ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

[BrabusMog]

Gretchen said:

I’m sure someone here once posted they’d bought one for the office staff? I think that’s a great idea. Sling some cheese and biscuits in and I’ll do the overtime willingly.

Might have been me, I left mine in the office a couple of years ago.

[Gretchen]

BrabusMog said:

Gretchen said:

I’m sure someone here once posted they’d bought one for the office staff? I think that’s a great idea. Sling some cheese and biscuits in and I’ll do the overtime willingly.

Might have been me, I left mine in the office a couple of years ago.

‘Gissa job’

[Ructions]

ambuletz said:

how much is that?
if it's better value then buying the thinly sliced stuff in lidl/aldi/asda then i think it would be hilarious to just have that, sit down, and slice slowly eat away at it.

€50, so I’d expect to pay significantly less in the UK.

I’d eat as many packs of the thinly sliced ham as the wife buys, so it’s a no brainier for me.

Add some thinly sliced manchego and a few glasses of Carlos brandy and that’s my Saturday night’s sorted for the foreseeable.

[21TonyK]

I always find/found whole hams deteriorated quite quick in the heat and humidity of a modern house in the UK. Kept covered with a cheesecloth but seemed to be always scraping off slime which wasn't nice.

[juggsy]

wobert said:

On the Aldi wine front I can recommend the following (in ascending order... )

All are good, but the Pinot Noir and Zinfandel are exceptional for the money.....esp the Zinfandel

Managed to get the Zinfandel but couldn’t see any of the others in two stores I went in this week

[V8mate]

juggsy said:

Managed to get the Zinfandel but couldn’t see any of the others in two stores I went in this week

I've picked the Tasmanian one up... and put it back... on two occasions. I'm having to work myself up to paying over a tenner on a bottle of wine from Aldi

[wobert]

V8mate said:

juggsy said:

Managed to get the Zinfandel but couldn’t see any of the others in two stores I went in this week

I've picked the Tasmanian one up... and put it back... on two occasions. I'm having to work myself up to paying over a tenner on a bottle of wine from Aldi

The Tasmanian one is hand picked, hand processed and hand bottled and limited to 30k bottles.

At any other outlet it would be £20+

[V8mate]

wobert said:

V8mate said:

juggsy said:

Managed to get the Zinfandel but couldn’t see any of the others in two stores I went in this week

I've picked the Tasmanian one up... and put it back... on two occasions. I'm having to work myself up to paying over a tenner on a bottle of wine from Aldi

The Tasmanian one is hand picked, hand processed and hand bottled and limited to 30k bottles.

At any other outlet it would be £20+

Sure - I'm not suggesting it's poor value at all. Just overcoming my own mental block

[andburg]

fear i fell into a pre-planned trap

bought 2 bottles of the new "Brasserie De Noir Millesimee" aged belgian style beer in the black bottle, enjoyed them so on Monday i went and grabbed a couple more except its no longer the same product, its now "Brasserie De Noir Biere Speciale" its distinctly average.

[Mobile Chicane]

Lidl have an interesting wine this year: a sparkling Tokaij.

That will be something different to go with a mince pie or piece of cake.

[21TonyK]

I'm sure I have already at some point but will be trying the Zinfandel tonight with >> beer battered onion rings for Iceland << (highly recommended!)

[V8mate]

21TonyK said:

I'm sure I have already at some point but will be trying the Zinfandel tonight with >> beer battered onion rings for Iceland << (highly recommended!)

I wouldn't recommend that pairing. The Zinfandel is a 'big' wine. Really needs some dark, substantial flesh to accompany it. Beef or game or something.

[wobert]

V8mate said:

21TonyK said:

I'm sure I have already at some point but will be trying the Zinfandel tonight with >> beer battered onion rings for Iceland << (highly recommended!)

I wouldn't recommend that pairing. The Zinfandel is a 'big' wine. Really needs some dark, substantial flesh to accompany it. Beef or game or something.

Or some nice cheese.....

We did our tasting with steak pie......ace!

[21TonyK]

wobert said:

V8mate said:

21TonyK said:

I'm sure I have already at some point but will be trying the Zinfandel tonight with >> beer battered onion rings for Iceland << (highly recommended!)

I wouldn't recommend that pairing. The Zinfandel is a 'big' wine. Really needs some dark, substantial flesh to accompany it. Beef or game or something.

Or some nice cheese.....

We did our tasting with steak pie......ace!

Never fear... his and hers pairings... onion rings are on the side

[IanA2]

21TonyK said:

wobert said:

V8mate said:

21TonyK said:

I'm sure I have already at some point but will be trying the Zinfandel tonight with >> beer battered onion rings for Iceland << (highly recommended!)

I wouldn't recommend that pairing. The Zinfandel is a 'big' wine. Really needs some dark, substantial flesh to accompany it. Beef or game or something.

Or some nice cheese.....

We did our tasting with steak pie......ace!

Never fear... his and hers pairings... onion rings are on the side

Nice looking piece of meat. Can I ask from whence it came.

Aldi are doing a 25 year old Speyside single malt (not single cask ) for forty quid. A terrific value dram from my favourite area.

[21TonyK]

Steak is Aldi as well. It's not bad but you do have to hunt through to find anything cut semi-decently.

Never got in to whisky/key, maybe I should start

[21st Century Man]

The Zinfandel would appear to exist only on this forum, certainly not in any store local to me, nor available online. fking Unicorn wine.

[IanA2]

21TonyK said:

Steak is Aldi as well. It's not bad but you do have to hunt through to find anything cut semi-decently.

Never got in to whisky/key, maybe I should start

The secret is to ignore all the "straight with ice" advice. It needs a good splash of water to open out the flavours (about 50/50 for me depending on what I'm drinking) and definately no ice. Try a nice malt like that with haggis, it's an excellent match.

[bingybongy]

IanA2 said:

The secret is to ignore all the "straight with ice" advice. It needs a good splash of Coke to open out the flavours (about 50/50 for me depending on what I'm drinking) and definately no ice. Try a nice malt like that with haggis, it's an excellent match.

FTFY

[Jim on the hill]

bingybongy said:

IanA2 said:

The secret is to ignore all the "straight with ice" advice. It needs a good splash of Coke to open out the flavours (about 50/50 for me depending on what I'm drinking) and definately no ice. Try a nice malt like that with haggis, it's an excellent match.

FTFY

Sacrilige. Water only. Never ice that's for Bourbon.