Original Food And Drink Items That Are Irreplaceable

[SonofPog]

I went through a. "Downsizing" phase, buying a brand below what you normally do to see if it's acceptable. So here's my list.

HP Sauce
Hienz Ketchup
Weetabix
Tilda Basmati Rice
Dark Chocolate Digestives (whoever said Milk chocolate desgestives needs to have a word with themselves )
Marmite

[THEWELLERNUT70]

A couple more from me

Original Lucozade (the one in the crunchy orange wrapper)

Victory V Lozenge

Barker and Dobson Blackcurrant and Liquorice sweets

[Darthlaw]

McVities Jaffa Cakes.

Nobbys crisps - Chicken Balti flavour.

[THEWELLERNUT70]

Don't get me started on Maynards.

Their Sports Mixture are now so soft they have the chewiness of Wine Gums from years ago.

Lyons do a Football Mixture now which retains the same texture and flavours as the original Sports Mixture. They are available from the jar from the sweet shop in the arcade in the centre of Colne (and some Tesco stores).

The chap in the Colne shop was telling me that Lyons sold the rights to Maynards a little prematurely and hadn't realised their popularity, but alas when they remanufactured them had to tweak the name so it wasn't too far from the original brand

[THEWELLERNUT70]

The old big wagon wheels.

That's a myth. There was a programme on't tele over Christmas where the makers of Wagon Wheel had the original cast of the 1 millionth biscuit manufactured in 1973. It was shown to be the same size now as it was then, it appears that us growing up have made it look smaller

[Chobulous]

Spanish

To be more specific - ha'penny spanish. The ones that made the best spanish juice.

[starting_11]

Lyons do a Football Mixture now which retains the same texture and flavours as the original Sports Mixture. They are available from the jar from the sweet shop in the arcade in the centre of Colne (and some Tesco stores).

The chap in the Colne shop was telling me that Lyons sold the rights to Maynards a little prematurely and hadn't realised their popularity, but alas when they remanufactured them had to tweak the name so it wasn't too far from the original brand

Yeah they sell all the originals on Amazon... Couldn't trust myself with a 2kg box though

[SammyBoy]

I don't have ketchup often, but used to think that I couldn't have any other ketchup than Heinz. I then discovered that Aldi's own brand is a spot on replica.

I used to work in procurement for a UK supermarket and from my experience I'd say it probably is Heinz ketchup, just without the branding.

One of my categories was butter and Aldi and Lidl basically just paid the butter supplier for the product, but didn't pay for the branding. Hence they created their own packaging and names (Norpak/Beautifully Butterly etc) and sold the same product cheaper than the big 4 using the savings they made from not paying for the branding.

There's loads of random stuff in retail that the public don't realise. The supermarket I worked for used to have "white cheddar" and "coloured cheddar", there was absolutely no difference between them besides the fact one had orange colouring added to it, they tasted exactly the same. However, all northern stores stocked "coloured cheddar" and southern stores had "white cheddar", with a few mixed ones in the Midlands. Apparently this was done to cater to northerners historically preferring the darker cheddar and southerners wanting it whiter. Bonkers when you think it was all the same besides a bit of colouring.

[Joe Buck]

Vimeo. Hot or cold

[avalondreamer]

Meredith & Drew crisps with the small blue packet of salt inside

[THEWELLERNUT70]

I'd forgot about Vimto!

Also a cup of Bovril

[claretfern]

'Border' Dark Chocolate Ginger Biscuits
Another vote for 'Lion' Midget Gems
'Old Jamaica' Fiery Ginger Beer

[Walton]

I used to work in procurement for a UK supermarket and from my experience I'd say it probably is Heinz ketchup, just without the branding.

One of my categories was butter and Aldi and Lidl basically just paid the butter supplier for the product, but didn't pay for the branding. Hence they created their own packaging and names (Norpak/Beautifully Butterly etc) and sold the same product cheaper than the big 4 using the savings they made from not paying for the branding.

There's loads of random stuff in retail that the public don't realise. The supermarket I worked for used to have "white cheddar" and "coloured cheddar", there was absolutely no difference between them besides the fact one had orange colouring added to it, they tasted exactly the same. However, all northern stores stocked "coloured cheddar" and southern stores had "white cheddar", with a few mixed ones in the Midlands. Apparently this was done to cater to northerners historically preferring the darker cheddar and southerners wanting it whiter. Bonkers when you think it was all the same besides a bit of colouring.

Aldi have confirmed that their baby milk is exactly the same product as Aptamil, which they also sell side by side with their Mamia brand.

Aptamil is about £4/5 more expensive though. Mental.

[SammyBoy]

Aptamil is about £4/5 more expensive though. Mental.

It's mad how much brand loyalty plays a part, certain people you can tell until you're blue in the face that they're literally just paying 4-5 times the price for more recognisable packaging and they still can't accept it. I think some individuals really enjoy the buying the market leader side of things and the truth sort of bursts their bubble.

[IanMcL]

Cadbury Flake
Heinz Tomato Soup
Mentholatum
Oxo Cubes
Haggis