Quality at Lidl and Aldi

In article , Alan writes

You're joking, aren't you?

Greede King produces insipid imitations of famous, unique British beers whose breweries they have taken over and asset-stripped, and Bud, being brewed in the UK by InBev, tastes nothing like the American version (notwithstanding the fact that it's a s**te lager anyway.)

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Mike Tomlinson
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In article , mark writes

If you think Lidl is bad, try a Netto sometime. The danger is that you might look rather tasty to some of your co-shoppers.

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Mike Tomlinson

They have excellent smoked cheese, great bratwurst, some excellent German beers. Granted you have to pick & choose, but I've found some excellent stuff in Aldi.

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The Medway Handyman

And what's wrong with Cola at 15p for 2 litres?

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Alan

usually tomato soup tastes better with more tomatoes though

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Kevin

In message , Alan writes

I presume you those brand names in as a joke - especially "Bud"

proper Budweiser no longer exists AFAIK

... but I've quite often heard people say something like "it's a good lager, it's 5.2%"

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geoff

Now that Gateway hath gone... :-)

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Rod

yeah - it's called taste

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geoff

Which has what, exactly, to do with quality of beer

by your argument, rectified spirit would be best

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geoff

nothing if you like the taste

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Kevin

Nothing wrong with Well Shagged olive oil.

mark

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mark

the same as you're earlier reply touché

"a mathematical quantity of fruit/meat does not directly correlate to "freshness of produce" or "taste of produce" both of which I rate far higher than whether the item contains "real" meat or scraps.

IME Aldi produce scores very low on the latter two A bit like basing the quality of beer on the quantity of alcohol on it"

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Kevin

In message , Mike Tomlinson wrote

Yes

But Greene King keep telling their publicans that their brews are the leading UK 'brands'. The public demand bland beer that doesn't offend, God forbids they brew anything with flavour. No wonder 10 tied pubs are closing each week.

I was under the impression that it was brewed in the Czech Republic. The stuff that Inbev brew is a dumbed down American copy. However Inbev also manufacture that other quality maize lager Stella Artois which apparently is 'reassuringly expensive' at around 50p/pint in supermarkets.

Often peoples perception of quality revolves around well known brand names even if the name has been sold on multiple times and the original ethos of quality disappeared a couple of decades ago.

Nothing brewed under licence tastes the same, especially if also brewed in a different country.

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Alan

Oh yes it does. Still on the shelves in Asda next to the Urquell and an impressive range of other Czech lagers.

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Steve Firth

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Steve Firth

It occurs to me that De Nile is not just a river in Egypt.

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Steve Firth

I don't think so

You appear to have got somewhat confused

not me ^^^

Which, if it went over your head was saying that beer doesn't necessarily taste better because it has more alcohol in, although some people seem to equate the two

I would say that tomato soup tastes better with better tomatoes in

taking your argument to the extreme means that the best tomato soup has no other ingredients

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geoff

In message , Alan writes

Vuncz zupon a tiim, zere vas a zmall country called Czekslovakia whwere they brewed a fairly palatable bottom fermenting alcoholic beverage which they called Budweiser

Ze nasty capitalist Septics came along, stole the name and registered it and the poor underdog east europeans weren't allowed to use the name any more

or something like that ...

I do remember having an argument with some SFB who stated that Septic Budweiser was the best beer in the world - his reasoning being that they sold more beer than anyone else (prolly also rubbish, I can't remember)

or the person in Greece who thought that greek tomatoes were best (another septic) because they sold more than anyone else in europe

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geoff

you replied to the post "a mathematical quantity of fruit/meat" you answer of "quantity of alcohol etc" then my reply was more tomatoes ETC you replied Which has what, exactly, to do with quality of beer which was exactly the same alcohol in relation to the amount of meat as my reply

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Kevin

In the current economic climate it will be down to about 50p/litre in the new year and probably lower when the bumper Californian harvest arrives on the world market..

Correct, it's marketed as Extra-Virgin Olive oil and 'obtained directly from olives and solely by mechanical means'.

If, as you keep claiming, it has been heat treated and it isn't really olive oil then it should keep for a couple of years, just the same way that oil from other supermarkets has a two year life expectancy.

I doubt if more than 1 in 10,000 Aldi customers actually purchases olive oil as a superior sunflower oil is available for frying reconstituted chips at a much cheaper price.

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Alan

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