Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt.

robin58

Andy7856 wrote: »

Slightly off topic, but most of the pick n mix in the cinemas (ie the £5 per tiny cup sweets) that was Nestle Rowntree branded was in fact "waste" ie the stuff that they sold off cheap in the staff shops to get rid off.


Not sure if that is still the case or not.

NO it isn't and never was.

Pick and Mix is supplied by a reputable company.

No doubt you must be quoting an urban myth.

geordie_joe

robin58 wrote: »

NO it isn't and never was.

How do you know that? Don't tell me, you worked, or knew someone who worked for the company.

robin58 wrote: »

Pick and Mix is supplied by a reputable company.

I buy chocolates in Iceland, supplied by a reputable company. They are cheap and all mis-shapes.

Even reputable companies have things go wrong and so sell of things that are not "perfect" a bit cheaper.

I have seen many documentaries, and items in factual programmes showing how food items are made. The one thing they all have in common these days is the items are photographed as they go along the line and if any are not perfect the are blown off the conveyor belt further along the line.

mis-shapes and other imperfections must be a big problem if someone has gone to the trouble of building an automatic system to spot them and get them off the production line.

robin58 wrote: »

No doubt you must be quoting an urban myth.

Or telling then truth. All those items that get blown off the production line must end up somewhere.

I remember buying pick and mix in Woolworths and a fair proportion of those were a bit mis-shapen.

So, while I don't believe that pick and mix are entirely made up of mis-shapen sweets. I can believe that at some time in the past a worker asked what they should do with the mis-shapen sweets. And the reply was "Chuck them in with the pick and mix, nobody will notice a few odd shaped ones in the dark".

Doc_N

geordie_joe wrote: »

Even reputable companies have things go wrong and so sell of things that are not "perfect" a bit cheaper.

Except for the new Kraft/Mondelez owned Cadbury's, who charge full price for stuff that's anything but perfect.

Still, you did say 'reputable'.

TheCardcan

I've worked in a couple of factories, and (as stated already) although they produced both top branded products and budget ones, they definitely used different recipes for different brands including cheaper ingredients.

robin58

So you are all saying that all pick and mix are seconds.

Some of you do not know what you are talking about, hence the urban myth quote.

For geordie joe

Before you say it. I used to work in a cinema and all the pick and mix sweets were supplied by a manufacture who is well known for loose sweets and were not 'seconds'

Plus if anybody where I worked chucked misshaped sweets into the pick and mix to get rid of them, they would have been sacked. These type of sweets would be written off.

I could understand the remark about Woolworths, their pick and mix were substandard.

Doc_N

Check out the little code that has to be shown on all butter sold in packs in the UK and you'll find that Aldi Greenvale salted butter has the same FP046 code as Country Life (Gower View Foods creamery in Wales).

Aldi - 89p
Country Life - £1.25+

Not a difficult decision for the same butter.

pennijar

If you like plain poppadoms, Aldi, Lidl & Home Bargain ones are the exact same as Pataks.
How do i know you may ask, I am one of the team producing them.

rabb5it

I used to work as an Engineer for a leading lead acid battery manufacturer, so when I recently required a new battery for a used car I had just bought I considered the viable options carefully. Middling price lead acid starting batteries seem to offer a choice of Bosh and Exide. I know that Bosh has gone the way of Karrimor and read of several issues with them so I chose an Exide having a 3 year warranty. The battery wouldn't start the car after 10 months. I got it replaced by ECP. Having a lengthy discussion with the workshop guys, they said more Bosch and Exide batteries are returned than their own budget Lion brand of which they sell several times more of and also has a 3 year guarantee. They couldn't tell me who makes them, but motoring components are like that now. Next time I need a car battery, I will buy the cheapest - Lion Brand.

maghaberry

Tesco's Everyday stuffing is actually Paxo but at a quarter of the price

geordie_joe

maghaberry wrote: »

Tesco's Everyday stuffing is actually Paxo but at a quarter of the price

It's not, I've got both and the value stuff is nowhere near as good as the Paxo.

You don't need to go out and buy both, just look online at the ingredients list.