Kids: *Happily eating substitution*
You: *Reveal the trick*
Kids: "Well now we're not eating it anymore" (and also they could supposedly tell something was off all along)
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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Tootie fruities are just flat out better tha Froot Loops. Fight me.
Malt o meal is just better in general. The Colossal Berry Crunch is better than Cap'n Crunch too. And you can buy the giant bag that lasts forever.
I like that crispix cereal but it's fucking expensive. I wish maltomeal made a version of it.
cereal is cereal, mostly
My parents mixing the expensive cat food with the cheap cat food: ⬆️
Yeah they tossed the marshmallow mateys in with my lucky charms too
The price difference was huge not long ago. Now it's much closer and everything is overpriced severely.
That's not a "back in my day" thing either, do the math on it and where it should be from inflation and where it's at from gouging are not even close.
Since covid manufacturers basically just started colluding across the board to fix prices. Every government around the world has utterly failed at holding them accountable
I usually buy the cheap Fruity Pebbles for my kids, but Walmart has out of them one day so I got the name brand as a treat. Their response? "Dad, please don't buy those again. Dyno Bites are better." I was flabbergasted.
Then again, they don't see cereal ads, don't know who the Flintstones are, but love dinosaurs.
I think you imprint on things as a kid and don't like change. I definitely had my preferred after school snacks and even different brands just felt wrong.
For example, I loved the shitty school pizzas, even though they were a culinary abortion.
culinary abortion
your loss is our sauce
Swiss rolls > ho hos
Growing up I watched all the cereal ads and I still preferred the Dyno Bites. There's so much crap added to the "big brand" cereals. It's like eating sugar. It must be overwhelming for them trying those after being used to Dyno Bites.
Strange, from memory it was the exact opposite. The brand names actually had decent flavor/texture, while the off-brands had humongous amounts of sugar, to the point where you actually taste the sugar rather than it just sweetening the overall flavor.
My guess is that the brand names got stuck from their own popularity. People knew what they tasted like and might have reacted badly if they tried to tweak the recipe, whereas the budget brands were easier to either change or even discontinue and replace with slightly different branding. People were buying them for the price, not the recipe.
And then, after enough experimentation, they were able to figure out something that matched or surpassed the brand names.
In Canada, there's the PC brand that I always considered a budget brand. Until I worked at an ice cream factory that had their own premium brand but also made some PC flavours. The PC ones looked better than the factory brand ones. The factory did things the old way (where ice cream flavours were still more about the ice cream than extras added) while PC focused more on the extras like cookie dough or chocolate caramel cups. I can only speak for myself, but I'm more into the extras than the ice cream itself, so it felt like PC was more in tune with what I wanted than the premium brand.
Additionally, the premium brand sticking with the less preferred recipe kinda feels pretentious at this point, like they are being ice cream purists or think they know better about what people want, given the higher price.
PC also had their versions of various pop flavours that have colouring on the boxes to make it clear what they were cloning and their Pepsi cola clone was just as good as the real thing but way cheaper.
If true, that was 10 year old me arguing and I do not stand by anything he says 😂
But really, that hasn't been my experience with some of them, but it would make sense if the off brands stay pretty close to the big brands in recipes or added more sugar to compete that way. I guess I'm trying to find logic in preference. I'm realizing how little I know about cereals.
My mother did this with coco pops for years and my sister didn't realise until her twenties when she caught her in the act
Your sister was still being served cereal bought by her parents in her twenties?
She really gotta have her Pops. (jaws notes)
And her insulin.
Forget the kids, don't let Meemaw find out!
don’t let Meemaw find out!
lol they learned the trick from Meemaw!
Mines are still open, chimney's need sweeping, Looms need resetting you want name brand go earn it
My mom used to cut our honey nut tasteeos with regular tasteeos.
Like a 3 parts regular to 1 party honey nut cut.
can someone explain the difference between the two ?
There is none, but kids are picky and want expensive name brands because pretty images
It shows you the power of branding. I remember that there was a study where kids were given a regular hamburger in a McDonald's wrapper and the same hamburger by itself and kids overwhelming said McDonald's tasted better.
I think they even replicated the experiment where the McDonald's hamburger was unwrapped and kids still preferred the McDonald's wrapped burger.
Or how people tend to prefer Pepsi in blind tests (I think it's sweeter or something, if i remember correctly) but overwhelmingly chose CocaCola if given the choice.
That big bag costs less than the little box.
That used to be universally true. Is it still? I think the last time I looked at the bag about 7 years ago it was just about on par with the price per oz of the name brand. The store brand in the box (as opposed to the name brand in the box) is still cheaper though.
10 years ago I ate a lot of bulk bagged cereal. at the time even some of the 'natural/organic' brands were cheaper by weight. I stopped when it became about the same and I was also sick of cereal. probably close to 7 years ago like you said.
It's definitely still true in Central Europe
The box is a name brand cereal. The bag is a copycat store brand cereal that's cheaper.
Malt-o-meal is also a name brand rather than a store brand. Just less well known than Kellogg or General Mills.
Those are the same product..
... Obviously you don't have kids
Yup, but they are made in the same factory