Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)

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Nigel Henry wrote:
On Friday 30 March 2007 22:43, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 22:19 +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 14:46 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 03/30/07 13:59, John Hasler wrote:
Ron Johnson writes:
We buy the cheapest *whole* wheat bread at the local store that
doesn't taste like crumbly cardboard.
See? You're picky.
Taste pickiness != snob pickiness. (Although snobs like to pretend
it is.)

Cathy Consumer buys the cheapest white bread,
full stop.
Not true unless you're on a very tight budget. Ask your wife
whether she'd spend an extra 30 cents on bread from a brand she
trusts.
We buy Bread at Aldi. $0.45 a loaf or $0.15 a loaf when trying to sell
off before tomorrow's shipment. Seem pretty much everything is that way
at Aldi.

The white bread is very good for "tasteless" bread. Wheat is $0.50,
$0.15 respectively, I like the wheat better than most "branded" kind.
Which country is this? Here, Aldi doesn't ever sell bread that cheap.
The good ole US of 'Murica. Specifically in Grand Rapids, MI.

And to be honest, the only thing I don't like about Aldi bread, is that
it isn't always the "tradition" loaf shape. Sometimes a bit deformed.

I'll go out on a short limb and say that more than 95% of the stuff Aldi
carries that has direct "brand-name" equivalents, is better tasting...
or SUCH a great value, that the taste doesn't matter at that point. Most
fall in the first category. Cereal, Milk, Bread, Ground Beef, Pork
Chops, "frozen" burritos, Fish Sticks, Fired Potatoes, Potatoe Chips,
"Juice" (cranberry, Apple, Sunny D knock off orange, etc) drinks, Soda
pop, Vegetable oil(different kinds), shampoo, hand soap, Paper Towels,
Tissue, Frozen seafood, fresh vegetables, beef Steak cuts, brats,
sausage, yogurt, pre-made pudding, boxed stuffing, "mac and
cheese" ($0.29 each box and significantly better tasting than Kraft
equivalent) and many other products in similar shape and form.

One product that falls into the second category:

"Manwich" costs $1.99 in most stores(plus or minus $0.20)

Aldi equivalent $0.29. It isn't quite as flavorful, but it still
tastes a might good better in comparison to plain ground beef
and really is only slight less tasty than "Manwich"

I mean, since the price difference is so HUGE and the quality is mostly
as good or even better, why Aldi is not deluged by people from open to
close, I'll never know.
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greg, greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Recently bought a webcam from Aldi. Reduced from 25 to 5€. It works fine using
the ov511 driver. They had some more there at the same price, so I bought 2
more. Nothing like having a couple of spares.

And the breads ok too.

You don't find the usual brand names, but I have no problem with the stuff
they provide. It tastes ok, and all I'm trying to do is stay alive.

Nigel.



I don't know if they sell them there, but here aldi sells computers too.

I did a little digging and they are all over the place. A simple visit
to http:/www.aldi.com will tell you all of the countries they are in.
Quite a world player. 'Twas news to me. Maybe I'd recognize some of
the products they sell.

I did buy a computer from them once. It was a bargain price for a very
well designed computer. Of course, it came with Windows.

Joe

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