Brand name biscuits cost more, aka You get what you pay for

[pne]

When I went looking for chocolate sandwich biscuits (Prinzen-Rolle), I saw that the store-brand version was larger and cost less.

The "cost per kg" in the small print on the label helpfully told me that the store-brand biscuits cost pretty much exactly half of what the Real Thing cost. So I thought I'd try them.

Store-brand chocolate sandwich biscuits tend to have more sugar in them than I like, but the ingredient lists on the two products seemed similar enough so I thought I'd give them a try; the Prinzen-Rolle would, after all, still be there in case the store-brand ones turned out to be not that great.

Well, a couple of biscuits later, I think I should have gone with the Prinzen-Rolle.

The filling hasn't got appreciably more sugar than the Prinzen-Rolle, so that's not the problem—but the biscuits just taste, somehow, "flat". Uninteresting. Crunchy cardboard. And I also remember the chocolate filling in the Prinzen-Rolle as being richer somehow.

Ah well.

Comments

[polarbee.livejournal.com]

Oooo...those look tasty. One of our local grocers stocks the oddest things from the oddest places. I might go look to see if there's any chance those have made there way over here. (I'm not holding out much hope, but you never know.)
You're story reminds me of the one time I tried store-brand Oreos. They shouldn't have been as nasty as they were, given how close the ingredients were. :)

[lexabear.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the brand names really do win out in certain products. Back when I drank soda, I refused to get the generic lemon-lime soda from the grocery store my parents went to because it was absolutely horrid. It's good that you're willing to experiment though, because that's how you find the things that cost half as much and DO taste exactly the same.

[pne.livejournal.com]

It's good that you're willing to experiment though, because that's how you find the things that cost half as much and DO taste exactly the same.

True, those do exist.

Or find which of the various store brands is the best.

For example, I've bought several different brands of mixed biscuits over the past few months, and they've been pretty variable, not only in quality but also in selection, even though it's a fairly common item.

Trouble is, I don't remember where we got the selection I liked best so far, so I'll have to try several different shops' versions out again :)

[eva]

Were they the "ja!" version? Because those taste awful.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Indeed they were.