American Couple Reacts: Cost of Groceries: Britain vs America - Comparing ALDI in the UK vs ALDI US!
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- American Couple Reacts: Cost of Groceries in Britain vs America - Comparing ALDI in the UK vs US FIRST TIME REACTION! It's time for a United Kingdom vs United States comparison! This is the cost of groceries at Aldi in the UK compared to Aldi Costs in the USA! American friends, sit down and buckle up! There are some cost differences that we expected early on in the video. Then, things start to take a turn. Slowly but surely the prices jump at you in way that makes you think, should we move? This is a VERY comprehensive video with conversions on cost. From dollars to pounds & metric to imperial. It was shocking on both sides of the pond. We thought Aldi would be more equal across our 2 Country's but, that wasn't exactly the case! Wait until you see the items with the biggest price differences! They SHOCKED US! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below.
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It's time for a United Kingdom vs United States comparison! This is the cost of groceries at Aldi in the UK compared to Aldi Costs in the USA! American friends, sit down and buckle up! There are some cost differences that we expected early on in the video. Then, things start to take a turn. Slowly but surely the prices jump at you in way that makes you think, should we move? This is a VERY comprehensive video with conversions on cost. From dollars to pounds & metric to imperial. It was shocking on both sides of the pond. We thought Aldi would be more equal across our 2 Country's but, that wasn't exactly the case! Wait until you see the items with the biggest price differences! They SHOCKED US! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
This is going to be interesting as most uk supermarkets keep putting prices up. I prefer Lidl more than Aldi even though they're mostly the same. Does the US have Lidl stores Natasha
No we do not @shaunsheldon1219
Appologies if this has been mentioned, but just in case it hasn't
the prices in the UK already include the VAT/Sales tax in the prices you saw, while if I understand it, the US doesn't add the sales tax until the items rung through the checkout/register
@mjwp5447 please watch the video in full. We mentioned 3 times, we do not have added tax to food items.
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Just rewatched the start, appologies again, I missed that part, wanted to get watch the best part without delay.
British Adi shopper here! She didn't compare the cheapest Aldi tomatoes. She chose the expensive "vine ripened" instead of the "salad tomatoes" the latter is half the price of the former.
Agree, and Aldi is priced differently in various regions of Britain, dont think i would shop at this Engllish ALDI more expensive than mone
Ps they sell weighted bags of baking potatoes
I commented about this on another reply. Maybe they were sold out
okay you win but wednesday star line up cant score southgate should keep bellingham in control?? he has no stature koeman creates fear the other side of the wrong right? but still has stature does it have to be a brit??
@@robbieceltic1036 wrong post!
@@sheenamaclean8324 ur still being f@#cked right ifu just look at all the additives to make it last longer they add a component to bread to make it more fluffy and whiter and they also put it in yogamats to make it bouncy go figure and yessssssss 1 or both??????? and yessss storie of my life since iam on youtube can u relate in any way sheena its karen right knickname ''got a way with words karen''😂😂😂😂
It's not just the price, especially for produce and meat, it's the quality. This is usually the first thing that people from the US notice when they visit the EU, that the food is so much better.
A lot less ingredients in the Uk Eu too.
@@stuartmorrison690 yes, fewer ingredients.
Unfortunately, most included hidden hydrogenated fats ( mono and di-glycerides of fatty acids) in the lower cost ones.
@@milnespetchristo1882Not hidden - printed clearly on the ingredients listing. Of course if you CBA to read it ...
Aye, I can get a fresh baked loaf at morrisons for 99p or even 69p, depending on what type.
An American friend of mine who i worked with in London sends me a shopping list + postage (shipping) of all British goods because after eating food over here,he now thinks most American food is disgusting.
In that order is roughly 5lbs of Cadburys goods and the correct natural ingredients to make proper bread.
I think he and his wife want to move here as he’s now looking at property online for various counties.
Another convert 🇬🇧
Food and beverage supply chain guy here. US food is more typically more expensive for a few reasons. The first is supply chain model: the UK has (typically) shorter chains operating point to point. This means goods take less time to get from producer to shelf, maximising shelf life and reducing waste. The US more commonly uses a hub-and-spoke model with regional distribution hubs. This increases transit time and also leads to a more fragile network. Until Brexit, the UK was able to operate completely just-in-time for fresh foods. Since then, this has been made more difficult which has driven up waste and thus cost here. Those fresh prices in the UK used to be even cheaper.
The second big reason for higher prices in the US is poor infrastructure. The US rail and road system is poorly maintained which leads to delays. It is also based on a hub and spoke model, so a delay can easily propagate dramatically reducing shelf life but, more importantly, requiring larger warehousing costs to smooth out the supply blips (see the Bullwhip Effect). Warehousing costs are a huge component of food costs in the US.
Third, the US has a very fragmented regulatory landscape for food. At the federal level, responsibilities are spread across many agencies (the FDA, the USDA, the CDC, etc). Each state also has its own laws that can often be… antiquated. In the UK, food is regulated under a single agency: the Food Standards Agency. This reduces paperwork. Also, the fragmented US landscape has hindered digitisation so a lot of US paperwork is still literal paperwork. In the UK we can do a full track and trace within a few hours (they do drills of the end to end supply chain several times a year as part of license to operate for each company), the US just cannot do that because it is cost prohibitive. When required to do it in anger, say with Romaine lettuce a few years ago, they failed to trace the problem at all.
Fourth, last mile logistics in the US is arranged differently. In the UK our delivery runs may service multiple shops reducing truck miles. In the US, because things are more spread out and you have a greater proportion of out of town big box stores, this isn’t possible. If a store only requires a half load, then half that truck’s capacity will be unused (which cost must be covered by the goods actually transported).
Happy to answer any questions you may have :)
This was a really comprehensive explanation thanks
Well done for one of the best comments I've read on TH-cam in a long time.
As an accountant in the UK food sector, I can tell you that margins are often razor thin, for example I know that during the recent cost of living crisis at least one major supermarket was selling chicken at below cost. Regulation for food safety is massive (which is good imho), so for the most part quality, animal welfare and food safety is exceptional. Although it happened here to a much lesser extent I find lobbying of goverment by food companies very concerning and would love to see a youtube video on law changes due to lobbying.
I do appreciate your in depth breakdown of US v UK Logistical differences you really know your stuff. However I’m 6 months older reading it all. Thank you
Fascinating and useful information, thank you.
Wonky stuff came about because it was found out that supermarkets were wasting a large amount of food because they didn't "fit" what was deemed pretty fruit/veg. We used to joke about bananas not being bendy enough to sell. When it was seen how much was being wasted, some stores started selling wonky fruit and veg at a cheaper rate than the prettier ones. So when you see wonky, don't expect it to look 100% although they all taste the same and if you're going to shove it in a pie, who's going to notice?
The only issue is that it can make some goblin veg more difficult to peel. Which is not really an issue at all.
@@PortilloMoment 😂 goblin!
The stupidity is that by demanding uniformity in fruit and veg they are missing out on selling the best. Peaches come to mind, our local supermarkets only sell peaches the size of a tennis ball in packs of 4 or six that are invariably tasteless and/or hard. Our local travelling greengrocer sells the large peaches the size of baseballs that are especially sweet and juicy singly and we buy many more than in the supermarket. Unfortunately, he doesn't quite match the peaches available in continental Europe .
@@clivewilliams3661 The thing is: supermarkets let you pick the veg you want to put in your basket/trolley, and customers tend to pick uniform (not 'wonky' ) fruit/veg, so its not the supermarkets making these 'irrational' choices, its us, the customers. Generally 'wonky' will sell at a discount, which is not to bad an option.
@@stephenlee5929 This only applies where the supermarket sells loose fruit and veg but the tendency is now to pre-package, which the supermarkets prefer as it means that there is less waste. What they spend on packaging is offset by the reduction in waste. One prerequisite for pre-packaged produce is that they must be uniform otherwise its impossible to price. Generally, at Lidl we select the fruit and veg very carefully, whether pre-packed or not and where loose this has the advantage that what we want is different to the next customer, which is what I have consistently observed. Some like small ripe bananas and some large green bananas or any permutation in between.
Putting a quarter in the cart makes sure the shopper takes them back so they're not left loose in car parks. You can get a reusable token that can attach to a keyring instead of hunting the quarter.
The only problem is that our shop acquired a trolley from a shop at the other end of town, because someone wanted their pound back but didn't want the walk. We had to phone them and tell them to come and collect it.
@@helenwood8482in the asda in my town they have invisible borders on the car park that stop the trolleys from leaving the vicinity 🤣 it’s only one of them though so all other supermarkets in the area have random ones lingering around in the wild every now and again 🤭
@@er_cl
Ours had that but it doesn't work anymore. And you could override the barrier by tipping the trolley back so the front wheels were off the ground
I remember watching a Good Mythical Morning video a few years ago, and they mentioned "paying" for the "cart" and taking it back. It's that very reason why some supermarkets make you put money in them. It's not so they don't get stolen, it's actually so they don't have to pay staff whose sole job is to go round collecting them thats just been dumped in the car park because then ultimately it's us, the customers who end up paying the price as they need to get the money back in order to pay them.
And how do they do that? A couple pennies here and there on our groceries. All because they've had to hire staff whose sole job is collecting something that people are too lazy to take back.
I've not put an actual coin in a trolly for years since I found that a key off a tin of corned beef will unlock a trolly 😁
Coffee originated in Ethiopia, it made its way north, across the red sea into Yemen in the 15th Century. It then started to be grown here in the Yemeni district of Arabia, and by the 16th century it was known in Persia, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey.
When I first visited the US, I went shopping for some food. What shocked me was the chemical content in so many American foods.
define "chemical content".
@@hooermasters Think they mean like the yoga mat material added to American bread to make it spongey
"Better living through chemistry." Holds true in the US while the European nations keep prices high and yields lower by forcing non-opitimized food production at all levels from field to factory all under the claim that by doing so is "healthy" or "environmentally friendly" buzzwords with little to no scientific evidence to support their claims beyond often times a handful of studies.
It's really amazing how common forced scarcity is in Europe and it's fully accept because it been that way for decades.
@@Hybris51129
'Forced scarcity' in Europe? Do tell me more.
I am elderly now and over the years, starting in 1969 when I qualified in my profession, have lived and worked for extended periods of time in five different countries on the continent of Europe, as well as my own, the UK. I have also worked and lived outside Europe.
The only significant 'food scarcities' I can remember in Europe were as follows
(a) in the 1970s, out-of-season and so-called 'exotic' fruit and vegetables in the UK. This wasn't so much a 'shortage' per se, as an unavailability due to a perceived lack of demand and underdevelopment of supply chains from southern Europe. I used to go to Chinese and subcontinental greengrocery shops when supplies of eg aubergines and courgettes from my dad's garden and allotment ran out at the end of summer. I worked in Central Europe for a couple of years in the early 1970s and the situation was not a lot different there, albeit for a much shorter period of the year.
(b) the flour 'shortage' during the early part of the 2020 pandemic; there was also an associated dried pasta 'shortage' (only a somewhat limited selection for short periods). This, again, was a distribution issue in that 20kg sacks of flour remained available throughout, but individual 1 & 2 kg bags were in short supply.
@@Hybris51129Food scarcity lol that's news to me never once seen that in 45 years. Also what forced high prices didn't you watch the video? Having anti freeze on your big Mac and yoga mats in your bread isn't better than starving never mind natural foods.
My brothers nephew married his American girlfriend 2 years ago, when her family came over, they never stopped talking about how much better the food tasted!! Especially the meat products, I think our standards are way higher.
I shop at Aldi and Lidl all the time and find that even though the prices are low the quality especially for the meat and dairy really doesn't suffer it's very good quality.
I've shopped for meat at all the supermarkets here in the UK, and Lidl is by far the best for both quality and price - the worst being Tesco, in my opinion of course (ex-butcher).
@@CuriousFockeryes I agree and I find the produce better and cheaper in Lidl. That trolley load for the UK seemed expensive. I don't think I've ever spent more than £60 a week in Lidl
@@CuriousFocker Absolutely accurate!
@@gillfox9899 We used to spend £60 per week at Lidl 3/4 years ago but since the price increases we now regularly spend twice that, just don't ask how much my wife spends on the very occasional trip to Sainsbury, which is made to include special items not found at Lidl (or Aldi). Sainsbury own brand items are horribly inferior to Lidl's own brand for about the same price. Given how close Sainsbury/Lidl/Aldi/Tesco are, all within 5 minutes walk of each other, I am surprised that Tesco and Sainsbury have any customers
The produce will have rotted by the time you've got through the check out.
In WW2 bread and baked beans were not rationed so beans on toast became a no coupons needed meal and it's stuck with us ever since
Yeah but the good thing about those fresh basil plants is that they are alive they are in soil and a pot and you can just put them in a larger pot grow the plant and have basil all year round if you manage them correctly so really you paying 79 P for the opportunity to have Basil whenever you want it.
Yes, I wish I were in one place long enough to do that! I absolutely love having fresh basil! 🌿
Debbie: now I understand beans on toast. The whole of the UK student population cheers. Although being a Brit in the US, the many times I’ve had to explain it isn’t just plain beans, it’s beans in tomato sauce on toast. There’s flavour!
It's also 'relatively' nutritious.... at least at the price point.
@@Nerdy4Life exactly! There’s worse food to eat at pence per portion
I've seen a few other of Dara's videos and the one that I found shocking was when she compared healthcare in the US and UK. What was shocking was she was NOT comparing the US system to the NHS but rather private healthcare in BOTH countries. This was because at the time neither she or her husband were NHS registered at the time. Dara also has a very specific condition which she explains and her treatment and how she was treated was vastly different. I think it will blow your minds.
I watched that one and I was shocked at the difference in the care as well as the price she got here to the US, so much better here
Thanks!! 😊
Yes, that's the perfect understanding of beans on toast. Cheap, quick, basic, satisfying, and cheaply pepped up with some cheddar and Worcestershire sauce.
Carb on a carb. Everyone would mock Americans if this were happening here in the US.
It's classic student food too!
@@kathymc234Nonsense - it's a not-unhealthy, fast, cheap and easy meal/substantial snack.
UK tinned baked beans have a surprising amount of protein and fibre in them, while being low in fat, and if you use a half-decent bread rather than the very cheapest rubber sponge stuff, and follow it with a piece of fruit, it's a better meal than most things you could get for the same sum of money and amount of prep time.
I don't, personally, like baked beans - I never have! - but have often, in the past, repeatedly tried them in failed attempts to 'learn' to like them!
Beans are a protein, not a carb.
or a oxo cube added into the beens.
"Wonky" was a marketing term started by Morrisons. It is essentially fruit and veg of irregular size and shape , so generally sold for less. Some places do a "wonky veg/fruit box" made of random fruit and veg
Was this some kind of a kick back against the EU lol, cos I have some vague memory that the EU were trying to ban irregular fruit, but now I’ve said it I’m not sure if I dreamt it 😂
@@littlemy1773 It's done to prevent food waste, many supermarkets would only display "perfect" fruit and veg because people wouldn't buy it if it didn't look good, so to prevent "ugly" food from going to waste they gave it its own category.
@@Brookspirit People bought wonky veg back in the 70's, 80's and before because it was all wonky. Not sure which year all this perfectly formed veg started to take hold in the UK.
Morrisons saw a marketing opportunity to sell fruit and veg that were sub- their standard they had already paid for. A supermarket will pay the farmer a bulk price for the whole consignment/field/crop and the 'sub-standard' thrown away, with the price then amortised across the remaining standard product. Knowing sectors of the British public were keen to minimise waste meant that there was a ready market for wonky fruit and veg. British grocery at its very best dontcha think?
@@littlemy1773 They did ban it until they scrapped the law in 2008 so they then had to market and sell the miss-shaped stuff.
A side note: our sugar is so cheap because it is usually made from sugar beets (a root vegetable) we can grow domestically. CANE sugar is imported and more expensive.
Good point!
Depends, Tate & Lyle sugar is made using cane, other brands use beet.
Nordzuker, a German conglomerate, is the biggest sugar producer in Europe and is all beet based.
American style mustard is a relatively new addition to our supermarket shelves and probably not a particularly regular purchase for most. I think we are generally more likely to be buying wholegrain, Dijon or English mustard (they are the three types that you’ll find different brand options for at different price points) than we are American (which I always think tastes more like pickled gherkin than it does mustard) as they are likely to be used for far more things. But that’s why it’s so expensive in comparison to all the other price differences, it’s relatively new and not really built up that big of a market share…as most people that do buy it will likely only really be using it on hotdogs and burgers.
When I was a lad, the only place you found American style mustard was from hot-dog vendors' wagons or stalls. English mustard was there also, and also brown mustard (German I think,) was sometimes available too, but they all had 'weedy' American mustard as well, (because it was all that the little kids could handle!!)
Tesco does stock French's yellow "mustard". English and Dijon mustard are usually much thicker and have to be spread on food, if it's thin enough to squirt it's not mustard.
I wonder how many times Natasha has woken up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat screaming, "COFFEEEEEEEEE!!!", after watching this video? lol
I never really see anyone buying American mustard . The main brand of American mustard is ironically called "French's". Most in the UK would get a jar of Colman's mustard, which is about a £1 for a small jar
Colman's Hot English Mustard. Yum!
I have 5 bottles of American mustard downstairs. I bet you don't have a camera on the mustard section.
I'm a Brit who enjoys American style mustard. It works well with mildly flavoured meat.
by the powdered colmans mix a little with some water workes out cheeper
I was just about to say this and saw your comment xx@@amandamiller304
My favourite thing about UK Aldi (other than the good prices) is the hilarious "clones" they do of famous brands. They usually copy the brand's colour scheme and then use a different name with a similar meaning to the branded name. They probably have a big team of lawyers to make sure the clone isn't too close-looking to the original, but sometimes they trip up (e.g. Marks and Spencer's Colin the Caterpillar cake vs Aldi's Cuthbert caused a court case). It's interesting that sometimes UK Aldi will stock both the original branded version and their cloned version!
Most UK supermarkets do own brands, its just that Aldi are more blatant, love their Mars sorry, Titan bars. I think they also do a Puffin biscuit, similar to a Penguin.
Note almost all UK supermarkets do a Caterpillar Cake (now).
@@stephenlee5929 Exactly this. Some need a real stretch of the old grey matter, but are genius. 'Racer' bars make no sense, unless you are old like me and remember snickers being called Marathon. Not only copying, but also chiding the big label for destroying childhoods.
Random fact: the coffee bean actually originated from Africa and Yemen in middle east not the America's.
as far as i have heard the first roasting of coffee beans had been done in turkiye but yes, definitely not america.
Excatly what I was gonna say :-)
Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Yes, the coffee bean has swapped places with the cocoa bean. Originally from South America, most cocoa today comes from Africa. With coffee, it's the other way around.
I have a metal disc on my keychain which I use for these trolleys. Its handy and saves having a coin on you all the time.
If I don't have a coin I find that my Yale house key works however I am certain to return the trolley
It also means you can't spend it. It's annoying to get to the supermarket and realise you've spent your last pound coin in the previous shop.
@@stephenpetermay1721 wow the joke finally happened out in the wild.. haha thanks stephen
Warning: English mustard is *hot*. Not California reaper level, but don't pour it on as if its american mustard.
Love hot mustard. I bet Skåne mustard could beat you….
Learning this the hard works better. However, nowadays I've developed a taste for it so I'll just spoon it in how I used to with Marmite.
Double cream is what you call heavy cream
Sorry no heavy cream is the equivalent to thickened cream. Double cream is different
We also have extra thick double cream.
I'm a Brit and I have NEVER described cheese as 'adorable' EVER!! 😳😳😳😳😳🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hmm, Babybels are quite adorable...
Except at Halloween in Morrisons where they have a cheese shaped like a jack-o'-lantern
Cheese is definitely adorable
Most overweight women's favourite food
Babybels are cute 😂
Don't buy mass produced bread in a supermarket. We buy from a local baker and it's in a totally different class for just a few pence a loaf more.
In Texas, I make my own whole wheat bread with flaxseed in it. The stuff in the store is inedible
One thing you should also take into consideration is quality. In the UK we have 2000 regulated and permitted additives in food. In the US there are well over 10,000 additives which are completely unregulated!
Many, many moons ago, when I was a poor student nurse I used to shop at Aldi. The beans from Aldi cost 4p a 400g tin, and a loaf of white sliced bread cost 18p. I lived on beans on toast! You'd think that eating beans on toast all the time for months at a time would put you off them...but it's still one of my favourite meals!
The quality of cheese is much better in the UK. If you come to London, try going to the cheese shop in Muswell Hill, It will blow your mind.
"Gold and red label" is just based on Yorkshire Tea colours (the standard is red) and Yorkshire Gold, which is the premium range from Yorkshire tea . Aldi base lots of their products looks and names on already existing brands colour schemes , names and label designs
I thought the Co-Op came up with the colour coding for their own brand blends way back in the 60's
@@grabtharshammer I dunno, but that particular product is knock off Yorkshire Tea anyway. Just like their biscuits with the knock off Mcvities logo etc
I saw a TH-cam video that shows that most of the own brand products which have packaging that look like the originals are in fact made by the bigger brands which is shown by the production code that is printed on the packaging. The big companies don't mind because they are selling more of their product whether it is packaged as their own or not.
Thanks for explaining that, I have always wondered . FYI if any one cares, if you can’t get Yorkshire tea, marks and Spencer’s do a decent every day tea in a red box. It’s pretty decent and very very well priced ( a tad cheaper than Yorkshire )
@@littlemy1773 Never had a problem getting Yorkshire Tea from M&S / Ocado :)
For what it's worth, we also have stricter food standards regulations here in the UK (it's the main reason there was no Brexit trade deal with the US), so - generally speaking - even though prices have gone through the roof recently, we're getting mostly higher-quality food for less.
I agree! We have had nonstop American visitors with us all summer. Each and everyone goes on and on about how much better the food is here and how they wish they could get this kind of food in the states!
Perhaps more important than the price is the additives included in the product . On the surface it would appear that the regulations on additives allowed in Britain and the E.U. are stricter than what is allowed in America. That subject alone is worth looking into.
yes, but UK isn't part of EU anymore, so those retrictions don't apply ;)
@@TullaRask They've had to keep up the EU 's standard, so they can sell to the EU countries. Plus, it keeps up the quality Britains are used to.
@@TullaRaskYes they do - almost all of them slid smoothly over into UK law and food regulations when we transitioned out of the EU. Those that didn't were almost all replaced by (or already existed in the form of) even stricter regulations.
@TullaRask Working in retail, before during and after the Brexit shenanigans, I can safely confirm and reassure you that the UK/EEC food regulations in respect of additives, artificial flavourings and colourings were strictly maintained and adhered to! No way would any UK food manufacturer/producer consider changing adding or altering food product ingredients for fear of losing product sales etc! Panic over! 👍🏻😃
Definitely. I recently saw a video which showed the US Wonder Bread contained an ingredient that's used in yoga mats!!! That's insane. I'll take our strict rules, ta muchly.
what she didnt mention, likely because she didnt know, but the UK adheres to a legal standard, called the "red tractor scheme" launched in 2000, which loosely forces farms to maintain a higher quality or they wont sell goods. as a result, products certified with the red tractor scheme garentee a food safety standard. thats why food in the UK is almost always higher quality. the scheme was made to surpass US legislation. US food generally wouldnt be deemed fit for UK shelves.
the other thing that wasnt mentioned, is that certain items, like bread, eggs, milk, potatoes, and most vegetables are under the "consumer rights act of 2015" that states that these items must be below a certain price across the board. as they are considered essentials for survival. this isnt just law, its a government scheme that also provides essentials to food banks as well. its designed to be a lifeline. its essentially the government saying "no matter how much we supress you, you have the right to eat food for cheap".
Double Gloucester is a great cheese, it's very buttery
Wonky vegetables were what we bought years ago before supermarkets were even thought of … my mum used to send me to the greengrocer with a large shopping bag and a list of vegetables that she wanted me to buy … 5lbs of King Edward potatoes … 3lbs of carrots .. 2lbs of string beans … 2lbs of peas (in the shell) 2lbs of onions and 2lbs of tomatoes … these would all be weighed out by the greengrocer (Mr Burgon) and tipped straight into the shopping bag … most of the root vegetables would be wonky and maybe still have some earth/dirt on them … you always washed vegetables before peeling them for cooking … nothing was prepackaged … everything was sold loose .. even Tea was sold loose … although it was in 1/4lb packs … biscuits sold loose at local markets were very popular too …
You can get cheaper tomatoes than that in Aldi in the UK, they are called salad tomatoes and they would be about the same price as the Roma tomatoes, I'm not sure why she didn't find them, maybe they were sold out?
Also you can usually find 1kg nets of brown onions in Aldi for 99p
Cheaper and better tomatoes/ bananas at local street markets in London.😂
@@patrickmcardle4771 but they're doing an Aldi comparison video!
Packaged tomatos are more expensive than loose ones ...
Salad tomatoes 69p
I think they were sold out. I tried really hard to find plum tomatoes in England!
UK West country butter fom Aldi is one of my favourites. It has a lovely flavour, especially the crunchy salt crystals in it.
Ooh, I didn't know that - I'll have to give that a try! Thanks for the recommendation 😊
The thing with Aldi and Lidl, is majority of their stuff is own brand of varying quality. The prices are often more fixed. But you can go to any supermarket in the UK and get own brand stuff at those same prices as Aldi or Lidl, likewise in varying quality. But the major supermarkets also have lots of the big brands that are on offer more, often for not much difference and better quality. I do like when Aldi have a gimmick week though and get a limited supply of foods from certain countries, like Alpen Week or Spanish Week
Branded stuff in the UK is normally 4 times the price of the non branded stuff. Plus the quality of the food in Aldi is better than the Aldi price match stuff in major supermarkets.
You know most of the big brands make stuff for Aldi and Lidl and other stores under that shops label
Quality in general has gone down over the last 20 years to balance out profits, 20 years ago I could buy say a 35/40p Aldi pasty/pie and it would beat out a major supermarket own brand £1 pasty/pie and at worst be as good as. Basically the major supermarkets used to have more of a tier system back then i.e Tesco value was often mere pennies but the quality showed but you often didn't care as it was cheap, then they had 1-3 more tiers i.e a regular quality item, and a higher quality one and on rare occasions a premium, it just ended up having less tiers but the lowest quality i.e value range got bumped up in price to the "normal" tier then something between normal and higher quality in terms of pricing but the quality was still at the "value" level.
An endorsement for Dara. She has been coming to the UK for years and does videos showcasing the beautifull contryside and villages. I know you have reacted to some of her previous videos, and hope you will do more. As an aside, when she says 'cheese' in that slightly odd fashion in this video she is channeling Wallace from the Wallace and Gromet videos. British life as we would like the world to think of us.
Thanks so much, my friend! ❤
In Australia vegetables that look different are called the odd bunch in the supermarket. At my place we have a bee hive and get free western Australian honey we give to family and friends.
we have that as well and I think it's hilarious since thy taste the same and if I use the apples for an apple cake I don't care what they look anyway
Where I live in the UK we have a Aldi next to a large ASDA (one of the top 4 supermarkets). We swapped to Aldi as a test some 10+ years ago, and for every £100s we spent at the ASDA we now spend an average of £60 in Aldi. Yes, there are some compromises, BUT there are some things ALDI do which are better than ASDA. If you time it right, you can also buy some excellent clothing, shoes, camping eqiupment, bike and fitness equipment and strangely, a full diving suit....
A baking potato in UK is selected for a special purpose of baking and then filling with other ingredients such as cheese/coleslaw/chilli etc, its a large potato that create a meal in its own right and why they are sold as each. Potatoes used for normal cooking, including baking are sold by the lb/kg and can vary in size. Baking potatoes therefore command a higher price in UK because we are lazy and don't want to select our baking potatoes out of the sack
.Onions are used all the time in cooking so it makes sense to buy them in a sack rather than individually, besides they don't go off!!
Onions don't go off if you store them correctly, but if they get to the point of sprouting, your days are numbered before they turn soft and gooey and go bad.
@@DaveBartlett Keep them dry and cool and they will last for weeks and by that stage you will have probably used them up anyway (assuming you can cook).
Baking potatoes are jacket potatoes!
@@fieldsofgreen8857 I've seen jacket potatoes sold as baking potatoes and besides why would you sell just 4 potatoes in a packet if they weren't for that purpose? If they were general potatoes for baking then it would have been a larger packet or small sack
We also have an awful lot, less harmful chemicals in our food. There are so many great reasons to live in UK and you’ve just pointed out another one thank you
I tried some yellow American mustard, my daughter bought from Aldi. I tasted it , and filed it under B for Bin. Sorry, it was not to my taste at all, and it was luminous 😂.
Bought some last week - lots more additives in the Aldi own brand compared to the American .
Agree tried some American mustard out of curiosity it wasn't good pretty sure it was French's too rather than a British "American Mustard". It was just sweet and vinegary no mustard flavour. But I suppose I'm used to Colman's mustard that stuff packs a punch also great for clearing your sinuses when you have a cold.
*Concerning basil (Germany):* I bought a pot of that for ~€2 or 3 (IIRC) in MARCH ... and spread the plants over two flower boxes ... and by now they are about 60 cm tall and I have more than I really can eat and so I have started drying the HUGE leaves to have a supply in winter.
The point: *you only need one such pot per year* ... in addition to a flower box or two, spread out the tiny plants, give them a stick to grow, A SUNNY PLACE and dont harvest for 3 weeks.
Would be good to compare toiletries. Shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, sanitary towels/tampax, deodorant,, nappies, baby wipes, toilet rolls ect..
Then for the kitchen like foil, baking paper, cling film, sandwich bags, bin bags, bleach ect..
I have no idea how much any of those things would cost in the states.
Informative vid 👍🏻
Great idea.
Try making your own bread ladies 💂♂️🏴💂🇬🇧💂♂️:
Ingredients 🍞
500g strong white flour, plus extra for dusting
2 tsp salt
7g sachet fast-action yeast
3 tbsp olive oil
300ml water
Preparation and cooking time
Prep:20 mins
Cook:25 mins - 30 mins
Plus 2 hours proving
Easy
Makes 1 loaf
A great recipe for an electric breadmaker - or do it the traditional way
Freezable
Nutrition: per slice (10 slices)
Practice makes perfect🤷🏼♀️
Method
STEP 1
Mix 500g strong white flour, 2 tsp salt and a 7g sachet of fast-action yeast in a large bowl.
STEP 2
Make a well in the centre, then add 3 tbsp olive oil and 300ml water, and mix well. If the dough seems a little stiff, add another 1-2 tbsp water and mix well.
STEP 3
Tip onto a lightly floured work surface and knead for around 10 mins.
STEP 4
Once the dough is satin-smooth, place it in a lightly oiled bowl and cover with cling film. Leave to rise for 1 hour until doubled in size or place in the fridge overnight.
STEP 5
Line a baking tray with baking parchment. Knock back the dough (punch the air out and pull the dough in on itself) then gently mould the dough into a ball.
STEP 6
Place it on the baking parchment to prove for a further hour until doubled in size.
More great recipes www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-white-bread
Trouble is the supermarkets want very low prices from farmers making it hard for farmers to survive, the supermarkets are the ones raking the profits.
@@jemmajames6719 Same in Australia (assuming you are not). Right now there is a government enquiring into the situation.
Though what good that will do is any bodies guess!!!
I can't imagine the farmers in America benefit much from those prices. Hopefully I'm wrong.
26:20 I'm sorry, but coffee beans are from the Ethiopian highlands. There are dozens of wild/semi cultivated varieties. Only two have been brought to other countries for plantations (Arabica and Robusta).
Lidl imports more goods than any other store in bulk and you have to get the goods when in stock... the main difference is shopping in a small town v city...
the other difference is we in the UK can get local goods faster and fresher than the US... i mean i can buy local grown carrots and potatos from the farm shop 3 miles down the road... where as in the US you would have to drive further, the main thing i do when shopping is look for the tractor symbol on goods and buy those because they are british products...
many produce are biriths if you look... like grapes, strawberries both grown in the UK, you just have to know where to look to purchase them, most farm shops have online stores its always worth looking online to find farm UK produce
I'm surprised by the packaging in the British Aldi. The Union Jack is slapped on basically anything haha. That's not something you'll see in the continental Aldi. Altough we only have Aldi North in the Benelux, whereas the UK seems to have the Aldi South branche only.
Coffee dosent all come from South America, we get most from Africa
The meat isn't labeled organic.. Because meat is organic.. Until you start adding stuff to it
Some stuff she said was on sale wasn't lol it was just the new pricing
The bread one is a bit interesting because in the uk flour is considered an essential staple food and as such by law is fortified with different minerals and vitamins,so bread by contrast being available at reasonable prices is for diet enhancement to cut down on certain diseases that used to be prevelent like ricketts etc so its not just straight forward bakeing bread to sell
We have tined beans with sausage here which I like . 3 small tins for £ 5 , one tin being 200 g and enough for one person . We usually have it on toast as a quick meal . And this was on 12/07/24
The green bananas are the ones you should get. They will soon turn into yellow bananas.
At my age I don't buy green bananas. :)
@@OC35 Me neither - you never know if the buggers are going to outlast you. (They might not ripen while I'm still around!)
@@OC35 Do you buy Lettuces?
@@stephenlee5929 Yes, why?
@@OC35 They have been known to outlast a UK Prime Minister.
Its a UK joke based on Liz Truss.
Yaaaaay! You've picked up on Dara! Been following her for a couple of years now. Really interesting takes on the UK from an American who lives here 6 months a year.
Thanks Shane 😘
Aldi UK and Aldi US are both owned by the German company Aldi Sud. This is the company formed when the two Albrecht brothers disagreed on whether on not to sell cigarettes. The other brother set up Aldi Nord, which today owns Trader Joe's in the US. The two brothers don't really compete. They simply divided Germany into north and south, and European countries west of Germany, and those east (plus the British Isles). I think the US is the only country where their territories overlap.
In certain places in the UK , they are literally on opposite sides of the same entrance road.
Having been in Germany recently I can definitely say that the cost of shopping in Aldi in Germany was definitely higher than in the UK
I read somewhere, (I forget where) that the only real difference was that Aldi Nord sold cigarettes where Aldi Sud didn't.
Happy to be corrected.
My first was which Aldi is it in the US? Aldi Sud, operates in Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Czechia Republic of Ireland and the UK. It also recently purchased the Winn Dixie and Harvards brands.
Aldi Nord operates in the rest of the rest of Germany and Western Europe, also operating as Trader Joe's in the US.
I don't understand why prices are so different in the US and UK, as Aldi stores in both countries are run by Aldi Sud.
I shop at Lidl. Daily use tortilla wraps. Lidl's own brand wraps were 99p, Sainsbury's own brand £1.20. Except that they are made on the same production line! picked up a pack from Lidl and a couple of packs underneath had Sainsburys wrappers, oops. A lot of the own brand products are made by the big brand companies, just re-packaged.
You are spot on, many of these supermarket products are the exact replicas of their cheaper equivalents.
Many moons ago as a teenager, I worked in Burton's biscuit factory in Edinburgh where they produced the Mint viscount they were packaged to both the brand and the budget supermarket brand on the same line.
This video is a fascinating and takes me back 25 years.
I worked in a United Biscuits factory when I was younger all the biscuits baked in the same oven rolled down the same production belt packed in the same machines the only difference was the wrappers - a Pennywise packet of custard creams were 19p while the Marks & Spencers were at least double the price ( this was 1980s)
@@helenagreenwood2305 Ty for your reply Helen, I worked there in Burtons in 1997 and it killed my back the converyor belt was clearly built for ladies about 5'5 I was 6'1 and the constant bending took its tole.
@@Fixatedwatcher What? it's THAT LONG since you last went shopping?! 😃
@helenagreenwood2305 Oh my goodness! Orange Uniteds were my absolute favourite when I was a kid! I used to have them in my packed lunch. It's a shame they stopped making them, especially with how popular chocolate orange is in the UK 😢
Cheesy beans on toast was the ultimate struggle meal for me as a student, filling, and pretty much nailed all the nutrients you needed, also helps that it tastes amazing
We do have irish butter in Aldi and lidl and also organic they probably not refilled the shelves. Gold tea is supposed to be better quality than the red, hence the price difference..
Until the recent period of high inflation, food in the UK was very cheap compared to Spain where I live. Recent inflation has equalised prices a bit but some things are still a lot more expensive in Spain. I assume that supermarkets must make more profit here than the UK. The thing that surprises me about US prices is that your food industry is much less regulated than the European food industry so theoretically it should be cheaper. I think some businesses are making a lot of profit at the expense of fairness for the customer.
a Good way about comparing grocery prices is to look at your own countries produce and see if its cheaper to buy it elsewhere in the world. Your own products should always be cheaper, if they are not, someone is ripping you off somewhere along the line
Kerrygold Irish butter is sold in other supermarkets in the UK 250g for £2.60 ($338.77) generally.
Get yourselves to Aldi girls!! But remember you won’t recognise the brand names( neither did we when Aldi first opened here) but there are plenty of tv programmes reviewing Christmas foods which always totally astounds the tasters by the fact that they always prefer Aldi products.
We British as a nation generally consider food the staple of life, and everyone needs to eat right. I think we base our prices on our average salary/wage per person. The aim is to make food as cheap for the brits as possible, to mitigate cost of living in other areas of expendature. I guess we just care about our people more XD
We don't have ALDI here on our Island of Guernsey. HOWEVER.....there is one or two in France really near. It is now cheaper to buy a high-speed RIB boat and just sod-off to France for the day and go shopping/lunch.
On my days off I regularly make Aldi spaghetti hoops on toast as a small meal around lunchtime. I use Aldi mid range wholemeal bread and Aldi spaghetti hoops.
For two slices of toast per person and one can of spaghetti hoops divided between us it works out at a grand total of 34 pence. 17 pence each.
It's far cheaper, healthier and more filling than a chocolate bar.
I have found some UK cheapest food items to be 'cheap and nasty'.
If you pay a little bit more (still cheap) you can find items that are 'cheap and cheerful'.
Just in case, you should know that English mustard is very strong, don't use it like American mustard.
I agree - if I buy pizza in a supermarket I usually buy a more expensive one because it's still a lot cheaper than a takeaway one would cost
I agree but it is not always so.
It can be worth trying the cheapest option, so long as you can afford to, it may save you a lot in the long run.
Note many supermarkets have understood this and offer to refund own brand items, it the customer does not like them.
Agreed with English Mustard vs US Mustard, note I like both but they are very different
@@helenagreenwood2305 A supermarket budget range pizza is often awful, but that doesn't mean their regular range one is bad in fact can be better and still cheaper than a branded one.
just so you know ALDI is thriving in the UK we just had a brand new store opened 10 minutes away from where I live ALDI is good but not brilliant you got to remember that half the fresh products spend a lot of time in transport coming from Spain and other countries so there shelf life isn't brilliant but we actually shops for salad vegetables and fruit from a local market
8 Bananas
4 gem lettuce
1 ice berg lettuce
10 radishes
cherry tomatoes
3 pack of yellow green and red peppers
cucumber
cost £10.12 and that is all farmed locally
You can get fresh bread in the instore bakery for cheap too. I don't think I've ever paid more than about £2 for any sort of bread
Take a look at Aldi’s sourdough bread, it’s sold sliced and by either a half or a quarter of the large round loaf it exits the oven’s as, I can’t remember the price exactly but it’s definitely over the £2 that you mentioned and that’s for a half of a loaf!
@@andrewcoates6641I get this bread twice a week and never paid over £2 for a whole loaf uncut.
I’ve always found the UK incredibly cheap for groceries,electrical goods, clothes. Whenever I’ve been to mainland Europe it’s insane how much more expensive it is. Today I was in ASDA where. 55 inch Smart TV was 255 GBP. it would be 3 or 4 times that in Europe. The bread you mentioned at 45p..that would be 60-70 US CENTS. I think other things here are massively expensive Cars, rents, property, entertainment, hotels, fuel. A gallon of petrol here if I’ve worked it out correctly would be about 7-8 dollars It’s difficult to be exact as we get petrol in litres. It’s about 1,5 GBP a litre. 4 litres is a gallon? So it’s 6 GBP per gallon, so I reckon 8 about 7.5-8 dollars a gallon?
WOW, just wow. If more Americans were aware of this I wonder what would happen...I want your bread UK!
you probably want our german bread as well.
If you wanna try I can give you a few recipes!
A lot of us make our own. Maybe it might be safer, healthier and less expensive if Americans did the same
The bread, almost everywhere in Europe, is so much better than that found in the USA, and there is so much variety as well.
Added to the average cheaper cost in the UK is the undeniable and very important fact that the food quality in UK and Europe appears to be so much higher than the USA. To my mind that makes UK prices even more favourable.
When my german friends where living in the US for three years they had a breadmaker, making their own bread. Wasn't a big deal, filled it in the evening, timer and had fresh bread in the morning! She even got the incredients to make authentic pretzels herself.
I'm reminded of the playground rhyme that went "Beans, beans are good for the heart, the more you eat, the more you fart, the more you fart, the more you eat, the more you sit on the toilet seat." We're so cultured in the UK. 🤣
Debbie, if you get quite a few foot cramps, try upping your potassium levels by eating more potatoes, tomatoes, bananas etc.
It can also be a sign of kidney issues, like excessive protein leakage.
Magnesium can also help. Due to multiple sclerosis I get frequent muscle spasms in my calf muscles. I regularly take medication for it.
Take care and best wishes
I remember when Aldi came to the UK when I was maybe 10? It was a revelation. They only took cash and you couldn't get carrier bags - people used to use cardboard boxes to carry things as it wasn't a thing to take your own bags back then. I remember my grandmother being very very excited as their own brand baked beans (not even the 'everyday essentials' brand) were 9p per tin, and even dropped to 6p occasionally.
Thanks for your reaction to my video... and thanks for all your kind words and compliments!❤
No promises but I MIGHT do an ALDI shopping video in Germany 🇩🇪 😉
Cheers! XX Dara
Thank YOU for always producing & created such great videos! We learn a lot & you truly put so much work into them!!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow some videos are definitely more difficult and time-consuming than others. This one was definitely among the worst! That's why I'm not volunteering to do another shopping video anytime soon lol 😂
Top 10 coffee producing countries: Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Indonesia, Honduras, Ethiopia, Peru, India, Guatemala, Uganda. For a delicious and hearty winter meal try baked beans on a baked potato with a sprinkling of strong cheddar cheese. Sometimes budget meals are the best😊
Fact! And they fill yer belly nicely 👌🏽 😀
17:00 KerryGold Butter is really good. The best industrial butter I've ever had after living in Spain, Ireland and Germany.
the coffee bean did not originate in the Americas... it's from Ethiopia in Africa. it's the cacao seed (chocolate) originated in the Americas though, some would say that's a bigger win for y'all. :P
I think the lady didn't look hard enough re: coffee. Jars of instant coffee are available in the UK as well as beans.
The sachets & jars of coffee were bang next to the teas, I saw them. As we say in Yorkshire "She needs t' oppen' (open) her eyes!
Aldi doesnt always have every version of an item ... that's the reason why they are cheap.
I don't think she was looking for instant coffee.
She was looking for either bean or ground coffee.
It's rare for Americans to drink instant coffee.
I haven't seen any large bags/tins of Ground Coffee or Beans in UK Aldi (basically only the sizes shown in video), I seen bigger in other supermarkets here, Sainsburys do a 1Kg bag of beans and 500g ground, and 250g ground in a tin.
The tub she was looking at in US was the 30oz (about 850g) ground coffee (I believe), so comparing with our 250g either bean or ground would have been unfair.
@@stephenlee5929 In the US comparable, she was looking at a jar of instant.
@@Sheffield_Steve Time stamp 26:15 Through 26:35, the US Coffee was a plastic tub, of 100% Columbian Ground Coffee, not instant coffee.(at $8.49 wt. 26.2 oz)
then at 26:46 Classic Roast Ground Coffee, at $7.69 for 30.5oz,
She picked up a jar that was granulated. Why am I debating this??
Everyone in the uk who complaines about the food prices here in the uk should watch this video
One factor often overlooked is geography.
The USA is a vast area, with an (overall) low population density. The UK is a small country with a larger population density. That means that shipping costs of groceries in the UK are inherently cheaper; here in the UK you can ship a whole truck load of tomatoes to one place and sell the lot. Less so, net, across the USA. For perishable goods that's actually quite a big deal.
Having said that, I can't explain the price differences in non-perishable goods that way. Flour?!?! Given that wheat is grown in vast acreages in the USA...
These kind of cost comparisons have come down to the same thing. Land costs in the USA are generally very low in comparison to the UK. This was the fundamental factor identified in a Parliamentary Inquiry as to why CDs cost less in the USA; the cost of the land underneath the shop they were sold in was substantially less in the USA.
Whilst there is some truth to what you say there is another side to it. The UK being smaller would be an advantage in terms of delivery if we were a self sufficient country producing all our own food. We are not. We import around 46% of our total food. We import almost half of our vegetables and around 80% of our fruit each year. Notice the strawberries came from Spain. On the other hand distances from one end of the USA are probably even greater than distances between the UK and many other European countries. However, leaving the EU, or more specifically the single market and the customs union, made importing food more expensive and Americans may be surprised but we have had higher inflation on our food prices than in the USA.
It's not just the price differences on the food items which are a shock. Its also the quality of the foid and how much chemicals are used unnecessarily in the products.
Compare uk V us utility bills..
Our energy bills are a LOT more expensive over here than there. It all balances itself out..
good video 😊
And petrol...
And when you see how the Americans waste - and I mean WASTE - energy, trust me on this, I've LIVED there, their energy bills can exceed ours in some cases by an order of magnitude.......oh yes. When we lived in California, our landlord asked us if we were still living in the apartment as our bills were less than a quarter of the average.
Flour is amazing - size of US cereal agriculture is HUGE! This is crazy.
21% cheaper in the UK with far better ingredients and our animal welfare puts yours to shame, I won't mention the banned chemicals in the US (oops sorry I did :) )
Well done. You turned a light hearted fun video into quite an aggressive little point-scoring exercise. Everyone knows about the different food and animal welfare standards bla bla bla... heard it all before. Bugger off and don't come back till you have something new to say.
@@garlichr I'm sorry facts offend you so much but when doing a comparison video surly everything should be taken into account? If we had the same standards of animal welfare in the UK our meat would be half the price, add that with growth hormones + chemicals our food would be even cheaper. I think outraged US citizens is the only way to force the corruption out of the FDA and food suppliers. If the US wanted to "point score" then why not mention land and house prices? or GDP per capita ect? There are many things the US does better than we do, especially the tax levied against them to keep global dictators in check and prevent the likes of Putin or Xi from expanding all over the world. As for my "aggressive little point-scoring exercise" wasn't that the whole point of the video? and why you have the right to tell me to "Bugger off and don't come back till you have something new to say" are you a self appointed comment police? or just a comment KAREN who aggressively attacks anyone they don't agree with?
Sorry but here in the Uk also have banned chemicals and the ones that are not banned, should be.
If you want butter then the best butter I have ever had is French butter. I have been driving in France going somewhere else and pulled into a shopping center just to pick up some butter. Sometimes we get it in the Netherlands and I will buy more than we need just because.
There are many more stores throughout the UK that, if you shop around, you can cut at least another 15% off the total basket too!
Only a few minutes in but just wanted to say I LOVE ALDI! Here in the UK I used to go to “normal” supermarkets, then I discovered “LIDL”, liked it but then they randomly closed my local store here in North London and I ended up going to Aldi and I’m so glad I did! It’s awesome, it’s like Lidl but the food is sooooo good quality!
The moral of this story is, when coming to the UK on holiday, rent a self catering cottage (out of season - so not during the UK school vacations and not too close to London) and don’t waste money in restaurants. “Eating out” in the UK is expensive - obviously the restaurants have staff to pay and overheads to cover, but the mark up on food is just criminal. Today I decided against a heavily processed hotdog in a bun from a food wagon at £8 (!) in favour of a huge “full English breakfast” in one of the (open to the public) club houses at Bisley Camp (we were watching a shooting competition) for £11.25 including a mug of tea or coffee. In reality I could have made the same breakfast for about £2.50 (or even less), but the hot dog made at home would be less than 75p, even with the ‘really expensive” American mustard (Yes, I’m the one that buys it for my hotdogs 🤣)
Great suggestion! Shopping at local markets is a delight, and you can get even better, fresher produce!
The shopping trolleys with that style of coin slot work with a 'key' from a corned beef can or similar. Shove it in, wiggle it from side to side and remove the chain from the back ans the key from the front. I've made the slot in the key a little larger to go in my keyring so I always have it on me.
Nothing to do with the prices, but did you know that the "Cheddar" cheese made in the USA isn't cheddar cheese. It is only allowed to be called Cheddar Cheese if made in the town of Cheddar, Somerset in the UK.
I don't know why this lady missed the 1 kg bags of onions, which look much more like the USA onions, than the Spanish onion 3 pk, she chose? Also the tomatoes, she chose 'on the vine' in the uk store, which are the most expensive option. Unlike the salad tomatoes pk of 6. Currently around 90p (?)
Unfortunately they don't sell loose tomatoes in UK Aldis.
The honey, isn't British, really, most of Aldi's honeys(& other supermarkets) are blended honeys from many different countries, not all in the E.U.. So there is no check if they aren't adulterated with sugar water. The most expensive are single blossom/type which has to be pure honey and can be checked, I understand. ...
I just love Natasha's reactions. 💕 As they are similar to mine. 😂
"Wonky" Fruit & Veg, came about in the UK after growing protests about food waste. Major retailers were being accused of only selecting the "nicer" looking fruit and veg for sale and charging a premium. The wonky version is perfectly edible but may not look as nice. i.e., not as bright, uniformly coloured, might have natural lumps and bumps, or could be slightly smaller. So in short, its better to buy and consume (cheaper too) to prevent waste. Due to the extreme temperatures in Europe in 2023, a lot of the tomato crop were destroyed, as there was not enough moisture in the soil to help them grow. Most had to be recultivated under cover and in greenhouses instead. The result we are seeing now (as most of the are imported from Europe) are lower quality, due to the reduction in crops and import costs due to Brexit. The UK got the "dregs" of what was available from the short crop now available... That's why for a while you couldn't find any carton's of Tomato Juice and very little pastes available for sale for months.
FYI. Wonky is an old Royal Navy expression. A wonk is someone who has completed their training, but has no practical experience. Therefore "wonky" = imperfect or lopsided.
It is worth bearing in mind that in the UK, price labelling includes tax. When I was in Canada, I was vexed when I went to pay for things, only to discover that the price was before tax. Very irritating.
Debbie made a good comment, partly as a little bit of fun, but actually did hit the nail on the head... Baked Beans on Toast is indeed a very popular quick and cheap "meal" had by many, many people. And yes, partly because that for certain times in life (students, young adults starting out on their own, teenagers home from school as well as quick food), they can be a very filling, warm and cheap meal to have on a plate. Throw some grated cheddar cheese on top too and you are really pushing the boat out. "British" food does come in for some stick, and for some things rightly so, but this one is pretty commonly thought of in good regards. But the pricing also shows why. I remember when there was a BIG pricing war on between a few of the BIG supermarket chains, and you could buy tins of beans for a few pennies each, and a loaf of cheap white bread for 10p... so it was easy to stock up and eat cheap. Not necessarily the healthiest of balanced diets but certainly affordable for those who need/ed it.
The "wonkey" stuff is because the European Union banned miss-shapped fruit and veg, . Since they scrapped that law, shops usually sell such fruit and veg a bit cheaper than more presentable fruit and veg and label it accordingly.
Great idea!
From the South Pacific, peel green bananas and split down the middle. Add small marshmallows and chocolate chips, wrap in foil and put them on the barbeque. Great with vanilla ice-cream ❤
as for the mustard question, somewhat ironically in the UK it's 'english' mustard that is sold most, which is a very hot style of mustard so you use far less than you would use American mustard on a hot dog for example.