Can You Really Tell The Difference? (Asda Smart Price Sweetcorn)

Member Name: sdean

Product:	Asda Smart Price Sweetcorn
Date:	10/08/09 (53 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cheaper by far of other tinned sweetcorn, not as soggy as frozen

Disadvantages: packaging

My attack on the shopping list is in full swing, I have tried and tested various brands and stuck with a lot of smart price and value items. Another one I have stuck with is Smart Price Sweetcorn from ASDA. Dressed in an ordinary tin can with a green and white label, it proudly declares it is a cheap brand.

Who cares eh, it's only sweetcorn.

Usually used for salads and pasta dishes this tin lasts me 2 days and at around 30p a tin (prices fluctuates from time to time by a few pence) and it is an excellent buy, especially when its competitors charge double or more for the same product.

The clear difference on the tin is, of course the sexy label, the advertising campaign and children wondering if they will grow up to be Green Giants. Of course if you are what you eat, children who eat this will grow up to be savvy shoppers not led by expensive and unnecessary advertising campaigns. The other difference is that there wasn't enough in the budget to give you a ring pull top, it's doing it the old fashioned way with a tin opener I'm afraid.
But since opening a tin takes a ordinary person of average strength 10 seconds or much less, I generally don't mind using my muscles to open a tin and generally saving lots of money at the same time.

Opening the tin, it looks like sweetcorn, nothing hideous or green is growing inside and the only addition is slightly salted water which can be drained or left with the sweetcorn if you are heating it up.


***The Taste Test***
It's a vegetable, it tastes like sweetcorn and it looks like sweetcorn. The salted water has not detracted from the slightly sweet taste of the corn. I have recently tasted frozen sweetcorn which tastes a lot more watery than this type and will carry on buying this brand as I can see no real benefit from eating this to big brands.

Summary: Really great!