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

leahyl

Love Aldi - some great products in there. Don't go to Lidl as much cos it's not as near as Aldi but I do love their bakery - the smell when you come in the door is divine!

Love Aldi smoked salmon - in a blue packaging. Granted it's Scottish smoked salmon but I find it nicer than the Irish salmon you get in Dunnes....

We still do our main shop in Dunnes but do go to Aldi for a lot of things too.

The quality of food is brilliant imo

K-9

Furzy wrote: »

So you believe everything they tell you? Their bread isn't fresh - they buy in readymade rolls and reheat them today and then tomorrow and probably the next day. Have you actually ever seen any freshly baked bread?

Their milk and eggs say fresh Irish milk/ eggs but at best they come from Northern Ireland - check out the UK stamp on their 'Irish' eggs. I used think they were OK but in fact they're a way bigger rip-off than Tesco. Has anyone noticed that Tesco prices have come down with the recession but Lidl prices stay the same or increase. Why do people still shop there for substandard products that are no longer sold at bargain priced??

Their milk comes from a Creamery in Donegal actually and 40/50c cheaper for a litre.

snubbleste

Anyone see barbecue sauce in Lidl/Aldi? Is it nice?

GunRunner

Cereal, coffee. - taste rotten.
Milk - goes sour too quick.

Fuinseog

aldi is good for wine, chocolate and sweets. most events I attend tend to serve aldi wine and cheese.

cleaning and hygene products are not the best. some beers in both places are dodge.

aldi and lidl have helped bring down the price of groceries.

Fuinseog

Irishchick wrote: »

Are you being paid by lidl and aldi or something?? Why cant you just accept that some people dont like the products they sell?

Irish people distrust cheap products cos they associate it with cheap quality and are also used to being ripped off.

Fuinseog

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Galahad lager, complete and utter pisswater:pac:

The razors in Lidl are crap also, I'd rather shave my face with a broken bottle.

you will not get everything in Lidl and Aldi and you have to be wise o some of the products, but by and large it quality at a decent price.

eth0

I rephuese to buy anything with a petrol engine out of lidl/aldi because it would more than likely have been made by chinese communist bastards who put a plastic piston in the engine.

Fuinseog

whippedcream wrote: »

Do aldi still do 12 cans of galahad for 8 quid?

Stuff would blow the face off ya!

so what dunes sells dutch gold and other cheap ****

Fuinseog

Stiffler2 wrote: »

I don't buy anything in Lidl or Aldi, I'm not a peasant.....

or a foreigner


or someone who wants value for money.

Capt'n Midnight

GunRunner wrote: »

Cereal, coffee. - taste rotten.
Milk - goes sour too quick.

rice krispies / sugar puffs are fairly similar

lidl sell genuine weetabix

when buying milk check the date - not exactly rocket science
the cartons have a tricolour on them , not sure if the 2L are Irish ?

dazed+confused

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Don't the Lidl condoms have the quality assurance symbol on them?

I was going to make this point but I am still 100% behind the people who don't trust them, I wouldn't either!

Likewise with the milk (It comes from NI)
Bread (It is not baked in store, it comes in frozen and they heat it up, like that Cuisine de France sh*te)
Ketchup
Toothpaste

The trick with Aldi and Lidl is to buy the "German Looking" stuff, the bacon lardons, the cured meats etc. They've been selling it for years and the quality is really good.

jupiterjack

will try everything there but dont think i would buy the dog food...

WumBuster

Toothbrushes, never again..Dont clean properly and after a few months of using them I was spending a fortune at the dentists trying to sort my teeth out

Pottler

jupiterjack wrote: »

will try everything there but dont think i would buy the dog food...

Because your dog deserves better than you do?? I presume it sleeps on the bed while you kip on the floor. I'd do the opposite, give fido the Lidl dog food and save the caviar for me. When Fido gets up off his hole and gets a job I'll start giving him the dear stuff.

GunRunner

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

rice krispies / sugar puffs are fairly similar

lidl sell genuine weetabix

when buying milk check the date - not exactly rocket science
the cartons have a tricolour on them , not sure if the 2L are Irish ?

I've gotten milk there that's gone sour within 2 days, even though though the expiry date was 4 or 5 days later. There's nothing wrong with my fridge either, it's never happened with milk from any other shop.

yellowtrout

GunRunner wrote: »

I've gotten milk there that's gone sour within 2 days, even though though the expiry date was 4 or 5 days later. There's nothing wrong with my fridge either, it's never happened with milk from any other shop.

Have to agree with you here.
I posted this a few months ago-I found the milk was always going off and it wasn't my fridge either, plus it never happened with milk from other stores.

I wouldn't buy toothpaste from Aldi/Lidl (I need my Sensodyne-yes I tried Aldi's own brand of sensitive toothpaste and it tastes horrible)
Also wouldn't buy face wash again. Tried one before and it was like wallpaper paste.

I'm happy to buy most things there though.
PS-Anyone else find Aldi never seems to have many green peppers? Only red?
Or is it just me?

Sea Filly

I've eaten and enjoyed food from Lidl and Aldi.

But I'm mightily put off them by the VERY long ingredients list for many of their products, where the ingredients lists of the same products from other supermarkets will be much shorter. The more ingredients, the more processed the food.

mikom

candy-gal1 wrote: »

dark rum, condoms, and coke/lemonandlime

Sounds like a good night in....

AnonoBoy

candy-gal1 wrote: »

Id buy everything in Lidl tbh, the only things id say that actually doesnt taste the same or that i just wouldnt get to me as other brands would be their dark rum, condoms, and coke/lemonandlime methinks.

A connoisseur no doubt. :pac:

_coinin_

What I like from Aldi: ground coffee, all dairy, Meat, Juice, Chocolate, alcohol, Fruit and veg, Lidl muslei is delicious.

I woundnt buy the toothbrushes, vitamins and things like that from there though. I would buy a brand name

But what I refuse to buy would be fruit and veg from Tesco. Mank

Lawrence1895

WumBuster wrote: »

Toothbrushes, never again..Dont clean properly and after a few months of using them I was spending a fortune at the dentists trying to sort my teeth out

I was always told to change the toothbrush after 4 weeks, no matter if they come from a German retailer or Dunnes

ruthloss

I left Tesco's for Aldi. I save at least E60 a week!

Don't buy Washing Powder, Sausages, Rashers or Coffee there though.

Their Rashers are so salty they would attack you from the plate!

Seanchai

I enjoy both. Far fewer Union Jacks emblazoned on all the products in Lidl or Aldi. Far less rabble-rousing nationalistic shít (wrong country, arseholes!) - in fact, I've never seen it - in either store compared to Tesco and M&S.

The British retailers in Ireland really need to get over themselves. The USSR and US won WWII for Britain, and the Germans won post-WW II. Shít happens. Time to move on, and all the Union Jacks on all the British products in the world will not hide the decline in British power and the rise in German power.

Anyway, I'd trust the quality of a German manufactured product quicker than I'd trust the quality of a British manufactured one. As would most people outside Britain (and judging by the number of German cars in Britain, quite a few Brits feel similarly).

Fuinseog

WumBuster wrote: »

Toothbrushes, never again..Dont clean properly and after a few months of using them I was spending a fortune at the dentists trying to sort my teeth out

true

Third_Echelon

The "Bran Flakes" in Lidl are excellent.... 79c for a box compared to 3.40 or something like that in Dunnes or Tesco for a smaller box and they taste a lot better...

Lidl and Aldi do have great stuff, but I wouldn't buy everything there...

I do love their random-cr@p aisles with petrol powered generators, steam powered washers etc! :-)

Fuinseog

Third_Echelon wrote: »

The "Bran Flakes" in Lidl are excellent.... 79c for a box compared to 3.40 or something like that in Dunnes or Tesco for a smaller box and they taste a lot better...

Lidl and Aldi do have great stuff, but I wouldn't buy everything there...

I do love their random-cr@p aisles with petrol powered generators, steam powered washers etc! :-)

it never was the intention that you buy everything there. for the general shopping it cannot be beaten.

Third_Echelon

Fuinseog wrote: »

it never was the intention that you buy everything there. for the general shopping it cannot be beaten.

yeah i agree

Cantona's Collars

jupiterjack wrote: »

will try everything there but dont think i would buy the dog food...

Watched a show on food the other day & they went to a factory making dog food,believe it or not,it has to be fit for human consumption.Dogs don't care what it says on the label.

We,along with an ever growing number of people do our weekly shop in Lidl or Aldi & it saves us a fortune (if I stay away from the gadgets on offer)

Fuinseog

zerks wrote: »

Watched a show on food the other day & they went to a factory making dog food,believe it or not,it has to be fit for human consumption.Dogs don't care what it says on the label.

We,along with an ever growing number of people do our weekly shop in Lidl or Aldi & it saves us a fortune (if I stay away from the gadgets on offer)

for years there was a stigma attached among Irish people about shopping there.

one or two restaurant critics have hinted that some of the food they have eaten in restaurant tasted a lot like the products in aldi.

lidl and aldi with their special offers have made 'posh' food affordable.

Venison and pheasant is a lot cheaper in Lidl than regular supermarkets.

Cantona's Collars

Fuinseog wrote: »

for years there was a stigma attached among Irish people about shopping there.

one or two restaurant critics have hinted that some of the food they have eaten in restaurant tasted a lot like the products in aldi.

lidl and aldi with their special offers have made 'posh' food affordable.

Venison and pheasant is a lot cheaper in Lidl than regular supermarkets.

I know one person who's still like that & she won't be caught dead in Penneys either,yet her husband shops in Lidl.

stovelid

Seanchai wrote: »

I enjoy both. Far fewer Union Jacks emblazoned on all the products in Lidl or Aldi. Far less rabble-rousing nationalistic shít (wrong country, arseholes!) - in fact, I've never seen it - in either store compared to Tesco and M&S.

The British retailers in Ireland really need to get over themselves. The USSR and US won WWII for Britain, and the Germans won post-WW II. Shít happens. Time to move on, and all the Union Jacks on all the British products in the world will not hide the decline in British power and the rise in German power.

Anyway, I'd trust the quality of a German manufactured product quicker than I'd trust the quality of a British manufactured one. As would most people outside Britain (and judging by the number of German cars in Britain, quite a few Brits feel similarly).

You. Are. Mad.

Pottler

stovelid wrote: »

You. Are. Mad.

I.Don't.Agree.With.You
- seems a fair enough point he/shes making tbf.

monkeysnapper

i started off buying 1 or 2 things from aldi and thought ,, mmm thats quite nice, then 2 years down the line i buy all my stuff from there because i find the quality so good, if i was to be pushed then id say i dont like the bread, im a brennans man myself,
on the ceriels i remember buying the weetabix version in lidle or aldi i cant remember and they were ****e , and so was the cornflakes , then 2 months ago i was to lazy to go to tesco and i bought the branflakes and they were lovely, and so was the cornflakes.they must have changed their supplier.

Aldi do say that they do there own brand because they can control the quality and price, if one of the 2 dont meet its target then they either stop supplying it or find a new supplier.

Strawberry Shortcake

Dish washing tablets are rubbish.

huey1975

Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

Then it's not bread, it's toast.

Yeah but I don't think anyone buys toast in a supermarket

monkeysnapper

huey1975 wrote: »

Yeah but I don't think anyone buys toast in a supermarket

what is brushetta then

Seanchai

stovelid wrote: »

You. Are. Mad.

:rolleyes:. In explaining your, em, political sympathies on Irish-British things, you've previously admitted that you were born in Britain and you incessantly tell us in every thread you get the chance about your pathological hatred for the GAA, or "bogball" as you call it when the chip on your shoulder is in full flight.

"Mad" suddenly sounds like a compliment.

e_e

Everything except the bottled water, fresh breads and these:

http://www.suessigkeiten-blog.de/files/2008/05/cherryoca-packung.jpg

huey1975

monkeysnapper wrote: »

what is brushetta then

****ed if I know. Is it even a word? I know the Italians eat something called bruschetta though!

monkeysnapper

huey1975 wrote: »

****ed if I know. Is it even a word? I know the Italians eat something called bruschetta though!

sorry, i had some in the press but couldnt be arsed to go see for the spelling, sooooooo would you call that "bruschetta " toast, its as close to burnt bread that i can think of

Mayo_Boy

Toilet paper. It just clings to your feckin' arse

squod

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

BlaasForRafa

swiss cheese pizza in aldi is absolutely rotten

the_syco

The alcoholic cider. Also, their home-brand ice-cream.

K-9

squod wrote: »

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

Must have met them all then! They are so quick scanning stuff they do tend to be short conversations!

the_syco wrote: »

The alcoholic cider. Also, their home-brand ice-cream.

Taurus from Aldi isn't bad, don't find any difference from Bulmers, but hard to beat Koppangers.

Agree on the ice cream.

stovelid

Seanchai wrote: »

:rolleyes:. In explaining your, em, political sympathies on Irish-British things, you've previously admitted that you were born in Britain and you incessantly tell us in every thread you get the chance about your pathological hatred for the GAA, or "bogball" as you call it when the chip on your shoulder is in full flight.

"Mad" suddenly sounds like a compliment.

I think the term was silage ball.

Grayson

I was a vegetarian for years. I found that the veggies in lidl were better and they had a far bgger selection of organic veggies. However as a meat eater again i can honestly say that I wouldn't touch any of the ready meals (including stuff like pies) in there. Disgusting grisley stuff.

i know a lot of people who say the tea is pretty bad too.

Duggy747

Having worked in Lidl, you were only allowed a half hour break at max so you didn't have much time to eat and were forced to eat from the delights of the shop.

Desperately, one day I bought the microwaveable donor kebabs. Tasted like dried out rubbish.

The smell out of me afterwards was cruel, we had to evacuate the town because people assumed it was a chemical attack.

Oh, and the seaweed pizzas look like mouldy old vomit.

somefeen

I do all my shopping in lidl now, only go to tesco if there is something specific I need.
The only thing I've tried and absolutely detested was their pasta sauce, ****ing hell I actually hate it with a passion, why why would you sell such ****e. Its mank.
Their chocolates pretty good but I wouldnt buy the rip off mars bars etc

The el tequito chilli sauce is excellent though, and I can go in there and buy whatever the hell I want and it usually only comes to like 20-30 quid, try that in tesco and you're fuced.

Tesco is for rich people and their chorizo and salami is crap in comparison to Lidl's.