Brand names you would purchase over others.

Tonight's dinner:
 

 
See a trend?
 
Anyway, besides the delicious oven baked ribs were B & M Original Baked Beans.  I can't get them here anymore.  Used to have them as a kid.  They are my all time favorite and I would pay the price if they were.  (It's still too cold outside for me to tend the Green Egg)
 
I picked up a couple of jars in Texas when I saw them.  My memory served me right.  I should have purchased a case!
 
I also used to love the B & M Brown Bread in a can.  Can't find that anymore, either.  I don't know of any other companies that make that one.
 
I always buy Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.  No need to try one by anyone else.
 
My peppers are Mezzeti's.
 
 

What do you think the BM stands for on that bean can?

Only Campbell's tomato soup, Philadelphia cream cheese, Jif peanut butter, Aunt Nellie's pickled red cabbage, Reber butter beans, Vernor's ginger ale, and Totino's pizza rolls. There may be others, but those leapt to mind. I've tried other brands of all of those things, and none of them are as good.
 
Pretty much everything else I'm open to trying a different brand. I learned a few years ago at a grocery outlet store in California that most  of those off brands you've never heard of are someone else's local brand they swear by...absolutely no one was touching any of the Meijer brand anything, but my best friend (who moved from here to there) was in seventh heaven stocking up.

Philadelphia cream cheese, Jif peanut butter, Aunt Nellie's pickled red beets for sure!
 
I always buy Jolly Green Giant corn niblets.
 
Now that I can find Chris 'n Pitts Original BBQ Sauce at The 99¢  Only Store that's my brand of choice.
 
 

Ignoring Joe. 

Okay, the brand-name stuff I prefer from the grocery store ........
 
Land 'O Lakes white American cheese
Utz potato chips
Victoria marinara sauce
Gulden's brown mustard
French's yellow mustard
Lea & Perrin's worcestershire sauce
Mt. Olive (NC) kosher dill pickles
Mrs. Paul's fish sticks
Kraft's "Cracker Barrel" (no, not the restaurant)  Vermont white cheddar cheese bar.
Cheeto's brand cheese puffs
Diet Coke  cola
Vernor's or Canada Dry diet ginger ale 
7-UP (as opposed to Sprite)  diet lemon-lime soda
Diet Cheerwine (as opposed to Cherry Coke) diet cherry cola
Hebrew National, Sabrett's, or Nathan's hot dogs
Hillshire Farms Polska kielbasa
 
I'm sure I'll think of others later.
 
Glenn

mar52


Anyway, besides the delicious oven baked ribs were B & M Original Baked Beans.  I can't get them here anymore.  Used to have them as a kid.

That was my mom's brand of choice, too.  Since everybody else at home hates baked beans I rarely buy them so I couldn't tell you if B&M's still available here or not.
 
When I buy pepperoncinis I usually get Mezzetta.
 
Brad

Heinz ketchup

Hellmann's Mayo

A-1 steak sauce.

These are the only 3 I am 100% loyal to. Don't worry my darlings, I will never stray.

The only English muffin's I'll eat are Thomas's. All the others just don't get it right.

I am not that picky, but:
Kraft Macaroni and cheese
Hellmans Mayo-only if I dont have Dukes sent to me
Jones breakfast sausage
Hebrew National Hot dogs
Hillshire Farms hams
 

Heinz - Catsup / Ketchup
Hidden Valley - Ranch Dressing
Kraft - Mac & Cheese
Jello - Pudding mixes and Jello mixes
Gulden's - Mustard
Gorton's - Frozen fish
Grippo's - BBQ chips
Sun Chips - Jalapeno Jack Flavor (hard to find around here)
Hillshire Farms - smoked sausage (not eckrich the casing is too nasty)
Twinnings - Earl Grey Tea
 
Just a few
 

Hellmann's mayo
Imperial margarine
Pepsi
Ruby Red Squirt
Kraft American singles
Kraft finely shredded sharp cheddar
Dean's milk (It keeps a lot longer than other brands, and I don't use much milk.)
Aunt Nellie's red cabbage
Hormel 5 oz. ham (I live alone.)
Dinty Moore beef stew
 
I am much pickier when it comes to paper goods, soaps & detergents, etc.
 

Paul Newmans anything
Le Seuer Peas
Utz or Lays
Pepperidge Farm
Hebrew National
 
Did I mention Chef Boyardee, or Franco American NO??? I wonder why not????
 

Mar - really? I get B&M original at Ralphs here [Ventura Cty.] all the time. And you can get the brown bread [yum] on Amazon. I...check a Ralphs. !! This is the stuff I grew up on. I love it. I hope that your Ralphs has the beans.

Libby's Libby's Libby's, on the label, label, label, you will like it, like it, like it, on the table, table, table.
 
 

Blue Bell Ice Cream
Most everything else is open season.
Motor Oil's Motor Oil!

I love that B&M brown bread with cream cheese.  Have a devil of a time finding it though.  I prefer w/raisins but I will make do wiith the plain if I must.

Grandma Brown's Baked Beans
Hofmann hot dogs
Lea & Perrins Worcestershire
Campbell's soups
I rarely drink soda (usually unless there's whiskey/bourbon in it), so it has to be Coke, Cherry Coke, Dr. Pepper, or Vernor's (when I can find it - one store in the area carries it, and it disappears quickly).

totillie, thank you!  I will check my Ralph's.  I can stand on my corner and see two different Ralph's... both Fresh Fare.  Or my next trip your way I'll make a Ralph's stop.  Thanks!
 
Only Lea and Perrins for me in fact that's what we called it growing up.
 
We had Blue Bell ice cream in Texas.  Dryer's Rocky Road tastes better to me.
 
 

Marlene, B&M is still made in Portland, Maine and currently owned by B&G foods of New Jersey. I don't know about the west coast, but in the past 20 years Bush Bros. of Knoxville, TN has made major inroads here into the canned baked beans business, pushing other brands off the shelf.
 
We have the same problem with west coast producer Mezzeti's here. Not all chains carry their product and of the ones who carry their products they don't carry the full line. So, you may be buying peppers from the two chains on the other side of town from you.

Thanks, David.  We have the Bush line but B & M I find better.  I might go out later today and check out Ralph's.  It's across the street.

Green Giant Shoe Peg Corn
Duke's Mayonaise
IBC Root Beer
Dale's Marinade
Hunt's Ketchup
Luck's Beans
Dickinson's Preserves
Yoder's Creamery Butter
Hidden Valley Farmhouse Originals Dressings
Claussen's Pickles
Allen's Italian-Cut Green Beans (Kentucky Wonders)
Hebrew National Hot Dogs
Old Grand Dad 114 (sipping whiskey)
 

Plue Plate or Hellmann's mayonaise
Lea and Perrin's worcestershire sauce
Heintz catsup
Pillsbury unbleached, all-purpose flour
Bob's Red Mill corn grits
Elmer's CheeWees
Richard's thick-sliced bacon
LeSeur green peas
Zapp's potato chips
French's yellow mustard
Grey poupon
Oscar Mayer bun-length hotdogs
Twining English Breakfast Tea
 
 

Bakonettes pork skins. That doesn't look right, but you get the idea.
Udi's gluten free bread

I think I buy Heinz Vinegar.  Do they make vinegar?  I buy the same name brand every single time as if it makes a difference if I would buy the store brand.
 
I buy Best Foods Mayonnaise but I'm occasionally gifted with Dukes.  Best Foods is Hellman's west coast.

Yep Mar, Heinz makes Vinegar. Pucker up!

mar52


I think I buy Heinz Vinegar.  Do they make vinegar?  I buy the same name brand every single time as if it makes a difference if I would buy the store brand.

I buy Best Foods Mayonnaise but I'm occasionally gifted with Dukes.  Best Foods is Hellman's west coast.

Be careful when you buy Heinz Vinegar.  Many stores carry Heinz Apple Cider Flavored Distilled Vinegar.  The small bottles are usually ACV, but the gallons are often AC flavored.
 
I have found that Kroger Brand ACV is very good.  It continues to grow Mother. 

Vinegar even has its own Institute! It ranks right up there with Duct Tape & WD-40 for usefulness!
http://www.versatilevinegar.org/usesandtips.html

Very interesting.  Do I dare try to clean my eye glasses?  Nothing commercial is good enough.
 
Nestle's Chocolate Chips!
 
Hershey chocolate bars.
 
 

Chewingthefat - LAYS??? Blasphemy?  they've got to be the worst chips out there, don't know if it's the sunflower oil or what.  Glad you mentioned Utz, but can't believe you'd like both Utz and Lays they like polar opposites.  And you're real close to Utz too!
 
As for me:
Utz Chips, will do Herr's in a pinch
Coca-Cola, NEVER Pepsi
Mello-Yello over Mt. Dew any day
Deitz & Watson deli meats, never cheap meats that 99% of delis serve, will also do Boars' Head or Thumanns - can't believe how many places serve garbage meats,  cheap meats no matter piled how high does not equal a good sub!
Skippy Peanut Butter
Simply Orange juice
Entemann's cakes  (never Tastykake as they've gotten so flavorless and nasty, miss the old days)
Can't believe people would like Campbell's soup, it's not been good for at least 10 years, or whenever they discontinued Chicken Gumbo and started adding eggwhites to Minestrone & Vegetarian Vegetable 
Lender's frozen bagels if can't get good fresh (everything else is just a roll with a hole in it)
A-1 never generic, no comparison
Frosted Pop-Tarts  (just never ever ever EVER strawberry  or ones with chocolate in it)  Cherry is of course the best.  Never unfrosted or generic!
Classico Spaghetti sauce, never Ragu  - but I love Ragu Homemade pizza sauce
Martha Washington pizza dough mix
Ortega White Corn taco shells & medium taco sauce
Tostitos never Herr's, but I like Herr's Salsa.
Hanover Premium frozen veggies, NEVER EVER CANNED!
If I had to pick between Wonder and Sunbeam, no question Wonder, Sunbeam goes stale 10 seconds after open bag.  Though I always buy Miers Italian