original Sriracha, everything else is a copy. I adore the Flying Goose stuff but have never had the Rooster, much harder to come by here.

Also,

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha

(NSFW warning, contains rude words.)

2 pages in and no one has mentioned lea and perrins?

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Henderson's relish...

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Marmite, obviously

Sainsburys ketchup is better than Heinz.

That's surely fighting talk (I'll check it out).

Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce

Not veggie-friendly so no good to me. The veggie options are ok, but I've dodged this bullet by making my own.

Marmite, obviously

You're not wrong.

Is Vegemite any good?

There used to be but ingredients change to 'new improved' when what they're really saying is we've used cheaper ingredients and hope they can fool the public. I don't have any favourite brands for food unless Fuller's London Pride could be included.

Thank you Cougar. 😆

Also, has anyone an alternative to this?:

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Anything else sends me into a seething rage, but I can't always get the vintage stuff.

Warburtons crumpets.
Cost a lot more than the others but are far superior.

pictonroad - Sainsbury's Taste the Difference marmalade is pretty good, 3 varieties I think.

After reading through the responses to this post it would appear we but a lot more brands than we think... 😳

After a bit of a think.

Definitely Marmite as mentioned above.
Bonne Maman strawberry jam.

Also, recently, I've developed a weak spot for Fentimans Curiosity Cola...

Carrs water biscuits
Warburtons toastie
HP fruity sauce
Badoit water
That French Jam
Tesco's Lemon, Cola and Cherry ice lollies.

porky whites sausages

This nearly had me in tears. Having moved from Surrey to Scotland 2 1/2 years ago, this is one of the things I miss the most. We've turned to making our own sausages for a replacement.

Sorry but lidl Jaffa cakes are better than macvitties. Recommended on her, sainsbury's French Mayo is better than Hellmanns (you buy Heinz Mayo over Hellmanns? Bizarre)

Otherwise Heinz +1 jamj1974

Heinz Ketchup doesn't taste like I remember it as a child.
I switched to Tip Tree and it's much more like it...
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I've never tasted a Branson copy that tastes the same, but then I prefer other chilli/tomato chutneys.

I used to like Marmite, but now prefer this:
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2 pages in and no one has mentioned lea and perrins?

Hendersons Relish is probably why

Stella Artois.

Well if we're going all liquid; Roses Lime Cordial and Dubonnet. Just for making a sauce for the calves liver. Oh, and the occasional Gimlet. Creme de Cassis too, for adding to a sauce made from duck carcass and red wine reduction.

SunPat peanut butter

Lidl muesli (blue not green). Doubt this qualifies as a brand though – it's just an ace [and cheap] product.

Corn flakes must be Kellogs!!!!!!

Squash Robinsons!

Tesco Finest sultana scones and Pataks curry pastes (not together)