I'm a big Aldi fan and have found that those that complain about Aldi are the same people that don't return their shopping carts to the cart corral at other establishments.
Regional Delicacies / Specialties Of Your Area
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Moon cakes for the Moon Festival
A regional - Chinese Asian Festival. So China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia.
Pretty much anywhere there is a sizeable ethnic Chinese migrant population
This is my favourite variety - white lotus paste (sweet) with double salted egg yolks.
Yummmmm........
Best with a nice pot of Chinese tea
A regional - Chinese Asian Festival. So China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia.
Pretty much anywhere there is a sizeable ethnic Chinese migrant population
This is my favourite variety - white lotus paste (sweet) with double salted egg yolks.
Yummmmm........
Best with a nice pot of Chinese tea
Mettbrötchen from Germany.
Bread roll with seasoned and ground raw pork. Usually served with onions. Everybody who hears about it for the first time is grossed out, whoever tasted it loves it for breakfast, lunch, brunch or Abendbrot.
Always good.
Bread roll with seasoned and ground raw pork. Usually served with onions. Everybody who hears about it for the first time is grossed out, whoever tasted it loves it for breakfast, lunch, brunch or Abendbrot.
Always good.
Last time we had some Yorkshire Pudding we put it in a tray underneath a lamb shank and put it in the oven. Mmh
Tossed salad is as much of a luxury (or vice) as pipe tobacco. The best tossed salad is 100% shredded amd cold iceberg lettuce with zero calories and zero nutrients. It’s a healthy junk food.
Having heaped shredded, cold lettuce on a separate salad plate, the Ozark American can then build his salad.
I like a big scoop of cottage cheese on one side and a huge scoop of red sweet sugar beets on the other.
Then shredded yellow cheese, bacon bits, little tomatoes, and finally the most important ingredient to good salad gets ladled over the lettuce, not on the beets and cottage cheese.
Ott’s Original Famous Dressing – Ott Food Products - https://ottfoods.com/shop/otts-original-famous-dressing/
If they don’t have Ott’s I might substitute French.
But if they don’t have French I want cottage cheese and red sugar beets.
Ott’s means salad dressing around God’s Own Ozarks.
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“If I thought I was sitting down for my final meal, I would without a doubt have Ott’s Famous Dressing on my cold crisp salad.”
– Robert M. Travis
Having heaped shredded, cold lettuce on a separate salad plate, the Ozark American can then build his salad.
I like a big scoop of cottage cheese on one side and a huge scoop of red sweet sugar beets on the other.
Then shredded yellow cheese, bacon bits, little tomatoes, and finally the most important ingredient to good salad gets ladled over the lettuce, not on the beets and cottage cheese.
Ott’s Original Famous Dressing – Ott Food Products - https://ottfoods.com/shop/otts-original-famous-dressing/
If they don’t have Ott’s I might substitute French.
But if they don’t have French I want cottage cheese and red sugar beets.
Ott’s means salad dressing around God’s Own Ozarks.
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“If I thought I was sitting down for my final meal, I would without a doubt have Ott’s Famous Dressing on my cold crisp salad.”
– Robert M. Travis
Deviled Crab! Large croquettes stuffed with blue crab meat mixed with Sofrito, red pepper and other spices. Eaten with hot sauce. A Tampa delicacy!
Don’t forget about Mrs. Mike’s chips from Freeport, IL. It’s the oil, it’s the oil!
Still trying to figure out this new obsession with returning the shopping carts. Sure, at Aldi you get your quarter back, but at other places, no one has stopped to consider that the people who collect the carts might actually *enjoy* the chance to walk around outside and slowly collect the carts from the far reaches of the parking lot.
Many moons ago, when I was a stock boy at a drug store one summer, I loved the chance to retrieve carts from across the parking lot. It kept me away from my boss, who was a real see you next Tuesday. Sometimes my girlfriend would plan to visit me and at the designated time, I'd go outside and get to chat her up for a few minutes. I once asked a cart boy at Kroger whether he wished people were better at returning the carts and he said "No. I'd rather be outside."
If returning carts is what defines civility, call me Mowgli. I leave them out in nice weather for those that appreciate it.
Provided the cart is secured in the corral, I take no issue.
Leaving a cart outside of the corral creates various issues, such as damaged vehicles and reduced parking.
I will add that Aldi is able to keep prices down by not paying a cart attendant. Just an added benefit.
Decreased overhead cost. It cuts into profit having to pay someone to go collect the carts. It's all about profit margin. That and I'm sure they don't like employees talking to their gf's on company time.
Ha ha, it is not my job to help the grocers make more money, nor do I care that their employees talk to their GFs. I just push my buggy away from my car and leave, while waving at the happy buggy boys. They never seem upset.
I understand that, I'm just explaining the companies point of view as to why Aldi does what they do. It also keeps buggy theives from walking of with them.Ha ha, it is not my job to help the grocers make more money, nor do I care that their employees talk to their GFs. I just push my buggy away from my car and leave, while waving at the happy buggy boys. They never seem upset.
They give homeless people a place to their tobacco cellars, ha ha.
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