A few days ago we ventured north to Cardigan. It's a small town which has a homebrew shop, an Aldi and several charity shops which, after almost 8 years, we have never bought anything from. They seem full of stuff, just never stuff that we want to buy. I'd like to know how they do that.
On arriving we saw that the parking fees had gone up to £1 for an hour.
Now I am a slave to rules, regulations and officialdom and get a cold sweat on at the thought of an overdue library book, but £1 for an hours parking in Cardigan seems excessive.
So, spurred on by the recent example of lawlessness from celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson we decided to throw caution to the wind and smuggle the cheese through the Self Service checkout.
Yes, we parked without buying a ticket. We went illegal.
Whilst skulking furtively around Cardigan like Bad Ass lawbreakers, we decided to go into Aldi as we were getting low on coffee. We don't have refined coffee tastes and we actually prefer instant to ground.
We normally buy Granarom Instant coffee at about £1.50 for 200g from Lidl but we decided to try the Aldi equivalent-Aldi Alcafe Rich Roast coffee granules.
I remember reading good things about this product and it seems that it has won various taste tests and there was quite a lot of media coverage of it........about 2 years ago.
Well, I tried it this morning and I don't know whether they have reformulated it since the reviews or whether the reviewers had previously only ever drunk Mellow Birds, but it is nasty. Really nasty. I think they make it from conkers.
Years ago, when dabbling in a low caffeine lifestyle, I bought a massive jar of Dandelion coffee from the health food shop. The Alcafe stuff reminds me of this in that it doesn't remotely taste like coffee. At least with the Dandelion coffee you knew what you were letting yourself in for. 'Dandelion' on the label gave it away.
It won't be wasted though. I shall either buy more Lidl Granarom and 'cut' the Aldi stuff with it at 100 parts Granarom to 1 part Alcafe, or save it for deterring slugs and visitors.
Dave took the opportunity to visit the homebrew shop in Cardigan and was minding his own business browsing hops when the assistant asked him if he was planning on doing some sparging this afternoon. Startled at this remark and wondering if it was something to do with his offending behaviour he made his excuses and left.
I'm not condoning crime, but on this occasion we escaped the rap and gunned the Micra out of Cardigan like the fugitive perps we were. £1 up on The Man.
Moving on, I always buy Value washing powder from Tesco or Morrisons, although Morrisons seems to be cheaper at the moment. I alluded to the cult of 'laundry snobbery' back in November and refuse to support the drug habits of the marketing people by buying ridiculously named laundry products.
Anyway, having recovered from the coffee, there was much excitement this morning as I opened a new box only to find that it was packed to the brim with powder.
I had to decant some of it into a bag and it made a bit of a mess, but I reckon it contained double the normal amount.
Back of the net.
When buying liquids like milk, ketchup or squash I always go for the one that's most full - there's a surprising variation in the levels. Having got this bumper box of washing powder I shall also be checking the weights of stuff in future, so if you see someone acting strangely in the washing powder aisle, it's probably me.
Just don't call the Feds.
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On arriving we saw that the parking fees had gone up to £1 for an hour.
Now I am a slave to rules, regulations and officialdom and get a cold sweat on at the thought of an overdue library book, but £1 for an hours parking in Cardigan seems excessive.
So, spurred on by the recent example of lawlessness from celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson we decided to throw caution to the wind and smuggle the cheese through the Self Service checkout.
Yes, we parked without buying a ticket. We went illegal.
Whilst skulking furtively around Cardigan like Bad Ass lawbreakers, we decided to go into Aldi as we were getting low on coffee. We don't have refined coffee tastes and we actually prefer instant to ground.
We normally buy Granarom Instant coffee at about £1.50 for 200g from Lidl but we decided to try the Aldi equivalent-Aldi Alcafe Rich Roast coffee granules.
I remember reading good things about this product and it seems that it has won various taste tests and there was quite a lot of media coverage of it........about 2 years ago.
Well, I tried it this morning and I don't know whether they have reformulated it since the reviews or whether the reviewers had previously only ever drunk Mellow Birds, but it is nasty. Really nasty. I think they make it from conkers.
Years ago, when dabbling in a low caffeine lifestyle, I bought a massive jar of Dandelion coffee from the health food shop. The Alcafe stuff reminds me of this in that it doesn't remotely taste like coffee. At least with the Dandelion coffee you knew what you were letting yourself in for. 'Dandelion' on the label gave it away.
It won't be wasted though. I shall either buy more Lidl Granarom and 'cut' the Aldi stuff with it at 100 parts Granarom to 1 part Alcafe, or save it for deterring slugs and visitors.
Dave took the opportunity to visit the homebrew shop in Cardigan and was minding his own business browsing hops when the assistant asked him if he was planning on doing some sparging this afternoon. Startled at this remark and wondering if it was something to do with his offending behaviour he made his excuses and left.
I'm not condoning crime, but on this occasion we escaped the rap and gunned the Micra out of Cardigan like the fugitive perps we were. £1 up on The Man.
Moving on, I always buy Value washing powder from Tesco or Morrisons, although Morrisons seems to be cheaper at the moment. I alluded to the cult of 'laundry snobbery' back in November and refuse to support the drug habits of the marketing people by buying ridiculously named laundry products.
Anyway, having recovered from the coffee, there was much excitement this morning as I opened a new box only to find that it was packed to the brim with powder.
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Back of the net.
When buying liquids like milk, ketchup or squash I always go for the one that's most full - there's a surprising variation in the levels. Having got this bumper box of washing powder I shall also be checking the weights of stuff in future, so if you see someone acting strangely in the washing powder aisle, it's probably me.
Just don't call the Feds.
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