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Here we refer to generic brands as "no-name brands". However, the major store chains actually have a No-Name© brand, complete with copyright symbol! One has blue packaging with yellow letters, another has yellow packaging with black letters. Then there is usually a "store-brand" which usually has nicer packaging, is substantially better quality than the no-name brand, but is still a good bit cheaper than brand-name stuff. My dad used to always buy no-name butterscotch ripple ice cream, which was mostly vanilla with some badly crystallized butterscotch streaks. We fondly referred to it as "butter-sh#$ ripple ice cream"... 
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Couldn't have said it better myself.
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"Butterscotch"
There's an interesting word. Compare with "caramel". In making candy starting just with cane sugar and water, heating it until some water is driven off causing temperature to rise, the color darkens progressively and the flavor changes. It shouldn't actually "scorch". So is "scotch" a euphemism for "scorch"? Of course in the candy butter and other things may be added.
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I am resisting Dr. bill's opening-- i am not going to digress into candy making-- but just now looking at the word caramel-- cara (heart -- in latin --or close enough) and mel (an interesting root that goes back to indo/europian--for sweet/honey/honeybees, as in d. melitis, or melody (sweet sounds) caramel's are "heart sweets"(sweethearts?)
and they are different substantualy from butterscotches-- if nothing else, once is a hard candy, the other a soft taffy like one-- no, no, no, no food! not even sweet stuff!
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Dear of troy: But why "scotch"? - nothing to do with Scotland, and no dictionary definition of "scotch" fits.
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According to the AHD:
Alteration of butterscot : butter + scot, of unknown origin.
Lotta help, huh?
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Since "scot" is an antique word for tax, "butterscot" ought to mean a tax on butter. Which would have a disagreeable taste, not a pleasant one.
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"butterscot" ought to mean a tax on butter
Yeah, and underwhelm *ought to mean undercut.
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"Underwhelm" under cuts the mustard.
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Couldn't have said it better myselfSaid what, Faldage?...Please enlighten me, I've drawn a blank. 
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