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

No way is it bland if you put a good coating of Gouda cheese on top of it

Thanks for the tip! There´s a Lidl just down the street from me. Have you checked out foodfromhome ? They´ve got stuff, fair prices, will ship (even frozen pies!) and have a NRW delivery van.

Thanks Again!

No, no, no, NO! Lidl should be burnt to the ground for even daring to offer that selection of crap.


Call yourself British, Sir. Cheddar if you please.

Cheese on top, and woorsestershiure sauce in it when you make it. Anyody who doesn't do that needs to put the potato pealer down slowly and take two steps back out of the kitchen.

I wouldn't mind a well hung Angus


Hmm, always thought San Pelegrino was Italian!!


I beg to differ, most people I know get a hankering for curry after the pubs close.

So a Hungarian who's native language is English...hmm now how did that come about

@Leky, a hungarian whos native language is english...

Would they be called Granville by anychance?...

shame theres not yorkshire puddings, or digestive biscuits or dairy milk... oh i miss England now lol

There is certainly plenty of good food to be found in the UK, but seriously, Dairy Milk does not fall into that category. The EU didn't even allow them to call it "chocolate" for many a year, so poor is the quality. I would also add Tetleys/PG Tips to the list of popular products that are objectively of appalling quality. You have to look a bit harder to find the really great food in Britain.

Corrected it for you. Personally I hate milk chocolate.

Chocolate snobs indeed argue that milk chocolate isn't chocolate at all. I don't agree with that; one can get very good milk chocolate, in my opinion. But Dairy Milk is a big step below even bad milk chocolate, with barely 10% cocoa and oozing in cocoa butter and sugar.

Of course there was political lobbying involved with the EU ban, but who can blame the other producers? They make a product that costs much more to produce but that shares the same title as Cadbury's products, so you can't really blame them for wanting the British ersatz-chocolate to be given a different label.

The chap or chapess opus claims to be Hungarian...not sure about the Granville bit, must be missing sommat

Open all hours.

Hi! I took a look at Lidl´s website. The things don´t look so great! As for flapjacks, I am not sure but I think you can get them at the bigger Edekas, like the one at the airport or the one in Taufkirchen.

You can make that at home! :-D


I hope so too... miss Cheddar Cheese :-)
Was told you can freeze cheese - hope it doesn't change the texture/flavour... Might have to stock up! :-)


You can make them at home!


Who the hell eats those crappy microwave meals anyway??? YUK!
The Germans have such a bad impression of British food as it is - I think many of these things that Lidl are selling are hardly going to help change that! :-}


You can make that at home! :-)


That wouldn't be a bad idea! I love those things! :-D


Actually, let's not forget that we once had a great empire and our interest in curries probably stems from our presence in India.
We are actually pretty open-minded about trying new things... In Bavaria they tend to be a bit nervous about trying new things (which seems to be changing slowly).


Preferably Harry! Did I *really* say that out loud???


Why is Opus getting his knickers in such a twist about British food?

You can't please everyone and probably not everyone likes Goulash. Opus, if you don't like British food, don't eat it... Actually, Hungary is only really known for Goulash - at least people around the world know us for Fish & Chips, Cakes & Scones & Tea, Puddings, Plum Pudding, Pies, Haggis, Roast Beef (and English breakfasts)! Actually so well known that the French sometimes call us "les rosbifs" LOL

One thing to note, we also don't have much in the way of English restaurants in England either, so why would you expect them around the world? We tend to eat good homely British cooking at home or as pub meals. We tend to eat in restaurants if we want to try something from another country.

Actually, whenever I make British dishes for "foreigners" (such as Apricot Crumble, Steak & Ale Pie, Christmas Cake), they have always been impressed... :-) They are actually a well-kept secret and you need to experience it with a British family to appreciate it... You can hardly judge British cuisine based on 2 experiences of Shepherd's Pie and Haggis! Try going to England some time to educate yourself...


You need to have the right potatoes... I find that a lot of the potatoes here don't quite have the same texture as back home when roasted...

ah you can get some blinding roasties with the spuds here. you just have to ask for the mega-mehlige kartoffeln.

But it's pointless if your girlfriend thinks they are just big chips though?

Well if you,re looking for a pie ... This is the one

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-s...-and-kidney-pie

God help us. I just went to the LIDL website to see what is on offer. Miserable selection of crap basically, and we seem to have spent 14 pages debating the subject.

Sounds like there is still some suppressed demand for better supermarket products to me. Or maybe we are all just bored.

I was gonna instruct her indoors what to purchase...or even go myself...but having looked at the goodies I shall save my beer tokens for a more meaningful purpose.

This is all to the good, the less people go, the more there is for me! I don't care if you lot don't like it, I will be buying some of the goodies and while you lot are all fart arsing about making everything from scratch, I shall be tucking into mine and enjoying every minute. (I hope)

sadly, yes

The French write books on our food too...pudding anyone? http://www.goosto.fr/recette-de-cuisine/th...le-10002284.htm

Great link Canaryman. Just this sentence alone -“Le crumble, dessert traditionnel britannique, est devenu incontournable en France ces dernières années" - makes you want to stick my bow fingers up.

It goes as crumbly as a wensleydale. The flavour usually remains.

Way hy man.Just bought 5 steak pies and we have already tasted one.Pastry is luvvvverlllly and flaky.Gravy and meat is ok.Wife did have it up too high in the oven so the base was a bit floppy.All in all not bad for the price

Are you talking about the lidl stuff Mik? I thought the Brit stuff came out on Thursday? don't tell me I missed it

yes please do tell! Are they stocking the english grub already?

I got a steak pie too! Going to eat it with peas, carrots and potatoes... oh yeah.

Can't wait until tomorrow morning... CRISPS!

What? the flame war over British food is over!? Time to throw more gas on the fire...


from yesterdays Metro
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?...mp;in_page_id=2

I am personally boycotting Lidl due to their Stasi-like illegal in-house spying, human rights violations and poor and discriminating treatment of their employees. Too many other good quality, cheap alternatives.

You my friend have been watching too much German tele and reading too many German newspapers.I know all 4 women that work at our Lidl and all are happy about it.One even swapped from Aldis to start at Lidl.Right then the cheddar cheese is good.The cheese and pickle is a personal favourite you either like it or not and later on when Christine gets all the stuff out then i am going to get some blackberry juice.Mix it with fizzy mineral water and hope for something like Ribena.

I suppose I will see how many brits live in my neighborhood at the lidl tomorrow.

What? In Germany? What are you on?

Regardless, staatsanwalt will be opening an official investigation and bringing charges against about hiring policies, unauthorized survellience and general forms of "mobbing". I guess he has been viewing and reading too much as well. Damn reading!

Not bothered C.C as our girls at Lidl are happy and they do a good job.I got the stuff yesterday out of the coolroom before it went on the shelves.Today i went up and she told me to go in there and get some cheddar.The boss came in and asked me what it was all about.Bought some cheddar cheese and opened it at the checkout where they both tried it and the promptly put some to the side for themselves.As to the mobbing side well i reckon we are talking about certain managers in certain Lidl stores.

LOL kartofelnwaffeln..

Holy shit, blackcurrent juice... I am now only a half pint of cider away from a diesal..

That malt vinegar looks like urine!

Got some of the Hezzervood malt vinegar - it's not quite as pale as in the photo, they must have backlit it.

The only thing I didn't see in our local was the scampi.

I thought this started tomorrow, how come your all getting the stuff today? Should I pop into Lidl on my way home?

Yeah, but once Mik mentioned it, I thought I'd give it a go. Guess the Lidl staff want to go home early tonight.

We have the scampi and i can tell you guys if the slae of the english stuff does well then Lidl may do it more often

Oh sorry, I forgot, not everyone is in Berlin where choices are abundant.

Scampi's no 1 on my list. Got a feeling it's not going to be exactly top drawer but looking forward none the less.

just was in Lidl, they have started selling the stuff already! Not everything is on the shelves though! mmmhh cheddar!

I have scampi and instant roast potatoes in the oven right now.

We'll see if it was worth walking the length of Kirchenstr. in the rain to get there.

so...got 5 blocks of cheddar...we tasted it already and can only say ´yum´! got some roast spuds in the oven now can report back on how they taste.
our Lidl at Allach only has the frozen stuff & the cheese out, the rest will come out tomorrow, will dash out in my lunch hour, want the Oh-So-Easy oats!!!
hee our freezer is stuffed with scampi, roast spuds and fish & chips!!!

Tatty waffles instead of roasts but pretty well the same here.

Liquorice Allsorts are pretty good as well!

We had the steak pie tonight...in my opinion the 220degrees they tell you to bake it at, is too high. Next time I'll bake it at 180, which is normal for pastry.
We had a very overbaked top...and unbaked base.

It tasted very nice...you have to look for the steak pieces... but the lovely thick meaty gravy makes up for that.
Out of 10 , I'll give it a 7
On the box they wrote ' succulent and tasty' and I fully agree.
Mrs Tom34

Yeah, we liked the steak pie too. Same result though, soggy base.

I went there there this evening and realised that I've never been in a Lidl before! It was an interesting experience, makes Penny Markt seem like Waitrose. There were some very odd people wandering around I can tell you. However, I bought some cheese and a couple of pies and two bags of roast potatoes. I wanted to buy a jar of the fake Branston Pickle but I couldn't find it and the only employee appeared to be the girl on the till, who was a bit busy so I'll go to the Lidl in Freising on Saturday. I had one of the pies for dinner with some of the roast spuds and it was very tasty, although I think, as Mrs Tom34 said the temperature was too high and the crust got a little burnt and the base was a bit soggy. I'm looking forward to tasting the cheese.

Lidl International is taking all this stuff very seriously (you decide if it's because they feel bad or because they're worried it'll reflect in lower sales figures!) and immediate changes have been made to procedures (CCTV in all 7000 stores and 150 Regional Distribution Centres has been adjusted to ensure it no longer monitors certain areas of the warehouse). Written statements have been made by the boards of directors of all Lidl national companies (Lidl GB GmbH, Lidl Ireland GmbH etc. etc.) outlining what Lidl Deutschland GmbH has been accused of and what it has actually been up to. In fairness to Lidl the CCTV monitors in all stores are clearly visible (located in the cafeteria) to all staff so they know what is being recorded. Work practices have changed immensely in Lidl across Europe in recent years especially in the last 12 months. In the old days staff timesheets were filled in by warehouse/store managers (who were measured on how many staff hours were used in their warehouses/stores) and could end up being 'shy' of the mark. Lidl abolished this and now all store and warehouse employees clock in and out and are paid to the minute-they control their own timekeeping now. There's been lots of these little changes to make sure employees are treated better and IMHO the store and warehouse staff on the 'bottom rung' are treated quite well (if even one employee in a store fails to get their minimum 11 hour rest between shifts the store manager and district manager must make their way to head office and explain to the Regional Director) and are paid more than the going rate for retail/warehouse work. HOWEVER... management are still often treated like sh!te and only the money keeps a lot of them working for the company but I know this isn't unique to Lidl. Anyway...lots of ex Lidl managers have made their way into more traditional supermarkets as they try to drive their cost base down by emulating Lidl's recipe where possible. Sorry for the meandering post...carry on about the cheddar!