LIDL bakery counter - I don't understand!

[BeachBlondey]

Is this not the most unhygienic way to sell bread and pastries? With no wrappers on and sitting in the open air. People breath all over the stuff and can handle it without buying. Even in the middle of the pandemic, the food had no covers on. And doesn't it go stale quicker, just sitting there with no packaging? I'm not a germaphobe my any means, but it always seems a bit....ODD.

You're aware that "bakery" wasn't invented by Lidl?

It's the same in a normal bakery though - products on display, in the open air. Granted you can't usually touch them, the staff do that, but similar concept. Plus it's much better environmentally to not have all that plastic wrapping.

😂😂😂

We go every Thursday, choice of two in near village or town. Items are in a glass container, sides,/tongs and opening, just big enough to get your hand in to get items,Plastic gloves available there.

I agree with you. I like the food but by the end of the day I wouldn't be buying anything from there.

I’m not too worried about the open air, it’s when people use their bare hands to squeeze and handle each one before choosing - that’s just disgusting.

If they are baked in store they can't go into a wrapper until they are cold otherwise its a breeding ground for mould.

They are mostly covered in that they are stacked in essentially open ended plastic drawers. It’s good not to waste packagaing

The local bakery has bread out on wooden shelves and they are wrapped in paper (and carried home under my arm usually) The butchers has meat hanging in the window and stacked underneath. The greengrocers has fruit and vegetables in cardboard trays outdoors open to the elements and anyone walking by.

If everything was individually wrapped it would cost more and it's not as good for the environment.
This is how selling bakery goods have been sold since they were trading in caves by a bloke called Ugg.
Don't go to a proper butcher or deli counter....you might faint.

I know what you mean OP, all those people huffing and puffing like the big bad wolf over produce.

Better to wrap everything in plastic, no one gives a shit about the environment anyway, just as long as no one BREATHES near anything.

Frankly, I don't understand why shoppers just can't hold their breath.

I always take from the very back of the items if possible in Lidl where they are further away from being breathed on.

I do agree as I find it rather unhygienic but I was in Morrisons during the week and they have a stand of assorted breads and rolls that are the same. I never buy anything from that stand. It does seem to be pretty standard way to display in supermarkets.

Sometimes I go to a Farmer's Market, the bakery items there,are actually in the open air with no covering whatever. The fresh pastries etc in Lidl doesn't last enough to go stale. The reason pre-wrapped lasts so long is all the additives

OMG, food not wrapped in layers and layers of envonronmentally damaging, pointless, wasteful, unnecessary plastic?! How very dare LIDL, the only place to have ever in the history of shops, sold food this way.

You sound so sheltered.

We are INSANE about food hygiene in this country. It’s massively over the top.

You're not going to die from
someone breathing near some bread. Jesus fucking Christ.

Don't buy it then 😁

Should have done an AIBU OP!

The one near us has plastic covers - I never buy food that has been left on display uncovered.

All supermarkets have the same? Not just lidl?

Before plastic packaging existed, how do you suppose anyone coped?

They’re in plastic drawers, so I don’t get the ‘breathed on’ thing - surely they’re no more ‘breathed on’ than non-packaged fruit & veg - less, in fact? There are tongs, and I’ve personally never witnessed anyone fondling the baked goods without buying so I’ll give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Of all the odd things, Lidl’s bakery section is not one of them for me!

Marks and Spencers have them displayed like that too. I think some supermarkets do.

To be fair it always reminds me when I was living in France and I would go to the bakery to buy my bread, that smell of fresh bread would pull you in hehe

Lidl baguettes come in plastic already, when hot the plastic gets wet and I don't really like it.

Fruits and vegetables?

Ours has plastic covers and I’m happy to buy from there. Unlike Gloucestershire Services, a great motorway services but their lovely, organic, locally sourced bakery products are completely open to being fingered or sneezed upon.

You’re not a germophobe but you’re stressing about people breathing near bread? Goodness.

I'm genuinely surprised at the number agreeing with OP.

How do you all ever leave the house?!

Do you think produce just magically appears on the shelves having never been anywhere near another human or, God forbid, any other organism. Ffs educate yourselves and live a little.

I just cant see that happening. Their all in a clear box and there's gloves and tongs to pick them up

You hear of people doing that with packaged bread ect but I've never heard of anyone doing that to "naked" food 🤔