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?

Curry means gravy

I'd always assumed American gravy was like liquor but without the parsley.

Do you get the tablet and caramel shortbread icecream during Scottish week? I'm in Scotland and didn't know it was a thing elsewhere in uk

I'm pretty sure Lidl have the same offers nationwide, but maybe your branch is one of the a smaller ones with less choice? Or you may need to go earlier in the week? IME the specials that are supposed to start on Thursdays are often on the shelves from Tuesday onwards and some of the really popular stuff will be gone quite quickly.

Aldi Sued (not sure about Aldi Nord) also used to have British week, though not for a while now, I think.

Many branches of Rewe sell Cathedral City cheddar, stilton, Heinz tomato soup and clotted cream.

No, we've never had a single decent thing. Perhaps it's because we're in Cornwall. I shall write and beg for tablet (food of the gods) and tattie scones although my tablet's usually amazing, I'm just loathe to make a batch as I eat it all.....

@TwoMonthsOff - the best matar paneer I’ve ever made is this recipe. It’s really not that tricky and it is absolutely DELICIOUS

www.cookwithmanali.com/matar-paneer/

Yes! I can buy practically all the world's foods in my local (English) supermarkets all year round, but no bridies, pies, mealie puddings or butteries

@HiccupHorrendousHaddock thank you …I’ve never cooked with paneer, I need to broaden my horizons 🥰

Hey c’mon don’t let us knock Lidl …..at least they make the effort plus the surpraisles every week, I’m that sad and boring I would be lost without my twice weekly Lidl trip…..I’m team Lidl

It's supposed to be food to have while watching the superbowl. I.e. shite.

Put your hard hat on OP - you can’t claim Apple pie as American on MN 😬

RedCat, you could be right, ours is a smaller shop. I sometimes get Heinz soup from Rewe, they used to sell it in Famila and Edeka but it's recently disappeared off the shelves.

I know apple pie is associated with America and wasn’t one of the people complaining about that.

But I was kind of thinking as the thread went on it’s a bit weird really to associate a food every country has as being sort of intrinsic to that country. It’d be like claiming bread or cheese...

and then realised that made me think of France and then the more I thought about it, the more I realised everyone is doing it, pasta isn’t Italian really, fish and chips isn’t British...

I’m hungry.

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