Favorite Brand Names

Growing up poor, we didn’t have the luxury of most brand name foods and products but there were always certain things we didn’t skimp on because of the unmatched quality! Im still pretty frugal but some items are still favored:
Campbells Tomato Soup
Ken’s Salad Dressing
Perdue chicken wings (they’re not huge and weird shaped)
Dawn dish soap
Niagara spray starch

What are your favorites that you won’t substitute??

Franks red hot sauce

As a kid we bought the cheapest always. Now Laurys sesoned salt, Charmin tp and Folgers coffee

Franks Red Hot
Borden Milk
Pepsi
Vlasic pickles and peppers ( If we ran out of what we canned)
Good brand cheese
good brand Mayo like Hellmans or Dukes

Skippy Peanut Butter - can't STAND the cheap stuff.

It is getting hard these days but USA-made hand tools and USA made Carhartt bibs are something I don't skimp on

Skippy is Awesome! I don’t eat PB often but it is the best tasting!!!! JIF is bland

When I was big on sweets Hostess was better than Lil Debbie as Debbie was a bit dry for my taste. Being a picky eater I don’t skimp of food it’s the last pleasure in life if you think about it.

It’s amazing the brands that have sold out to cheap labor but the products never became any cheaper ever just the products quality. It’s unbelievable the amount of products that China has copied, not a thing that’s safe today. I had to order US skunk needles because the China ones are junk, one chainsaw place was selling Stihl carbs for $19 China clones. That seemed like a product that would be a low priority but I guess not.

Charmin butt wipe

Double Eagle Whiskey.Had it at a Mine owners wedding. Loved it til I found out the Price.

My mom bought me a Carhartt coat and it is great, I love it. Warm and really durable

Heinz Ketchup, Pace Salsa and Kraft items.

Best Foods mayo

Tide

Dawn

Yuban

Tabasco

Reeses'

York

Cathartic made in Mexico today

Yuban also...

Reece's, anything chocolate or fudge

40 mule team borax , Arm & Hammer

Dawn

No sugar Ketchup

Naturally flavored Stevia

My Super Tonic for hot sauce or Tabasco


eggs from local folks, from happy hens

Real buttah.

Red Diamond tea. Been drinking it all of my 54 years.

Marlboro
Canadian Club

Winston Red

Marlboro was the brand the backslider that hung out at the river on Sunday smoked, probably drank beer as well, lol.

Or at least that's it how it was way back when.

Matterhorns. Made in America and tough.

Heinz

I love them but won't buy them anymore. They required all their employees to get the COVID shot or loose their job. I called them and let them know my family of 5 and extended family will no longer be buying anymore of their products due to them making said requirement.


Wife tried to get cheap dish soap. She now knows I lay dawn.

Lea &Perrins Worcestershire. Heinz ketchup are a few more

Tillamook
Dairygold

Quality dairy, produce, and meats were scarce in in the stores here until the early 1980’s.

Cedar Valley string cheese

Old Wisconsin sausages

Dawn or Mrs. Meyers dish soap
Frank's hot sauce
Brand name soda (I like various brands [Mountain Dew, Crush, A&W], just not the cheap stuff).

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Stiletto framing hammer is what I use. I won't say it's the best but it's what I have.

Half horse hair!!! Lmao

A&E milk.

And to go with Skippy, Welch's grape jelly!

Have worn Danner boots for about 40 years,
Costco TP made in the same mill as Charmin I trap at the mill.
Milwaukee cordless tools once you start buying battery’s stay with that brand

wws

John Deere.

Pepsi for me.......

Belisle
MTP MB750 s
Coke
Cascade
Heinz
Kraft Mac 'n Cheese

Chevrolet.

Head& Shoulders. No, wait. I'm bald.
Colgate toothpaste. Scratch that. Lost most my teeth.
Grain Belt Premium.
Jim Beam.
Tabasco sauce.

So many of you are answering Heinz. I guess I take it for granted! Of course I would never buy any other brand; being so close to Pittsburgh!!!!
I don’t even know why local grocers carry any other brands!!!

Trojan was always my favorite

GMC

Best 3 Teas:
1. Red Diamond
2. Canes
3. Lipton

Toyota
Kirkland brand coffee, even though I don't like Costco. Yuban if I must substitute.
Boots I buy quality but several different brands. Danner isn't one of them, never had a pair of Tanner that lasted six months.
Skidoo

Ariat, TSC, and B & W trailer hitches ( the turn over goose neck ball is the bomb). Gotta support our sponsors especially the ones who sell the best products in their class.

No ketchup from John Kerry's wife for this guy.

Must not be a lot on here that know "dawn soap" is a company that contributes to the AR groups.
The baby seal that may not be onthe product anymore was a starting
for that.
Sort of like contacting to fight the antics then voting for them.

Was a big Wolverine boot fan until they changed their products to cheap imported junk or overpriced with not much in between. Local farm supply store had crazy days every year and sold Wolverine line boots cheap I’d pick up a pair or 2 and squirrel them away until needed.

Was big on LaCrosse rubber boot until they went overseas and started producing expensive junk with cheap materials and paper thin liners the price never went down just up, up and up. That wet suit material is not barbwire friendly out here.

Kogels & Vernors

All the class I expect on T man

Crown Royal or Everclear.gotta go to Wisconsin to get the good stuff

Hoppes

Brylcreme when I had hair to use it.
No name brand foods, we canned, processed, and froze everything.
Jiffy Peanut butter, crunchy!
Once working in the woods: Chippewa boots made in Chippewa Falls WI.
Dolly Madison milk, delivered to your door.

Hunts for me because it just tastes better. I'm not really a brand loyal guy.

There is no Jiffy. It's Jif......it's the Mandela effect that makes you think it was jiffy.

Pepsi, S&W, Browning, Marlin, Remington, RCBS, Mec, Korean cable, MB traps, Belisle, Toyota, Milk-bone, Ruger, native made cigarettes, not picky about what I eat.

I use that on hamburgers the other has HFC syrup.

Pet evaporated milk for coffee creamer.

Leopold
Helly Hansen
Yamaha
Toyota
Honda
Trump

Harley Davidson
Ruger
Stihl
Chevrolet

Arrow shirts!

Redwing work boots. The two models I buy are still made in America although many of their boots no longer are.

Tundra's made in Texas.

ACME made in U.S.A. Pig Castraters

Hogslat has an interesting looking hog castration system. I don't have pigs but I noticed it in the catalog.

Rocky boots were made in Ohio and awesome, I had a pair of bear claws last me 8 years of very heavy usage. Bought a replacement and found out they went over seas and they were no where near as comfortable and
lasted 2 years. Won't buy again. Like muck boots. Levis because they guarantee them and they're the only jeans that fit me right and real comfortable but I know. Also love Sitka and Yeti products.

Only brand we buy and it has to be the Crunchy, not the Creamy.

carhart heinz great value aka Walmart food tide Skippy Ford and Harley davidson

Marlboro, Copenhagen, Trojan, and Pabst Blue Ribbon