Value Range foods compared

[jennyjj01]

Currently watching a 'Documentary' on Channel5
aldi-vs-lidl Which Tastes Better?
It's doing just a few comparisons of products including with Tesco and mainstream brands.
I wonder how much influence the compared retailers had over the reviews?

Anyhow....... Jenny's non-sponsored Review:-

Lidl is far ahead of ALDI on Value for Money. Both beat Tesco on VFM.
The Lidl loyalty card provides typically a free croissant or doughnut each week. This week a £2.99 tub of free blueberries. ALDI doesn't even have a loyalty scheme.

[jennyjj01]

Just a heads up on some current lidl bargains. Probably only for Lidl Plus app users.

Noted today that they have three varieties of 213g Nixe Tinned Wild Salmon reduced from £1.99 to £0.99 a can

OMG. Grossest product since Chappie dog food!

I just opened a tin of the Lidl's Nixe 'Wild Pink Salmon with Skin and Bones'

The title did not prepare me enough. . . And I'm not usually bothered by a bit of skin and bones.

OK. I know it's a matter of taste and we should expect to have to pluck out some spine bones, but this was like a junior fisherman's surgery kit.

I should have photographed it, but just wanted rid.
It was in date!

Three slices of salmon of decreasing size, as they'd chopped down through the carcass. The carcass looked and stank like it had died of old age and left to rot. All skin was grey and loose. The spines and long bones were soft but conspicuous. Removing them was hindered by their softness and the smell. Oh, boy, the smell!
The skin was dull grey/almost green. The flesh was grey like death.

If I had a cat, I wouldn't feed him this shite. You would have to be some sort of nutter to eat this.

Binned!

[pseudonym]

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OK. I know it's a matter of taste and we should expect to have to pluck out some spine bones, but this was like a junior fisherman's surgery kit.

You obviously never played "Operation, the mad Doctors Game from MB Games"

[jennyjj01]

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OK. I know it's a matter of taste and we should expect to have to pluck out some spine bones, but this was like a junior fisherman's surgery kit.

You obviously never played "Operation, the mad Doctors Game from MB Games"

LOL. I did indeed think of that game.
I took it out of the tin and started to take out the bones with a fork, as you do, but the feel of the skin and the smell put me right off.
Odd, 'cos I normally don't mind plucking a few bones out of tinned fish, and I quite like the silvery skin that usually features. Maybe if the pink salmon had been just a bit pink.

I'll dig out another can and take some photo's to illustrate. Lucky we can't upload smelly vision.