My neighbor told me to buy the store brand pickles and I thought he was crazy

Been buying Claussen dills for years, swore by them. Dave from across the street kept saying the Kroger brand was the same thing for half the price. I finally tried them last Tuesday on a whim. $2.79 vs $5.49. Honestly? Crunch is slightly different but I couldn't tell in a blind taste test my wife made me do. Now I'm stuck with a fridge full of Claussen and I can't go back. Has anyone else had a food snob moment that blew up in your face?

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andrew_miller9012d ago

$2.79 vs $5.49 is a big gap, and my wife did the same blind test on me with sweet pickles last year and I got it wrong. My advice is buy a jar of the store brand and keep them in the back of the fridge, use the Claussen for company and store brand for everyday sandwiches and you'll break even in a month. Works for me with pickles and with pasta sauce and barbecue sauce too, just a little rotation saves the wallet.

andrewh4311d ago

That's a solid system and honestly it taps into something bigger I've noticed. Most name brand stuff in a fridge section is 90% marketing and 10% actual difference, but that 10% matters when you're trying to impress someone. The real trick is knowing which products actually benefit from the name brand and which ones are just paying for the label. Your rotation idea makes a lot of sense because your taste buds get used to the store brand after a few weeks, then the name brand feels like a treat rather than just normal. Works the same way with ketchup and mustard in my house, people swear they can tell but after a month of store brand nobody complains.