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Are you embarrassed where you shop

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    Hey Diddle Diddle, ALDI and LIDL,
    SUPERVALUE, TESCO watch out,
    DUNNES STORES are not over the moon,
    The poor little CENTRA just cannot compete,
    And the Cash ran away with the Purse


  • Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    5rtytry56 wrote: »
    Hey Diddle Diddle, ALDI and LIDL,
    SUPERVALUE, TESCO watch out,
    DUNNES STORES are not over the moon,
    The poor little CENTRA just cannot compete,
    And the Cash ran away with the Purse
    You know they're called nursery rhymes? :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 653 ✭✭✭skittles8710


    The only thing I'm embarassed about is my ulterior motives. I do a small shop in the local Supervalu as some fine male specimens frequent there.

    I do my main shop in Aldi.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    I'll shop anywhere from Dealz to M&S, from the euro shops to Dunnes and I don't give a gee what anyone thinks about it tbh!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭pcardin


    That's the one thing I'd avoid. I'd eat a bread sandwich rather than touch them.

    Heard a thing on the radio. Those cheap chicken fillets are most likely from Eastern Europe, they've been hawked all round Europe and they come to us (furthest away) right on the end of their legal to eat date.

    Irish meat or go without ;)

    and here comes the sneaky Eastern Europe = third world = lesser humans comment again, didn't take too long. :mad:

    I've actually seen a TV program why no one should buy any pork meat from Ireland. Check YouTube, that video is still on. ;)

    Having said that, I would be worried to touch chicken fillets for 40c either no matter where they come from, just too suspicious. :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    You know they're called nursery rhymes? :pac:

    better attempt here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Well I buy Bord Bia quality assured fresh meat from lidl- no complaints


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    pcardin wrote: »
    and here comes the sneaky Eastern Europe = third world = lesser humans comment again, didn't take too long. :mad:

    Well it was more a comment on how far the things have travelled rather than trying to make some sort of Borat reference, but be my guest.

    I've actually seen a TV program why no one should buy any pork meat from Ireland. Check YouTube, that video is still on. wink.png
    I hear YouTube is quite big these days. Put the link or make the point.
    Having said that, I would be worried to touch chicken fillets for 40c either no matter where they come from, just too suspicious. rolleyes.png
    Awwww shucks, so you agree with me, you just want to have a go at my East European attitudes?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭jobbridge4life


    That's the one thing I'd avoid. I'd eat a bread sandwich rather than touch them.

    Heard a thing on the radio. Those cheap chicken fillets are most likely from Eastern Europe, they've been hawked all round Europe and they come to us (furthest away) right on the end of their legal to eat date.

    Irish meat or go without ;)

    Eh... it is Irish meat. It can be any meat that wasn't sold. The quality has nothing to do with at all. I've gotten organic, irish corn feed chicken for 40 cent.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 604 ✭✭✭Vandango


    I'll use Aldi in Ireland and I use Aldi in Holland. I couldn't care less about where people shop tbh.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Eh... it is Irish meat. It can be any meat that wasn't sold. The quality has nothing to do with at all. I've gotten organic, irish corn feed chicken for 40 cent.

    Fair comment - if it was Irish its probably fine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭jobbridge4life


    Fair comment - if it was Irish its probably fine.

    Its just the short dated stuff. As result of over stock and poor stock rotation. You can get literally anything that has a sell by date. From the most expensive Irish organic meat, to those awful processed microwavable burgers, to daily baked goods, to fresh cut flowers. You can actually live pretty well on it but you need to be able to get to a few different shops and at the right times and have a freezer. You also need to be aggressive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Are you embarrassed where you shop

    Fúck no and imo, you'd have to be pretty feeble minded to be embarrassed about where you shop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭pcardin



    Awwww shucks, so you agree with me, you just want to have a go at my East European attitudes?

    I agree on 40c piece part which you could also describe without involving sneaky Eastern Europe comment. An hell yeah, I didn't like you attitude.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    It pays to buy your **** materials in a discrete fashion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Like others have mentioned you can always wear a hoodie or a hat and sunglasses if you're worried about been seen in Lidl. It's a bit sad though, people need to get over this hangup.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    pcardin wrote: »
    I agree on 40c piece part which you could also describe without involving sneaky Eastern Europe comment. An hell yeah, I didn't like you attitude.

    Shucks and I was hoping we could have been buddies.

    You chose to read into the comment, what you chose to read in to it. My intention, as I believe was the intention of the radio programme I heard, was to say that chicken transported by road from the furthest part of europe from us would hardly be at its freshest, when it reached us for sale.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    It pays to buy your **** materials in a discrete fashion.

    Are you not better off buying them all at once? :pac:

    Aldi's closest to me right now, so I mostly shop there. If I'm in the vicinity of Tesco I usually go in and check the reduced fruit and veg, got a bunch of bananas there for EIGHT cent a couple of days ago, obviously they were pretty...ripe but I just used them for banana bread. Other times I'd get stuff that's grand for stews and soups.

    I go to the Asian food shop near me too because you get some stuff crazily cheap in there, god knows how they can sell it at those prices though.

    Clothes are almost all second hand, don't care who knows.

    One place I do avoid is Dunnes. When I was a kid I used to wonder why all the staff were so grumpy and miserable looking, from college onwards I started meeting people who worked for them and it all made sense


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Go where you get value...

    For me its Aldi all the way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,955 ✭✭✭beardybrewer


    I saw a Maserati Quattroporte parked at Aldi the other day. Is being worried about being caught in Aldi/Lidl really still a thing? My only problem with being seen shopping smart is the crowds since the rest of the country wised up after the recession.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Before shopping in Aldi and Lidl each week I do a quick look around the 4 charity shops in town. Embarrassed? No. I tend to wear only quality brand name clothes that no way could I afford otherwise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    Genuine question but when did m&s become considered as an upmarket supermarket?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    kupus wrote: »
    Genuine question but when did m&s become considered as an upmarket supermarket?

    Since the 70s in our house. My mum used to love her annual shop in M&S and made sure that half the town knew about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    kupus wrote: »
    Genuine question but when did m&s become considered as an upmarket supermarket?

    In the UK M&S has always been considered in line with Waitrose for food. I can't afford to do a weekly food shop in M&S.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 360 ✭✭The Dogs Bollix


    I always shop in lidl and aldi and have done so for years. I save so much compared to other shops.

    I have a family member who turns up their nose at the German shops. But they have recently went in and came out boasting how great it was and how much you save. They only buy cleaning products. Like the food isn't worth it or something. But its okay for the rest of the country.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    I always shop in lidl and aldi and have done so for years. I save so much compared to other shops.

    I have a family member who turns up their nose at the German shops. But they have recently went in and came out boasting how great it was and how much you save. They only buy cleaning products. Like the food isn't worth it or something. But its okay for the rest of the country.

    I'm sure a lot of us have stories like that, our next door neighbor was exactly the same wouldn't go near Lidl saying what a frightful shop it was but now they do their weekly shop there. The reversal was so obvious its become a local legend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    If I have the money I'll generally shop in Dunneses, as I feel Ben Dunne is my kind of guy.

    If Im looking to penny pinch, or just want to see what's fashionable among people who do drugs, it's Lidl.

    Lidl reminds me of when I was on the (Bob) Dole. (and didn't have a bob)

    The only place i'd be embarrassed of shopping would be an adult store, for a dido or what have you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    If I have the money I'll generally shop in Dunneses, as I feel Ben Dunne is my kind of guy.

    Getting caught doing coke with prostitutes and bribing politicians before getting forced out of the family business could happen to the best of us.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    If I have the money I'll generally shop in Dunneses, as I feel Ben Dunne is my kind of guy.

    If Im looking to penny pinch, or just want to see what's fashionable among people who do drugs, it's Lidl.

    Lidl reminds me of when I was on the (Bob) Dole. (and didn't have a bob)

    The only place i'd be embarrassed of shopping would be an adult store, for a dido or what have you.

    I think you would be embarrassed asking for a dido?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    uch wrote: »
    I've seen a lot of people recently trying their one man up manship about where they shop, but could you really give a shít, it's all about price for me. Is the Celtic Tiger back. Does it matter if it's Tesco, Aldi, Lidl or wherever suits best, or are we back to the days of shíteing on about how great you are because you paid €5 for a pound of butter in some fancy shop

    I make a very good living and have no mortgage, I have a pretty high level of expendable income, I still check for Aldi super six and special buy items.

    I'd rather spend big money on a weekend in Berlin or a ski trip in France than on my weekly shop.


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