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Most foods. Store brands are (nearly) always lacking in something. Be it tiny sized canned beans, or jam whose only flavour is ‘sweet’. That shit is cheap for a reason.
Doesn’t apply to everything (depending on where you live), some things you can’t cut corners on without advertising it. 2% Milk is 2% milk.
But largely, low cost food has been made low cost via haircuts and shortcuts.
Honestly most of the products I buy are perfectly fine store brand
I'll never cut corners on toilet paper though, I buy a specific brand and specific kind. I was homeless for nearly a decade and the only toilet paper I could use in that time was what was available in public restrooms. I like the brand I get now and you'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands before I part with it.
Edit: Removed some wrong info.
Dr. Bronners liquid Castille soap. I've tried others but they are not as concentrated or as moisturizing. Great diluted for shaving legs.
Sensodyne Pronamel Intensive Enamel Repair Toothpaste. I've reversed three cavities that were forming by using this toothpaste.
Persil detergent. I use other detergents but always have this on deck for tough stains or funky items.
Jockey women's cotton underwear. There's a specific cut that they have that's flattering and comfortable.
Bahlsen Schoko-leibniz. The store brand ones don't have nearly as nice chocolate.
Conversely, after eights are garbage and the supermarket version comes with nicely tempered chocolate that does a very satisfying crackle when you bite.
This is a combined list from my wife and I.
This has become a rarity for me but I don't like any french onion dip other than Dean's French onion dip.
I don't eat it very often because my tastes have changed but if I had to go to the store and buy some right now if they didn't have deans I wouldn't get it.
Coffee and tea. Otherwise I always buy store brand because it comes from the same factory.
Off brand Bagel Bites are a big nope for me.
Milk. Great Value’s brand just tastes so darned awful for some reason I can’t place. I live in the midwest, and Prairie Farms is pretty common as a brand here.
There are some others, many dairy products now that I think about it, but there’s also some medicines like Mucinex which I prefer to use over generic brands. I’m otherwise not very picky.
Mortons salt. Somehow that little metal spout is just worse in every store brand I've tried.