I know. And I was (and still am) responding in kind
But what weird “German ‘breakfast’” is this? I have never heard of that. They probably wanted to make English breakfast for you. In Germany we eat bread for breakfast. And one can never have enough bread - ever!!!
Incidentally, I actually agree! To my dad’s great horror…
I do my main shopping at Aldi and have pretty much always done so since they entered the UK market. I once did a line-by-line receipt comparison between my Aldi shop and the equivalent from Mr Tesco (brands with brands, Aldi own-brand with Tesco own brand etc) and Tesco was 25% more expensive. Given that I don’t think the tesco equivalents are anywhere close to 25% better I was quite happy (smug) with that.
I actually lol’d at Aldi scanning tweet. She obviously never went to Aldi before they introduced barcodes. The staff memorised the price of every item in the shop and just entered the price manually into the till. A full belt of shopping took less than a minute to process and they regularly had to stop so you could clear the “bagging area” to let them reach more stuff
I had a look at their sausages. Three out of 4, are basically meat with thyme and pepper. The fourth one, I guess, is spicy sausage with Pimento (and thyme…). Don’t get me wrong, good quality meat is a great start, but nearly total lack of spices is a dealbreaker for me.
Most likely, weisswurst you had was not a 100% pork sausage. In Germany, weisswurst is usually made with veal meat, more rarely veal+pork. It went through extensive processing/mincing to produce ‘smooth’ sausage. I find them atrocious, they are usually dry and taste like eating meat mush.
Polish white sausages usually contain small pieces of meat (mixed with fatty stuff, but that gives good taste) and a lot more spices. Like, a lot. See that chunks of meat? And how many ‘dots’ of spices… I would recommend buying some Polish sausage for comparison, because Polish sausages and weisswurst are nothing alike, apart from colour. Be warned that cheaper Polish white sausages have additives and conservants, so it’s worth reading labels and picking the least ‘polluted’ (phosphates, Maltodextrin etc).
@DaveTMG Well, ok. Name for Polish white sausage is ‘kiełbasa biała’. There are 2 main types:
completely raw (kiełbasa biała surowa). Has to be cooked, unless you want pork carpaccio experience?
hmm, not sure how to translate, but pre-boiled? (kiełbasa biała parzona) - the meat had a bath in warm water already, so it preserves better than raw.
Raw white sausage is more soft/loose, while pre-boiled is more solid state. Raw is more grey pinkish/glassy skin, pre-boiled is more grey/white and you can’t see through the skin. I would recommend ‘raw’ over pre-boiled, as it’s more intense in taste. The pre-boiled sausage already ‘lost’ some of it’s flavour in water, so I always considered pre-boiled as ‘reheating it twice’. And ofc, once you cook raw sausage, it looks just like pre-boiled.
You should not boil white sausages in 100*C water, water in the pot should be calm, but you should be able to see steam going up a bit. So, as hot as you can get it without bubbles.
If the deli has more than 1 type of raw white sausage, then without seeing brands, I can’t really make further recommendation. Decent brand Polish brand for meats is ‘Sokołów’, although they do use some additives (though not in every product), I’m guilty of occassional indulgence as their taste is usually spot on.
If it’s good Polish deli, they should have ‘krakowska sausage’ (pronounce it like town Krakow, Krakow-ska). It had been a hit with my friends with generally favourable reviews of about 97% people lovin it .
Ask in the shop if you can try it, or any other meat that catches your eye. Not sure about UK, but in Polish meat/cheese shops it’s very common to ask for small taster before making purchase, and if meat is not raw ofc. Anyway, in case you also happen to hate Polish white sausage, I’m hoping that ‘krakowska’ sausage will make it up to you.
I remember shopping in Lidl when it first appeared in Germany
It was a cost cutting establishment that had items still in the cardboard boxes rather than unpacked on the shelves as we see today
That was its selling point then. Costs kept down as less staff employed to stack shelves
How things have moved on now
We attempted a weekly shop at Aldi/Lidl and regretted it… they didn’t have what we wanted and there equivalent items were not up to the mark.
We brought some steak which was below par and the chorizo which was just awful.
Tesco or Ocado for the weekly shopping and they both are similar priced, it’s only when you buy the own branded orangic items that it’s more expensive. We tend to do Tesco more for the points. We can get multiple days out over the summer months for money we have already spent.
All meat comes from our local butcher. Sausages are made to how you like them and so are burgers. The meat quality is sooo much better for a similar price, yes some things more expensive but you notice the difference!
My wife finds that the vegetables from Lidl don’t last
We tried for a while to purchase them from the store but found that after a few days they would rot
So it’s back to Tesco’s for veg
Another fan of Aldi here. Some of their premium range is excellent, particularly the wine and pizzas.
Just beware of going just before closing on a Sunday. They have an incessant reminder that the store will shortly be closing from around 30 minutes before it actually does.