Printers at Lidl !

@CakeHole I will have to correct you on two things that I know of.

Firstly not all bread is the same far from in fact, the ingredients in a Yellow pack loaf for instance are usually 90 % starch and 10 % grain but for the branded loaf it’s suppose to be the other way round, but guess what, they are now starting to cheat also.

The frozen food is much the same the longer the food stay laying around before it’s frozen determines its quality and therefore the label and that I am certain of..

Emulator said:

If we didn't have brand snobbery the would be only one variety of everything.

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A fair point and something i would not want, choice is a good thing. Trying to tell people they should choose a more expensive item over a cheaper one though or acting like one brand over another makes a person inferior in some way though is not. Thats elitism and history is full of examples where that did not work out very well.

stratman said:

In the USA, the above are not the only situations with food manufacturers. Brand name overruns may be sold to or distributed by other brands, whether they are subsidiaries or 3rd parties I cannot say. Additionally, even though the same plant is used to make the food, a non-brand name may use same or similar ingredients but must have some significant difference in ingredients or quantitative mixture or else risk litigation, ie it cannot be the same.

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True one brand over the other can not be the exact same, the core components are though. With the bread example one may have more or less flour but at the end of the day if its a factory that uses the same flour for various brands its the same flour you are consuming, does not matter if it says Lidl on the packet, Asda, Walmart or any other supermarket you can think of. You are likely consuming the same thing, different quantities maybe but its the same core components.

To use the most extreme probably well know example... Coca Cola tastes different to Pepsi, but the end of the day its main ingredients will be the same, the main ingredient in those 2 being a form of sugar and water. It is ridiculous to even think picking one brand over another (especially when it comes to brand Vs non brand) in some way makes you superior.

Even more ridiculous to dismiss a whole companies brand line (in this case Lidl the supermarket) by saying you would not let any of their stuff pass your lips.

The Hat said:

@CakeHole I will have to correct you on two things that I know of.

Firstly not all bread is the same far from in fact, the ingredients in a Yellow pack loaf for instance are usually 90 % starch and 10 % grain but for the branded loaf it’s suppose to be the other way round, but guess what, they are now starting to cheat also.

The frozen food is much the same the longer the food stay laying around before it’s frozen determines its quality and therefore the label and that I am certain of..

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The bread thing i will accept to a degree it can have varying amounts of the ingredients in it, but when it comes to not letting a whole supermarket brand "passing your lips" which is what kicked things off you are still basically consuming the same thing. Eating one over the other then you may be consuming more flour, does consuming more flour per slice though mean you are superior?

The problem with your frozen food thing is once you buy it how long are you going to freeze it? You buy something only frozen 24 hours ago and then you freeze it another 2 weeks you have basically destroyed any argued quality difference there. Meat like any food has standards and guidelines.

Id also doubt you know how long it was between say a chicken being slaughtered and frozen in any of the "brands" of chicken on a supermarket shelf. Even more so if you go out to eat at a restaurant, you do not know.

The horse meat thing here in the UK affected anything from Birds Eye to Aldi own brand, it was more than likely from the same batch of meat, so buying one brand lasagne in that case over one half the price did not provide any assurance in the quality of the meat or whos meat was fresher, frozen sooner, etc.

Its as ridiculous as bottled water and thinking you are "better" for consuming a brand of bottle water that is maybe 10x more expensive. Its water, its met cleanliness guidelines to be sold. It quenches thirst, goes in one hole and passes through another, it does not matter the brand. It is H20 at the end of the day.

Sometimes i wonder how some brand snobs would survive in an apocalypse or trapped on an island..........
Actually I can picture it now, thirsty and hungry, the emergency air drop comes along, they tear into it....... Oh (BLEEP) that pile of (BLEEP) its all Lidl brand im not letting that disgusting produce muck pass my lips...... 10 days later the world is minus one fool.

Or with the latest example from the same person.......

A pallet of mobile phones is dropped for people to call for help if they should need it........ Billy and his mates are all ill and Billy in addition has 2 infected, broken legs and needs an emergency air lift. Billys mates run to the pallet of dropped phones, look at the phones carefully and then in typical brand snobbery pronounce "(BLEEP) that i aint using no Android (BLEEP) WHERE IS THE IPHONES? Screw that poorly designed and soldered together pile of silicon".... 5 Days later the world is minus a whole group of fools.

Brand snobbery is a stupid thing, nobody will ever convince me otherwise. Sure have your posh bread, have your Iphone, i have no problem with you prefering an expensive brand, enjoy it, if it makes you happy then good for you. DO NOT THOUGH for one second try to tell me you are superior due to your brand choice. If anything you are inferior for buying into the carefully crafted sales pitch and thinking the price you pay some how means what is inside must be VASTLY better... it is not.

That is it now from me on the subject otherwise id rant about what i deem as idiotic all day and i do not want to do that because it is not in the spirit for this otherwise relaxed forum. I guess its just one of those things which gets my goat. I guess the short version is what i have said to @Emulator above.

I admit to brand snobbery. I like Image Specialists ink.

Will you fellas get the stupidmarket shopping done and back onto PRINTERS

stratman said:

I admit to brand snobbery. I like Image Specialists ink.

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I would not call that brand snobbery as its known different inks give different results, many of which can clearly be seen and do not even need to be measured. Eating too much of one brand of baked beans over another on your freshly toasted bread will still give you the same wind though It will not smell better by avoiding the Lidl brand

CakeHole said:

Eating too much of one brand of baked beans over another on your freshly toasted bread will still give you the same wind though It will not smell better by avoiding the Lidl brand

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No beans for you at the family picnic!

stratman said:

No beans for you at the family picnic!

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@stratman you usually a breath of fresh air, but not this time…

The Hat said:

@stratman you usually a breath of fresh air, but not this time…

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Put the "ink" bottle down, uncle, and reread the posts. It was CakeHole who wrote of stinky beans, not me.

stratman said:

No beans for you at the family picnic!

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Yes and you wouldn’t let him go to the picnic because of all the potential hot gases..