For once, a supermarket has something I like that it doesn't say it has

[lovingboth]

When, following the big OOOW! gallstone attack last April, I was being brutal about the amount of fat in my diet, Lidl had some orange peel in syrup as part of a 'Greek food week' promotion.

As I was missing the museli - too high a fat content for me to want to have, thanks to the nuts - I tried having one piece cut up with my now 'no fat yogurt + fruit + bran flakes' breakfast. Mmm, they're rather nice. (And nicer than the Bergamot peel or Fig in syrup that Lidl also had.)

So every few weeks that the week was repeated, I would get several jars of the orange peel that would last until the next time it appeared.

Christmas meant the regular pattern vanished and I think that they haven't had a Greek week since before Christmas. Certainly not one featuring the orange peel.

Then the 'what's available next week' brochure talked about "Greek island" products. Did that mean they'd include the orange peel? No.

Then the next one - for the week starting tomorrow - talked about "Greek" products. Did that mean they'd include the orange peel? No.

Except that I went there this evening to catch a couple of 'Lidl app' offers I hadn't already got and someone was putting out the Greek (as opposed to Greek island!) food a bit early..

.. and there were two trays of the peel/figs in syrup jars! That means they had about twelve of the orange peel - I think someone had already got one. I bought six of the remaining ones.


Oh, and in another example of what happens if you bundle two items that people see as very different in the same store stock code, this store has about forty sweetened almond milks and two unsweetened ones rather than whatever ratio they're in packages of (4:4? 5:3?) I bought those two.

Comments

[judiff]

Do you like know if it’s like sweet or bitter orange peel? Cos that could like totally be a thing we could make instead of like throwing (sweet) orange peel away (but like with the bitter oranges we use the whole fruit for marmalade and mostly don’t have spare peel)

[lovingboth]

I suspect that it's bitter peel - it has a definite bitter taste amongst the sweetness - but I don't usually eat orange peel to know the difference.