A Lidl Christmas

Jo and I purchased a fine christmas pudding from Lidl for our christmas day dinner. I have long since lost the receipt but the figure of £1.79 comes to mind so I would guess that is how much it retailed at.

I have to express disappointment however. For dinner on christmas day the stakes are high, a lot is on the line, and the Lidl Luxury Christmas Pudding failed to live up to it's own packaging hype. Christmas dinner is expected to be one of the best meals of the year, and I for one look forward to it for a very long time. So it is a shame that Lidl let me down.

The pudding looked and smelt like a regular christmas pudding. Yet it lacked any noteworthy characteristics that true luxury christmas puddings have. It just tasted like nothing. It was devoid of any real taste, let alone one that you would associate with a christmas pudding, let alone a luxury one.

It was inoffensive, yet it is precisely because of this mediocrity that I would turn my nose up at it next year. It was instantly forgettable.

The disappointment was compounded by the fact that Lidl had done us proud with their vegetables, bacon and sausages the course before. Jo bought the turkey at the butchers down easter road, yet apart from this the majority of the food consumed by us was Lidl in origin.

I expertly skewered bits of lidl bacon around mini sausages and Jo made some very fine cranberry sauce. The sprouts were very nice too, but they always are as sprouts are the best vegetable ever invented.

So christmas dinner was a bit of a mixed bag and I blame the pudding for this. If it had a head I would order it to hang it in shame, but alas it does not. I wouldn't put the pudding in the bottom five but I do think Lidl are deceiving its loyal consumers by labeling it luxury. If I was the word luxury I would be down Lidl forthwith brandishing a strongly worded letter and demanding to speak with Dieter Schwartz.