To think that food in Aldi looks suspicious

[ILikeMilk]

Yesterday I decided to visit Aldi after reading about it on mumsnet. Did not buy a thing. Everything looked a bit weird. Is it just me or this shop is not nice at all?

Its just you.

what do you think it was suspicious of?

Why? Their fruit and veg is very good value, as is some of their cheese. Haven't got an Aldi near me or I'd be shopping there on a regular basis.

In what way?

Yadnbu. My in laws buy most of their food from there. It does look weird and too cheap especially the meat.

Lol Gwyn. For some reason it reminded me of food playsats I used to have as a child. With fake cornflake boxes, veg, etc.

play sets grr

Suspicious of what exactly?

Do you mean you didn't recognise the brands?

That's why it's cheap. It's kind of the point.

It's because you don't recognise 'brands'.

I love Aldi.

The fruit and vegetables can't have looked weird surely. Usually fresh as aything and cheaper than any other supermarket.

Bread too is not especially weird looking

I've not had a problem with anything I've bought from Aldi

Bit ethno-centric of you. All looked a bit foreign did it?

The fruit and veg looked a bit anaemic to be honest. Do they taste ok?

It's just because you don't recognise any of the brands. Seriously, much of their stuff is good, and if you lived in Germany or Austria then the brands would be familiar. Give them a try - their cereals are pretty good copies of the "real thing".

Buzz, I am foreign myself.

Does the fruit and veg taste ok?

It tastes a lot like fruit and veg.

I felt the same way OP, but I ignored my feelings. Then one day whilst browsing the aisles of my local ALDI I was jumped, from behind, by 2 tins of tomatoes and a packet of rice krispies.

You have every right to feel the way you do.

at do they taste ok?

They taste like fresh fruit and veg should taste and they tend to last a lot longer too

The wine is quite nice in there. Just have to be selective of what kind you buy. Wine never looks weird.

Well, the "last a lot longer" bit scares me a bit. Surely its not very natural for fruit and veg to last longer?

I do my weekly shopping there every week, I save on average about £0-£40 per week and the food is excellent quality.
Most of the deli produce is european and so is in our eyes) strangely packaged, but is excellent.
We decided, the first time, we would do a weekly shop and if it was crap we wouldn't go again, and have never looked back, admittedly I was a little like you the first time, but I was determined and most of the cereal (especially the mutigrain hoops (cheerios) are far better than the named brand)
I would suggest you try again!

YABVVVU

Not in my experience.

If I buy fruit and veg from say Sainsbury's it looks lovely on the shelf in its climate controlled pack. The minute it gets home it starts to deteriorate. I've had bananas from the main supermarkets go from green and hard to rotten in a couple of days

Aldi is more like the fruit and veg you get from a greengrocer

But what about additives, trans-fats, e-numbers, etc?

LOL at being jumped in Aldi.

Happens all the time in Germany, I have heard. Watch yourself with that Nutella imitation chocolate spread, bloody vicious that stuff is.