Here's Where Aldi's Chocolate Really Comes From

The Takeout ^ | December 11, 2024 | Cara J Suppa

[montag813]

I love the Gustav Klimt-ish art deco lettering.

[Sequoyah101]

Orange Jaffa Cakes. Deadly.

[Organic Panic]

There was an Aldi next to my apartment in Berlin. Great little store that saved a ton of money. Breakfast and lunch basics for the apartment and then a stop at IKEA for dinner.

[Red Badger]

You had dinner in a furniture store?................🤔

[DAC21]

“Aldi has good stuff”

Yep, if only the items I like were consistently available, not the case. The 70% cocao chocolate bars, Spinach and Chicken sausages and pork Knackwurst are rarely available especially the Knackwurst. Thinking maybe that one only is in stock for Oktoberfest season? So maybe it will be in stock again soon.

[katana]

Less variety but generally as good or better quality than what's found on major grocery store shelves. Less expensive (frequently with fewer and healthier ingredients on the label) house branded products, and one or two of the best of the known American brands mixed in. Their produce doesn't seem to keep as long. So it's best to buy it for use same day or the the next.

But their German and Austrian chocolates? Excellent. Advent products? Like what you'd find at a Weinachtsmarkt. Another treat that's sometimes hard to find are the frozen Gelato varieties. Overall my favorite grocery.

[gnarledmaw]

IIRC the 85% dark cocoa only has 7 net carbs for one bar. Easy for anyone even diabetics to fit one in on occasion and still be able to have a thimble of red wine.

[gnarledmaw]

I can say that too. The only thing about Aldi that gets my goat is that I trust Aldi and put my guard down then on occasion another shopper screws me over.

You actually have to look at every package you touch because some shoppers will scramble and mix all kinds of products together while trying to get the box they want.

I organize and front the products Im perusing. Not because Im a neat freak but because its so inconsiderate to toss everything into a pile for the next shopper.

The demographics of the nearest neighborhood seems to effect which are the “good” stores that way and how customers view them.

[MarlonRando]

I’ve never come across that, I’ve only had good experiences. I also shop at Ikea mainly so I can go to the food court so there you go

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

I’m in Turkey now and brought two packages of the 85% with me. I picked up another pack at Lidl’s in Zurich but haven’t tried it yet.

[Clutch Martin]

“Aldi has good stuff”

Their packaged meat has a weird odor.

[PIF]

Asked AI “where does Choceur source its chocolate from?” It says,
Choceur sources its cocoa beans directly from Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms, primarily located in West Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

[Farmerbob]

Georgia Guy 2?

[Fresh Wind]

LOL!

[Farmerbob]

I gave my German girlfriend some American chocolate once. She spit it out and acted like I had fed her a bug.

[AmericanMermaid]

Hubby, too! It’s very good chocolate. I also love it.

[Sirius Lee]

tomato sauces come within 90% of Rao’s

Rao’s was bought by Campbell Soup with predictable results. Like when GM started making Saabs or Fiat Jeeps.

[1Old Pro]

Like when GM started making Saabs or Fiat Jeeps.

Jeeps are still made in Ohio. The problem with Saab was moving out of Trollhattan

[Trump_Triumphant]

You too?

[Organic Panic]

I’ve only been to the one IKEA in Berlin off the A10. They have a really good salad bar, pasta bar, and pizza buffet. And as nearly every GErman restaurant a bottle of beer was 50 cents. (I always got a kick out of German menus where an apple juice was 3 euro but a bottle of beer was 50 cents.) Not sure if they have that in USA as I have not ever been to one on the American side of the pond.