Is Aldi food crap too?

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Anonymous wrote:OK, what isn’t crap at Aldi?

Fruit, vegetables, whole grains, dairy, cereal without added sugar, eggs, lower-fat meat...the same things that aren't crap anywhere.

If you don't mind fruit and veggies spoiling next day and meat that tastes awful. You give a list of healthy foods. Not what's edible at Aldis.

The food I can tolerate from Aldis is their coffee, breakfast bars, chips, nuts, crackers, guacamole, other dips. Basically, all their snack foods and coffee. Eggs, milk, butter fine too. Cheeses not good. It's a great place to buy a ton of snacks cheap.

I also find their food spoiles very fast. Much faster than main stream stores. Why?

Fewer preservatives, perhaps? That’s a good thing, you know.

Yes, in theory but berries spoiling/ molding two days later seems too quick. My giant organic berries don’t do that. It happens with more than just berries too. I think it defeats the purpose of buying less expensive groceries when it gets trashed quickly.

Europeans don't stock up on groceries. They buy a few things at a time and use it up within a few days.

[Anonymous]

The Aldi near me must suck. I bought a bag of apples last week and every single one had huge bruises. I go to Aldi when I specifically want to buy cheap junk food, like for a kid’s party.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OK, what isn’t crap at Aldi?

Fruit, vegetables, whole grains, dairy, cereal without added sugar, eggs, lower-fat meat...the same things that aren't crap anywhere.

If you don't mind fruit and veggies spoiling next day and meat that tastes awful. You give a list of healthy foods. Not what's edible at Aldis.

The food I can tolerate from Aldis is their coffee, breakfast bars, chips, nuts, crackers, guacamole, other dips. Basically, all their snack foods and coffee. Eggs, milk, butter fine too. Cheeses not good. It's a great place to buy a ton of snacks cheap.

Your Aldi must suck. Mine has normal produce and meat. It spoils no faster than stuff from Giant. I bet it comes from most of the same suppliers.

Just got back with my bag of avocados for $2.39…

See, I wouldn’t buy meat from Giant either.

Okay, princess.

[Anonymous]

I have gotten great produce from Aldi. I spend 1/3 of what I would spend if I shopped at Giant. I wish Aldi would move to well to do areas and put Giant out of business.

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Aldi is poor people food. What do you think?

Sure, it has some gems, but it is designed for poor people. Poor people always get fed dog food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aldi is poor people food. What do you think?

Sure, it has some gems, but it is designed for poor people. Poor people always get fed dog food.

LOL Whatever you say, crazy!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP I've been to Aldi here and in the UK. The Aldi in the UK had higher quality food.

What makes an apple “higher quality”?

Depends if it’s crispy or mushy, if it lasts long or spoils quickly, if the skin is smooth or bruised. People pay more for honey crisp apples, for example, because they have good flavor and are crispy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aldi is poor people food. What do you think?

Sure, it has some gems, but it is designed for poor people. Poor people always get fed dog food.

LOL Whatever you say, crazy!

Actually, the PP just showed their cards. A lot of people won't shop at Aldi, not because it's "poor people food" (most of it is identical to what you can get at Giant, often Wegmans or Whole Foods). No, they say they're avoiding poor people food, but really, they're avoiding "poor" people.

They don't want to be around poor people in the store. (Or working class people, or too many middle class people who aren't upper middle class.)

Perhaps more so, they don't want people to think they shop at a place poor people shop.

More than that, they don't want to think of themselves as shopping at a place where poor people shop.

But most of all, they are so wedded to status that they convince themselves that places that serve poor people must have inferior products. It's too much cognitive dissonance to accept that no, actually, poor people-- by definition undeserving and morally inferior (or else why would they be poor?)-- can have access to many, or even most, of the same things they, the more deserving, have.

So they see some bruised apples, or hit a crappy Aldi, and convince themselves that it's all terrible. I mean... Honestly, I think most of it is the fact that they see poorer people, POC, etc. and are convinced it's Bad, Somehow. Same reason some guy the other day claimed Wheaton was "a war-torn, third world country." And a major contributing factor to parents avoiding certain perfectly lovely schools.

Yes, yes, not EVERYONE dissing Aldi here falls into that category, but I find most people compelled to badmouth Aldi, Value Village, etc. with insufferable snobbery are well-described above.

[Anonymous]

FFS, unless you never eat anything that comes in a manmade container-- in which case, enjoy shopping the Farmer's Market exclusively-- there's tons of good non-junk food at Aldi. Lots of organic and GF options, too. We don't even eat much junk food at all, and shop primarily at Aldi and Lidl.

Here are some of the many *gasp* pre-packaged "healthy" options I buy from Aldi, in addition to meat, produce, eggs, etc.:

-Kombucha
-Perfect Bars
-Tofu
-Beans
-Rice, including brown rice
-Pasta, including GF, etc.
-Oats, including steel-cut, and other grains
-Condiments
-Milk/Dairy products
-Dairy substitutes
-Coffee
-Seltzer
-Dried and freeze-dried fruit
-Nuts
-Baking ingredients, oils, etc.
-Whole wheat bread, etc.
-Frozen fruit for smoothies
-Frozen veggies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aldi is poor people food. What do you think?

Sure, it has some gems, but it is designed for poor people. Poor people always get fed dog food.

LOL Whatever you say, crazy!

Actually, the PP just showed their cards. A lot of people won't shop at Aldi, not because it's "poor people food" (most of it is identical to what you can get at Giant, often Wegmans or Whole Foods). No, they say they're avoiding poor people food, but really, they're avoiding "poor" people.

They don't want to be around poor people in the store. (Or working class people, or too many middle class people who aren't upper middle class.)

Perhaps more so, they don't want people to think they shop at a place poor people shop.

More than that, they don't want to think of themselves as shopping at a place where poor people shop.

But most of all, they are so wedded to status that they convince themselves that places that serve poor people must have inferior products. It's too much cognitive dissonance to accept that no, actually, poor people-- by definition undeserving and morally inferior (or else why would they be poor?)-- can have access to many, or even most, of the same things they, the more deserving, have.

So they see some bruised apples, or hit a crappy Aldi, and convince themselves that it's all terrible. I mean... Honestly, I think most of it is the fact that they see poorer people, POC, etc. and are convinced it's Bad, Somehow. Same reason some guy the other day claimed Wheaton was "a war-torn, third world country." And a major contributing factor to parents avoiding certain perfectly lovely schools.

Yes, yes, not EVERYONE dissing Aldi here falls into that category, but I find most people compelled to badmouth Aldi, Value Village, etc. with insufferable snobbery are well-described above.

well said!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aldi is poor people food. What do you think?

Sure, it has some gems, but it is designed for poor people. Poor people always get fed dog food.

LOL Whatever you say, crazy!

Actually, the PP just showed their cards. A lot of people won't shop at Aldi, not because it's "poor people food" (most of it is identical to what you can get at Giant, often Wegmans or Whole Foods). No, they say they're avoiding poor people food, but really, they're avoiding "poor" people.

They don't want to be around poor people in the store. (Or working class people, or too many middle class people who aren't upper middle class.)

Perhaps more so, they don't want people to think they shop at a place poor people shop.

More than that, they don't want to think of themselves as shopping at a place where poor people shop.

But most of all, they are so wedded to status that they convince themselves that places that serve poor people must have inferior products. It's too much cognitive dissonance to accept that no, actually, poor people-- by definition undeserving and morally inferior (or else why would they be poor?)-- can have access to many, or even most, of the same things they, the more deserving, have.

So they see some bruised apples, or hit a crappy Aldi, and convince themselves that it's all terrible. I mean... Honestly, I think most of it is the fact that they see poorer people, POC, etc. and are convinced it's Bad, Somehow. Same reason some guy the other day claimed Wheaton was "a war-torn, third world country." And a major contributing factor to parents avoiding certain perfectly lovely schools.

Yes, yes, not EVERYONE dissing Aldi here falls into that category, but I find most people compelled to badmouth Aldi, Value Village, etc. with insufferable snobbery are well-described above.

I’m the PP who called the earlier PP crazy. I get slightly ragey when I’m forced by convenience or other circumstance to pick up items from one of the other larger grocery chains. I always notice the higher prices for the same exact type of thing and it drives me nuts. Frankly, I think the people who routinely shop at those places are suckers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FFS, unless you never eat anything that comes in a manmade container-- in which case, enjoy shopping the Farmer's Market exclusively-- there's tons of good non-junk food at Aldi. Lots of organic and GF options, too. We don't even eat much junk food at all, and shop primarily at Aldi and Lidl.

Here are some of the many *gasp* pre-packaged "healthy" options I buy from Aldi, in addition to meat, produce, eggs, etc.:

-Kombucha
-Perfect Bars
-Tofu
-Beans
-Rice, including brown rice
-Pasta, including GF, etc.
-Oats, including steel-cut, and other grains
-Condiments
-Milk/Dairy products
-Dairy substitutes
-Coffee
-Seltzer
-Dried and freeze-dried fruit
-Nuts
-Baking ingredients, oils, etc.
-Whole wheat bread, etc.
-Frozen fruit for smoothies
-Frozen veggies

Agree completely. Aldi is my go to for healthy food on a budget. You can't beat their prices on nuts, and things like almond flour, olive oil, coconut sugar and organic honey are half the price of a grocery store. I also use them for buying lots of cheese for parties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Aldi out here in Northwestern VA is great. I’ve never had any problems with their meat, dairy, produce, most dry groceries, etc. I can count on one hand the times I’ve been unsatisfied with Aldi products. I make the drive to our closest Wegmans once every few months for some of their unique specialties, but Aldi is my weekly grocery store. However, like earlier posters mentioned, junk food is junk food, no matter where you shop.

+1. My Aldi in Fair Lakes is great and I do the majority of our shipping there. I actually hate going to a Giant/HT/whatever now because their prices make me sick in comparison to Aldi. Former brand snob DH is a total convert to some Aldi snack foods (although not all - a few misses here and there).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aldi is poor people food. What do you think?

Sure, it has some gems, but it is designed for poor people. Poor people always get fed dog food.

LOL Whatever you say, crazy!

Actually, the PP just showed their cards. A lot of people won't shop at Aldi, not because it's "poor people food" (most of it is identical to what you can get at Giant, often Wegmans or Whole Foods). No, they say they're avoiding poor people food, but really, they're avoiding "poor" people.

They don't want to be around poor people in the store. (Or working class people, or too many middle class people who aren't upper middle class.)

Perhaps more so, they don't want people to think they shop at a place poor people shop.

More than that, they don't want to think of themselves as shopping at a place where poor people shop.

But most of all, they are so wedded to status that they convince themselves that places that serve poor people must have inferior products. It's too much cognitive dissonance to accept that no, actually, poor people-- by definition undeserving and morally inferior (or else why would they be poor?)-- can have access to many, or even most, of the same things they, the more deserving, have.

So they see some bruised apples, or hit a crappy Aldi, and convince themselves that it's all terrible. I mean... Honestly, I think most of it is the fact that they see poorer people, POC, etc. and are convinced it's Bad, Somehow. Same reason some guy the other day claimed Wheaton was "a war-torn, third world country." And a major contributing factor to parents avoiding certain perfectly lovely schools.

Yes, yes, not EVERYONE dissing Aldi here falls into that category, but I find most people compelled to badmouth Aldi, Value Village, etc. with insufferable snobbery are well-described above.

To be fair, before I moved near a good Aldi I wouldn’t want to shop there either. The first time I went was to a not-so-great one in Alexandria and I swore never again. But my Aldi now is great. We are far from poor and it is my preferred store.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aldi is poor people food. What do you think?

Sure, it has some gems, but it is designed for poor people. Poor people always get fed dog food.

LOL Whatever you say, crazy!

I like Aldi. Their staples are fine and prices amazing. You don’t go there for a great cut of steak or seafood.