AIBU to think Heinz is poor value and overrated?

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I’m wondering if those people who ‘have’ to have Heinz Tomato Ketchup, Heinz Baked Beans, Heinz soups, Heinz salad cream etc. Have never tried other brands including supermarket own lines?

Heinz is a brand which is a rip off and products don’t taste nice or have some weird texture.

I have no Heinz products at all in my home.

One of my friends’ DH used to be ‘everything has to be Heinz’. My friend got fed up with the rip off prices and bought the supermarket own. Then one day, she and DH had beans on toast for lunch. He said the beans are very nice and nicer than before. She confessed that the beans were Aldi’s own. Plus could buy almost 4 cans for the price of 1 Heinz can.

I buy their beans and vegan sausages as, AFAIK, it’s the only brand that offers such a product. I tend to buy them when on offer, usually with the beans and pork sausages for DH. He likes those because of nostalgia really, it’s a taste that reminds him of childhood.

I quite like their pasta sauces but have switched to Mutti recently as the kids seem to prefer it.

I thought the stacking thing was just me!

Was it really worth questioning someone starting a thread?

I’ve just googled why and it’s actually done like that on purpose as a marketing thing to get more space and be noticed more on supermarket shelves apparently.

Yes, I’m very bored to have googled that. 😂

I have worked for a supermarket and when we had to dress the shelves - we had to get tins of Heinz from the back and keep the SRP (shelf ready packaging, the cardboard tray) to make it look full. The other brands we didn't need the SRP.

You joke but I visit a lot of food factories for work. I don't know specifically if Heinz make for other brands but its more likely that another company makes the own brand stuff.

They often have different quality control procedures depending on retailers, eg Tesco value is subjected to less rigorous checks than M&S. An example of this would be cherry bakewell, M&S the cherry has to be in the middle and the right way up but it gets thrown on any old how for the Tesco value version.

I've never liked most Heinz products and we generally get our shopping from mostly Aldi but some things from M&S. We don’t use ketchup but like Aldi brown sauce. We generally get beans, soup and tinned tomatoes from M&S, theirs are excellent and much cheaper than Heinz. I like most Aldi things but tried their canned beans and soup years ago and didn't like them.

However Heinz pasta sauce is very good and not UPF, we stock up on that when its on offer.

Yes I knew this was a conscious decision they had made. They don't want shops to stack the cans as they feel it cheapens the brand. Well being able to stack them would make it much easier for me and my small kitchen. They should think about what the consumer wants.

I haven't had baked beans for ages but we all prefer Lidl tomato soup to Heinz.

Heinz mayonnaise is the one I like best.

Mixed bag for me. The ketchup stands up well - tbh I don't notice a difference with supermarket own brand but DH does. Beans - I prefer Branston. Heinz went rubbish about ten years ago. Smaller beans, more watery. I get supermarket own brand mayonnaise. Just trying their sriracha mayo but it's not all that. I don't buy tinned soup.

I tried to fool my DS with non Heinz beans when he was little and he could always tell.

In the UK, yes. It’s clearly quite contentious to call a big brand like Heinz out! I personally still rate their ketchup above home brand versions but agree regarding beans and soup. My DS loves tomato soup but particularly Tesco’s, he isn’t keen on Heinz. I used to be a bean snob years ago because home brand beans were genuinely awful but I think Aldi changed the game.

I think Asda beans are the best.

Heinz products seemed very dry dependent on salt and sugar for their flavour, and since manufacturers were urged to cut back, their product does not taste as good.

We eat loads of beans. Branston definitely our favourite. Not the cheapest but the best. I’m quite anti brand as I hate being ripped off by marketers.
But I will admit to being illogical because I buy lots of stuff from M&S because the packaging is attractive. All my cleaning products are from there as I love the quiet understated labels.
A few glass jars of M&S soup are also so much more inviting than garish tins 😁

I think one of the reasons people have historically preferred Heinz is because people grew up eating their products and they were associated with nostalgia and childhood memories. But I think the brand will continue to lose its value as less people are growing up eating Heinz because the products have become increasingly overpriced over the years.

Obviously I can do what you suggest with a large tin and have done occasionally. I happen to prefer the small tins.

And yet 4 minutes later, you disagreed with someone (shocker!) about beans.

You’re like the moody kid at a party who has to be cajoled to join in … but you get there eventually! 😁

I never buy the soup. My home made soup is much nicer.

we’ve started making our own baked beans.

I do buy the ketchup for DC and the mayonnaise.

I also think their newish pasta sauces are quite good. Relatively unprocessed.

I buy their beans and vegan sausages as, AFAIK, it’s the only brand that offers such a product. The vegan sausages are crap.

@JMSA , they had a yellow sticker. The can looked so promising. The contents were disappointing. I usually put chilli sauce on my beans anyway.

Yabu.

Tinned soup is rarely nice.

I like the Aldi own brand tomato soup, it tastes like it actually has salt and sugar in still!

I prefer Heinz tomato ketchup and like their soup. Also the beans and vegan sausages are good but no one else does them. I prefer Branston beans and buy shops own spaghetti hoops!

We have no Heinz shite in our house. We make our own baked beans subs, homemade soup and mayo.

So far the only supermarket own brand item I’ve found that is as good as Heinz, is the Tesco tinned vegetable soup. Branston baked beans are as good as Heinz too. Ketchup is Heinz all the way. I’ve currently got some Daddies ketchup, just for a change, and it’s definitely not as good. I haven’t noticed Heinz going downhill.