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Things you refuse to buy in Lidl and Aldi....

  • 08-05-2012 6:05pm
    #1
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    Is there anything (food, booze, household products, shower products, etc...) that you refuse to buy in Lidl or Aldi because you believe they just aren't as good?


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    St. Bernard stuff, only ever buy it in Dunnes.


  • #3
    gerarda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 448 ✭✭gerarda


    Chicken fillets.


  • #4
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    Used to be but I am fast learning that much of the stuff in Alsi is better*







    *Except Aldi potatoes, fúckin rank.


  • #5
    the keen edge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    The disco biscuits are pretty useless, man what a sh!t rave that turned out to be.


  • #6
    1966
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,655 ✭✭✭1966


    Coffee in both is awful!


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  • #7
    harperlee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭harperlee


    Condoms and wine, the condoms I wouldn't trust and the wine gives you the worst hangover.


  • #8
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    The bread


  • #9
    Cicero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,144 ✭✭✭✭Cicero


    My entire weekly shop


  • #10
    Polloloca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 684 ✭✭✭Polloloca


    Everything.


  • #11
    Nodferatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Nodferatu


    well feck, i have aldi potatoes in the oven as we speak!!


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  • #12
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Perlenbacher (beer). It's the devils own piss in a bottle. Drank 6 of them last week and woke up the next morning feeling like I'd been on a 3 day binge.


  • #13
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    I find a lot of Aldi's (in particular) food to be superior to some of the other supermarkets stuff.

    Maris piper chips at 1.99 thrash mccains etc at double the price.
    Aldi steaks are melt in the mouth
    Aldi cooking sauces (curry in particular) puts pataks, uncle Ben to Shame.
    The sweets, cakes, biscuits are lovely.
    fruit and veg seems to be tastier/fresher than Tesco.
    Rhinebacher beer, six pack of 500ml bottles, 4.9% beats Budweiser, miller etc HANDS DOWN! (6.29€)

    I draw the line at ketchup and brown sauce from Aldi though, its rank.


  • #14
    YouTookMyName
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,361 ✭✭✭YouTookMyName


    all meat and frozen stuff veg.


  • #15
    Bubblefett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭Bubblefett


    Milk.
    For most stuff they're grand


  • #16
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,439 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    gerarda wrote: »
    Chicken fillets.

    I buy fresh and frozen chicken fillets from Aldi all the time and they're fine..

    I don't generally buy cleaning products from Aldi or Lidl, I find them sh1t.. Flash all the way..

    Toiletries, with the exception of hand soaps and shower gels, again I always go for branded.. although I do love their Sienna Q10 day and night creams, they're great, actually won some big beauty award a few years back, it was hailed as one of the best creams around, beating the big names like Clnique etc..

    Other than that I find all Aldi's foods to be grand quality.. I shop there the whole time :)


  • #17
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    The bread

    Aldi does a lovely wholemeal toasting pan. It's as thick and crunchy as any I have tasted. it costs €1.19


  • #18
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    Coffee, tea, ketchup, mayonnaise, cat food (nobody has told cats that we're in a recession). Apart from that I find most stuff is as good if not better than branded items.


  • #19
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    The cleaning products generally aren't as good.

    Do they sell condoms? NO WAY am I risking cheapo johnnies.


  • #20
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    Nodferatu wrote: »
    well feck, i have aldi potatoes in the oven as we speak!!

    They don't taste too bad, it's just you have to cut off all the black stuff usually.

    the frozen chips are great.


  • #21
    Lionel Messy
    Site Banned Posts: 612 ✭✭✭Lionel Messy


    The johnnies look dodgy alright. I don't know why they sell them. Lets face it, most people who shop in Lidl don't use them.


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  • #22
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    DarkJager wrote: »
    Perlenbacher (beer). It's the devils own piss in a bottle. Drank 6 of them last week and woke up the next morning feeling like I'd been on a 3 day binge.

    Can't understand that tbh, I find it to be great stuff, would almost go as far as saying hangover proof :confused:


  • #23
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    Benny_Cake wrote: »
    Coffee, tea, ketchup, mayonnaise, cat food (nobody has told cats that we're in a recession). Apart from that I find most stuff is as good if not better than branded items.

    I bought their tea for the first time last week and it is delicious (McGrath's Aldi). It was on the news last week in a taste test Lidl had the best mayo followed by Aldi then Hellman's and then Heinz

    I do find their catfood too salty


  • #24
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    I like aldi and lidl for their vegtable range,their selection of cheeses are quite good,the stuff i would stay away from would be biscuits and crackers,crisps,and stuff like that,their fresh baked bread in lidl and croissants arent bad..

    I wouldnt mind the cat food as the cat cant really tell the difference between cat brands like whiskas or tescos own brand,lidl own brand etc..I always get the veg there from now on,as the veg(the carrots anyway) in tescos goes off so quick and the smell is awful...


  • #25
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    forfuxsake wrote: »
    Aldi does a lovely wholemeal toasting pan. It's as thick and crunchy as any I have tasted. it costs €1.19

    I dont like crunchy bread.


  • #26
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    The cleaning products generally aren't as good.

    Do they sell condoms? NO WAY am I risking cheapo johnnies.

    Irony is that most of their products are actually supplied by the big manufacturers (Hunky Dorys supply the Aldi crisps), so it's quite possible that the condoms could be from the likes of Durex. Not that Durex are likely to admit it...


  • #27
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    I dont like crunchy bread.

    it's only crunchy when you toast it


  • #28
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    forfuxsake wrote: »
    it's only crunchy when you toast it

    Then it's not bread, it's toast.


  • #29
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,500 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    gerarda wrote: »
    Chicken fillets.

    Why? You do know that they're the same product from the same suppliers as Tesco, Super Valu, Centra, Superquinn and the likes?


  • #30
    harperlee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭harperlee


    Benny_Cake wrote: »
    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    The cleaning products generally aren't as good.

    Do they sell condoms? NO WAY am I risking cheapo johnnies.

    Irony is that most of their products are actually supplied by the big manufacturers (Hunky Dorys supply the Aldi crisps), so it's quite possible that the condoms could be from the likes of Durex. Not that Durex are likely to admit it...
    They are called fruity flavours, that's not even a name, it's a description, they look like they fell off the back of a pound shop lorry


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  • #31
    corglass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭corglass


    forfuxsake wrote: »
    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    I dont like crunchy bread.

    it's only crunchy when you toast it

    What if you like crunchy bread but have no toaster?


  • #32
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    Then it's not bread, it's toast.

    Wha'? :confused::confused:

    Toast is burned bread - it's still bread, just burned.


  • #33
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    whirlpool wrote: »
    Is there anything (food, booze, household products, shower products, etc...) that you refuse to buy in Lidl or Aldi because you believe they just aren't as good?


    Baked Beans are minging


  • #34
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Wha'? :confused::confused:

    Toast is burned bread - it's still bread, just burned.

    I think you should examine your cooking skills if you're burning bread and calling it toast.


  • #35
    leggit
    Registered Users Posts: 936 ✭✭✭leggit


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    The cleaning products generally aren't as good.

    Do they sell condoms? NO WAY am I risking cheapo johnnies.

    I hear their cling film is pretty decent...


  • #36
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    Lionel Messy wrote: »
    The johnnies look dodgy alright. I don't know why they sell them. Lets face it, most people who shop in Lidl don't use them.

    The ould scummers might. Thats why they have so many children


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  • #37
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    I think you should examine your cooking skills if you're burning bread and calling it toast.
    Making toast is a cooking skill?


  • #38
    Gbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    Slaves.

    I prefer mine to be free-range.


  • #39
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    harperlee wrote: »
    They are called fruity flavours, that's not even a name, it's a description, they look like they fell off the back of a pound shop lorry

    The packaging isn't encouraging I'll grant you that! Also, I can't think of a better way of announcing "cheap b***rd" to your special lady.


  • #40
    jordata
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭jordata


    harperlee wrote: »
    Condoms and wine, the condoms I wouldn't trust and the wine gives you the worst hangover.
    Nothing says "I love you" quiet like a box of lidl condoms!!


  • #41
    eirn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭eirn


    I did buy condoms in Lidl once actually. I was living in Norway and my boyfriend was coming over to visit, (yeah, in hindsight, I should have just made sure he brought some with him). The first chemist I asked seemed a bit confused (language barrier) and I honestly couldn't find them on the shelves anywhere else, so lidl it was. And, well, no pregnancy!


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  • #42
    dirtyden
    Registered Users Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    1966 wrote: »
    Coffee in both is awful!

    The instant is rubbish, but I thought some of the ground is not bad. I am not a coffee expert though.


  • #43
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,439 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Benny_Cake wrote: »
    Coffee, tea, ketchup, mayonnaise, cat food (nobody has told cats that we're in a recession). Apart from that I find most stuff is as good if not better than branded items.

    I love Aldi ketchup, probably prefer it to Heinz.. Mayo isn't too bad either tbh.


  • #44
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    I think you should examine your cooking skills if you're burning bread and calling it toast.


    Definition of TOAST

    transitive verb
    1
    : to warm thoroughly

    2
    : to make (as bread) crisp, hot, and brown by heat


  • #45
    Recessionbust
    Registered Users Posts: 243 ✭✭Recessionbust


    Their electric stuff is pretty good. I bought aSurround sound system €40 two years ago and its better then my dads one who paid three times more


  • #46
    a fat guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 800 ✭✭✭a fat guy


    jordata wrote: »
    Nothing says "I love you" quiet like a box of lidl condoms!!

    Yeah.

    Buy one, get a child free!


  • #47
    Recessionbust
    Registered Users Posts: 243 ✭✭Recessionbust


    a fat guy wrote: »
    jordata wrote: »
    Nothing says "I love you" quiet like a box of lidl condoms!!

    Yeah.

    Buy one, get a child free!

    Haha brilliant. And beside them is the pregnancy tests with a sign sayin if you bought those you will need these


  • #48
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    vicwatson wrote: »


    Definition of TOAST

    transitive verb
    1
    : to warm thoroughly

    2
    : to make (as bread) crisp, hot, and brown by heat

    Very good, so we've established there's no mention of burning bread.
    dvpower wrote: »
    Making toast is a cooking skill?

    As above, quite a complex one.


  • #49
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    Very good, so we've established there's no mention of burning bread.



    As above, quite a complex one.


    Browning is in essence burning bread, there are varying degrees of course.

    Get over it.;)


  • #50
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    The next person to mention toast gets a free lifetime supply of Lidl condoms, and they HAVE TO use them.


  • #51
    mikeym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,985 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Wouldnt touch the Ketchup :(


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