PRODUCT REVIEW - Jam Dunk

This is another no brainer that was confirmed to me after over hearing a conversation on the train a few nights ago between two 80-90 year old ladies whom I can only imagine to be two of the sweetest old ladies on the planet.  I apologise to the two of them for eavesdropping.

The conversation went something along the lines of this (names may have been changed to protect identities).

“I popped in to Jeanie’s the other day for coffee and after she popped out the back and came out with a little Christmas present for me.  She is good Jeanie, very organised and must have little gifts packed away for people she doesn’t expect to see around Christmas on occasions like these, very sweet of her”.

“It was only a jar of Cottee’s jam but still a really nice thought, I told her there was  no need to be giving me presents and she fogged it off saying it’s only little”.

This is where things got interesting and when I nearly turned to give the dear old lady a high five and congratulate her for still having all her faculties about her at her tender old age.  The conversation continued with her friend listening intently, nodding and agreeing.

“The only thing is Glenda, I don’t eat Cottee’s jam, I much prefer the home brand type as I find it tastier and it has a lot more fruit in it, Cottee’s seems to just be all jelly.  I’m not sure what I am going to do with it.  Still it is a nice thought, but I will most likely give it away”.

This old dear is spot on.  For an old fashioned jam, rustic, full of chunky fruit pieces and bursting with flavour it is Home Brand all the way.  If you prefer a smoother jelly like substance, well I don’t understand you, but I know an old lady who has a spare jar of Cottee’s and I can pass on your number.

Just to stick the final nail in the coffin of Cottee’s let’s look at price.  The Woolworths website has a 500g jar of Cottee’s Conserve (It’s not even called jam) for a price of $3.54 (or $0.71 per 100g) where the Home Brand Jam retails at $1.54 for a 500g jar (or $0.30 per 100g).  You don’t have to be Einstein to work out which one I’ll be taking off the shelf, Home Brand all the way.

A quick thank you to the two old ladies for confirming what I had known all along, and making this product review a little more interesting than it may have been!

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