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lastmod: "2021-05-21T18:23:48.0000000+01:00"
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title: Product comparisons
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author: patrick
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layout: page
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This page is an ongoing history of product comparisons, made informally but blindly.
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# Fig rolls
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Compared Boland with McVities, 2022-04-18.
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It was pretty obvious to me in the blind testing that the McVities ones were the big-brand ones, but Boland were much nicer.
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Tasted more of fig, and had less pastry around them.
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# Miso soup
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I'm still on a quest for the perfect miso soup; I remember one that was really great from my childhood, and I don't know which it was.
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Clearspring Organic Japanese Brown White miso soup is really insipid.
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Their "hearty red" tastes dark and kind of a bit unpleasant to me.
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Their "mellow white with tofu and green onions" seemed oddly vegetal on the first tasting, but on re-tasting seems good. One to compare with the others. Not mind-blowing.
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Their "instant miso soup with sea vegetables" is a bit darker than the "mellow white", also perfectly adequate; should taste-test against the others. Not mind-blowing.
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## Clearspring Organic White Miso Instant Soup Paste vs Itsu Miso'easy Traditional Miso
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These were quite different from each other.
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Itsu was powerful; Clearspring was subtle.
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Initially I thought that Itsu won by a country mile, but actually I could imagine a mood in which Clearspring wins; it's not totally clear cut.
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Itsu is still the victor.
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## Yutaka
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This was actually pretty good, though I didn't have it in a comparison with any other.
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I'll buy this again.
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# Houmous
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A standard useful thing to have around when you need calories.
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If you want to push the boat out, Natoora Spring Herb Houmous is very nice but rather expensive.
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## Ocado own-brand vs Tesco own-brand
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There's no contest here.
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Ocado tastes of tahini; Tesco is just a bit insipid.
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Ocado is the clear winner.
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# Baked beans
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Heinz beats Sainsbury's own brand by a country mile.
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It's not remotely close.
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Sainsbury's is sickly-sweet.
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Marks and Spencer beans are perfectly fine. I didn't try them side-by-side with Heinz, but I'd say they're just as good.
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# Meat replacements
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Beyond Burgers are pretty good, honestly, although they are much better when cooked correctly (i.e not overdone).
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Honest Burger on Tottenham Court Road did them well; Neat Burger also do them well.
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I was unable to tell the difference between Impossible (in Boston, 2020) and real meat.
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However, according to the person I was with, it was extremely obvious which was which.
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So your mileage probably will vary.
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# Tinned tuna
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Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Albacore tuna is really good: meaty chunks, not flakes.
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Similarly Waitrose own-brand tuna.
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Princes is clearly cheap and flaky.
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Marks and Spencer Tuna Steaks are somewhere in between - not as good as Waitrose or the Taste the Difference Sainsbury's, but much better than Princes.
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# Nutella
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The "cocoa" one is much less sweet, though I'm not sure I'd call the taste "chocolate" - it just tastes less nutty.
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I think I prefer the normal one.
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# Tinned tomatoes
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Marks and Spencer own-brand are, bizarrely, not very full of tomatoes. I tried making the Dishoom Chicken Ruby recipe with them and it took an extra tin again from when I made the same thing with Waitrose own-brand.
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