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Once upon a time in England we had “No Frills” which was basically exactly that
remember when Tesco products were white packages with blue stripes?
When I was poor and unemployed in the distant past, I sustained myself on Tesco value pasta at 13p a bag.
I remember their orange juice being so thick and rich for something like 30p per litre. The richer parents bought the brands with pulp
I still stand by their Finest range of orange juice with pulp. Everyone else’s is shit.
Now they dress it up with fake farm and deli names. “Creamfields”, “Hearty Food Co”, “Boswell Farms”. I am not fooled!
Canada still has No Frills, at least In British Columbia. They essentially get the leftovers the big-box stores don’t want.
No Frills in Ontario too
This is a thingThere’s a beer made in New Zealand, by garage project, called Beer. The cans look very similar to those products.
Pretty sure we’ve got it in USA too, I think I’ve seen billboards for it recently.
What is this, the Oldest House?
two spots for pistachios is positively scrumptious
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Are you more excited for the show or the game sequel?
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The track record is getting good, though. Fallout and Last of Us nailed it. Cyberpunk and Arcane were pretty awesome, too. Maybe they’ve figured out the formula
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You should watch Arcane for a lot of reason, but just the visual and art is enough in itself.
At the very least watch Cyberpunk. It’s magnificent. But I think it helps that the setting and themes have never just been gaming-centric and the show isn’t actually based on the most recent game.
Thanks of reminding me of the awesome premise of the Oldest House.
“Better not bring any unnecessary cultural artifacts into the reality shifting place, so that whatever is in here doesn’t have anything to latch onto.”
Cut to me bringing in a copy of budokai 3 so the oldest house makes goku real.
I am still waiting for an online store that can sell me a no brand/ no label high quality tshirt in any of the basic colors and cuts and fabrics
Absolutely!
Probably need to post your country/region. Many of the better online stores are regional.
For Germany, grundstoff.net has a good selection. They seem to ship all over Europe, but the webpage is only German…
Most of my shirts are solid color crew neck from fresh clean threads. Check them out online.
Just go to any store and buy something from gildan
Uniqlo or American apparel? I go for the former more these days for pretty high quality basics with various colours and materials
Really? I heard such good things about uniglo, but was a little dissapointed when i went in. It seemed to be all shades of white and grey, black, and some greenish earth tones. Not saying i didnt buy a couple things cause they do have some nice stuff, and basics for work or simple wardrobe.
But you like them for color variety? Ill hafta look around more next time.
Yeah, I’ve probably got about 10 of their airism tees in all sorts of colours
If you see stuff like that you’re either at a military commissary, or No Frills.
Kwik Save used to do No Frills…is it still a thing somewhere?
xkcd did it in 2011 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/993:_Brand_Identity
would anyone actually like that? how am i supposed to know anything about a product if it’s just called “chips”?? what’s the flavor, texture, what does it look like?
maybe partially transparent packaging would be nice, though
Australia used to have a store called no frills
It was called Franklins, No Frills was their home brand
True, thanks for the correction.
Hmmm, I would buy the shit out of that aesthetic.
Yeah, no one could like that. Not like there is a whole set of us that basically live off the stuff or anything…
Australia has black & gold but it is a generic brand, mixed in with all the others.
We former colonies know how to make a sexy looking store brand.
I like the Canadian one better. If its going to be simple then be simple.
I’m assuming the contents are all unremarkable commodities.Interestingly I (and many others) have noticed that the no name (and other store brands) are often better then the “name” brand stuff.
For example I would say KD is worse then store brand, and the store brand crackers are waaaay better then the name brand now (they seem to now over toast them).
Perhaps they’re not as up to date with their enshitification.
I am unreasonably upset by the chips bag having a picture and a splash of non-yellow on it.
Yeah, that one is odd. Some have a band of colour though. I think its when there are flavours.
The US doesn’t seem to do this much to my irritation when I visited but pretty much every other country the crisps are colour-coded for flavour although there seems to be no international consistency on this.
For example at least in the UK blue means cheese and onion (and therefore disgusting), red means salt, green means salt and vinegar, and pink means prawn cocktail.
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I feel like they would end up charging more for this stuff than gets charged for name brand items.
wow, no LOST references here?
My wife texted me the above image earlier and, I kid you not, this is my reply:
Dharma branded Peanut Butter 😋
Literally watching Lost right now 😂
I was thinking of all of the stores in the movie Host.
Now I want pickles
If you grew up poor in America this is what government issued food stuffs looked like. They realized having this stuff was humiliating to the people that needed it and replaced it completely with snap cards you can use to buy whatever. Government cheese and peanut butter and milk were big staples.
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Oh god, oh fuck, this is like the dress again. It seems freaking golden to me
