British food week at Lidl (from Thursday 5.Jun.08)

My wife brought a flyer home today and next week it's British week at the Lidl from Thursday June 5, 2008.

Specialities like steak pies, baked beans, cheddar cheese, shortbread biscuits, malt vinegar and porridge.

All from a firm called Hatherwood.

Including also fish and chips, vinegar, pickle and CRISPS THAT AREN'T PAPRIKA FLAVOUR!!!

Click to find your nearest Lidl store.

Info about Lidl from Wikipedia:

Lidl is a European discount supermarket chain of German origin that operates 7,000 stores. In Germany it is Aldi's main competitor. Lidl has established itself in over 17 countries. It was founded in the 1930s by a member of the Schwarz family. In the 1970s, the first Lidl stores of today's incarnation opened. Lidl is not an abbreviation, but the last name of Ludwig Lidl, a retired teacher.

It has become an iconic shop for low earners (pikeys) because of its mainly low pricing and as such is sometimes joked about.

Hatherwood isn't a company. It's just one of a huge number of names Lidl owns for the use on its private label products.
http://www.findownersearch.com/owner/2334525/

no mention on the website yet.

True O.G. its as of the 05.06.2008.We tried the shortbread just before Christmas and they were good

Saw the flyer too. Chedder Cheese, proper chips/crisps which aren't paprika flavoured, chutney, pies...booyah!

Hope the cheddar is decent, the price for it in other places is fucking ridiculous. I bet the pies will be rank

Good morning, Sunshine.

Thanks for the heads up, Mik!

Fruity

Given that the Germans in general have an unjustified but ingrained poor view of British cuisine it could well be that few snap up the offers...

Heinz baked beams & a well-known make of shortbread biccies are available at several supermarkets in our area.

Thanks for the tip Mik! Really miss pies here...but as Mr Mosh says...they might not be the real McCoy or up to much.

nice one Mik thanks for the info!
here's the website to keep an eye out for waht's on offer.

Beans! Super awesome!

Thank you - but does it start on Monday or on the 5th June? They're not the same day.

You can get Heinz Baked Beans from lots of places already. REWE, EDEKA and I think Kaufland sell them, they cost just under a Euro a tin.
It doesn't say anywhere on here that it starts on Monday!

I'm hoping they'll be cheaper at Lidl.

Mods updated the title incorrectly. They'd have got away with it, if it wasn't for those pesky interfering kids.

Ah! I missed that!

Although I applaud the idea, I do question the buying and marketing descisions of lidl. If this weather continues as it is here in Munich with 30 degrees plus outside, which German in their right mind is ever going to consider a steak pie let alone porridge? Surely British food would achieve an increased take up and acceptance in the German Market in the more cooler months of Autumn and Winter?

Advantage is of course, the more the Hermans with their advanced and wide range of choice and experimental taste leave for us, the better. Sometimes crap marketing can be applauded.

Thx, Guy. I looked at the calendar over my left shoulder and saw 5, Monday, never realizing that it's a 3 month calendar and I was looking at May.

Baked beans and cheddar! Surely this is British food we don't want to be boasting about, let alone rummage around the Lidl Wühltische for?
Can anyone tell me where I can get hold of flapjack in Munich or environs?
That's the one and only Brtish food I miss.

I'm British and have never heard of these things, what on earth are they?

Dunno. To me flapjacks are thick pancakes.

There is a specialised flapjack stall in the Kaufinger Strasse. Next to the blackpudding shop, and inbetween the Haggis store and Real Ale Bitter and Mild Getränkemarkt.

As they are so popular and often sold out you may have to make them yourself.

In the UK, a flapjack is a tray bake (or bar cookie, for Americans) made from rolled oats, fat (typically butter), brown sugar and usually golden syrup or honey. ...

They're heavenly!

There is a specialised flapjack stall in the Kaufinger Strasse. Next to the blackpudding shop, and inbetween the Haggis store and Real Ale Bitter and Mild Getränkemarkt.

Thanks! For a moment I thought you were serious.

is there a specialist golden syrup shop as well or can i get that from Lidl? You can't make flapjack without Syrup.

Golden syrup is next to the eccles cakes shop.

Yes - The golden syrup shop is called Kaufhof - failing that Pomeroy and Winterbottom

mmm eccles cakes. love them.

My recipe. These are soft flapjacks. So lovely.

Flapjacks
Ingredients:
100g Demerara sugar
100g Butter
3 Tbsp Golden Syrup
175g Porridge oats
50g Desiccated coconut
1 tsp Baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 egg beaten
Method:
1.Put sugar, butter and syrup in a saucepan. Heat gently until melted.
2.Remove from heat and stir in rest of ingredients.
3.Press mixture in a shallow greased 20cm/8inch square baking tin. Bake in moderate oven Gas 4 for 20 – 30mins or until golden and firm to the touch.

You can buy golden syrup in Kaufhof

Flapjacks are one of the few things that I bring back from the UK, especially now that the airports have made it too complicated to bring beer back. They're great for hiking. They are, however, desperately easy to make yourself, even by my lazy standards. Real cheddar cheese is about the only other thing I bring back – that's a lot harder to make at home!

Why is everyone going nuts over Baked Beans? They are available in literally every supermarket here (the Heinz ones, exactly like in the UK).

On a side note, it would be nice if they had proper white bread for sale during this period.

I also fail to understand this... My kids (German/British 50:50) love beans on toast with bacon plus a fried egg...

Right went to lidl this lunch and picked up the list of stuff. Most of it is crap to be honest, basicly TV dinner Roast Beef obviously produced for chavs who shop in lidl in the UK. I mean who the hell is going to by frozen roast potatoes? Or worse still frozen fish and chips? Or Potatoe waffles for those who miss them?

THere are a couple of gems though.

Picallili with Mustard - 450g glass €1.29
Malt vinegar - 500ml €0.79
Mustard or Mint sauce for €0.89

Vintage reserve Chedder Cheese 15 months 400grams for €2.99

Cheddar Cheese with pickle 6-12 months 200 grams €2.29

Sweet pickle chutney - own brand branston basicly 454 gram (must be made in UK) for €1.29

the steak pie looks well like one you'd eat when a student but at €2.79 for 680 grams what the heck.

The rest of the stuff you can get here, corned beef, baked beans and blackcurrant juice.

I shall be queueing German style with sharpened elbows to snatch a kilo of the cheddar.

I'd buy the Frozen roast potatoes, if you can buy them separate from the meat part. My Mum buys them in England and they are excellent, although she doesn't get them from Lidl. I know you can do them yourself, but if they're good then it saves the hassle of peeling the spuds, boiling them etc. I shall have to have a look.

you'll be buying frozen yorkshires next...

oh and yep they are seprate in a 1 kilo bag.

Any tartare sauce? Yes I know... but the frozen fish and chips got me thinking about keenly-priced condiments...

Malt vinegar and Cheddar that isn't going to cost an arm and a leg! - I don't even know where my nearest Lidl is - I suppose I ought to go find out.

I agree with Allers on the frozen roast tatties. My mother uses them too and they work rather well.

PICCALILLI!!!

*slobber*

Is this how low we've stooped? Getting excited about shopping at Lidl?
Mmm, malt vinegar. Mmm, mature cheddar.

My Mums used them as well, they were ok, not as good as her own though. They haven't got any of them as well have they?

Here, just type in your postcode in the Filialsuche and you're away

Bet they won't put Marmite on the shelf! A must for all English babies at heart. Marmite soldiers...slurp!!

Yes - I found that all on my little self - I knew there wasn't one in the vicinity - according to them the nearest branch involves crossing the river. Might be too much effort just for a bottle of vinegar!

I go nuts for beans on toasts! But anything other then Heinz won't do!!!

No Kathrina.

Referring to Yorkshire Puds (frozen type):

They are sooo easy to make from raw ingredients. My family fight over them...

Eeeee - I see that the advert on post#45 say "Fertiggericht - Roast Beef Dinner ...mit goldenbraunem Yorkshire Pudding..."

and not here either

There are going to be quite a few folk with very full freezers, looking at that lot.

and the last one... note the salt and vinegar sticks mmmmmm..

That malt vinegar looks suspiciously not like any malt vinegar I've ever seen. Far, far too light in colour.