Funny Names for Store Brand Products

[weinoo]

Face it, at one time or another, we have all bought that store brand product in lieu of the often much higher-priced real stuff. I confess - I do, especially when it's half the price and the "imitation" isn't half bad. I think we've come a long way from the days when you might have found 2 giant peas in that can of Safeway peas (not that I ever bought canned peas, mind you).

But what interests me is the names that the marketers come up with for some of these products. Sometimes, they just crack me up.

For instance, I recently purchased generic Triscuits at a store called Harris Teeter, which is a chain of almost 200 stores (pretty good grocery stores, I might add), with headquarters in North Carolina.

Anyway, the generics are called Weav-its, and they're pretty darn good. Anyone else have anything with a funny or weird name in their cupboard?

[rooftop1000]

Most store brand breakfast cereals have great names like Fruity Floats for Froot Loops. Not that Froot Loops isn't weird to begin with

tracey

[Moopheus]

My wife and I had a good laugh the first time we saw a cereal labeled "Crispy Hexagons."

[MaryMc]

Back in the late 70's/early 80s, when generic products were new and all the rage, Ralph's markets in southern California had a whole line of PlainWrap products. They were all packaged and labeled very simply, in basic white with a blue stripe and the name of the product in large block letters. The line included a PlainWrap greeting card labeled simply "CARD," a white PlainWrap t-shirt that read "SHIRT," and a white PlainWrap teddy bear with "BEAR" printed across his chest.