Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎆🎇🍻 Tuesday, 31 December, 2024

• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Was it really that bad? I recognise the packaging but I’m a bit young to fully remember the food

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  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably not. But it’s not a literal “These fireworks are from Franklins” it’s just the implication. Franklins was a budget shopping centre in comparison to Woolies or Coles.

    Where those guys would sell the name brand stuff, the draw of going to Franklins was for cheaper no-name brand (Franklins brand!)

    Like Black & Gold or Savings. You knew you were eating the knock-off Tim Tams.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know! Fireworks definitely weren’t sold there. It’s simply shorthand for ‘bargain bin crap’.

      I just do remember the packaging of the No Frills brand food but not what it tasted like. If it was bad

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      • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not necessarily bad. But back in the day there was an obvious discrepancy between home brands and name brands.

        The chocolate didn’t taste quite right, the wafers tasted like 90% cardboard instead of 60%, the orange juice seemed to be a lot more pulp.

        There was good reason it was cheaper, you knew you weren’t eating Arnott’s biscuits.

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      • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I used to buy film for my camera there. It was dirt cheap, like about $2-$3, and it was comparable in quality to any other film. Not quite as good as Kodak or Fuji, but not totally shit. It enables this impoverished MF to have a hobby lol.

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, it wasn’t in most cases, nor was Jewel if you recall that. Our family would go to Jewel first for cheap stuff like canned toms and beans, then to other places for stuff the difference was apparent in.

    Jewel catfood is possibly the origin of my aversion to most fish

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    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think most of the aversion was just stigma - shopping at the cheap stores meant you were poor. The products were pretty much the same as any home brand product.

      Jewel and Franklins were basically Aldi, except Aldi has copied the look of more expensive packaging and somehow convinced everyone that shopping at the cheap store is something to be proud of rather than being shameful. A combination of clever marketing and societal change.

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• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aren’t the vast majority of fireworks used here dodgy no name branded stuff? We don’t really have a particularly flourishing fireworks market, considering they’re heavily regulated compared to other parts of the world. Except the NT I guess, they probably have a better market since fireworks are legal to set off on territory day

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