We had near on household mutiny when we veered from heinz Tommy ketchup. Only other one I can think of is Kellogs cornflakes or I'll stab someone at breakfast!
Craster Kippers. Or are Swallows Kippers better...
Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup. Nothing else is.
Sagres beer.
Branston beans.
I'm sure neither of them are the best, but they are widely available and I like them both.
Other than that, I'm quite flexible on everything else.
Lidl's muesli. Nothing else will do
McVities Jaffa Cakes.
Warburtons Toastie loaf.
Can't think of anything else.
HP.
Nutella - any attempted replacements will be severely punished
Diet Coke
M&S Barbecue sauce.
Irn Bru
Froot Loops from Canada. I don't know what the 'Made under license' things are that I have seen for sale here, but they don't taste anywhere near as good as real, honest-to-goodness Froot Loops the way I knew them back in the Great White North.
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Oh, on that note, Canadian Mountain Dew. The recipe is different to the us and uk version, and tastes much nicer.
Smuggled 3 litres back this last visit, lasted a week.
HP.
Branston Pickle
Mountain dew used to just be lemon/lime-ade, the new stuff is utterly rank.
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HP.
I once went to a greasy spoon for a fryup and was pleased to see HP bottles on the table. Poured said condiment onto breakfast, and discovered on the first mouthful that they had REFILLED HP BOTTLES WITH SOME SORT OF VILE BROWN NON-HP GOOP THE ****ING MONSTERS.
Anyway, I burned the place to the ground and killed the owner and all his relatives and friends which, as I'm sure you'll agree, was quite restrained, considering.
Tinas, yep, that's pretty much what the Canadian stuff is. It's caffeinated, but nowhere near as much as our stuff.
HP
Jaffa Cakes
Heinz Beans.
Case closed.
HP
Heinz TK
Soreen Malt Loaf
HP
Bassett's Liqourice Allsorts
E45.
SunPat peanut butter
Heinz ketchup AND mayonnaise much better than that Hellman's stuff
Bovril, porky whites sausages, crisps of all varieties must be the proper ones not copies, honestly can't think of any other brands I'm 100% fixed on.
Anyway, I burned the place to the ground and killed the owner and all his relatives and friends which, as I'm sure you'll agree, was quite restrained, considering.
There is not a court in the land that would find against you.
HP sauce
Coleman's Mustard
Weetabix
Tunnock's chocolate wafer biscuits
Just descent beer. Almost everything else can be substituted with aldis equivalent.
Marmite.
We had near on household mutiny when we veered from heinz Tommy ketchup.
I'll never repeat this if challenged but, I have a thing for cheap shit vinegary ketchup. (Only ever buy Heinz though.)
KP Space Raiders (beef flavour)
El Avion smoked paprika (Imported in bulk - pungent, deep, smoky, dense and reassuringly moist like no other paprika I've ever tried. So smokey can almost be used like mesquite)
Daddies sauce. HP is ok but is just not Daddies.
Garners pickled onions & shallots. These are the tittz. Every other brand is alarmingly inferior. You have to go home-made to equal or beat Garners.
Think am ok with just about everything else.
Mrs MR challenged me to a baked bean blind taste-off. Mozzers 27p beans won over both Heinz and Branstons. We both chose the Morrison's own brand. Surprising. *
Would like to do the same with English mustard, ie Colmans vs 3 or 4 supermarket brand's own. Reckon you'd guess the Colemans?
* Same blind tests were conducted with Rich Tea biscuits. IIRC McVities beat Lidl, Co-op and Morrisons. Didnt stop me buying Lidl though. Hey? 26p!! 20 packs later I've saved enough to buy some more poncey paprika 🙂
Aldi, bloomer loaf !!!!!!!!
Just descent beer.
Agreed. It goes down better.
I'm with the OP on Kellogs cornflakes - it's the one cereal where the own brands are noticeably worse.
We also buy Heinz beans, solely because they do microwave packs.
Davidstow chedder. There's usually other cheeses in the fridge but there's always Davidstow.
Or "davvid-stow" as the cretin-who-should've-known-better on the M&S advert said.. I only heard that second hand, there's a reason I don't watch TV.
T2 tea. Leaves not bags
Marigold Veg Boullion
Baxters Soups
Meridian Peanut / Almond / Cashew butter
Pretty much it. There are a few other brands I like but they all have acceptable substitutes in Aldi or Lidl.
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2 pages in and no one has mentioned lea and perrins?
Maldon sea salt you heathens
Volvic water, daahling.
Henderson's relish...
Vegan you know...
Both myself and my partner agree that it has to be Branston Beans and M&S caramel waffles. Nothing else will do. She says it has to be Heinz Ketchup whereas I'm less fussed but for me broon soss has to be HP.
