no one middle class can exist on a lidl shop

[lmontmont]

I've really tried to get into to lidl to help with the budget but I find the quality hit and miss and its just like a glorified corner shop with a tiny range. I went away with more on my list that I couldn't buy than I could!

No white or pink grapefruit
No purple sprout broccoli
No vanilla extract
No cinnamon
No cumin
No bay leaves
No galangal
No French parsley
No cumin
No scottch bonnet
No polenta
No freeka
No non stalted pistachio
No tri colour pasta
No gluten free bread

And the list goes on, I don't know how on earth they think they can get middle class people to shop there

Middle class people do shop there.

Poor ones like me do without galangal and whatnot, and less poor ones shop between lidl and other supermarkets.

You might not find everything you want there but you are hardly representative of an entire social class.

Lidl is the only place I've ever found a Pomello, which I love. Like a giant grapefruit that you can eat with your fingers without making a mess.

Freekeh sounds like a song by Usher.

How do I tell what class I am? Is it supermarket related?

YANBU OP.

Woowoo I can't stop laughing at your post I'm now singing it over and over!

Get yourself to a Chinese or Asian food store sharpish.

What middle-class person in their right mind buys vanilla extract? Pods or bean paste, dahling!

Spices and herbs I always buy in bulk from Asian markets. Purple sprouting...grow your own! Supermarket stuff is always limp and rubbish. Ditto for bay - don't you have a pair of clipped bay trees flanking your oversized front door?

I'm thinking true middle classes poncy toffs grow and homebake most of that list.

I wish I had time to write something more eloquent but I'm due at the opera.... Just wanted to offer you my sympathies, what a twatty thread. What is Middle class about cumin? tricolour pasta? polenta anyway? I hope the nearest branch of Lidl closes and you toddle off back to Waiteose. It makes me very passionate angry when cunts shop in Lidl but exect to find it like Fortnum and Mason.

If I can't find it in Lidl or the Asian supermarket then I don't have it.

I am a sort of poster girl for middleclassness. I think the OP is an imposter.

I just had to dedicate this song to the OP m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM

Post and run OP....

Me too Lucylou... Uhhhh...!

Yes woowoo. Yummy red wine that tastes like you always hope red wine will taste. The Lidl one is bloody brilliant, especially for a fiver.

Now look here, I feel quite the middle-class lady when using Vanilla extract.

If it's good enough for Nigella and Nigel, it's more than alright for a prole like me to use.

I am adjusting my apron as I type.

My local Lidl is a shit hole.

Tricolour pasta is about as middle class as Alphabetty spaghetti.
Have you tried B and M bargains?

Punkrockergirl - so is mine....I ventured in at Christmas on the strength of the MN obsession with the place. Should have been warned I needed a hazmat suit.

My boyfriend is a total middle class twat and he says to post he loves lidl and Morrison's but tops up in waitrose . I'm just a chat apparently!! But I do love poundshop.

Love the thought that where you shop has anything to do with what class you are.

Dahling do you know how utterly nouveau it is to go to the market with a rigid shopping list and not be willing / able to adapt your recipes to what is in season

or are you not a good enough cook to adapt recipes

Galangal? - indonesian ginger
Scotch bonnet? - damn hot peppers. they will scorch your face off. But damn tasty.
Polenta? - corn meal
Freeka???? - I had to look that up. Some wheat thing.

my guess is that waitrose will have only polenta on that list.

I actually don't get the fascination with Lidl. We have a great local veg shop that's fairly big and has crazy low prices on fruit and veg and the quality is I would say better than waitrose. I almost feel like I am stealing from them the prices are so low.