ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

[21TonyK]

Just a quick recommendation.

I've got a stinking cold "festival flu" but even with a blocked nose this is tasting pretty good for £6.99 a bottle.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/cairanne-cotes-du-rhone-vil...

Anyone else found any decent ones in their wines?

[don4l]

21TonyK said:

Just a quick recommendation.

I've got a stinking cold "festival flu" but even with a blocked nose this is tasting pretty good for £6.99 a bottle.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/cairanne-cotes-du-rhone-vil...

Anyone else found any decent ones in their wines?

I've tried a few of their "Exquisite" collection, and they have all been good.

If you have access to a Lidle, then their wined can be very good indeed.

I've tried the two wines that Mobile Chicane suggested, and she is right. They are very good indeed. They also have a Rioja Joven and an oakier Rioja Reserva which are absolutely superb value for money.

[Pothole]

don4l said:

HarryW said:

don4l said:

Can you remember the name of the Sicilian?

I'm shopping at Lidl in the morning and I will try to remember to get these.

Sod's law says that I will read this post tomorrow evening and go "Sod it, I forgot".

Lidl have an excellent Crianza in at the moment 'Carles' DOQ Priorat, a Gold medal winner and under £6 I think. So nice I popped back in last week and picked up another 6....

Edited to add some reviews I just drag out of Google....
https://fermentationvessel.com/2016/08/15/wotw-vin...

https://quentinsadler.wordpress.com/tag/vinya-carl...

Edited by HarryW on Saturday 20th August 20:47

Edited by HarryW on Saturday 20th August 20:56

I noticed this in the shop yesterday. Unfortunately, I didn't get any. I'll get a couple next week.

my local branch didn't have any...gonna try a different one tonight

[don4l]

Finished off a bottle of the market leading tomato ketchup tonight, and put a bit of Aldi's on the plate beside it for a side by side comparison.

The Aldi tasted just as good, if not better. It had a deeper colour. It also had a higher concentration of tomato 178% compared to 148%.

The Aldi cost 89p compared to £1.95.

No contest.

[bingybongy]

Ketchup is the devil's semen.

[jas xjr]

don4l said:

Finished off a bottle of the market leading tomato ketchup tonight, and put a bit of Aldi's on the plate beside it for a side by side comparison.

The Aldi tasted just as good, if not better. It had a deeper colour. It also had a higher concentration of tomato 178% compared to 148%.

The Aldi cost 89p compared to £1.95.

No contest.

i have to admit to having non functioning tastebuds , but the aldi ketchup is not sickly like the alternatives

[anonymous-user]

Candy floss grapes in Lidl.

[soxboy]

jas xjr said:

don4l said:

Finished off a bottle of the market leading tomato ketchup tonight, and put a bit of Aldi's on the plate beside it for a side by side comparison.

The Aldi tasted just as good, if not better. It had a deeper colour. It also had a higher concentration of tomato 178% compared to 148%.

The Aldi cost 89p compared to £1.95.

No contest.

i have to admit to having non functioning tastebuds , but the aldi ketchup is not sickly like the alternatives

We're on holiday and tried a Lidl for the first time today, their ketchup is pretty good too.

[jakesmith]

Aldi food is utter garbage
Bought some once never again
Crisps like dust
Sweets tasted like dog poo
Bread fell apart
Filet steak was actually ok
We jusy go there for nappys and wipes but they'd prob taste better than their food
Plus its full of utter chavs who haven't got a nice word to say

[technodup]

The Aldi checkout guy pumped your Mrs didn't he?

[anonymous-user]

the thing that does my nut in Lidl is the speed scanning by the check our person, even if no one is there.

Aldi shredded wheat are garbage

[IanA2]

The Spruce goose said:

the thing that does my nut in Lidl is the speed scanning by the check our person, even if no one is there.

Aldi shredded wheat are garbage

Yes I've noticed that too, it's much faster than Waitrose, I read in a trade magazine it's because they use a much more sophisticated scanning system than most other supermarkets.

[jakesmith]

technodup said:

The Aldi checkout guy pumped your Mrs didn't he?

Maybe a quick finger pump
But a pump is a pump

[AlexC1981]

soxboy said:

jas xjr said:

don4l said:

Finished off a bottle of the market leading tomato ketchup tonight, and put a bit of Aldi's on the plate beside it for a side by side comparison.

The Aldi tasted just as good, if not better. It had a deeper colour. It also had a higher concentration of tomato 178% compared to 148%.

The Aldi cost 89p compared to £1.95.

No contest.

i have to admit to having non functioning tastebuds , but the aldi ketchup is not sickly like the alternatives

We're on holiday and tried a Lidl for the first time today, their ketchup is pretty good too.

Not tried the Aldi ketchup, but I wasnt keen on the Lidl (Batts) ketchup. Tesco reduced salt and sugar ketchup for me. I find most ketchups too sweet.

[Steamer]

IanA2 said:

The Spruce goose said:

the thing that does my nut in Lidl is the speed scanning by the check our person, even if no one is there.

Aldi shredded wheat are garbage

Yes I've noticed that too, it's much faster than Waitrose, I read in a trade magazine it's because they use a much more sophisticated scanning system than most other supermarkets.

I thought it was because the staff have a very high 'Scan rate' target to reach.

[CAPP0]

don4l said:

Finished off a bottle of the market leading tomato ketchup tonight, and put a bit of Aldi's on the plate beside it for a side by side comparison.

The Aldi tasted just as good, if not better. It had a deeper colour. It also had a higher concentration of tomato 178% compared to 148%.

Does that not make the bottle overflow?

[V8mate]

Steamer said:

IanA2 said:

The Spruce goose said:

the thing that does my nut in Lidl is the speed scanning by the check our person, even if no one is there.

Aldi shredded wheat are garbage

Yes I've noticed that too, it's much faster than Waitrose, I read in a trade magazine it's because they use a much more sophisticated scanning system than most other supermarkets.

I thought it was because the staff have a very high 'Scan rate' target to reach.

Yep - all the German discounters use a 'baud rate' to measure staff performance. In the days before EPOS, staff had to remember the price of every item and, later with early EPOS, had (arguably more difficult) to remember a PLU code for every item. The cashiers were the highest paid members of staff an it was the position others aspired to, once they had learned all the prices/PLUs, and could hit the required baud rate. That's why there's no customer packing at the tills; just slows the transaction down too much.

And packing bags after the tills gives the customer the opportunity to remove all of the unnecessary packaging and leave it with the shop (an environmental requirement in all German shops)

[Mobile Chicane]

don4l said:

Can you remember the name of the Sicilian?

I'm shopping at Lidl in the morning and I will try to remember to get these.

Sod's law says that I will read this post tomorrow evening and go "Sod it, I forgot".

These are they:

[adsk]

IanA2 said:

Yes I've noticed that too, it's much faster than Waitrose, I read in a trade magazine it's because they use a much more sophisticated scanning system than most other supermarkets.

You will also notice that most Aldi/Lidl products have the barcode printed on more than one side of the product - this also speeds up scanning because any way is the right way up for the product to be scanned.

[Gretchen]

jakesmith said:

Aldi food is utter garbage
Bought some once never again
Crisps like dust
Sweets tasted like dog poo
Bread fell apart
Filet steak was actually ok
We jusy go there for nappys and wipes but they'd prob taste better than their food
Plus its full of utter chavs who haven't got a nice word to say

Rude!

There's almost a few thousand posts here that say different...but then we are all utter chavs who haven't got a nice word to say after all.

PS Your literary skills are garbage