i can t believe it s not butter.

[wesw]

my better half picked up some generic butter on sale. it s not butter. it says butter on the packages, but it smells and tastes like that country crock crap.

some things you just have to get name brands....

butter? land o lakes (plus you can make the indian girl have boobs if you cut her knees from one side, and tape them under the butter pack on the other side. then you slit the butter she s holding, on three sides, lift it up and... Boobies!!!!)

cranberry juice? ocean spray

grape juice? welches

any others...?

[Lord Jim]

(plus you can make the indian girl have boobs if you cut her knees from one side, and tape them under the butter pack on the other side. then you slit the butter she s holding, on three sides, lift it up and... Boobies!!!!)

I have to say wes, you've got some odd hobbies...

One name brand item I don't think there's any comparison to is Heinz Ketchup...

[wesw]

yes jim, sixth grade was interesting.....

...by the way, my grandmother would not have liked that un necessary "got" in your post. she would have pretended not to hear me until I said it properly. meade probably had the same problem. its like we re long lost brothers, meade and me.....

[wesw]

one item where the generic is better: food lion brand frozen lemonade. nothing but lemon, sugar and water, and its so concentrated that you can use almost twice the recommended water. delicious.

[Lord Jim]

its like we re long lost brothers, meade and me.....

Oh my, yes...

I'll bet that if you two were to meet, you'd be completing each others sentences...

The similarity between you two is downright eerie...

[Joe Guy]

As a matter of fact, Meade was one of the first people I thought of when I told wesw about this place. The rest is history.

Years from now we'll all be able to look back and say, "I remember Meade's solo career when he composed great literature without his partner, wesw."

[MajGenl.Meade]

[Daisy]

Land o lakes is bloody horrible, tasteless muck.

In fact all the butters I tried in the US were beyond vile. Give me a lovely, deep yellow, rich west-country butter with Maldon sea salt any day, especially on a well-done crumpet.

I'm with Jim on ketchup though, if you have a craving for a fish finger butty then the only accompaniment hast to be Heinz Ketchup.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Maldon! Happy childhood memories of the marshes and the sea... was there just three years ago, driving over from Wickford with aunt and uncle Penny. Very Dickensian! The best butter I've had here in the US is Kerrygold... heh heh! Do you live near there, Dais?

Heinz "anything" is generally speaking superior to "Anyone-else's anything". Vegetarian beans are a good example. That's what they are called here because USians just can't get it into their heads that baked beans are... well, just baked beans. I do hope they are not labelled "vegetarian" beans in the UK where we used to know that baked beans were... just baked beans.

[TPFKA@W]

Snot butter? Ewww. anyway, I makes me own butter. It's quite easy to do using a blender. Nom nom nom.

[Joe Guy]

It's been a long time since I've eaten any baked beans - and I've only had the inorganic ones - not these....



I think when they take the organs out of the beans, it improves their flavor, but that's just me. The British probably like bean entrails.

[Guinevere]

Katie's organic butter, made in small batches in Maine, finished with sea salt. If I can't get that I'll chose Kerrygold, which is made from grass-fed cow milk.

[Daisy]

Sounds lovely Guin, sadly they didn't seem to stock Kerrygold in any of the local stores nearby where we stayed.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Land-o-lakes or breakstone butter.
Heinze ketchup
Nestea half and half ice tea
4C ice tea mix.
(I forgot the name of the non-sweetend ice tea I drink.)
Planters peanuts (all types)
Ivory soap
Wise potato chips
Boars Head cold cuts
Helmanns Mayo
Tropicanna Orange Juice
Guldens mustard (spicy brown not that yellow stuff)

[Big RR]

Most things I really don't care that much about one way or the other, but there are a couple I have found are worth looking for:

Boar's Head cold cuts
Kosher Beef Hot Dogs (to avoid by products)
Non generic soda (I don't drink a lot of soda, and what I do is usually diet, but I avoid most store brands--never found a good one)
Grey Poupon Mustard
Skippy Peanut butter (a couple of the other brand names are good, but I avoid the generics)
Fresh roasted coffee (not a brand name, but if I can buy coffee directly from a roaster in whole bean, that's what I prefer); there are a couple of places in my area where I can get this (along with fresh ground chicory I sometimes like to add)

I really don't use enough ketchup or butter to have a preference; ditto with chips and pretzels. One other thing I do recall is when my girls were young and drank chocolate milk, they preferred the Hershey's Syrup to all others.

[oldr_n_wsr]

they preferred the Hershey's Syrup to all others.

That's sacrilege, It's Bosco or nothing.

[Lord Jim]

breakstone butter.

I don't eat a lot of butter, (I use olive oil for a lot of the things people use butter for, like baked potatoes) but I like Breakstone too...

The unsalted, whipped variety...

[dales]

they preferred the Hershey's Syrup to all others.

That's sacrilege, It's Bosco or nothing.

[Gob]

Best butter in the world!!

[oldr_n_wsr]

breakstone butter.

I don't eat a lot of butter, (I use olive oil for a lot of the things people use butter for, like baked potatoes) but I like Breakstone too...

The unsalted, whipped variety...

We dip bread in olive oil and some kind of spices the wife puts in it.

I'll have to try OO on baked potatoes.