To be more than a Lidl appalled?

[SurelyTheyCanDoALidlBetter]

I'm a regular Lidl shopper, and particularly enjoy sampling the delicacies on offer during their various world food weeks. Interestingly shaped pasta? Of course. Sushi with all the accompanying sauces? Yes please. Wines from around the world? Into the trolley they go.

But this week is American food week, and I just can't.

Caveat: I myself am American. But surely Lidl could have come up with better offerings than marshmallows, peanut butter, pickles, Duff beer, and frozen hot dog pockets? Where is the cobb salad? Pot roast? Jambalaya? Grits? Clam chowder? Apple pie?!

The lack of proper food on offer during their America week is just embarrassing.

Am I wrong in thinking this is only a problem for American food, or are all of Lidl's food weeks filled with the junkiest options from every country and I just don't realise?

@Labraradabrador

If they wanted to buy in ready made jambalaya and grits though?

@Labraradabrador

Maybe they think people wouldn't buy them as they don't know what they are? Jambalaya, granted, most people would know. But as can be seen from this thread there are very few who know what grits are. And even having it explained it's hard to imagine if we'll like it or not with a fried egg. Don't forget we've already embraced your hash brown as an excellent egg accompaniment...

I have seen jambalaya ready meals in Tesco, so surely available? They do their own brand stuff anyways, so surely can set the menu if they choose.

Better to just these deliberately nasty posts I think. Don't give them oxygen.

@Casilero hashbrowns would be an excellent offering for America week!

What I don't understand is, when it's American week, why they sell peanut butter and popcorn? It's not like it's not commonly sold everywhere all year round.
Or am I missing something?

You’re right! Thank you for being kind.

British week at my German Lidl involves oven-ready fish and chips, baked beans, toffees, mint chocolates, "bacon" that is nothing like actual bacon, tea bags and very small packets of cheddar. The cheddar is usually worth a trip.
If they sold things that only the people from that country were familiar with, no-one would buy them. Once our local Netto had in two boxes of Cadbury's. I, my children and my ex bought most of them.

Yep, they do tattie scones, plain bread and some tunnocks stuff all the time.

On Scottish week they just move the scotch and macaroni pies over and put out the Mackies crisps... and for some reason fill half an aisle with Marshall’s dried pasta, I mean yes, technically it’s Scottish, but I mean... it’s a bit tenuous.

You’re being more than a little bit odd. Why on earth are you taking this so seriously?

OP hasn’t said that LIDL is ‘so awful’. She’s said that she’d like some actual, proper American classic foods during American Week.

@Casilero white gravy is ….I think lard/pork fat and flour ? Not sure but i remember looking it up once

This. The cheeses were the blandest available. They had Coburg ham - which is a German ham. Also frangipane - French. Fingers crossed they'll sell Indonesian food as part of their 'dutch' offer next year.

@Casilero
www.allrecipes.com/article/how-to-make-white-gravy/

no pork fat …

I allways thought American food was mostly Junk crap food like big Macs ect and competitions to see who can eat the fastest chlorestrial bad for heart ❤️ kinds of greasy spoon food,
.. .

What a revelation.

The Greek food is good from Lidl, I used to have to be there at opening time the day the stuff came on sale as ds loved their Greek Feta & Spinach pastries & buy as many as I could to keep him fed until the next Greek Week.

Not impressed by the American week. On the plus side, a colleague says her Greek dad is impressed by quite a lot of the Greek week foods. And the German/Austrian weeks (unsurprisingly) have some decent stuff - we certainly stock up on spätzle amongst other things.

Thank you. I think we just call it white sauce in UK. I think it might be quite nice with a poached egg.

I’d love to buy ready made clam chowder (though I bet you can get it in waitrose 😄) and would definitely try tinned pumpkin cos I see recipes on Tasty etc with it all the time - had pumpkin pie once and it was vg and def would be up for making it with an easy ingredient.
Would like to try corn dogs as well cos people often say they’re nice and I have no idea what’s in them - some sort of weird looking stick. Also corn bread.

It’d be great to get some excellent seafood in for all the amazing crab / shrimp dishes.

And I’d be interested to try those weird special Halloween candy corn sweets - not a thing here but I’ve seen them in stupid FB quizzes so often.

All I’ve e ever asked for from American week is grape jelly jam. It’s not a big ask, yet it is never fulfilled.
until that happens I shall continually pocket the little sachets from Denny’s.

What is a cobb salad?

www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/cobb_salad/

the original entree salad. One of the things I miss most about American food is the salad that is a meal within itself.

Some good kitchen stuff in the middle aisle this week in Lidl.

Sorry, off topic.

The American things that Lidl are selling are ingredients/ you don't just eat peanut butter on it's own.

But you want ready made things- just make the cobb salad.

Apple pie would have to be in the fridge so that wouldn't work well for the American section.

And apple pie is most certainly British. You can't highjack something and then sell it back to its country if origin as something foreign.

Apples don't originate in the US or in the UK, but in what is now Kazakhstan. (Almaty specifically). While the oldest recorded recipe is English, I'm sure people in Kazakhstan make a lovely apple pie too.

Ummm…going to have to check your Minnesota Card….

While I give you beer cheese soup is the the thing of gods…the correct soup answer for a Minnesotan is Wild Rice Soup.

Nothing to see here folks just an imposter probably from Wisconsin.