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There are some American companies that have/had different brand names for some of their products on the east or west coast. Usually, the Rockies were the dividing line. For example,

Butternut bread/Webers
Hellmann's/Best Foods
Chandler's shoes/Leeds

My question is about Domino sugar. Do you remember Domino sugar marketed as Spreckler's(?) out west. I do. I remember seeing it in stores in California. But when I went to their website to confirm it there was no mention of it. I should also mention that Domino sugar, like so many other iconic brands, has been bought by another company. Could you shed some light on this. Thanks.
 
Oooh, I know a couple more:

McCormick/Schilling

Chicken of the Sea/Willapoint (oysters, not tuna.)

It's amazing what one remembers from reading old Family Circle magazines.

veg
 
I second that veg

You're right. I forgot about McCormick/Schilling. That's a good one. Why do they have two brand names for the same products anyway? Have always been curious about that. Veg, your Oooh reminds me of Horshack on "Welcome Back Kotter". LOL
 
There's a brand of ice cream that uses two different, region-specific names; Is it Breyers/Edy's, maybe? I'll have to check on that...

I've always thought that was an odd thing to do, too. You'd think in today's streamlined corporate structures it would be easier to use a single name throughout the country.
 
Yep...

My friends in SF have "Dreyers" brand instead of "Edy's", but the flavors are the same.

In Montreal, "Breyer's" ice cream is called "Que Bon"!

(If only they could make it taste better....)
 
OK, I have seen plenty of "Spreckels" sugar out here. There is/was a sugar refinery in Crockett, always it was called the Spreckels refinery. I was under the impression that Spreckels was a family operation; maybe it was bought by Domino?

In Berkeley there was (maybe still is) one of the original Edy's restaurants - the ice cream was always good. I think I ate there once, when I was a student... in general I couldn't afford it and after I graduated and got a job I wasn't interested in eating there (old folks food).

Yes, it's Best Foods out here.
 
we have a bit of this too in AU:

dishwashing liquid: Sunlight = Velvet

tea: Robur = Lion

Fizzy drink: Kirks = Marchants

Also we have a few regional differences for the generic names:

In some states, anything using the terms Milk and Butter had to be the real dairy item made from cow's milk. So in Western Australia and (I think) South Australia, "peanut butter" used to be called "peanut paste", though I don't think that is the case any more.
Also almost every state (and even regions within states) has its own word for the junk sandwich meat product: Polony, Strass, Devon, Fritz, Baron sausage, Belgian Sausage, Byron Sausage, Pork German, Round Meat, Wheel Meat, Empire, Windsor or Bung Fritz. That's a lot of variation for a country with 7 states. I think in USA it is called Bologna or Baloney.

Chris.
 

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