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Things to look out for in Lidl and Aldi

8115 said:
I'm not sure that Sainsburies etc higher prices is just naked profiteering.

It does bother me how cheap food is in Aldi/ Lidl. Is it just the "no frills no choice" model that means it's so cheap? For instance I'd be loath to buy meat there.
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Aldi and Lidl each have,Europe-wide, about 5 times as many outlets as the major British supermarket chains. This gives them the ability to contract farmers etc on fixed terms and fixed prices in a way that the British supermarkets avoid doing, plus they don't insist on "premium" (washed and size-sorted) veg.
As for their meat, the everyday stuff is no better nor worse than you'll find in a British supermarket (I bought a 3kg rolled pork loin from there, cut it into 4 separate joints, and all of them roasted beautifully, with the meat full of flavour. As the son of a sometime butcher, I've been taught that if an outlet sells good pork, the rest is generally good too!) the pre-packed deli meat is up there quality-wise with most German high st delis, and the frozen speciality meats (the venison, kangaroo, reindeer etc) are of excellent quality.
I won't claim that they're miles better ethics-wise than UK supermarkets, but they don't go in for some of the sharp practices the UK chains do.

When in Germany, Greebo and I are happy to shop in most of the German chains (Edeka, Lidl, Penny, Aldi, ReWe etc) because we can be sure of decent quality at a fair price.
 
Bitter&Twisted said:
To my knowledge, all steam-baked and sliced bread, as in the dreaded Chorleywood method, is called "toast-brot" in Germanyland. As that's all it's good for. Apart from chucking it in the bin where it belongs. This could be down to pure prejudice as a branch of my German family own and run a local bakery. I'll be visiting the fam in May and am looking forward to eating decent bread that doesn't require a second mortgage. As well as more than my fair share of brotchen, kase und Niederegger echtes Lubecker marzipan. And maybe a few beers, too. Prost!
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No Kassler? No Bismarck herring? barbarian! :D
 
polly said:
Oh I did NOT need to know that! Actually maybe freezing it will stop me from eating a little bit every time I open the fridge :hmm:
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Sorry!
I was like that with their "Deluxe" range liver pate. Every time I opened the fridge it tempted me to bung a slice of bread (or two!) in the toaster, and then smear the toast with pate. :oops:
 
ViolentPanda said:
Aldi and Lidl each have,Europe-wide, about 5 times as many outlets as the major British supermarket chains. This gives them the ability to contract farmers etc on fixed terms and fixed prices in a way that the British supermarkets avoid doing, plus they don't insist on "premium" (washed and size-sorted) veg.
As for their meat, the everyday stuff is no better nor worse than you'll find in a British supermarket (I bought a 3kg rolled pork loin from there, cut it into 4 separate joints, and all of them roasted beautifully, with the meat full of flavour. As the son of a sometime butcher, I've been taught that if an outlet sells good pork, the rest is generally good too!) the pre-packed deli meat is up there quality-wise with most German high st delis, and the frozen speciality meats (the venison, kangaroo, reindeer etc) are of excellent quality.
I won't claim that they're miles better ethics-wise than UK supermarkets, but they don't go in for some of the sharp practices the UK chains do.

When in Germany, Greebo and I are happy to shop in most of the German chains (Edeka, Lidl, Penny, Aldi, ReWe etc) because we can be sure of decent quality at a fair price.
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They don't go in for the kind of contracts that you hear about where farmers are tied into one supermarket on a contract that's very unfavourable to the farmer?

I know a lot of their cost cutting is around the frills, I was just curious if it all was.
 
Bitter&Twisted said:
To my knowledge, all steam-baked and sliced bread, as in the dreaded Chorleywood method, is called "toast-brot" in Germanyland. As that's all it's good for. Apart from chucking it in the bin where it belongs. This could be down to pure prejudice as a branch of my German family own and run a local bakery. I'll be visiting the fam in May and am looking forward to eating decent bread that doesn't require a second mortgage. As well as more than my fair share of brotchen, kase und Niederegger echtes Lubecker marzipan. And maybe a few beers, too. Prost!
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Just because Chorleywood bread is done that way, it's no reason to knock steam-baked, sliced bread. France is full of fantastic bread done exactly that way. It's not the cooking or the slicing that makes white toast bread so awful.
 
ViolentPanda said:
Sorry!
I was like that with their "Deluxe" range liver pate. Every time I opened the fridge it tempted me to bung a slice of bread (or two!) in the toaster, and then smear the toast with pate. :oops:
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You're pretty cowardly aren't you? Attacking me on a thread where you know I can't respond.
 
ViolentPanda said:
Sorry!
I was like that with their "Deluxe" range liver pate. Every time I opened the fridge it tempted me to bung a slice of bread (or two!) in the toaster, and then smear the toast with pate. :oops:
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No, thanks :D I might go back for more.

I bought the tete de moine cheese at Christmas. That was a similar burden on my heart. (Till my daughter started saying the kitchen smelled of poo every time I opened the fridge so I had to bin it. It was a bit off-putting)
 
phildwyer said:
That's why normal people read the whole thread before responding.
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Nice.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, just once, that you're not aware of the fact that I have deteriorating short-term memory (poor enough that it requires medical treatment), and that I respond to threads the way I do because it's the only way I can without losing track.
Strangely, many other regular posters are aware of this, have been for a couple of years and act accordingly.
Now stop shitting up threads with your whining, there's a good boy!
 
ViolentPanda said:
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, just once, that you're not aware of the fact that I have deteriorating short-term memory (poor enough that it requires medical treatment), and that I respond to threads the way I do because it's the only way I can without losing track.
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Alright then. When someone attacks me, I always respond. So do you I might add. I couldn't do it there, so I did it here. That's all, as you were.
 
Once opened........ never saved.

£1.99 cherry liqueur's...(lidl).... 25% kirsch........yes there is a whole cherry inside , and yes , I did lick that wrapper....Got that nice buzz on the tongue of real alcohol .. The chocolate's good too .....but then I rather like JD Gross ........ particularly the single estate 70% cocoa Ecuador .

So many tick boxes of rightness
 
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Got this on a whim ..... Not had this before.......but it looks like a kabanos ( lidl , forget the price , sorry)

Got to luv a sausage's that's made with 101g pork plus 11g beef per 100g of finished banger

6 servings apparently ....that may be wrong

Some serving suggestions anyone ?

Kabanos I often chop into a frying pan with peppers onions and chilli then into a toasted pitta with some hot tom salsa on top for a quickie .....
 
Tankus said:
<snip> Kabanos I often chop into a frying pan with peppers onions and chilli then into a toasted pitta with some hot tom salsa on top for a quickie .....
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But enough about your food sex kink. *gets coat*
 
Cooking all done sans coat....

A miss though ...lidls Oaties..... a pale imitation of hob knobs...now that I've eaten the pack I feel qualified to answer.... If that was the target clone ?.... the textures just not there and the taste is bland ......which is a shame as their rich tea and digestives are bang on the money....
 
ViolentPanda said:
Aldi and Lidl each have,Europe-wide, about 5 times as many outlets as the major British supermarket chains. This gives them the ability to contract farmers etc on fixed terms and fixed prices in a way that the British supermarkets avoid doing, plus they don't insist on "premium" (washed and size-sorted) veg.
As for their meat, the everyday stuff is no better nor worse than you'll find in a British supermarket (I bought a 3kg rolled pork loin from there, cut it into 4 separate joints, and all of them roasted beautifully, with the meat full of flavour. As the son of a sometime butcher, I've been taught that if an outlet sells good pork, the rest is generally good too!) the pre-packed deli meat is up there quality-wise with most German high st delis, and the frozen speciality meats (the venison, kangaroo, reindeer etc) are of excellent quality.
I won't claim that they're miles better ethics-wise than UK supermarkets, but they don't go in for some of the sharp practices the UK chains do.

When in Germany, Greebo and I are happy to shop in most of the German chains (Edeka, Lidl, Penny, Aldi, ReWe etc) because we can be sure of decent quality at a fair price.
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I thought you were Jewish for some reason?? Didn't realise your dad was a pork butcher, that must be weird?

When you say about Lidl not engaging in sharp practices presumably you're not referring to the way they treat their workers??

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/every-lidl-hurts/

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/sep/21/foodanddrink.supermarkets

http://lidl.verdi.de/schwarz-buch/black_book_on_lidl_in_europe
 
Spanky Longhorn said:
I thought you were Jewish for some reason?? Didn't realise your dad was a pork butcher, that must be weird?
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Mum a (non-observant) Jew, father C of E.
As for weirdness, you'd be amazed how many people who are religiously-proscribed from eating pork, surreptitiously(or even openly!) do.:D

When you say about Lidl not engaging in sharp practices presumably you're not referring to the way they treat their workers??

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/every-lidl-hurts/

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/sep/21/foodanddrink.supermarkets

http://lidl.verdi.de/schwarz-buch/black_book_on_lidl_in_europe
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I mean (and said) with their suppliers. None of that "and now you can give us back 10% of what we paid you, as a sweetener for us to renew the contract" bullshit, so you're right when you say that I'm not referring to their employees.
 
fair enough, it was just the G_d stuff that confused me I think.

I'd be interested to find out more about how Lidl treat suppliers, where did you get the info from?
 
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O m geeeeee!
 
I somehow bought a bag of wasabi peanuts and two bags of wasabi cashews the other day. I haven't opened them yet though coz once I start eating I usually can't stop, even if I've had so much wasabi that I'm in actual physical pain. :oops:

Also bought the cheese one of these and it's just as addictive.
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