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

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    #32
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #33
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭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


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    #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.


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    #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...


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    #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?


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


    Slaves.

    I prefer mine to be free-range.


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    #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.


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    #40
    jordata
    Registered Users 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!!


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    #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: 1,731 ✭✭✭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.


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    #43
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,436 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.


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    #44
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭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


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    #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


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    #46
    a fat guy
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    jordata wrote: »
    Nothing says "I love you" quiet like a box of lidl condoms!!

    Yeah.

    Buy one, get a child free!


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    #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


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    #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.


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    #49
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭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.;)


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    #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.


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    #51
    mikeym
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    Wouldnt touch the Ketchup :(


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    #52
    Recessionbust
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    whirlpool wrote: »
    The next person to mention toast gets a free lifetime supply of Lidl condoms, and they HAVE TO use them.

    Ill toast to that :-D


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    #53
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    vicwatson wrote: »


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

    Get over it.;)

    "Burning toast" One cannot burn bread.


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    #54
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Cicero wrote: »
    My entire weekly shop

    glad you are so rich!
    Polloloca wrote: »
    Everything.

    and you!
    YouTookMyName wrote: »
    all meat and frozen stuff veg.

    Meats and frozen greens are just fine.
    bubblefett wrote: »
    Milk.
    For most stuff they're grand

    Milks fine
    mikeym wrote: »
    Wouldnt touch the Ketchup :(

    You can buy Heinz in Lidl if you like.


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    #55
    RichieC
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    all the things.


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    #56
    AnonoBoy
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    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.

    Ehh..... ok there. You're basing this obviously on lots of research and not just some completely uninformed view that you have from walking by one once.
    Benny_Cake wrote: »
    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...

    Would you take the risk? Jaysus!


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    #57
    MickySticks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭MickySticks


    Cigarettes because I don't smoke.


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    #58
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    I would find Lidl very hit and miss, some of there stuff is grand, an awful lot of it is rank though. Their beans are too sugary for example, lunchmeats are expensive and not that nice and their meat isn't the best either.

    Aldi however is the ****, have yet to come across something that tasted like it was made cheaply.


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    #59
    Owen_S
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    The Fruity Mondos :pac:


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    #60
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    I always laugh when I see Aldi's version of "Hunky Dorys" http://www.aldi.ie/ie/html/product_range/product_range_19188.htm


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    #61
    Benny_Cake
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    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Would you take the risk? Jaysus!

    Haven't been in the condom-buying market for some time, but no, I don't think I'd take the risk!


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