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

aaabbbb · 29-07-2012 11:37PM

zerks wrote: »

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.

I know that , but this one was so bad you could actually see it without a microscope !

Fuinseog · 30-07-2012 09:01AM

juan.kerr wrote: »

Do they still do the full chicken in a tin?

never seen chicken in a tin unless its some kind of stew or goulash like campells produces for sale in dunnes. BTW dunnes has a whole load of products I would not touch with a barge pole like ham in a can.

aldi and lidl helped bring down the prices of groceries in this country.

IvySlayer · 30-07-2012 09:07AM

I'd buy most things in Aldi, except meat.

I love the outrageous rip off of other products though

Not Weetabix, but Wheet Bisks. Identical yellow box they come in too :pac:

haminka · 30-07-2012 09:10AM

aaabbbb wrote: »

I know that , but this one was so bad you could actually see it without a microscope !

Are you trying to tell us that your friend saw salmonella microbes without the microscope? That must have been a great laser surgery.

SerialComplaint · 30-07-2012 09:18AM

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:

aaabbbb wrote: »

I know that , but this one was so bad you could actually see it without a microscope !

Your friend was confident enough in their findings to report the risks to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, and to Lidl - right?

Fuinseog · 30-07-2012 09:20AM

IvySlayer wrote: »

I'd buy most things in Aldi, except meat.

I love the outrageous rip off of other products though

Not Weetabix, but Wheet Bisks. Identical yellow box they come in too :pac:

I buy meat there but I am not too finicky and it suits my purposes. I notice when I go to the butchers I very often get poor quality meat. unless you are a housewife butchers tend to bull**** you.

Armaghmagic · 30-07-2012 09:21AM

Condoms......has anyone been brave enough and if so when is the little bundle of joy due?

haminka · 30-07-2012 09:25AM

I buy my meat in Aldi and it's a good quality. Depends on what and when you buy it, only happened to buy some dodgy smelling chicken fillets once and was given the money back and got an apology immediately.

Duggy747 · 30-07-2012 10:01AM

Whenever I'm in Aldi I have to buy the Titan bars and a box of Choco Pops; Coco Pops which don't cost a bar of gold.

Mmmmm, junk food....

30-07-2012 10:01AM

Anything edible.......no ****ing thanks.

suicide_circus · 30-07-2012 10:47AM

Buy almost everything is lidl. Im not hung up on marketing and i find their quality:value ratio to be second to none. Will only venture into tesco if i can't find what i need in lidl or aldi. Only hit the butchers if i'm buying fillet steak or a roast

joolsveer · 30-07-2012 11:01AM

I buy Angus steak in Aldi and it is usually excellent. An odd time it is a bit chewy. The quality is higher than I get in the local butchers. I have no issues with the majority of food items in Aldi. I don't go to Lidl much anymore.

suicide_circus · 30-07-2012 11:03AM

joolsveer wrote: »

I buy Angus steak in Aldi and it is usually excellent. An odd time it is a bit chewy. The quality is higher than I get in the local butchers. I have no issues with the majority of food items in Aldi. I don't go to Lidl much anymore.

yeah the meat is generally grand but the selection of cuts is limited.

monkeysnapper · 02-08-2012 11:57PM

I was really desperate and bought one of their 99p sandwiches, and fair play to them i thought they were a big pile of shiyte!!!! Only good for stoping doors slamming

JustAThought · 03-08-2012 12:12AM

Not mad on their chrisps. Very sharp & brittle. Even after I'd eaten the 17 bags of " okaey" buffalo chrisps leftover from the kids at the door at Halloween I still didn't really like them.

Merch · 03-08-2012 01:20AM

JustAThought wrote: »

Not mad on their chrisps. Very sharp & brittle. Even after I'd eaten the 17 bags of " okaey" buffalo chrisps leftover from the kids at the door at Halloween I still didn't really like them.

Wasn't there a thread mentioning how some of either Aldi or lidls crisps are made by a well known crisp place, ie the same stuff??

You went through 17 packs of crisps?!:D

NegativeCreep · 03-08-2012 01:25AM

I've never eaten anything from either Aldi or Lidl. Mammy does the shoppin in Superquinn. I've had some foreign variant of a snickers bar from Lidl in a friends house which were lovely.
I'd never buy any of them German sausage things that I've seen in Lidl. Ugh they look rotten. And for some reason I don't trust anything with a foreign brand name and I hate to eat anything when I can't read the nutritional information too

unkel · 03-08-2012 02:10AM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I've never eaten anything from either Aldi or Lidl. Mammy does the shoppin in Superquinn.

Awwww, such a sweet silver spoon

Report back here when you are standing on your own two feet with a family to support without any handouts from rich Mammy...

I'm not giving out, just saying that for many people realities have changed over the last few years..

seachto7 · 03-08-2012 02:11AM

sweets, biscuits, and the cereal especially. Rot the teeth out of your head...

NegativeCreep · 03-08-2012 02:14AM

unkel wrote: »

Awwww, such a sweet silver spoon

Report back here when you are standing on your own two feet with a family to support without any handouts from rich Mammy...

I'm not giving out, just saying that for many people realities have changed over the last few years..

Haha Mammy is far from rich I'll tell ya that :L The only reason she does shopping there is because it's right beside the school where she bring my nephew to school. It's just for convenience. She sometimes shops in Tesco too because it's not too far away either.

There's no way I'll be shopping in superquinn when I'm on my own two feet because I think it's ridiculous to spend such money on food :L

unkel · 04-08-2012 01:47AM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

The only reason she does shopping there is because it's right beside the school where she bring my nephew to school. It's just for convenience.

Only people with more than enough money at their disposal ever shop somewhere because it is convenient

NegativeCreep · 04-08-2012 01:49AM

unkel wrote: »

Only people with more than enough money at their disposal ever shop somewhere because it is convenient

She hasn't got a car so she has to go where is convenient :L Maybe that's why she has extra money; no car.

04-08-2012 10:39AM

unkel wrote: »

Only people with more than enough money at their disposal ever shop somewhere because it is convenient

That doesn't make them rich. Why the jealousy? People can do their food shopping wherever they want. My parents shop at Tesco and Sainsburys in the North. There's a Lidl fairly close to our house, but they never go there because the layout is really awkward and they can't find everything they want there so it would mean trips to other shops. They both work long hours, so time is money for them and running around Lidl and then other places isn't really worth it.

Personally, I shop at Aldi every week because I have the time to do so and it's only up the road. I pass a Waitrose on the way but no way am I shopping there - it's the British equivalent of Superquinn and probably even more expensive. I buy most things at Aldi, but especially like their fruit and veg, biscuits and occasionally meat, although I prefer to buy my meat elsewhere because the quality in Aldi can be quite bad. Myself and my boyfriend often get the weekly shop done for under £25.

out da lough · 04-08-2012 11:39AM

Irishchick wrote: »

Nothing. The milk is rank. Cakes and biscuits are dry and sickly sweet. Coffee is rank. The washing powder makes the clothes smell funny.

I did a price comparrison before. Every branded product in lidl and aldi was more expensive than the same branded product in tesco. Tesco always have offers on and their products are often cheaper than lidl or aldi. Plus tesco take coupons.

I found most of the checkout staff to be rude and Theres no baskets!!In my local Supervalu and tesco all the staff are lovely and will always help elderly people with their shopping.

Aldi is very good quality.
I use super valu as a convenience store when I need one or two bits.
I find tesco far too regimented: signs everywhere explaining how to shop and middle England accents on the self service tills.
Dunnes need to up their game: better value and great quality but not enough tills open at peak times.
Lidl puts manners on tesco which is good.
So out of the foreign retailers it would be aldi tesco lidl for me and out of our home grown ones it would be Dunnes followed by super valu.

Leiva · 04-08-2012 01:01PM

Recessionbust wrote: »

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

Judge Conall Gibbons get back in your box !

donegal_man · 04-08-2012 10:19PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

.................... And for some reason I don't trust anything with a foreign brand name .....................

Cars, televisions, dvd/blue-ray players, computers, fridges, freezers, microwave ovens??? :eek:

NegativeCreep · 04-08-2012 10:52PM

donegal_man wrote: »

NegativeCreep wrote: »

.................... And for some reason I don't trust anything with a foreign brand name .....................

Cars, televisions, dvd/blue-ray players, computers, fridges, freezers, microwave ovens??? :eek:

Im on about food. Horrid foreign name coupled with incredibly low prices spells food poisoning to me :L

Shenshen · 04-08-2012 10:57PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Im on about food. Horrid foreign name coupled with incredibly low prices spells food poisoning to me :L

Sure... 80 million Germans build those cars, TVs, microwaves, computers etc. In between lengthy toilet breaks during which they crap their guts out...

NegativeCreep · 04-08-2012 11:07PM

Shenshen wrote: »

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Im on about food. Horrid foreign name coupled with incredibly low prices spells food poisoning to me :L

Sure... 80 million Germans build those cars, TVs, microwaves, computers etc. In between lengthy toilet breaks during which they crap their guts out...

Quite.

WumBuster · 04-08-2012 11:09PM

I think this thread is proof that Lidl/Aldi and the stuff they sell is all just pure shyte.

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

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