ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

[IanA2]

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

And there was me thinking Coke wais something people stuck up their noses or threw on a fire, silly me....

[bingybongy]

IanA2 said:

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

And there was me thinking Coke wais something people stuck up their noses or threw on a fire, silly me....

I'm a bit of a peasant and only drink whisky and coke (a cola)

[twing]

New beer in, made with rum infused oak chips whatever that does to it

[21TonyK]

21st Century Man said:

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

And to rub salt in that wound... really, really good. Especially once its had a couple of hours in a decanter.

So much so I have sent the staff to buy more for tonight.

[wobert]

21TonyK said:

21st Century Man said:

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

And to rub salt in that wound... really, really good. Especially once its had a couple of hours in a decanter.

So much so I have sent the staff to buy more for tonight.

I’m glad you liked the recommendation......

[Jim on the hill]

wobert said:

21TonyK said:

21st Century Man said:

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

And to rub salt in that wound... really, really good. Especially once its had a couple of hours in a decanter.

So much so I have sent the staff to buy more for tonight.

I’m glad you liked the recommendation......

Cheers for the recommendation, picked up a couple of bottles for a wine and cheese night tonight.

[Ructions]

BrabusMog said:

I had one a couple of years ago and wasn't that impressed to be honest. I'd rather just have it out the packet!

I’m not as impressed as I hoped I’d be. But it is just out of the pack, so I’ll reserve judgment for a few days.

The dog is really enjoying the fat, so it’s not all bad.

[rdjohn]

This week we had a friend round for dinner and so bought a frozen Roulade. Made 5 decent servings.

Very light and very tasty.

[Steamer]

rdjohn said:

This week we had a friend round for dinner and so bought a frozen Roulade. Made 5 decent servings.

Very light and very tasty.

This sounds interesting!

Pre-made puddings is one area I've always thought Aldi was lacking in (although their Sticky Toffee pudding in the chilled cabinet is excellent)

Was it this one? (sorry huge photo)

[borcy]

I had one of their ribeye steaks last night, very tasty it was too.

[Gareth1974]

andburg said:

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.

Bought these yesterday, though haven't tried them yet - I like the sound of the "Rhum finished" one, which you weren't keen on, interested to find out what they are like.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/brasserie-de-noir-table-bee...

[andburg]

It’s not bad but good luck finding any taste of that rum

[HarryW]

Thought I’d browse Aldi for wines and hit a queue, never seen that before.

[transitman]

HarryW said:

Thought I’d browse Aldi for wines and hit a queue, never seen that before.

I got that too!

Was the site within 30 seconds tbf

[RammyMP]

transitman said:

HarryW said:

Thought I’d browse Aldi for wines and hit a queue, never seen that before.

I got that too!

Was the site within 30 seconds tbf

It was because you could order those toy carrots online.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Lidl plum marzipans nomnomnom

[andburg]

Tonight was lazy tea.
Chicken and chorizo chilled pasta pockets
Specially selected tomato and mascarpone sauce
Chilled cheese garlic bread pizza


So easy and so damn good!
We always buy out all the cheese garlic bread pizzas when we go!

[ambuletz]

i always felt like lidl would be a good place for getting wine cheaply.

my usual tipple is beeer. but ive no idea how to get into wine. ill drink wine if given it, but dont know where to start in figuring out what ones i like.

[NWTony]

ambuletz said:

i always felt like lidl would be a good place for getting wine cheaply.

my usual tipple is beeer. but ive no idea how to get into wine. ill drink wine if given it, but dont know where to start in figuring out what ones i like.

Its fairly easy, there is a numerical scale to know how good a wine is, the higher the number on the shelf, the better the wine

[V8mate]

NWTony said:

ambuletz said:

i always felt like lidl would be a good place for getting wine cheaply.

my usual tipple is beeer. but ive no idea how to get into wine. ill drink wine if given it, but dont know where to start in figuring out what ones i like.

Its fairly easy, there is a numerical scale to know how good a wine is, the higher the number on the shelf, the better the wine

Which doesn't necessarily translate into suiting a person's palate... [/addedcomplication]