I has English food!

[pne]

My parcel with English food has arrived! Yay!

All wrapped very carefully.

So now I have some English cereal and some English Christmas goodies, as well as miscellaneous other stuff that’s difficult to get in Germany.

Comments

[steorra]

Yay!

[green_knight]

We, on the other hand, have Aldi and Lidl and thus a good supply of German foods. (Some branches of Lidl now include a bakery. With real bread at non-eyewatering prices. (The other day I passed on a 500g £3,50 loaf. I don't think any bread can be _that_ tasty.))

[pne]

It was interesting visiting the Aldi in Denmark when we were on holiday there - the mixture of German and Danish foods in one shop :)

Parts of the shelves were very German and familiar, and other bits were non-German and alien/exotic. An odd experience.

I did find it interesting how many German things they had, though; I hadn't expected that.

[green_knight]

When Lidl first came to the UK, they had mostly German lines, then they went through a frantic scramble of finding things that people wanted to buy locally, and how they've managed to get a good balance. And in the last few years we've had a lot of infllux of polish groceries in the mainstream (all major supermarkets stock at least some things) so there's been a shift in UK shopping as a whole.

They're both very populat shops - often situated fairly central, good grocery selection, cheap.

I just never can get used to the pronounciation /Liddl/ :-)