Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt.

sharnad

There is a large bar of chocolate in lidl - cant remeber who it is by, but it is milk chocolate and nuts and tastes exactly the same as dairy milk whoe nut and its only 52p

Dont think diry milk would make stuff for anyone else though

ktblacks

Bausch and Lomb make many lenses and solutions (my dad used to work for them!), and if you get your lenses mail order or online, you can access a catalogue that will tell you all this. For example, Specsavers easyVision solution is Baush and Lomb made, and also packaged as many other opticians' brands. Anyone using 55% water soft lenses is likely to be wearing "CooperVision 55" lenses, which are sold under lots of different names, including ASDA and Specsavers, I think.

wurley

Campbells (soup people) Used to own Freshbake (frozen pastry products) And they made for Tesco.... Tesco actually demanded they used better ingredients than they used!! Asda and Sainsburys used them too but that was 18y ago....Yonks in fact!!!

Schamansky

Uncle_Cuddles wrote: »

Is it me, or is all Corned Beef canned in Brazil and just labelled in the UK? My wife insists on buying Princes branded, when the ASDA own brand has the same stamp on the base of the can!!

Exactly.

Identical meat stamp = identical content.

leimichellecat

not sure if this has come up...its very long thread! but Skoda and Vauxwagan use the same chassy (appologies for the spellings). the only real difference between the Octavia and Golf is the name.

Robothell

leimichellecat wrote: »

not sure if this has come up...its very long thread! but Skoda and Vauxwagan use the same chassy (appologies for the spellings). the only real difference between the Octavia and Golf is the name.

I thought it was the Fabia that was the same as the Golf and the Octavia was essentially the Passat? They look about the right size for comparison.

On a similar note, Top Gear reported on the Toyota Aygo, Peugeot 106 and Citroen C1 a while back. They are essentially the same car, made in the same factory by the same people to the same specs.....the only differences are to the interior and exterior trim. They reckoned if you were going to buy one you may as well buy the Citroen as it was cheaper on the road.

Robothell

poodlehorse wrote: »

I always thought Whisky had to be from Scotland (no Scot I know would ever refer to it as Scotch and I am one ) and whiskey can be from anywhere.

Whisky is from Scotland, Whiskey is from Ireland generally speaking. These were the first countries that distilled the stuff and depending on which method other countires use depends on the spelling they adopt (ie Canada makes whisky, not whiskey).

More on Wikipedia.

Elainer

Dont know if this has already been mentioned, as i haven't read all 44 pages, but a friend i work with used to work at a christmas pudding factory,(don't know the name of the factory, sorry) and she told us that exactly the same puddings went everywhere, asda, sainsburys, tescos, waitrose, even harrods, just in different boxes. The ones sold as 'vintage' were just the ones that hadn't been sold the previous year.
Hope somone finds that helpful

Sarahsaver

John Lewis' own brand 'white goods' are made by AEG. Just got a washing machine and a fridge freezer and both are excellent.

StaceyAKelly

My hubby works for a sauce factory. They make sachets of sauce and bottles of sauce etc. they supply mcdonalds and lots of other people, i will have to ask him who else they supply.