There was a time when I thought of Lidl as a terrible place strewn with the detritus of society, people too scurrilous even to be allowed into Iceland or Aldi. I’ll tell you what though, I was very, very wrong.
Well no, actually, I wasn’t. There’s some weird folk go in there, people who spend the daylight hours beneath rocks and at the back of caves, but the food is pretty decent. For example, you can buy lobsters and pheasant and something that looks like it might be a fish but doesn’t taste like it. I mean, ok, they’re frozen and you wouldn’t serve them in a restaurant, but they’re tasty and that’s all I’m fussed about.
I’ll admit to retaining a certain amount of suspicion about the place, I’m not that sure that I’m not eating food comprised solely of ash and MSG just yet, but I’m slowly coming around to the idea that, just because it’s cheap, doesn’t mean it’s principal ingredients are broken glass and poison. I could be wrong, obviously, but most of the stuff just appears to have been imported from Germany and Spain. I’ve been pretending that I’m eating holiday food which makes for fun mealtimes and a desire to buy postcards.
No Vla though, which is a shame. That crazy Dutch custard* is amazing stuff.
There is a downside however, namely that the presence of a Lidl indicates two things.
1. I live in a less than salubrious area (this is because I’m bohemian by the way. No, I am. Seriously. Stop laughing.)
2. Some poor bastards are being worked to the bone for tuppence so I can buy surprisingly nice lager for £8 a crate.
You can’t have everything I suppose.
*Does anyone else think that ‘Dutch custard’ sounds like a particularly seedy euphemism?
Hah! Vla is superb. Wow, bringing back memories of dutch camping and lashings of Vla for pudding in nice fern green plastic bowls. Who cares if it sounds seedy (yes, i agree) I’m a lover! Do you like hagel on toast ?
You know, I can’t recall what hagel is. Remind me. If it’s those butter muffin/pastry things, then yes. Lots.
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Actually, Lidl here is considered just another chain of supermarkets. Nothing so very interesting about it, yes, they do sell cheap, but not that much cheaper than let’s say TESCO.
I don’t go there much, because they do not sell the brands of food I prefer and they do not sell fresh meat.
But they do have the BEST icecream I have tasted in my life, it’s pure delicious insane orgasm in a box.
No James, hagel is not a bit of muff. It’s chocolate sprinkles in a box or you can get the pink and white balled variety. Rub it into just cooled toast with some decent unsalted butter and Bobs ya Uncle. The dutch live on it as well as Gouda, coffee and small lavatories.
Jez - In a roundabout way, that’s what I was thinking of. We used to eat it on these butter biscuit things that I can’t recall the name of. I can never get used to foreign toilets.
Arien - I’ll keep an eye out for the ice cream
I agree, foreign loos… all that odd flushing and sitting on floors, well, squatting. Personally, i would rather dig a hole and suffer a bramble up my arse.