Any one remember generic foods?

[Riftaxe]

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]

1. did generic beer really exist?

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.

[Major Nikon]

2. Yes

Miserable dreck in my experience.

[Riftaxe]

4. I don't know about the generic beer

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]

6. oh yea

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]

10. I said "beer" cans....

[Arkansas Granny]

5. You remember correctly. I never tried any, but it did exist.

[pintobean]

7. Yes, and it was really bad.

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]

8. Yeah, that's the first thing I remember about the white generic containers.

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]

9. Yes, as well as Light Beer

I remember buying it in high school once in a while - when desperation set in.

[sharp_stick]

19. In Canada it was known as

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]

3. yes the blue stripe beer existed

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]

11. I remember them.

Now, they're the store brands.

[Sherman A1]

12. I do indeed recall them

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]

13. I remember them

They were cheaper than the store brands. They were a little scary.

[Paulie]

14. Yep!

It was all the rage for a couple years as I remember.

[RobinA]

15. Now We Have

generic drugs, often similar in quality to the generic food.

[olddots]

16. the generic food & beverages I remember had blue lables on white

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]

17. I do...

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]

18. IIRC, Pearl (Texas cheapo beer) was a major provider of plain label beer....

Take that for what it's worth.

[hunter]

20. Repo Man. A can of Food.

[Incitatus]

21. Yes, they're store brands.

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]

22. They have the names of the stores, but I still call them generic.

And they're not as cheap as they used to be!