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Originally Posted by Manny Laureano Jim,
I tried... I REALLY tried to like the Malt O' Meal cereals but I just couldn't do it! It was their Cheerios style cereal that drove me back screaming to General Mills forever! The recipes can't be the same. Something's different.
And dishwashing liquid... there's another one. I wound up using twice the amount of the name brand stuff so I spent more in the end! Yikes.
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Not being a Cheerio lover, you may be right. The "Capt Crunch" version is quite good. Now, I must let you know that I am allergic to milk, so I eat cereal rarely and when I do it is dry.
Dishwashing liquid is another product that has yet to come up to the same level. Window cleaner too. But you would be surprised how many of the generic brands are made by the original manufacturers for less. That way they keep the market. Sometimes it is the same stuff in a different package.
Sometimes, it is not.
There was a big news story in Colorado about 7 years ago when I lived there. A chain of gas stations was selling "regular, mid-grade and premium" gas. They only had one underground tank
come to find out, they just filled the tank with premium gas and you choose what price to pay. People screamed "false advertising" and "fraud". But alas, they were giving a better product than advertised -- so they were not in any trouble ... but people got mad because they spent 30 cents a gallon more thinking they were getting something for their money and the regular was the same stuff.
This discussion could go one forever. Like Tom Turner said, most of today's modern trumpets are a copy of the F. Besson in some way. That, is probably true and is what makes competition work. Even if you don't like "Malt-O-Meal" the pressure they apply keeps the brand names from gouging the prices. Same is true about the Mac and Cheese, ad nauseam.
Jim