Driving home from Aldi I spotted some large cut up oak chunks on the side of the road. Picked up as much as I could. Got home and split them...damm. They gotta punky ring under the bark. Looked nice and dry on the outside. Pitched about a third of the wood splitting off the soft stuff .
The sapwood goes quick sometimes. I never took a lot of effort to remove it but did go ant hunting in thicker sections. I made a reasonable effort to keep it out of the rain year round as it can be a like a sponge. More so the year of use. Nothing like frozen soaking wet punk. A lot falls off just handling it.
We have a fairly new one in town, and when I went to Ohio they were all over the place. Yes, lots of random buys, but sometimes the stuff in the flyer never shows up.
The heart of the oak should be fine. I've never been inside an Aldi's store and don't really know what they are about.
It’s a small grocery store with off brand products. Decent quality, low prices. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
There are a lot of them in my area. Prices are very good and the quality on many things is comparable to Wegmans brands. I talked to a few people that ship canned goods, they tell me a lot of stuff that goes to various grocery chains all comes out of the same factories, just different labels...same thing but different labels and prices...I can see that...but I love Aldi's.
But many make the mistake of thinking it is the same product but most times it is not even though it comes from the same place. I heard this for many years and really had to laugh when MTD was making most of the lawn mowers in the US just putting different brand names on them. But they were not the same. Each business had their own specs as to what they wanted. With food, it is usually just a small step down; something the brand names would not accept. Of course there are exceptions, like when I was in the dairy business. With milk it is simply a switch of label. But with ice cream and cottage cheese, etc, there is a drop in quality.
Made on the same assembly lines doesn't mean of the same materials. Some of the off brand stuff is often better because they've used less spices or additives. If you like milder they can be the way to go.
While I'm generally in agreement and admiration of you, BS, I've got disagree on this one. Aldi is a European (German) company that does their due diligence on their house brand products. It's not the generic stuff you're familiar with. Their prices are rock bottom, with generally very high quality, like Costco or Trader Joe's (TJs is their sister store). They don't carry much of that "name brand" crap that you pay way more for, to cover all the advertising that is done to brainwash us. The other benefit of Aldi is, there are not 20 brands of ketchup (or whatever) to chose from. Usually just one, and it's normally good. Much quicker shopping trip. All that said, not everything is great. Their weather station was crap, their bread is frozen and thawed, and their produce is iffy. At least at our store. But, all in all, really good quality, with prices lower than Walmart. They are, and will continue to, put weaker grocery competition out of business as they expand across the US. I was skeptical at first, too.
Many of the products deliver. I think their Doritos are pretty darn closer to the real thing. Picked up some frozen hashbrowns the other day. Will report back here after I cook them up tomorrow AM for breakfast. $1.65 experiment; we shall see!
I did mechanical maintenance for several years at a yogurt n cream cheese plant. A lot of your big name brand stuff was made there...it was ALL the same recipe...what always amazed me was how each buyer of the product that was bein ran on a givin shift wanted there own ....USE BY or BEST BUY date printed on box or container. A good bit got shipped to Japan n they were really anal about the products made for them...however....there USE BY date was 6 months longer than any other store in the U.S. .....Go figure...
They are pretty big in the States...at least in Wisconsin. Good on prices and very similar to the German stores. I like going there...quick pop in and out, get what you need so much faster than say woodmans and sorta reminds me of being in Germany.
Yeah I agree. The pizza is great. Can't go wrong with any of the chips or cookies. Milk, butter and eggs usually are the cheapest by far. The meats are usually very high quality but it's not as aggressively priced as the other products...Except ground beef. Americans are brand snobs. Takes us a while to realize that we are just paying a lot extra for flashier packaging and advertising.
Yeah, I know....Just disappointing to get a haul like that and have it be so punky. Go try an Aldi. You will likely find it weird at first... My kids used to just call everything a copy, but now often prefer the Aldi stuff and don't complain about having to go to the store with Dad because you are in and out quickly and because the goodies are not so expensive that Dad objects as often.
