Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt.

Mary_Hartnell

Perhaps it was the extract of senna pod, that had been added by the branded manufacturer?
http://www.fushi.co.uk/product/senna-pod--capsules--wild-crafted__020721.aspx

Seriously though, chocolate is like wine, "one" can drink half a bottle of the £3.50 stuff and get just as "mellow" as with a bottle 10 times the price, but the after taste and the after effect can be less enjoyable.

Perhaps I should rephrase that into "a bottle of carbonated fizzy wine" - I'm not sure I have ever drunk a bottle of wine with a realistic wholesale price of 35 quid.:rotfl:

Thomassmith

I worked as a supervisor in a chicken factory for 7 years
All of the products we give to the supermarkets were EXACTLY the same. For example, The Asda free range welfare 2 fillets would cost over £5
whereas the asda smart price 5 fillets would cost £3.60.
Free range products costs around double the normal price even though its the same product, so i would recommend people to get the cheap basics or smart price meat as it is no difference from the others.

Doc_N

Thomassmith wrote: »

I worked as a supervisor in a chicken factory for 7 years
All of the products we give to the supermarkets were EXACTLY the same. For example, The Asda free range welfare 2 fillets would cost over £5
whereas the asda smart price 5 fillets would cost £3.60.
Free range products costs around double the normal price even though its the same product, so i would recommend people to get the cheap basics or smart price meat as it is no difference from the others.

Interesting. Are you suggesting that battery-farmed chicken is being sold as free range, because the two things are, of course, entirely different.

Thomassmith

Exactly. They are SUPPOSED to be completely different but they aren't. They know when their big customers will be visiting so they can manipulate the orders to suit them.
Makes me think about all meat. Coupar angus beef/chicken from scotland??? or just normal caged animals from the farm down the road.... what do you think? Its not the supermarkets fault, they think they are getting the real deal.

SnowBelle_2

I have mentioned before that I also work in a chicken factory on a managerial level.
Free range birds are not put through with ordinary birds(definately not in our factory)
They look different,are costed differently also traced from farm to fork and are processed before any non-free range birds.
In my place of work if free range were mixed with non-free range there would be hell to pay from the customer and no doubt heavy implications....many of our customers are well known supermarkets with a reputation to keep up and would not take the chance of mis-selling or mis-labelling.
We process over 3 million chicken per week so this is a subject not taken too lightly.

jenniewb

I'd imagine what happens is the same place that maintains/sells the chickens to the supermarket or dealer (the middleman, whatever you call them!) possibly gets chickens from several different places and puts it in the same packaging. Doesn't mean its all the same type of chicken just means its bought by the same dealer.

Or that one poultry farmer (again, whatever you call them!) possibly looks after several different types of chicken. Some hand reared, some in barns, some in cages. Costing different amounts to keep and even possibly looked after by many different staff/farmers per group but as they are all owned by the same farmer or farmer group they all would have similar packaging and perhaps even arrive in the same vans or under the same farmers group name.

I'd expect that with either there would be strict instructions on not mixing one with the other as legal cases could cost them their business!

Tinajane

Hi Everyone, I used to work in a small industrial unit where we removed all the top brand lables, ie Pedigree and Winalot and we re-labled them with co-op

phoebe03cat

what about whiskers in jelly? Does anyone know anything about this please..four cats are costing me a fortune, but want to stick with a good 'brand' lol

Doc_N

phoebe03cat wrote: »

what about whiskers in jelly? Does anyone know anything about this please..four cats are costing me a fortune, but want to stick with a good 'brand' lol

Forget the 'brand' thing - just feed your cats on the cheapest own-label they'll eat. It might take a bit of time, but if they're hungry enough they'll soon switch.

It'll save you a fortune.

phoebe03cat

Well yes..but I still do want them to have a reasonable level of nutrition. That said I've started feeding raw which is going really well and is cheaper. Their teeth are much better too BUT still want to feed tinned for one of the two meals.