This post contains affiliate links. Corn is one of the oldest known crops in human history. Known also as maize, archaeologists can trace the human cultivation of corn in Mexico as far back as 10,000 years. First grown in Central…
For a long time, Aldi was very particular about what forms of payment it accepted. Specifically, if you didn’t have cash, or maybe access to cash via a debit card, you were out of luck. This may have been due,…
This post contains affiliate links. Bacon remains one of our favorite breakfast foods. We’ve cooked it up to add into breakfast burritos. We’ve fried it to put atop a breakfast sandwich. We’ve spread it out on an English breakfast tray…
This post contains affiliate links. The bagel is a 400 year-old Polish pastry that today enjoys a lot of popularity in the United States. Bagels nowadays offer a surprising amount of variety: you can eat your plain untoasted bagel with…
On March 17, 2023, the FDA and CDC announced they were investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A infections linked to frozen organic strawberries. The agencies traced the outbreak to certain farms in Baja California with strawberries distributed through companies California…
“ALDI Gear? It’s here.” So proclaims the ad from Aldi, accompanied by the most 80s-looking collection I’ve seen from the grocer since the 80s itself. Last year, Aldi sold a capsule gear collection that included socks, water bottles, pajamas, and…
I love potato-based products. I think burgers are at their best when paired with French fries. I’m a big fan of a hash brown patty alongside my eggs. And I am always up for mashed potatoes opposite chicken or turkey….
It took a while, but we’ve spotted Aldi self-checkout in the wild. This has been a long time in coming. Aldi first brought self-checkout to the United Kingdom around 2019. Two years later, in 2021, the grocer started piloting the…
What is it about Trader Joe’s that feels so … upscale? Contrary to popular belief, I don’t think it’s necessarily about prices: we’ve reviewed dozens of TJ’s products and found them to be surprisingly competitive in price to other grocers,…
Anyone with experience shopping in Aldi knows that there are two basic kinds of products: the things that are there all the time and things that are only there for a limited time. The things that are there all the…
