Q-tips

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Originally posted by bald1:
Haven't seen RC Cola in ages.

It's still around. The brand is currently owned and produced by the Dr. Pepper company.

There's just not very high demand for it outside of certain markets (like the Chicago area), so it's not as ubiquitous as Coke/Pepsi products. But it's still widely available at grocery stores and gas stations around the country.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

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Originally posted by bald1:
Haven't seen RC Cola in ages.

It's still around. The brand is currently owned and produced by the Dr. Pepper company.

There's just not very high demand for it outside of certain markets (like the Chicago area), so it's not as ubiquitous as Coke/Pepsi products. But it's still widely available at grocery stores and gas stations around the country.

Just searched and found some on WallyWorld. But the price!

That's a third party seller.

Kinda like on Amazon, where they have products sold by Amazon, and then products sold through Amazon Marketplace by third party sellers. (Who are free to ask whatever price they want, and are often significantly higher than buying it from Amazon itself.)

Walmart's website works the same way. But you can filter them out. Click "Retailer" on the left side menu, and check the Walmart box.

A 12 pack of RC Cola is $4.88 at several of my local Walmarts, according to Walmart.com

My wife makes a spicy chicken-cream cheese dip, made with Frank's original hot sauce. It doesn't work with any other hot sauce.

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Originally posted by 229DAK:
My wife makes a spicy chicken-cream cheese dip, made with Frank's original hot sauce. It doesn't work with any other hot sauce.

There's other hot sauces besides Frank's?



Kidding aside, Frank's is my preference for everyday hot sauce, and while other brands and styles may be good, and some might even be similar, they're still not the real deal Frank's.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
That's a third party seller.

Kinda like on Amazon, where they have products sold by Amazon, and then products sold through Amazon Marketplace by third party sellers. (Who are free to ask whatever price they want, and are often significantly higher than buying it from Amazon itself.)

Walmart's website works the same way. But you can filter them out. Click "Retailer" on the left side menu, and check the Walmart box.

A 12 pack of RC Cola is $4.88 at several of my local Walmarts, according to Walmart.com

Understood but nada zip none available via Walmart... only 3rd party for us in flyover country.

I buy store brands of most things, and agree with the earlier comment about Aldi chips and snacks, EXCEPT nothing tastes the same and has the dame texture as FRITOS.

Oreos.
There can be only one.

^^^Curiously though, the Sunshine Hydrox was the original...

To expand, while Oreo is actually an imitation of the Hydrox chocolate cream-centered cookie, introduced in 1908, Oreos far exceed Hydrox in popularity. As a result many think Hydrox is an imitation of Oreo, though it's actually the other way around.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
Oreos.
There can be only one.

Actually, I think Trader Joes' Joe-Joes are a far superior take on the Oreo style of cookie.

They taste much better to me, most likely because they're made using all natural ingredients, including cane sugar and vanilla beans, instead of Oreo's high fructose corn syrup and artificial flavoring.

(The peppermint Joe-Joes sold around the holidays, which have bits of candy cane added to the filling, are especially good.)

I'll give the WinCo brand a shot every single time, a number of their products I prefer.

also I've noticed lately that "off-brand" medications are actually frequently better. Nyquil is made in Canada and the off brand is made here in the US. What seems a small difference I don't trust non-US/non-EU drugs.

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:


What are some other items where the cheapy brand just doesn't measure up to the real deal?

Here's a factoid: most cheap brands are designed to be inferior products even when it's just as easy to make them as good as the premium brand. It's a psychological ploy to confirm to the customer that they are saving money by tolerating an inferior product. The prime example before was cheap cigarettes. They could make cheap cigarettes taste as good as the premium brand because the manufacturing costs is all in the machinery and not the tobacco.

From personal work experience, when a medical company offers a cheaper version and a more expensive version like blood glucose meters, both products are physically the same. What they do is incur extra work by disabling the premium features in the cheaper version.

It's the same model used by Tesla by being able to activate/inactivate features via software.

Sometimes, the difference is in the consumer's head / preference. Try as I might, I can never get into drinking expensive wines. I prefer the cheap wines. For whiskey, I do prefer the premium stuff over the rot gut swill.

Toilet paper and paper towels. The store brands are generally thin crap and nothing like CHarmin and Bounty from Costco.

Peanut butter.
You'd think it would be hard to fuck up peanuts but it isn't.
Big difference between Jif and store brand.

Mott’s cinnamon apple sauce vs Meijer brand. Meijer brand is not good. Same with Parmesan cheese from Meijer, has a weird color and off taste as opposed to brand name Kraft. Made those mistakes once, not again.

JAE-100 M14 chassis versus the Pro-Mag Archangel M1A stock. They look nearly identical but the Pro-Mag is more well known on the firing line because Springfield Armory used it on their "precision" M1A.

The Pro-Mag is all polymer, like a cheap Savage 12 stock and the whole rifle is held together like a traditional M1A. The JAE is a full aluminum chassis from front to back with a polymer outer shell and holds the action in the chassis with clamps.

An Archangel stock runs for about $250. A JAE used to start out at $1,700 and peaking out around $2,500 with accessories.

M14 ina JAE...


M1A Precision model...


Tony.

Wait, pro-mag is supposed to be the “name brand” version…

Same company known for making mags which are never in spec, and never run?

Speedbird said Q-tips.

And he's right as far as my experience. I've purchased every brand of Q-Tips competitor, store brands, other "name" brands and none-NONE-are as good, or even close, to the quality of the original.

Bob

Any nacho cheese Dorito wanna be

Coke imposters

Smoked almonds that are not Blue Diamond