I don't experience Sainsbury's as full of pretentious twohats. The ones in Wrexham and Chester are full of Polish or British white chav customers. Very many Polish peeps even chase you to wash your car for a fiver and then go in to buy their lunches. Sainsbury's clothing and pretend tat jewellery are so old fashioned. Waitrose, on the other hand, has young n' trendy public enemies number one shopping for their sushi lunch on daily basis. Yes, mainly bankers.

 

My wife has been working part time in Lidl for the last 18 months whilst our young daughter has been in nursery.

From what she says the store is always packed, with people from all walks of life...

 

LOL it's like me saying (which I won't) that we call all choir music a 'gay' music. You and your 'we' aren't cultured enough to appreciate a fine tasting herbal tea, so that's not my effin' fault.

 

Horrible cheap and nasty foreign rubbish .......

 

Sainsbury has always been as middle of the road as you could possibly get imo

 

You've never been to Gateshead then.

 

I used to shop at the Angel Sainsbury's when I lived in Islington, London. It was mainly full of black people. I don't think that the British white peeps generally class them as 'posh' regardless of how educated and wealthy some of them might be. I've never heard anyone calling Sir Trevor Macdonald (sp.) posh.

 

LOL if you're talking tea, then even normal tea is foreign. Even Yorkshire Tea is.

 

Exactly.

Either you pretend to be a snob on internet, or wake up and smell Lidl coffee FFS!

Nothing wrong with Lidl and Aldi type of superstores. I bet most of the peeps on here love their bargains, and I bet they go to Aldi/Lidl with their full family battalion every bleddy weekend to fill their boots!

 

I haven't been Gateshead , iv been across the river though in Howden and Wallsend where admittedly only went to lidl

 

TBH, until the point she started to work there I was to snobby to shop there thinking like others, that it's horrible foreign food.....It really isn't.

Her store has a bakery and its as good as any other supermarkets bakery. She regularly brings home fresh bread and cakes and I can't fault it........Another surprising thing is, they actually pay their staff more per hour than the Sainsburys, Adsa and Tesco.

 

Lol, it has a place, I do drink it occasionally (herbal "lesbian" tea that is)

Especially peppermint - good for settling the stomach

 

Ps I will shop anywhere, I am wearing Poundland reading glasses after all, and Lidl/Aldi, as long as the food is good, not bothered tbh

Good food is good food after all, although their coffee is ****

 

Tbh I don't know what Lidl/Aldi coffee tastes like. We only drink instant Campco () Milicano and Costa for ground filter coffee at home.

I bought a trendy rubbish bin in some Poundland sort of cheapie recently for £17.99. The same, I mean exactly the same bin was for £36.00 at Homebase. Bleddy robbers, man! I also bought a DVD called Valkyrie with Tom Cruise in it for a quid from Save the Children charity shop. One person's reject could be another person's gold! I'm not at all a snob. I'm a snob for not being a snob, me!

 

Saw those today, thought it was odd that they put donuts in with the fruit. Now I wish I`d picked some up.

 

They look like wobble bottoms lol

 

Hey, do, next time!

I've seen with the indigenous British, no matter how loaded they are, that they tend not to even try weird looking edibles but stick to the norm e.g. plain peelable tangerine, red apple, a straight forward (ok, it's literally a bit bent) boring banana, same old roast dinners and greasy F&Ch. I met a former work colleague with a financially over-satisfied lifestyle, in an upmarket experimental restaurant lately, and what did she order for her mains? Usual effing fish with usual effing chips! A few of my daughter's friends (and our proper adult friends) hadn't a clue wtf passion fruit, Sharon fruit, Seetaphal, avocado and artichokes were, and how to consume them; until they dined at ours and tried those things. I must admit I defiantly chose not to learn to eat my Chinese with chop sticks, but at least I know these weird veg n' fruit and I don't miss out on their wonderful taste.

Basically, have a courage to at least try weird looking fruit n' veg, don't just walk past it. If you don't like it, it can always go into the food waste bin for dust to dust, ashes to ashes destiny; to be risen again as your usual damson tree for you to make some usual British jam with it. One way or other, that's what happens to whatever we eat, anyway.

 

Hm, with their comparison to Churchill's face we can go syllogistic here, but we'll leave that. Instead, I suggest you do try them doughnut peaches with your eyes wide shut, if your perception refrains you from doing so. You don't know what you're missing, and it's a really delicious fruit if bought at Lidl.

 

I'm intrigued by the nutty-looking sweetmeats.

Are they as juicy as their -- seemingly, lesser brethren -- the common or garden peach?

Thanks for bringing 'em to my attensh.

 

Joz, not as juicy and soft in pulp but quite solid tbh. You can test it. If you hit some muscle man like Banny with a normal peach and then with a doughnut peach, you'll find that normal peach will shatter but doughnut peach will remain intact and leave a serious bruise mark on his bicep. Also, normal peach is a gamble in taste, whereas every doughnut peach is almost certainly much sweeter to put even pure honey in shame, man!

 

Ah, so analogous to the fillet or rump steak 'gamble'?

 

May be, I dunno. I'm not into steaks and **** like that. I still struggle to eat cow. I'd say analogous to coconut, strawberries etc. when you never know whether each of them are gonna turn out to be sweet.

 

Ah sorry TH - I hope I didn't offend.

Wasn't thinking.

 

Oh, no! Don't be silly, there's nothing to feel offended about eating cow here. I'll tell you the story which I've told over and over about 50 times by now, on Scoobynet. What happened was that when I first came to the UK in 1991, the great mother in-law (husband's late nan) invited us for dinner to her house in Berkinhead/Wallasey. She asked what meat I'd prefer to eat. I said- "Any, as long as it's not beef, because we don't eat cow in India". She asked- "Why?". I responded- "Because we worship cow as a holy creature over there ". She said- "Well, Indian cow may be holy but British cow isn't holy from any angle, no way, so just eat it". That was a moment of enlightenment for me and since then, I started to eat beef here, occasionally. However, I prefer it as a stew or a mince. Chops and fillets don't go down well for me.

So, no, no harm done, matey. I'm not that irrational.

 

 

Back to the Germanic superstores, I went looking for mini milk chocolates on Wed. to Lidl, after my work. First of all, they shut at 9pm, so I only had about 20 mins to nose, but then the chocolate I was looking for had frikkin' run out! So, I had to go to Aldi, as it's open until 10pm. Now what I want to inform you lot is that Aldi's Dairyfine mini milk chocolates are waaaay better than Lidl's Mister mini chocolates. Also, I found that Lidl were selling a twin pack of sweetcorn for 99p whereas Aldi sell the same atm at 89p.

Anyway, get your fine tasting chocolate from Aldi, not Lidl. Wrappers aren't as bright and catchy, but rise above it. Try Aldi's minted lamb kebabs as well. I bought them for the first time, and I guarantee you that you don't smell the animal farm when you're grilling or eating them. Very nice.