I compared 3 cheap pasta sauces and a $1.89 can won by a mile
Did a blind taste test last night with my roommate using plain spaghetti, tried Rao's, Prego, and the generic store brand from Kroger. The generic had more tomato flavor and less sugar, and my roommate guessed it was the fancy one. Anyone else find the cheap stuff sometimes beats the name brands for certain dishes?
Tasting them side by side over plain spaghetti is the key thing though. Most people just slather sauce on a frozen pizza or dump it in a crockpot with meat, so cheap and sweet hides everything. Once you strip it down to just noodles, the generic stuff has nowhere to hide, and apparently it shows up the fancy jars.