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What is a product that you won’t accept a generic alternative for? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, if you insist on buying Advil instead of store brand ibuprofen. I mean, you’d be wasting your money in that example, but you do you

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[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Tempo. Every other tissue I tried messes up the whole laundry, if I missed only one pant pocket.

[-] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Old Bay seasoning
batteries (when I have to use disposables)
Command hooks

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[-] Rocky60@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Cottage Cheese. Prairie Farms is my go to

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[-] Pistcow@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Condoms

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[-] Cryan24@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Redbull.

[-] kyden@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Heinz ketchup, Hellman’s Mayonnaise, Coca Cola, Western Digital hard drives back when platters were a thing.

[-] rainynight65@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I always preferred Seagate spinning steel over Western Digital. I've had some WD drives fail horribly, unexpectedly and very prematurely on me. My PC today still has some Seagate HDDs in it that are approaching 15 years of age.

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[-] almightyGreek@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Greek yogurt

[-] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Fage and only Fage.

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[-] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Used to be Heinz but now they've replaced tomato with more brown sugar or something so it tastes bland.

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this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023

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