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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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

Anonymous wrote:

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”?

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.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.