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

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    #362
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    The white bread they sell is like cardboard.


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    #363
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    The white bread they sell is like cardboard.

    On the flip side of that the cardboard they sell makes perfectly good toast!


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    #364
    2 stroke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    dearg lady wrote: »
    And? Even with perfect use, the failure rate on condoms is still 2%, typical use failure rate is 15%, so it's not that shocking, and there's no proof this brand of condom was the issue.
    I've used Lidl condoms...Mondos, why did they have to call them that?!!! The only thing I've found so far that I'd avoid is Aldi mayonaise, very watery stuff.

    Mayo isn't supposed to be used as lube.


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    #365
    2 stroke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    Don't know if its been said all ready but many, if not all, of the items they sell that carry the tricolour or that claim to be irish made, have a uk symbol.


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    #366
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    stovelid wrote: »
    You. Are. Mad.

    Lidl and aldi are considered foreign supermarkets by many Irish people while Tesco and M and S are considered native. Lidl and Aldi have definitely more irish products than M and S.

    on a sad note aldi used to sell Tuna steaks for less tan 5 euro, while M and S was charging 8 euro.


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    #367
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    squod wrote: »
    Buy fuhkall there. About two of the entire staff of aldi/lidl are friendly happy normal people.


    i just go there to shop, not make friends.


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    #368
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    2 stroke wrote: »
    Mayo isn't supposed to be used as lube.

    Looked at your username & lol'd,don't think you'd need lube, with a name like 2 stroke the deed would be over before you even got the lid off the jar:pac:


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    #369
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,436 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    The only things I won't buy in Aldi are breakfast cereals.. all tried and tested and all sh1te imho..

    Furniture polish (streak city)

    and personal care items such as toothpaste, shampoo and face washes/moisturiser

    Everything else is fair game.


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    #370
    Merch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Merch


    true wrote: »
    because 80% of the stuff I ever bought in the centre isles of Lidl was rubbish. Bought a pair of jeans for gardening there once, the flimsy little zip broke the 2nd time they were used. Bought tools that were s***e, bought snorkeling mask that leaked and their customer service is worse than useless. Some of their food is ok though, but because of the overall experience I would not shop there anymore.

    I've quite a few Aldi and Lidl tools, gardening stuff and general hand tools, as good as anything I bought elsewhere. Certainly nothing wrong with them for domestic day to day diy use. Professional use maybe not, might do for a while or if you were stuck, they dont compare to prof stuff, that will be the case for cheap tools generally.
    Cheap battery powered stuff likely never last, that'd be the case anywhere.
    I wouldn't buy clothes (other than workwear, although I've enough old stuff to do) or footwear there.
    Save a fortune buying food there.
    GunRunner wrote: »
    Cereal, coffee. - taste rotten.
    Milk - goes sour too quick.

    Never had this problem with the milk and the coffee is fine, havent tried all of their cereals, sugary ones like any sugary ones, bran ones like any bran ones


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    #371
    Ste_JDM
    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭Ste_JDM


    Canned Potato's...


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    #372
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    2 stroke wrote: »
    Don't know if its been said all ready but many, if not all, of the items they sell that carry the tricolour or that claim to be irish made, have a uk symbol.

    Yes, the cheese is made here, packed in the UK and sent back here.


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    #373
    VEN
    Registered Users Posts: 648 ✭✭✭VEN


    swans and badger steaks. i get them elsewhere for free.


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    #374
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Geuze wrote: »
    Yes, the cheese is made here, packed in the UK and sent back here.
    How messed up is it that apparently there is no Irish cheese slicing/packaging enterprise? All shipped to UK and then back. An opportunity for someone?


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    #375
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,703 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Only thing I won't buy in Aldi is tinned beans, the sauce is too watery. The multi-grain bread is mighty stuff and the yogurt is lovely. As far as the staff go I've found them in general to be friendlier than Dunnes.


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    #376
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Chicken.


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    #377
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,717 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Only thing I won't buy in Aldi is tinned beans, the sauce is too watery. The multi-grain bread is mighty stuff and the yogurt is lovely. As far as the staff go I've found them in general to be friendlier than Dunnes.
    Speaking of watery have you tried the Dunnes Stores own brand beans ?


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    #378
    kegzmc
    Site Banned Posts: 153 ✭✭kegzmc


    Ghandee wrote: »
    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.

    A steak that melts in your mouth dosent sound right.


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    #379
    el diablo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭el diablo


    Any Silvercrest branded stuff is rubbish. I bought a shower radio and headphones and both lasted less than a week.

    We're all in this psy-op together.🤨



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    #380
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    el diablo wrote: »
    Any Silvercrest branded stuff is rubbish. I bought a shower radio and headphones and both lasted less than a week.

    then you bring it back and if you have the receipt you get your money back. they are usually good for that.


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    #381
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    el diablo wrote: »
    Any Silvercrest branded stuff is rubbish. I bought a shower radio and headphones and both lasted less than a week.

    I got the same shower radio about three years ago, it's still fine :confused:

    And I got that digital camera, perfect quality :cool:


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    #382
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Chicken.
    He's only saying he doesn't like the beans, that hardly makes him a coward. Harsh Teyla.:D


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    #383
    aaabbbb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    gerarda wrote: »
    Chicken fillets.

    Friend of mine whos a microbiologist recently found visible salmonella growing on chicken fillets in Lidil along with all sorts of other nasty stuff!! :eek:


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    #384
    bryaner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭bryaner


    the keen edge wrote: »
    The disco biscuits are pretty useless, man what a sh!t rave that turned out to be.

    Fcukin classic.. :D


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    #385
    Pottler
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    aaabbbb wrote: »
    Friend of mine whos a microbiologist recently found visible salmonella growing on chicken fillets in Lidil along with all sorts of other nasty stuff!! :eek:
    That's nothing, I found a Leylandii growing in one of their special offer baskets! Shocked I was.


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    #386
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    The only thing I would never buy there is pickled fish (looks vile) and some sort of industrially wrapped hunk of sausage that's about a foot long. Looks like a section of waste water piping.

    We grow a lot of our own fruit and veg, or get them locally, but Lidl would be the next best alternative for that sort of produce.


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    #387
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    aaabbbb wrote: »
    Friend of mine whos a microbiologist recently found visible salmonella growing on chicken fillets in Lidil along with all sorts of other nasty stuff!! :eek:

    bacteria is everywhere and microbiologists will never shut up about it.
    the main two problems folks have with aldi-its German and its cheap in price.

    few Irish people seem to work there.
    i remember when Aldi opened in Galway and there was a strike within the first fortnight of opening. the irish workers wanted a union and refused to do jobs like clean the staff toilet.


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    #388
    juan.kerr
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    Do they still do the full chicken in a tin?


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    #389
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    later12 wrote: »
    The only thing I don't buy there is pickled fish (looks vile) and some sort of industrially wrapped hunk of sausage that's about a foot long. Looks like a section of waste water piping.


    when they first came they had few Irish products and folks here did not know what to do with pickled herring. these days however even people who have never been outside of ireland will find food they recognise at a good price.


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    #390
    irishbarb
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭irishbarb


    I prefer Aldi over Lidl. I find nothing wrong with Aldi at all. All the perishables that meat/veg/dairy products are all of a high quality, and in a lot of instances are way nicer then the likes of Dunnes and Tesco. Plus way cheaper. I feel like a lot of people who complain about it try the stuff with a negative attitude to start with anyway. If you believe something is going to be ''horrible'' or ''****e'', then you are going to make it that way. Just sayin' :p


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    #391
    Cantona's Collars
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    aaabbbb wrote: »
    Friend of mine whos a microbiologist recently found visible salmonella growing on chicken fillets in Lidil along with all sorts of other nasty stuff!! :eek:

    That stuff can be found on chicken fillets bought anywhere,hence those food safety ads we see on tv warning us of the dangers of handling raw meat.


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