Annoyed about the above purchases from ALDI LIDL and CENTRA recently.
ALDI, Sweet Clementines are anything but. Stringy, dry, and sour tasting with decay obvious behind the discoloured skins. Avoid at all costs. Somehow the packing for these survived the recycle bin, survived longer, and was in better nick than the fruit, see below.
CENTRA, baby potatoes, skins damaged, greenish tinge not initially visible inside the plastic bag. I steamed them, skinned and ate the best of them with plenty of pepper to try to instill some flavour, and fed the skins and the rest of the spuds to the dog. She's a gourmand rather than a gourmet so they vanished pronto (French & Italian in one sentence, now there's value for you!)
CENTRA, 4 tomatoes for €1. I should have known. Skins like leather, hard to slice with even my sharpest knife, they rendered a couple of ham & cheese sambos almost inedible. They're still in the bottom of the dog's dish. Corvid fodder.
ALDI LIDL Pink Lady apples, cardboard package of 6, discounted, see the receipt. Again, skin like iron, flesh dry and tasteless. The corvids at the bottom of the garden got the skins and cores, the flesh went into a stew.
CENTRA, Breakfast Muffins, both labelled as "sausage" as ordered, but on opening, one had soggy rashers, not sausage inside. Bought as a quick on-the-road snack for myself and my companion, this was not an enjoyable experience. We were headed to Cork for medical stuff and advance food was permitted. I got the soggy rashers, which I detest almost as much as the claggy "cheese" they contained. These seem to be clones of the O'Takeaways versions, but much, much worse. The bin on the first layby on the motorway ate better than we did. €8.00 wasted.
Photos and receipts for all are attached.
Cheap groceries are in danger of turning into the expensive, unenjoyable option. I'll give a couple of real shops a turn for a change.
ALDI, Sweet Clementines are anything but. Stringy, dry, and sour tasting with decay obvious behind the discoloured skins. Avoid at all costs. Somehow the packing for these survived the recycle bin, survived longer, and was in better nick than the fruit, see below.
CENTRA, baby potatoes, skins damaged, greenish tinge not initially visible inside the plastic bag. I steamed them, skinned and ate the best of them with plenty of pepper to try to instill some flavour, and fed the skins and the rest of the spuds to the dog. She's a gourmand rather than a gourmet so they vanished pronto (French & Italian in one sentence, now there's value for you!)
CENTRA, 4 tomatoes for €1. I should have known. Skins like leather, hard to slice with even my sharpest knife, they rendered a couple of ham & cheese sambos almost inedible. They're still in the bottom of the dog's dish. Corvid fodder.
CENTRA, Breakfast Muffins, both labelled as "sausage" as ordered, but on opening, one had soggy rashers, not sausage inside. Bought as a quick on-the-road snack for myself and my companion, this was not an enjoyable experience. We were headed to Cork for medical stuff and advance food was permitted. I got the soggy rashers, which I detest almost as much as the claggy "cheese" they contained. These seem to be clones of the O'Takeaways versions, but much, much worse. The bin on the first layby on the motorway ate better than we did. €8.00 wasted.
Photos and receipts for all are attached.
Cheap groceries are in danger of turning into the expensive, unenjoyable option. I'll give a couple of real shops a turn for a change.
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