LOL It is strange how we get all wrapped up in one brand or another. Many years ago I had an awakening when I managed the receiving, storage, freezing and prep of vegetables for a canning plant. They processed 26 different items but we put over 600 labels on them. The labeling line could be running Aunt Lydia’s Lima Beans and 30 seconds later be running Libby’s or Van Kamp... As long as they made the grade, the label was just window dressing.
Same way with bleach - Wife always said Clorox was way better than that house brand - It took a long time to convince her that the sodium hypochlorite percentage was the same on both and water was the only other ingredient. She now checks the percentage and buys the cheapest.
I was going to tell you to call me if you had that auction but didn’t think it would be appropriate.
Back when I first started going with my wife, I worked days and she was working evenings at the hospital and lived only two blocks from it. So after I would get off work, I would go to her apartment and fix her dinner - she would come home for my meals and learned that I cooked better than she did. So, with the exception of the years when I was doing a lot of traveling, I have been the cook.
Absolutely nothing wrong with deer apples... Here we call them pick-outs and we use them for pie filling, apple sauce and apple jelly I did 3 cases of pie filling, 6 cases of apple sauce and 2 cases of half pints of apple jelly. Yum!
Hubby got the job of chief cook and bottle washer in a similar way. He had a small heating and plumbing business and back in the late sixies when we had an oil shortage and it was difficult for small businesses to get enough heating oil for their customers, he had a chance to sell out at a good profit while I needed to stay at my career job to assure a decent pension- he became Mr mom and liked the job, so when I retired I became the outdoor person splitting, stacking wood, weeding the garden etc. while he did the cooking and cleaning. One day, one of his buddies came while I was running the wood splitter and asked where hubby was and when I told him that he was in the house preparing dinner, he gave me the strangest look. As long as the coffe is ready every morning when I get up, I’ll let him keep the job. LOL