American Couple Reacts: Cost of Groceries: Britain vs America - Comparing ALDI in the UK vs ALDI US! 

It's time for a United Kingdom vs United States comparison! This is the cost of groceries at Aldi in the UK compared to Aldi Costs in the USA! American friends, sit down and buckle up! There are some cost differences that we expected early on in the video. Then, things start to take a turn. Slowly but surely the prices jump at you in way that makes you think, should we move? This is a VERY comprehensive video with conversions on cost. From dollars to pounds & metric to imperial. It was shocking on both sides of the pond. We thought Aldi would be more equal across our 2 Country's but, that wasn't exactly the case! Wait until you see the items with the biggest price differences! They SHOCKED US! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!

British Adi shopper here! She didn't compare the cheapest Aldi tomatoes. She chose the expensive "vine ripened" instead of the "salad tomatoes" the latter is half the price of the former.

Putting a quarter in the cart makes sure the shopper takes them back so they're not left loose in car parks. You can get a reusable token that can attach to a keyring instead of hunting the quarter.

Wonky stuff came about because it was found out that supermarkets were wasting a large amount of food because they didn't "fit" what was deemed pretty fruit/veg. We used to joke about bananas not being bendy enough to sell. When it was seen how much was being wasted, some stores started selling wonky fruit and veg at a cheaper rate than the prettier ones. So when you see wonky, don't expect it to look 100% although they all taste the same and if you're going to shove it in a pie, who's going to notice?

It's not just the price, especially for produce and meat, it's the quality. This is usually the first thing that people from the US notice when they visit the EU, that the food is so much better.

Food and beverage supply chain guy here. US food is more typically more expensive for a few reasons. The first is supply chain model: the UK has (typically) shorter chains operating point to point. This means goods take less time to get from producer to shelf, maximising shelf life and reducing waste. The US more commonly uses a hub-and-spoke model with regional distribution hubs. This increases transit time and also leads to a more fragile network. Until Brexit, the UK was able to operate completely just-in-time for fresh foods. Since then, this has been made more difficult which has driven up waste and thus cost here. Those fresh prices in the UK used to be even cheaper. The second big reason for higher prices in the US is poor infrastructure. The US rail and road system is poorly maintained which leads to delays. It is also based on a hub and spoke model, so a delay can easily propagate dramatically reducing shelf life but, more importantly, requiring larger warehousing costs to smooth out the supply blips (see the Bullwhip Effect). Warehousing costs are a huge component of food costs in the US. Third, the US has a very fragmented regulatory landscape for food. At the federal level, responsibilities are spread across many agencies (the FDA, the USDA, the CDC, etc). Each state also has its own laws that can often be… antiquated. In the UK, food is regulated under a single agency: the Food Standards Agency. This reduces paperwork. Also, the fragmented US landscape has hindered digitisation so a lot of US paperwork is still literal paperwork. In the UK we can do a full track and trace within a few hours (they do drills of the end to end supply chain several times a year as part of license to operate for each company), the US just cannot do that because it is cost prohibitive. When required to do it in anger, say with Romaine lettuce a few years ago, they failed to trace the problem at all. Fourth, last mile logistics in the US is arranged differently. In the UK our delivery runs may service multiple shops reducing truck miles. In the US, because things are more spread out and you have a greater proportion of out of town big box stores, this isn’t possible. If a store only requires a half load, then half that truck’s capacity will be unused (which cost must be covered by the goods actually transported). Happy to answer any questions you may have :)

Warning: English mustard is *hot*. Not California reaper level, but don't pour it on as if its american mustard.

"Wonky" was a marketing term started by Morrisons. It is essentially fruit and veg of irregular size and shape , so generally sold for less. Some places do a "wonky veg/fruit box" made of random fruit and veg

I'm a Brit and I have NEVER described cheese as 'adorable' EVER!! 😳😳😳😳😳🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I shop at Aldi and Lidl all the time and find that even though the prices are low the quality especially for the meat and dairy really doesn't suffer it's very good quality.

Yes, that's the perfect understanding of beans on toast. Cheap, quick, basic, satisfying, and cheaply pepped up with some cheddar and Worcestershire sauce.

Debbie: now I understand beans on toast. The whole of the UK student population cheers. Although being a Brit in the US, the many times I’ve had to explain it isn’t just plain beans, it’s beans in tomato sauce on toast. There’s flavour!

A side note: our sugar is so cheap because it is usually made from sugar beets (a root vegetable) we can grow domestically. CANE sugar is imported and more expensive.

I've seen a few other of Dara's videos and the one that I found shocking was when she compared healthcare in the US and UK. What was shocking was she was NOT comparing the US system to the NHS but rather private healthcare in BOTH countries. This was because at the time neither she or her husband were NHS registered at the time. Dara also has a very specific condition which she explains and her treatment and how she was treated was vastly different. I think it will blow your minds.

Double cream is what you call heavy cream

I never really see anyone buying American mustard . The main brand of American mustard is ironically called "French's". Most in the UK would get a jar of Colman's mustard, which is about a £1 for a small jar

Random fact: the coffee bean actually originated from Africa and Yemen in middle east not the America's.

Trouble is the supermarkets want very low prices from farmers making it hard for farmers to survive, the supermarkets are the ones raking the profits.

I have a metal disc on my keychain which I use for these trolleys. Its handy and saves having a coin on you all the time.

Many, many moons ago, when I was a poor student nurse I used to shop at Aldi. The beans from Aldi cost 4p a 400g tin, and a loaf of white sliced bread cost 18p. I lived on beans on toast! You'd think that eating beans on toast all the time for months at a time would put you off them...but it's still one of my favourite meals!

Don't buy mass produced bread in a supermarket. We buy from a local baker and it's in a totally different class for just a few pence a loaf more.

When I first visited the US, I went shopping for some food. What shocked me was the chemical content in so many American foods.

I'm reminded of the playground rhyme that went "Beans, beans are good for the heart, the more you eat, the more you fart, the more you fart, the more you eat, the more you sit on the toilet seat." We're so cultured in the UK. 🤣

The onions she bought in aldi uk were the most expensive in aldi uk

The thing with Aldi and Lidl, is majority of their stuff is own brand of varying quality. The prices are often more fixed. But you can go to any supermarket in the UK and get own brand stuff at those same prices as Aldi or Lidl, likewise in varying quality. But the major supermarkets also have lots of the big brands that are on offer more, often for not much difference and better quality. I do like when Aldi have a gimmick week though and get a limited supply of foods from certain countries, like Alpen Week or Spanish Week

I shop at Lidl. Daily use tortilla wraps. Lidl's own brand wraps were 99p, Sainsbury's own brand £1.20. Except that they are made on the same production line! picked up a pack from Lidl and a couple of packs underneath had Sainsburys wrappers, oops. A lot of the own brand products are made by the big brand companies, just re-packaged.

I wonder how many times Natasha has woken up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat screaming, "COFFEEEEEEEEE!!!", after watching this video? lol

American style mustard is a relatively new addition to our supermarket shelves and probably not a particularly regular purchase for most. I think we are generally more likely to be buying wholegrain, Dijon or English mustard (they are the three types that you’ll find different brand options for at different price points) than we are American (which I always think tastes more like pickled gherkin than it does mustard) as they are likely to be used for far more things. But that’s why it’s so expensive in comparison to all the other price differences, it’s relatively new and not really built up that big of a market share…as most people that do buy it will likely only really be using it on hotdogs and burgers.

Perhaps more important than the price is the additives included in the product . On the surface it would appear that the regulations on additives allowed in Britain and the E.U. are stricter than what is allowed in America. That subject alone is worth looking into.

My favourite thing about UK Aldi (other than the good prices) is the hilarious "clones" they do of famous brands. They usually copy the brand's colour scheme and then use a different name with a similar meaning to the branded name. They probably have a big team of lawyers to make sure the clone isn't too close-looking to the original, but sometimes they trip up (e.g. Marks and Spencer's Colin the Caterpillar cake vs Aldi's Cuthbert caused a court case). It's interesting that sometimes UK Aldi will stock both the original branded version and their cloned version!

"Gold and red label" is just based on Yorkshire Tea colours (the standard is red) and Yorkshire Gold, which is the premium range from Yorkshire tea . Aldi base lots of their products looks and names on already existing brands colour schemes , names and label designs

Double Gloucester is a great cheese, it's very buttery

You can get cheaper tomatoes than that in Aldi in the UK, they are called salad tomatoes and they would be about the same price as the Roma tomatoes, I'm not sure why she didn't find them, maybe they were sold out? Also you can usually find 1kg nets of brown onions in Aldi for 99p

I tried some yellow American mustard, my daughter bought from Aldi. I tasted it , and filed it under B for Bin. Sorry, it was not to my taste at all, and it was luminous 😂.

Yeah but the good thing about those fresh basil plants is that they are alive they are in soil and a pot and you can just put them in a larger pot grow the plant and have basil all year round if you manage them correctly so really you paying 79 P for the opportunity to have Basil whenever you want it.

One factor often overlooked is geography. The USA is a vast area, with an (overall) low population density. The UK is a small country with a larger population density. That means that shipping costs of groceries in the UK are inherently cheaper; here in the UK you can ship a whole truck load of tomatoes to one place and sell the lot. Less so, net, across the USA. For perishable goods that's actually quite a big deal. Having said that, I can't explain the price differences in non-perishable goods that way. Flour?!?! Given that wheat is grown in vast acreages in the USA... These kind of cost comparisons have come down to the same thing. Land costs in the USA are generally very low in comparison to the UK. This was the fundamental factor identified in a Parliamentary Inquiry as to why CDs cost less in the USA; the cost of the land underneath the shop they were sold in was substantially less in the USA.

Aldi UK and Aldi US are both owned by the German company Aldi Sud. This is the company formed when the two Albrecht brothers disagreed on whether on not to sell cigarettes. The other brother set up Aldi Nord, which today owns Trader Joe's in the US. The two brothers don't really compete. They simply divided Germany into north and south, and European countries west of Germany, and those east (plus the British Isles). I think the US is the only country where their territories overlap.

In WW2 bread and baked beans were not rationed so beans on toast became a no coupons needed meal and it's stuck with us ever since

Would be good to compare toiletries. Shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, sanitary towels/tampax, deodorant,, nappies, baby wipes, toilet rolls ect.. Then for the kitchen like foil, baking paper, cling film, sandwich bags, bin bags, bleach ect.. I have no idea how much any of those things would cost in the states. Informative vid 👍🏻

I have found some UK cheapest food items to be 'cheap and nasty'. If you pay a little bit more (still cheap) you can find items that are 'cheap and cheerful'. Just in case, you should know that English mustard is very strong, don't use it like American mustard.

Get yourselves to Aldi girls!! But remember you won’t recognise the brand names( neither did we when Aldi first opened here) but there are plenty of tv programmes reviewing Christmas foods which always totally astounds the tasters by the fact that they always prefer Aldi products.

My first was which Aldi is it in the US? Aldi Sud, operates in Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Czechia Republic of Ireland and the UK. It also recently purchased the Winn Dixie and Harvards brands. Aldi Nord operates in the rest of the rest of Germany and Western Europe, also operating as Trader Joe's in the US. I don't understand why prices are so different in the US and UK, as Aldi stores in both countries are run by Aldi Sud.

Yaaaaay! You've picked up on Dara! Been following her for a couple of years now. Really interesting takes on the UK from an American who lives here 6 months a year.

The green bananas are the ones you should get. They will soon turn into yellow bananas.

In Australia vegetables that look different are called the odd bunch in the supermarket. At my place we have a bee hive and get free western Australian honey we give to family and friends.

The "wonkey" stuff is because the European Union banned miss-shapped fruit and veg, . Since they scrapped that law, shops usually sell such fruit and veg a bit cheaper than more presentable fruit and veg and label it accordingly.

"Wonky" Fruit & Veg, came about in the UK after growing protests about food waste. Major retailers were being accused of only selecting the "nicer" looking fruit and veg for sale and charging a premium. The wonky version is perfectly edible but may not look as nice. i.e., not as bright, uniformly coloured, might have natural lumps and bumps, or could be slightly smaller. So in short, its better to buy and consume (cheaper too) to prevent waste. Due to the extreme temperatures in Europe in 2023, a lot of the tomato crop were destroyed, as there was not enough moisture in the soil to help them grow. Most had to be recultivated under cover and in greenhouses instead. The result we are seeing now (as most of the are imported from Europe) are lower quality, due to the reduction in crops and import costs due to Brexit. The UK got the "dregs" of what was available from the short crop now available... That's why for a while you couldn't find any carton's of Tomato Juice and very little pastes available for sale for months.

Lidl imports more goods than any other store in bulk and you have to get the goods when in stock... the main difference is shopping in a small town v city... the other difference is we in the UK can get local goods faster and fresher than the US... i mean i can buy local grown carrots and potatos from the farm shop 3 miles down the road... where as in the US you would have to drive further, the main thing i do when shopping is look for the tractor symbol on goods and buy those because they are british products... many produce are biriths if you look... like grapes, strawberries both grown in the UK, you just have to know where to look to purchase them, most farm shops have online stores its always worth looking online to find farm UK produce

You can get fresh bread in the instore bakery for cheap too. I don't think I've ever paid more than about £2 for any sort of bread

The quality of cheese is much better in the UK. If you come to London, try going to the cheese shop in Muswell Hill, It will blow your mind.

For what it's worth, we also have stricter food standards regulations here in the UK (it's the main reason there was no Brexit trade deal with the US), so - generally speaking - even though prices have gone through the roof recently, we're getting mostly higher-quality food for less.

Debbie, if you get quite a few foot cramps, try upping your potassium levels by eating more potatoes, tomatoes, bananas etc.

We do have irish butter in Aldi and lidl and also organic they probably not refilled the shelves. Gold tea is supposed to be better quality than the red, hence the price difference..

I’ve always found the UK incredibly cheap for groceries,electrical goods, clothes. Whenever I’ve been to mainland Europe it’s insane how much more expensive it is. Today I was in ASDA where. 55 inch Smart TV was 255 GBP. it would be 3 or 4 times that in Europe. The bread you mentioned at 45p..that would be 60-70 US CENTS. I think other things here are massively expensive Cars, rents, property, entertainment, hotels, fuel. A gallon of petrol here if I’ve worked it out correctly would be about 7-8 dollars It’s difficult to be exact as we get petrol in litres. It’s about 1,5 GBP a litre. 4 litres is a gallon? So it’s 6 GBP per gallon, so I reckon 8 about 7.5-8 dollars a gallon?

UK West country butter fom Aldi is one of my favourites. It has a lovely flavour, especially the crunchy salt crystals in it.

a Good way about comparing grocery prices is to look at your own countries produce and see if its cheaper to buy it elsewhere in the world. Your own products should always be cheaper, if they are not, someone is ripping you off somewhere along the line

I think the lady didn't look hard enough re: coffee. Jars of instant coffee are available in the UK as well as beans. The sachets & jars of coffee were bang next to the teas, I saw them. As we say in Yorkshire "She needs t' oppen' (open) her eyes!

I've never felt prouder than when I heard an American say they understand beans on toast 🥰

"Now I understand beans on toast" 😂

A baking potato in UK is selected for a special purpose of baking and then filling with other ingredients such as cheese/coleslaw/chilli etc, its a large potato that create a meal in its own right and why they are sold as each. Potatoes used for normal cooking, including baking are sold by the lb/kg and can vary in size. Baking potatoes therefore command a higher price in UK because we are lazy and don't want to select our baking potatoes out of the sack .Onions are used all the time in cooking so it makes sense to buy them in a sack rather than individually, besides they don't go off!!

WOW, just wow. If more Americans were aware of this I wonder what would happen...I want your bread UK!

The moral of this story is, when coming to the UK on holiday, rent a self catering cottage (out of season - so not during the UK school vacations and not too close to London) and don’t waste money in restaurants. “Eating out” in the UK is expensive - obviously the restaurants have staff to pay and overheads to cover, but the mark up on food is just criminal. Today I decided against a heavily processed hotdog in a bun from a food wagon at £8 (!) in favour of a huge “full English breakfast” in one of the (open to the public) club houses at Bisley Camp (we were watching a shooting competition) for £11.25 including a mug of tea or coffee. In reality I could have made the same breakfast for about £2.50 (or even less), but the hot dog made at home would be less than 75p, even with the ‘really expensive” American mustard (Yes, I’m the one that buys it for my hotdogs 🤣)

Cheesy beans on toast was the ultimate struggle meal for me as a student, filling, and pretty much nailed all the nutrients you needed, also helps that it tastes amazing

We don't have ALDI here on our Island of Guernsey. HOWEVER.....there is one or two in France really near. It is now cheaper to buy a high-speed RIB boat and just sod-off to France for the day and go shopping/lunch.

Good Morning! I hope everyone is doing fine.

To correct one point in the comparison video, the UK butter was actually considerably cheaper rather than 12% more expensive as stated. The US butter was $3.09 for 225g (8oz) and the UK butter was £1.79 for 250g - cheaper for 25g more.

In the U.K. they tried using lockable shopping trolleys. Put a £1 in to get the trolly, get it back when you return the trolly. But a pound is hardly worth anything these days. So most people did not care if they lost it. Not a box of cheap matches. Other people made little metal disks the exact correct size to fit, and sold them for pennies. Not counterfeiting, as they do not pretend to be money, they just fit in the trolley lock. I do wonder who had the idea, and how anyone thought it would work.

What you should be thinking is that you probably drink a better grade of coffee and we in the UK drink a lower grade......oh I think it's time for another coffee with a biscuit 🍪😊

Ready and waiting

FYI. Wonky is an old Royal Navy expression. A wonk is someone who has completed their training, but has no practical experience. Therefore "wonky" = imperfect or lopsided. It is worth bearing in mind that in the UK, price labelling includes tax. When I was in Canada, I was vexed when I went to pay for things, only to discover that the price was before tax. Very irritating.

As a mom, I would LOVE to see a comparison of diapers, wipes, baby food, formula, pet food, cat litter, cleaning supplies, etc. things I use on the daily that have gotten OUTRAGEOUS here in the states.

You need to do a fuel comparison! Our petrol and diesel is a rip off in the uk, so it costs you a fortune to drive to the supermarket.

And now you have to look at the German prices of ALDI compared to the American and British ALDI. You will be surprised!

If you want butter then the best butter I have ever had is French butter. I have been driving in France going somewhere else and pulled into a shopping center just to pick up some butter. Sometimes we get it in the Netherlands and I will buy more than we need just because.

The bread one is a bit interesting because in the uk flour is considered an essential staple food and as such by law is fortified with different minerals and vitamins,so bread by contrast being available at reasonable prices is for diet enhancement to cut down on certain diseases that used to be prevelent like ricketts etc so its not just straight forward bakeing bread to sell

I never by fruit and veg in Aldi or Lidl. I’m from the U.K. so can’t speak for anywhere else in the world, but when I walk into any of the branches in the area I live, I’m overwhelmed by the musty smell of vegetables going off. I’ve never had fruit or veg from an Aldi or Lidl that didn’t go mouldy in just a day or two, apart from two occasions. And those two occasions were 1. Apples that had grey-coloured flesh, mushy and flavourless. 2. Celery that had a mushy texture, and tasted bitter and vile. I love their value for meats, frozen goods, snacks and drinks. I really enjoy perusing their famed “middle aisles”. But will never by fruit and veg from them again.

I get upset when people criticise that the fruit or Veg does not look nice. It all tastes the same and just imagine how much food waste there is if everyone went for the perfect fruit/veg. In Australia we have a thing called The Odd Bunch. This is fruit and veggies that night look different but is perfectly good to eat and is usually half the price of the perfect food. We should be grateful and not be as snobby. Our supermarket also works with 2nd bite and Oz Harvest which are groups that feed people in need and the supermarkets donate food that is either near expiry date or is end of line. The groups will take the food and give it away to people in need.

We also have an awful lot, less harmful chemicals in our food. There are so many great reasons to live in UK and you’ve just pointed out another one thank you

Coffee actually originated in the middle-east. The first documented use of coffee as a beverage is from Yemen in the fifteenth century. It spread north to Europe during the sixteenth century, shortly before reaching the Americas. By the late seventeenth century, England had hundreds of coffee houses with one of them, Jonathan's of London, eventually becoming the London Stock Exchange. Tea didn't become popular in Britain until the Victorian era.

Compare uk V us utility bills.. Our energy bills are a LOT more expensive over here than there. It all balances itself out.. good video 😊

Thanks for your reaction to my video... and thanks for all your kind words and compliments!❤ No promises but I MIGHT do an ALDI shopping video in Germany 🇩🇪 😉 Cheers! XX Dara

17:00 KerryGold Butter is really good. The best industrial butter I've ever had after living in Spain, Ireland and Germany.

An endorsement for Dara. She has been coming to the UK for years and does videos showcasing the beautifull contryside and villages. I know you have reacted to some of her previous videos, and hope you will do more. As an aside, when she says 'cheese' in that slightly odd fashion in this video she is channeling Wallace from the Wallace and Gromet videos. British life as we would like the world to think of us.

21% cheaper in the UK with far better ingredients and our animal welfare puts yours to shame, I won't mention the banned chemicals in the US (oops sorry I did :) )

From the South Pacific, peel green bananas and split down the middle. Add small marshmallows and chocolate chips, wrap in foil and put them on the barbeque. Great with vanilla ice-cream ❤

Hello Ladies, I found this very interesting. Your friend here in the UK was near to where I live (a place called Stroud). Here in the West Country nearly all Aldi and Lidl grocery stores obtain their dairy products from Wales (our next-door neighbour - and Yes we do use the letter 'u' in places that you don't). Irish butter is available here but is more commonly found in the larger grocery outlets such as Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrison's. When it comes to chicken we do have a top range that is listed as 'corn fed' and this has a yellow colour and this is really organic due to the corn feed. We find things that have come from Spain and other countries that we grow here - we grow corriander (celantro) here. Why we import it from Spain I have no idea. When it comes to bread - we also have a number of specialist bakers known as 'artisan' - which is a another name for very expensive. Loved your reaction to what is much cheaper here! Bryan

We British as a nation generally consider food the staple of life, and everyone needs to eat right. I think we base our prices on our average salary/wage per person. The aim is to make food as cheap for the brits as possible, to mitigate cost of living in other areas of expendature. I guess we just care about our people more XD

We have Lidl here in the UK too, which was founded by the brother of the founder of Aldi. Fairly comparable, but Lidl offers loyalty cards and discount coupons too.

On my days off I regularly make Aldi spaghetti hoops on toast as a small meal around lunchtime. I use Aldi mid range wholemeal bread and Aldi spaghetti hoops. For two slices of toast per person and one can of spaghetti hoops divided between us it works out at a grand total of 34 pence. 17 pence each. It's far cheaper, healthier and more filling than a chocolate bar.

“But we have Freedom!” 😂 ‘Mericans make me chuckle 😂

Coffee dosent all come from South America, we get most from Africa The meat isn't labeled organic.. Because meat is organic.. Until you start adding stuff to it Some stuff she said was on sale wasn't lol it was just the new pricing

Incidentally having lived in the UK and Spain. Aldi in Spain is even cheaper than UK and with superior quality products. Also, we do eat yellow mustard reasonably regularly in UK and Ireland. We put it on pig meat and a tea spoon of mustard is often added to a sauce or soup to give it a kick, like Worcestershire sauce. Coleman’s English Mustard is the favourite prized product. The French Dijon mustard is more grainy and doesn’t punch as much but is growing in popularity for sure.

I don't know why this lady missed the 1 kg bags of onions, which look much more like the USA onions, than the Spanish onion 3 pk, she chose? Also the tomatoes, she chose 'on the vine' in the uk store, which are the most expensive option. Unlike the salad tomatoes pk of 6. Currently around 90p (?) Unfortunately they don't sell loose tomatoes in UK Aldis. The honey, isn't British, really, most of Aldi's honeys(& other supermarkets) are blended honeys from many different countries, not all in the E.U.. So there is no check if they aren't adulterated with sugar water. The most expensive are single blossom/type which has to be pure honey and can be checked, I understand. ... I just love Natasha's reactions. 💕 As they are similar to mine. 😂

Wonky vegetables were what we bought years ago before supermarkets were even thought of … my mum used to send me to the greengrocer with a large shopping bag and a list of vegetables that she wanted me to buy … 5lbs of King Edward potatoes … 3lbs of carrots .. 2lbs of string beans … 2lbs of peas (in the shell) 2lbs of onions and 2lbs of tomatoes … these would all be weighed out by the greengrocer (Mr Burgon) and tipped straight into the shopping bag … most of the root vegetables would be wonky and maybe still have some earth/dirt on them … you always washed vegetables before peeling them for cooking … nothing was prepackaged … everything was sold loose .. even Tea was sold loose … although it was in 1/4lb packs … biscuits sold loose at local markets were very popular too …

The funny thing is , we in the UK are in a cost of living crisis, where food prices have increased dramatically over the past 2 years or so. Some people can't afford to buy food from a shop, so have to rely on food banks. And yet we are cheaper than the US.

just so you know ALDI is thriving in the UK we just had a brand new store opened 10 minutes away from where I live ALDI is good but not brilliant you got to remember that half the fresh products spend a lot of time in transport coming from Spain and other countries so there shelf life isn't brilliant but we actually shops for salad vegetables and fruit from a local market 8 Bananas 4 gem lettuce 1 ice berg lettuce 10 radishes cherry tomatoes 3 pack of yellow green and red peppers cucumber cost £10.12 and that is all farmed locally

the coffee bean did not originate in the Americas... it's from Ethiopia in Africa. it's the cacao seed (chocolate) originated in the Americas though, some would say that's a bigger win for y'all. :P

Top 10 coffee producing countries: Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Indonesia, Honduras, Ethiopia, Peru, India, Guatemala, Uganda. For a delicious and hearty winter meal try baked beans on a baked potato with a sprinkling of strong cheddar cheese. Sometimes budget meals are the best😊

Tash, Debs (not trying to offend its the British short version of your names) please move here and just enjoy your lives and learn our ways first hand. You both would be welcomed with love and open arms 💙

I think the bacon result is slightly skewed due to streaky bacon being the poor cousin of back bacon in the uk. It’s very much the “economy “ bacon and wouldn’t be first choice for most people.