Dollar General Snacks vs. The Real Thing
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- It's a matchup of Dollar General's Clover Valley vs. their name-brand counterparts. Can a blindfolded Matt tell the difference? Can he keep his winning streak alive? Why in the world is beef jerky so expensive?!?
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Jack links just filed a law suit lol
I was going to be upset if you didn't share where to get that tee shirt!
How many shirts do I have to buy to get you to do an episode where you rank nothing but pickle flavored products. Especially the jelly beans again. That was the best. Asking for everyone.
How often does the online store restock? They are out of the size I wanted to buy.
You should arrange a collab with Claire Saffitz of Dessert Person, she made a gourmet Zebra Cake in her last episode.
OMG!! We have to have the ULTIMATE Matt torture test... a Clover Valley vs Great Value Bless Your Rank! 🙏🙏
Make!
This!
Happen!
Fantastic idea!
Second this.
That was my first thought, we demand to see GV vs CV 😄😄
Yes! This!
Man, I had such a close call the other day!
I was out on my porch when someone tossed a DG bag from a car onto my lawn!
If not for my wife's fast actions we could have had one sprout up in our neighborhood!
Not all heroes wear capes!
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Belly laugh! 😁😁😁😁
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😂 thanks for a great laugh!🤣
"If I was going to throw you off, I'd miss two." **Misses two**
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Right!
😂 “THEIR GOOD AT OPENING STORES….after that they don’t care.” THAT statement couldn’t be any more true and hilarious.
Take the whole time store is open to stock up on their items. Lol
That’s a metaphor for another topic in the South, but I’ll be polite.
@@Phantomplasma430 Lol so true. “store debut is today” 30 minutes later “we’re opening for the first time ever!” …doors open. “ okay open those boxes and stock the shelves….oh and don’t bother leaving the boxes in the back the customers can dig through them when the shelves need stocking.”
@@CantankerousDave Thank you for being polite 😊
Same could be said about Starbucks.
Ya know, visiting rural Mississippi, I realize that Dollar General is a lifeline to people who would have to drive30 or 40 miles one way to Walmart.
It's the rural South's version of an inner city "food desert". Except that you will never find a true Southern home that doesn't have at least one more can of Clover Valley pork and beans somewhere in the corner of their pantry.
@@trplankowner3323I don’t have any cans of pork and beans in my pantry because I don’t like them. And I’m a true southern girl.
@@thejourney1369 Same here. I have pork and I have beans but they are separate. Last time I had pork and beans was likely when I was a teen.
@@santiagohills3997The two in my small sub 800 people town sell vegetables and some fruits.
In the previous small town I lived in, there were TWO dollar generals! Only about 5-7 minutes apart!!!
And there WAS a Wal-Mart betwixt the two...
“God moves in mysterious ways, but so do does dollar general” needs to be a tshirt.
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They open stores by where a DG bag flies.
This is the hard-hitting journalism that can make a real difference in my life
He'd better be careful with that journalism... we don't want him getting the CIA reward!
Tbh, DG has been very helpful to me. I have three cats but I can no longer carry a huge bag of cat food. They have the smaller bags at a reasonable price and the store is small enough that I'm not worn out just walking to get what I need.
I no longer eat much, so I also buy some snacks for myself so I have something quick if my BG drops and I get shaky weak. I know the Clover Valley woven wheats (Trisket) are good but how they messed up saltines is baffling.
I guess I'll pay the extra for snacks that taste good 😢
He’s basically the Walter Cronkite of the South
I had the same thought. I can see him winning a Pulitzer Prize in the future. Dan Rather could never!!!
I’m a food scientist and used to formulate private label cookies. This video was so validating! Good job to the product developers and factory workers!
I can’t say for every food product but at the Mayfield Milk we filled orders for GV, Dollar General, Trader Joe’s, etc exact same product.
Yep. The difference in cost was due to name brand recognition and marketing costs. I used to do a similar blind taste test with my economics class so that they could understand how those two things are included in the Product cost when it gets to market.
Call it “Bless Your Knockoff” 😂
Brilliant!
Man, when COVID hit, I started going to DG to avoid the crowds at the grocery store, and when I hit all the Clover Valley stuff, I was amazed with how good most of it is!
Same here.
The bit of your editor resetting the who wants to be a millionare theme every time you second guessed yourself was great
"I love beef jerky" This quote speaks to me on fundamental levels.
The off brand stuff has been getting better and better the last decade, and this is proof
In most cases off brand is better then name brand, Oreo being one of them.
No, the main brand is getting cheaper and cutting corners and quality, and that's what closing the gap more
Name brand's have been cutting back on just about everything because that's the only for them to keep growing their profits every year. Most store brand stuff are made by white label companies and they grow their profits by making comparable product with lower profit margins so the retailers can make better profit even at a lower price than name brand.
A lot of these foods are made in the same factory. The early 90s in my Home Ec class, we did a taste test between store brand and name brand foods(ice cream, bread, potato chips, etc). The store brand won 1/2 of the time.
My roommate was allergic to tree nuts (but not peanuts) and she could eat the MOM (malt-o-meal) cereals, but not honey nut cheerios because they used almonds. Sometimes "cheaper" is better.
The clover valley versions of girl scouts cookies are spot on copies
Can confirm. It's very good. The great value peanut butter cookies are very good too.
The company that makes the clover valley cookies is one of two companies that makes cookies for the girl scouts the other is keebler
True
I was looking for this comment!! I stopped buy Girl Scout cookies years ago after trying the clover lol
Aldi and Clover Valley girl scout cookie knockoffs are superior and they aren't bringing their daughters into the office to guilt me into buying them for a few weeks every year.
As someone who has been in the bakery nabisco uses to bake cookies, I can tell you that oreo, chip ahoy, publix, anx clover valley all run next to one another.
True but my ex worked briefly in a bacon packing plant and yes all the brands ran on the line but the house brands had the rejects from the name brands.
@@stormythelowcountrykitty7147 Maybe for meat, but nobody but the thrift store or the livestock feed companies get the less-than perfect product from a bakery. Sara Lee bakery veteran with 13+ years here. Some brands had different formulas, some just got repackaged, but it wasn’t always different.
@@stormythelowcountrykitty7147Feel like that's the key in a lot of these. Yeah, it's all made in the same building, but the building blocks/ratios/QC can be different. Smithfield might reject bacon that Kroger would accept. Oreo might use a better cocoa than Clover Valley.
I imagine they could be rejected for something as silly as weight of the cookie or the chip in the case of chocolates. But I do understand many places do have professional tasters (I dated one once) who can determine if one is different than the rest.
They aren't the same though. You can tell the less quality just by taste.
I love the ending with the ominous music. Very clever!
Now you've done it, Matt. DG is placing their beef jerky behind that plastic security gate, behind the register, and next to the Marlboros.
Yep, Marlboro's and the bathroom 🔑 with the anti-shoplifting tag attached! 😂
@@pgtrish But as of now, you don't have to deposit 25 cents to use the key like at Aldi's where you have to deposit 25 cents to use a shopping cart......
😂😂 "God moves in mysterious ways. And so does Dollar General.". Lol 🤣🤣
I love the editors for constantly trolling him
Today, we honor the heroes of our military personnel who have died while serving in the United States armed forces. Your courageous actions will forever be remembered with pride and reverence! God Bless all our military personnel and families.
Yes ma’am. Thank you for this. 🇺🇸🦅
Thank you for putting the honor where it needs to go. I get so tired of people "honoring veterans" today.
Dude, I'm alive. This one isn't for me.
@@brandisaine1907 my pleasure. The military holds a special place in my heart.
@robertwood7034 my pleasure. Agreed, it bugs me, too.
Indeed and Amen. My dad, husband, and 3 kids all came back. Just 1 silver star, no gold stars, thank God. ❤
I love getting the fake girl scout cookies there. Tastes the same just 1/2 the price
yeah, I missed the boat for that comparison video by a month. I'll tape one next year for y'all.
@@alostrich 😂I used to buy the DG cookies all the time, but I gave up junk food.
Those Thin Mints are legit
If the boxes aren't water damaged off the rolltainer that is
@@HoneyHollowHomesteadlike for forever? how do you do that? The best I can do is a thought out compromise. 🙃
Aldis Girl Scout cookies are good too
Matt is a good country boy. I trust him wholeheartedly. Also, I've been sleeping on Clover Valley, and I think I may need to check them out more. I'd drive down the road to DG right now, but I'm pretty sure there will be one across the street from me by tomorrow.
“God works in mysterious ways, but so does Dollar General.” I’d buy that t-shirt!!
"You're definitely gonna be eating some Clover Valley at VBS." Oh, man, that is one thing about VBS I remember...the damp basement, stale cookies, and watered-down knock-off Koolaid, lol! The other VBS memories were AMAZING, but I can think back to those snacks with a cringe 😂😂😣
The kool-aid, if it was orange, got donated from McDonald's and it is their HiC concentrate. The recommended amount of water makes it taste weak
@@candacebarlow9296 Lol, it was orange and ALWAYS tasted watered-down. I went to VBS in the 70's, so not sure if that was the case then (donated) or not but if so, I learned something new: thank you!
@@anglenawaller5322 VBS in the 80s and yes it was watered down. lol
When my kids were younger and still all living at home, I used to refill name brand containers with Clover Valley products.
I love that idea!
Mother of the Year!
That's evil lol
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Dollar General is considered an invasive species in Florida 😁
My county in GA too. Those and car washes.
And in Ohio, My town of 6K has two DG's on the same streeet.
Wow @@chadwahl9085
The nutria of “value” stores…
@@msbrandymoSame in Missouri, Dollar General stores, coffee shops & car washes everywhere & more being built in every town...I do buy some things at Dollar General taking advantage of their $5 off $25 coupon on Saturdays, but don't drink coffee and wash my vehicles at home.....
Clover Valley at VBS. That is so southern. I love it!
Dollar General prices their items cheaper, but you have to watch what they ring up for because they frequently ring up higher than what they were marked at.
And check the package sizes too. Always do the math, divide the price by the weight so you're getting an ounce to ounce comparison. For example, for the beef jerky it sounds like the clover valley is cheaper per ounce than the Jack Links in the small package, but if you get the family size package of Jack Link at another store that ends up being cheaper per ounce.
Be careful shopping at Korger too. Every time in the past year , when I have bought meats there that were on special or sale, the price rang up was NOT the sale price.
In my case the difference was 2-3 dollars . So double check you recipt.
That happened to me once before, but I was too assed to go back and let the cashier know.
Canned milk and sweetened condensed milk, Clover Valley and Milnot//Eagle Brand is made with the exact same recipe only the label is changed. My hubby used to work in the lab at Milnot before they closed the plant
I pulled off hwy 55 in southern MO for a sleep break and right in the middle of soybean fields was one lone Dollar General. I took a short nap and went inside. It felt like the Twilight Zone - clean, well organized, all new fixtures and a lovely, well dressed clerk with make up.
I think maybe angels were involved. 😮
"Theyre both, I believe, round..." 😂😂
I am a Northeasterner now living in the South. You have helped me make the adjustment.
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They just opened the second experimental Dollar General Marketplace right near us. It's actually quite nice... for now. They've added fresh foods, produce section and enlarged the frozen and cold foods. The prices are actually competitive . Better than any "convenience" store but not quite Aldi. We like it a lot.
There is a DG Market near me in central MO. I’ve never been to it though.
"His name was Matthew Mitchell." "His name was Matthew Mitchell."
CV is the same company that supplies the Girl Scouts with their cookies. Also I’ve noticed that CV’s knockoffs were established before the big brands started changing recipes. The CV canned cream soups are the same recipe as the old Campbells soups. Ppl swear Campbells hasn’t changed but they have. You can tell by this alone.
Oh very interesting!
They are one of two suppliers the girl scouts are also supplied by keebler
Matt is a National Treasure
Just remember, the dollar general brand is the knock off of the knock off
"God moves in mysterious ways, but so does Dollar General."😂
Oh gosh, gotta get that on a t shirt. And I LOVE the Hiss shirt !
You've got a fan in me, keep 'em coming!
pretty sure you're a bot but ok "Kenneth"
Danger, danger "Kenneth" Robinson! 😂😂😂😂
Proud to call Mesa AZ my home and we have a few DGs here. The closest one to me is located very fittingly on… Southern Ave. (!)
My dads a store manager and I swear this is the only food he brings home 😂
As a Key holder I can confirm this as I do too 😂😂😂😂😂
"Chocolate-Covered Communion" is the name of my next album.
What I remember about VBS snacks (I'm 54) were those little cookies that look like daisies with the hole in the middle, knockoff Oreos that were called Hydrox, and grape Koolaid that was undersweetened.
Hydrox was the original, believe it or not.
Clover Valley’s Corn Flakes cereal is better than brand name. If DG didn’t get nothing else right, they knocked it out the park with their corn flakes!
The Raisin Bran is better as well, a least in my opinion.
It's kind of hard to screw up Corn Flakes. Just saying. :-)
@@pugshorty9852I don’t know about that. Ever tried the bagged cereal version? 😂
In their defense their fake girl scout cookies are pretty decent. Your videos are always top notch and the best but I always feel bad for your stomach after 🤣
I am willing to risk breaking my neck over boxes in the aisle for some good, affordable Girl Scout cookie knockoffs. Last time I bought some Girl Scout cookies, they had to put me on a payment plan.
All of us in the Intermountain West need to have a mega-generics contest -- Clover Valley versus Chestnut Hill for the win!
I love the lightly burnt parts of the cheez-its!
What about "Oops! All Burnt!"
Same here. As well as lightly burnt parts of saltine crackers, pretzels, pepperoni, etc.
Those are my favorites!
I love the burnt cheez'it's especially the extra toasty cheddar jack.
@@EightPieceBox I've tried those... I think it's one of those things that are awesome in small quantities... I wasn't a fan of them. Actually, I think perfect would be a box of regular mixed with a box of all burnt! (Except then I'd probably still have them all eaten within 24 hours, and it'd be twice as big a binge...)
These videos make my day so much better! Thank ya, Matt! 😊
The $1 DG fake pop tarts taste like despair.
Is there any store brand pop tarts that taste good ? Even the pop tart brand itself has suffered a drop in quality recently. When I was a kid the store brand version was absolutely horrible, seems to have not changed much
@@davyboy9397 The DG ones are the only ones that I've tried. That only because they were out of real Pop Tarts and I needed a chocolate fix. I rarely get them anymore because the boxes have become so big and I just don't need a box of 150 Pop Tarts.
Full priced pop tarts also taste like despair.
@@ckarlgo, I'm pretty sure DG has multiple chocolate options over pop tarts.
In this economy I really appreciate these videos Matt, I haven’t had beef jerky in a while and it is missed, gonna have to try the Clover Valley version 🥳
big props to the editor at the end! 🤣
Need to do Clover Valley vs Girl Scouts. Their version of Thin Mints rock, and my wife likes the peanut butter chocolate cookies. And you can get them year round.
DG version of Samoas are a staple in our house!
I know this is about DG, but my eyes were opened to Great Value this past month after I bought some Keebler cookies. I had not had any Keebler cookies in several years, but they were not good. Just curious how those not-so-good Keebler cookies compared, I bought some Great Value equivalents. Wow. Now those were like what I remembered. I also bought some Great Value cookies that looked like the Girl Scout Somoas. I could not tell the difference! The brand name companies need to step it up a bit. I cannot speak for other brands, but Keebler seems to have crumbled.
True! I bought some Keebler cheeze crackers and they were awful compared to the Lance brand one.
OK, that outtro was priceless and hilarious!
If you knew your full-sized Fudge Stripes, you'd know they break apart at the slightest gust of wind.
Thanks for the smiles and laughter. And if I'm stuck in Dollar general at some point in my life I will try the beef jerky.
I'm of the mind that if you see someone stealing food (especially at DG), no you didn't. You didn't see anything. Only exception to this is the office fridge; you don't take someone else's meal.
Taking what is not yours is theft! You can sugar coat it but it’s theft. You can go to your local food bank if you’re hungry.
That ending though!!!! 😂 That was the best!!
A lot of times both products are made by the same factory and just packaged differently.
It absolutely was in the Milnot plant canned milk
I much prefer DG beef jerky over almost any other brand. The pieces tend to be smaller but thicker and less stringy.
This is hilarious! Now excuse me, I have to go to Dollar General. 🤣🤣🤣
A tummy ache from jerky, cheeze its, and cookies all in one sitting?
That's like a standard afternoon snack...
...or meal if i don't have a refrigerator.
So cute that Matt thinks the name brands are made in different factories than the off brands
Question purely for science: Did you buy the 'name brand' stuff AT Dollar General? Did you check the expiration dates?
Yes and yes
The ending was amazingly funny!
As always, enjoy your content.
Clover Valley makes our favorite version of cottage cheese out there. Haven't tried most of their other snack foods, but now we might need to.
Matt was fighting for his life in there. Now, I'm craving beef jerky. 😢
You got all 5 items at Dollar General for a total of $6.25....the package of Chips-Ahoy alone cost $5.98 at my local store LOL
The Hiss t-shirt 👌🏻😂
Came for the brand showdown, stayed for Matt slowly losing his sanity. 😂😂
The knockoff girl scout cookies they have is actually pretty good
Thank you for taking the stomach ache for me. I feel your pain. Well, not literally, of course, which is why I’m thanking you. 😊
Thank you Matt for risking your health by going into a Dollar General.
Also Oreos smell alone would be enough that I would know which one it was. And it has a distinctive taste😅😅 thanks cannot fake me out😅😅😅
Same!!
@@deshadixon928 the balance of chocolate and all those preservatives LOL. It has a distinctive smell there's also almost a vanilla smell to it pushed in with the chocolate.. which is weird because Oreos are supposed to be a direct knock off of Hydrox or whatever the hell it's called
@@deshadixon928 and yeah I know the things got vanilla which is probably what gives that smell. But I don't know it just smells like it's going to spike your blood sugar. You can just smell when something is really really sugary.
Holy cow..... Clover Valley has really been stepping up their game.
The General wins on Memorial Day.
Don't know who's doing your editing, but today, they knocked it out of the park!
Matt can’t afford an editor 🤣
Ok, I purposely made a trip to the DG while visiting in Florida from Montana! Bought the cheddar cheese snack cracker, fudge stripes, and CV beef jerky. He was right- they all taste pretty good. Good job Matt!!
Don't question the Clover Valley experience, Matt. Just enjoy it. 😄
Name idea for the show: Testing Knockoffs
the boxes cause a tripping hazard for when you get the itch to run. It gives the cashier enough time to get back to the register, if they are even in the store.
I don’t want to squeeze that dog toy they leave up at the register. Just hire two people per shift, DG!
I have worked at places that have two different packages for one production line. One ,name brand and one generic with no change-over other than package label.
Chocolate covered communion😂
I don't know about DG, But I drove a truck for WM for 20 years and you would be surprised how many products are picked up at the same place with different names. Another fun fact, I drove for Little Debbie for 10 years and we used to pick up honey buns from Flowers bakery, Pecan cups from some small bakery in Atl and various others from different places. LD made Nutty Bars for Frito Lay. Basically anything containing yeast wasn't made by Little Debbie. That was in the 90's, things have changed.
The ending=LOL!
“I would get two wrong to throw you off”
*proceeds to get two wrong*
I discovered that Dollar General and Family Dollar both carry the "Clover Valley" brand...but the catch is they sell their better quality stuff at Dollar General. Two off the top of my head are bottled lemon juice, and Parmesan Cheese.
For every 1 you get wrong, they open another store....on your street.
Glad to see you back in Dorothy Kilgallen's eye mask! I'm really loving this series.
12:59 LoL "Man, I wanna give Dollar General credit but I hate them."
I don't have a lot of experience with Dollar General, but I can say that Dollar Tree sells a number of knockoffs of snack foods that make MREs look mighty tasty.
They sell things that look really delicious until you get it in your mouth---then it's all mmmmm, I wish I had some crunchy dehydrated fruit cocktail right now!!!
the clover valley offbrand girl scout cookies are so good
Nature does, in fact, "love to throw boxes everywhere."
That was fun! Can't wait for more!
Hilarious edit at the end! 👏
The eye mask with closed eye is killing me! 😂😂😂
You haven't had beef jerky until you have Old Trapper! Jack Links doesn't do it for me!😂
New subscriber here, you are hecka funny! We’re moving to the South soon, and love the info you’re giving me. Thanks!