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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAny one remember generic foods?
while back in school again during the mid '80 I pretty much lived on food from white boxes (usually mac and cheese), i think it was pre-ramen noodle.
I recent caught a rerun of Repo Man, and that is the thing that jumped out at me, i have not seen a white box/can in over 20 years.
I suspect they are all now store brands.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)i seem to remember seeing white cans with 'beer' printed across them in black letters at the grocery store when i was very little. but the memory is so hazy that i don't quite trust it.
Miserable dreck in my experience.
Riftaxe
(2,693 posts)but remember braiding can pull tabs?
or late 70's cutting off the panels of beer cans and and crocheting them into a hat...perhaps that was regional.
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)there nothing so amusing as seeing a 60 year old man wear an orange knitted cap with Coor's panels. and when they turned their heads the sun would reflect and blind everyone.
Riftaxe
(2,693 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,529 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)During the flood of '93, Anheuser-Busch donated drinking water for the sandbag volunteers. It was in a 12 oz. can and labeled the same generic way. Given a choice, I'd take the water.
sadbear
(4,340 posts)There was a discount grocery store in the town in which I grew up that sold nothing but the white, generic food. We shopped there quite often while it was in business.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)I remember buying it in high school once in a while - when desperation set in.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)Beer beer. It was pretty much the last stubby bottle, it had a brown label and the word BEER on it.
When we were young we'd buy a six pack of decent beer and then a case of beer beer. The idea was that after you've had a couple of good beers the shitty stuff would go down without too much of a fight.
olddots
(10,237 posts)along with swell 1/2 gallon jugs of vodka not that I knew anything about them .( yuh )
I miss that stuff it was better quality than some "name " brands are now
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Now, they're the store brands.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)yes they are all store brands now or in some cases the store's low cost brand, when they run parallel brands as they often do these days. In many cases stores will run 5 or more brand categories.
union_maid
(3,502 posts)They were cheaper than the store brands. They were a little scary.
It was all the rage for a couple years as I remember.
RobinA
(9,894 posts)generic drugs, often similar in quality to the generic food.
olddots
(10,237 posts)the pics of the beer with black labels was probably better than blue label as in Carling Black Label "Hey Mabel "
I think the big companies like Kroger & A&P made the stuff or distributed it . the bread was mighty bad.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Funny, but it hadn't occurred to me that I hadn't seen them in years. I had a roommate during college who would buy nothing but that sort of thing. Even the names of the products were generic: "Wheat Puffs" instead of Super Sugar Crisp cereal.
There was even a generic hamburger chain in black & white that were a McDonald's knock-off. The food wasn't that bad I thought, but I didn't want to look closely into the provenance of the meat...
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)Take that for what it's worth.
hunter
(38,327 posts)Incitatus
(5,317 posts)If you buy certain store brand items, canned/frozen veggies, bacon, cereal ,etc from two separate companies, you are possibly buying the exact same thing from the same manufacturer.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)And they're not as cheap as they used to be!