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

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    #122
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    toexpress wrote: »
    Anything ... dreadful places we should all be supporting our local Irish owned business'

    Aldi now works with over 89 Irish suppliers, with over 48pc of all grocery sales generated from products bought from Irish suppliers, producers and manufacturers.

    That's from 2011, so probably more since


    Irish owned businesses like Dunnes?
    Dunnes Stores, which sources milk outside the Republic for its private label milk.


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    #123
    Irishchick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭Irishchick


    Shenshen wrote: »
    Everything, apart from meat (since we're both vegetarian).

    I do prefer the fruit and veg in Lidl, and I absolutely adore their fresh-baked bread and pastries.
    I buy all our cleaning products and toiletries in Aldi, though, as they guarantee that none of their own brand products and none of the ingredients are tested on animals.

    Yes they are. All products that can come into contact with skin or potentially be ingested must be tested on animals. It's the law.

    Companies get away with saying they don't go it because they pay another company to go it. So before aldi officially call the product there own they our source it for animal testing. This way they can get away with it because it's technically not them doing the testing.


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    #124
    Carles Puyol
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭Carles Puyol


    Any perishable good really..


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    #125
    SimonLynch
    Registered Users Posts: 424 ✭✭SimonLynch


    Cat food not great, Grandos coffee from Dunnes beats their granulated coffee hands down


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    #126
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,426 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    What is wrong with the milk?

    Buy it all the time and I can't tell any difference except that it's 20ct per litre cheaper?


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    #127
    Palytoxin
    Registered Users Posts: 866 ✭✭✭Palytoxin


    Lidl had some sort of muesli bars with chocolate on the bottom in a red packet, used live off them, no Lidl near us now though :mad:


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    #128
    murpho999
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    Irishchick wrote: »
    Yes they are. All products that can come into contact with skin or potentially be ingested must be tested on animals. It's the law.

    Companies get away with saying they don't go it because they pay another company to go it. So before aldi officially call the product there own they our source it for animal testing. This way they can get away with it because it's technically not them doing the testing.

    I smell bull**** here.

    Sure products are often advertised as not tested on animals.


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    #129
    Satts
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    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Don't the Lidl condoms have the quality assurance symbol on them?

    Yes, it's stapled on. :D


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    #130
    surime
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 301 ✭✭surime


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

    -don't know about condoms, but agree about wine, in lidl :
    No matter how expensive it is always awful!!!


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    #131
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    murpho999 wrote: »
    What is wrong with the milk?

    Buy it all the time and I can't tell any difference except that it's 20ct per litre cheaper?

    Nothing is wrong with the milk and at 80c per litre if there was something wrong I'd still drink it!


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    #132
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    I only ever go to those places when they have mad wacky stuff that I will never use but really want.


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    #133
    GMCED
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    toexpress wrote: »
    Anything ... dreadful places we should all be supporting our local Irish owned business'

    Have to agree


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    #134
    Caraville
    Registered Users Posts: 854 ✭✭✭Caraville


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    It all comes out the same hole anyway.

    Are we still talking about the condoms???


    :pac:


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    #135
    digitaldr
    Registered Users Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭digitaldr


    Can't remember if it was Lidl or Aldi(probably Lidl) but their canned tomatos were very watery.


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    #136
    UglyBolloxFace
    Registered Users Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭UglyBolloxFace


    barbiegirl wrote: »
    Aldi irish angus beef brilliant, free range chicken excellent value, organic eggs taste yummy, roisins chocolate very decadent. We buy most of our shop there just pizza, and a few branded products bought in Dunnes. Hubbie last week did a very small full shop in Dunnes and it cost €80 + this week a big shop in Aldi was the same cost. In total our weekly bill is down over €60 a week and we eat better food.

    Off topic, but am I the only one who cringes when I hear this word?


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    #137
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    Lets face it, 90% of Aldi products are probably better quality it's just we're to use to the muck we've put in our mouths all are lives


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    #138
    harperlee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭harperlee


    Aldi or Lidl have special offers every week and this week it's a self propelled wheelchair!!!! It's 60 euros I think. For a start I wouldn't put my Granny in one cos if it's anything like the condoms it's ****. All sorts will be investing in one to roll up in one to get sick payments from the social welfare office.


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    #139
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    UglyBolloxFace wrote: »
    Off topic, but am I the only one who cringes when I hear this word?

    No, but it's better than 'my fiance'


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    #140
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    Don't know why everyone's giving out about Aldi wine - I often get an Australian Shiraz and a Gewurtztraminer both for like 5 euros and they're beautiful - also love their version of Baileys! Never had any problems :confused:
    I do most of my shopping in Aldi - bought everything from steak to beauty products and they all were just as good as any Tesco, big name or Dunnes brand.


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    #141
    Cantona's Collars
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    cocoshovel wrote: »
    Their cereal.

    Aldi cereal is grand,the cornflakes taste the same as Kellogs and are a fraction of the price.
    Cereal in Lidl is rank.

    Companies supplying Aldi & Lidl:

    Aldi

    Over 45% of all grocery sales at Aldi are generated on products bought from Irish suppliers, producers and manufacturers.
    Who makes Aldi products?
    Bewleys / Robert Roberts – all coffees and teas
    Natures Isle – fresh poultry, Irish Angus beef, pork, lamb, all sourced from RoI farms and Bord Bia certified.
    Irish Yogurts / Town of Monaghan Co-op / the Different Dairy Company – yogurts
    Odlums – flour


    Lidl

    Lidl say they are “committed to using as many indigenous suppliers as possible in the production of its own brand products.”
    Pat the Baker - granary bread and scones
    Johnston Mooney & O Brien - hot dog rolls and burger buns
    Olhausen – Premium pork sausages
    Irish Yogurts (Clonakilty) – Premium yogurts
    Town of Monaghan – Irish creamery butter
    Liffey Meats (Cavan) – fresh beef
    Cooley Distillery – whiskey
    Oakpark Foods (Tipperary) – Glensallagh streaky bacon
    Donegal Creameries – 1 litre milk carton
    Seerys (Carlow)– triple chocolate cake and luxury lemon cake
    Glenpatrick – Flavoured water
    Begleys (Dublin) – fresh fruit and veg
    The Scullery – relish (small supplier, relishes developed with Lidl)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056195473


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    #142
    Caraville
    Registered Users Posts: 854 ✭✭✭Caraville


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    UglyBolloxFace wrote: »
    Off topic, but am I the only one who cringes when I hear this word?

    No, but it's better than 'my fiance'

    "Hubby" is way worse than fiance. Sure what else are you supposed to call your fiance? There's never an excuse for Hubby though, ever.

    Back on topic, Aldi do the most amazing balsamic dressing glaze thingy, so flippin delicious.


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    #143
    tan11ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭tan11ie


    Don't buy the cleaning products as they are ****e!

    I recommended the potato gratin ;) delish!


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    #144
    Stavro Mueller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,673 ✭✭✭Stavro Mueller


    Beef from Lidl. Once chanced it and it was like the sole of a jackboot. On the hand the Angus steaks in Aldi are really good.

    Some of those scary looking sausages in jars..Bockwurst or whatever it is they call them

    Those glass jars with fishy tails in them :eek:


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    #145
    rossie1977
    Registered Users Posts: 11,342 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    lidl sell franziskaner beer (for €1.70 a bottle) which is on a different planet quality wise to the likes of bud, heineken, carlsberg etc http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/142/1946


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    #146
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    cymbaline wrote: »

    Some of those scary looking sausages in jars..Bockwurst or whatever it is they call them

    Those glass jars with fishy tails in them :eek:

    Those products are pretty standard in European super markets to be fair and I've noticed that Dunnes now stocks them for Polish shoppers.
    Their medallions of steak is the one to get - melts like butter - if you think it's like leather then you're over cooking it.


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    #147
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    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.
    Try their Angus steaks. Best steak I've ever had.


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    #148
    Recessionbust
    Registered Users Posts: 243 ✭✭Recessionbust


    Polish remover - doesn't work at all :-/


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    #149
    Caraville
    Registered Users Posts: 854 ✭✭✭Caraville


    Recessionbust wrote: »
    Polish remover - doesn't work at all :-/

    Ah I dunno about that, a good few of them are gone back all the same


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    #150
    Recessionbust
    Registered Users Posts: 243 ✭✭Recessionbust


    Caraville wrote: »
    Recessionbust wrote: »
    Polish remover - doesn't work at all :-/

    Ah I dunno about that, a good few of them are gone back all the same

    It didn't work for my OH, had to resort to the other methods ;-)


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    #151
    UglyBolloxFace
    Registered Users Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭UglyBolloxFace


    Recessionbust wrote: »
    Polish remover - doesn't work at all :-/

    Did you use it on natives of the country Poland or on nail varnish?


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