Parkview Irish Style Bangers
St. Patrick’s Day is coming before too long, so I’m starting to see some Irish-themed favorites rotating onto the shelves at Aldi. The weekly ads are highlighting things like Reuben bites, green-iced sugar cookies and cupcakes, rye bread, Irish cheeses, and Lepre-Cone ice cream cones.
This week, I picked up some Irish style bangers, or sausages, from the deli section at Aldi. They come in two varieties: original and ale & onion. I bought a pack of each.
Parkview Irish Style Bangers are an Aldi Find. They’re only in stores for a short time. Each store gets one shipment, and after that sells out, they’re gone until whenever Aldi might decide to bring them back. Aldi does not offer online ordering if these are sold out at your local store.
We buy Aldi products with our own money to review. I paid $4.29 per 14-ounce package at my local store in February of 2025.
If you’re looking out for allergens, the original style contains wheat. The ale & onion style contains wheat and barley.
The original style contains pork, water, wheat flour, sea salt, honey, vinegar, spices, and natural spice extractives. The label states it’s 12% wheat.
A one-link serving of the original style has 230 calories, with 150 calories from fat. It also has 16 grams of total fat (25% DV), 5 grams of saturated fat (25% DV), 690 mg of sodium (29% DV), 11 grams of total carbohydrates (4% DV), 1 gram of dietary fiber (4% DV), 1 gram of sugars, and 10 grams of protein.
The ale & onion style contains pork, water, wheat flour, and less than 2% sea salt, honey, vinegar, spices, ale beer, onion, tapioca dextrin, salt, natural spice extractives, grill flavor (from sunflower oil), and smoke flavor. The label states it’s 10% wheat.
A one-link serving of the ale & onion style has 200 calories, with 140 calories from fat. It also has 15 grams of total fat (23% DV), 5 grams of saturated fat (25% DV), 640 mg of sodium (27% DV), 8 grams of total carbohydrates (3% DV), no dietary fiber, 1 gram of sugars, and 9 grams of protein.
These are fully cooked. The packages recommend to simply brown and serve them. They should be used within 7 days of opening the package.
There are a lot of ways to serve Irish style bangers: with cooked cabbage, with mashed potatoes, with Irish soda bread, with boxty (Irish potato pancakes), or any way you want to serve them.
I browned the bangers in a little olive oil in skillets on my stovetop, and I served them alongside homemade mashed potatoes (bangers and mash) and peas. They didn’t take much more than about 5 minutes to heat. The package doesn’t say anything about heating these in oil, but I definitely recommend it, as it helps keep the bangers from sticking or browning too quickly.
I’ve never tried authentic Irish bangers, so I can’t speak to how these compare to a pub meal you might get in Ireland or in the U.K. Most of my family liked these. We had mixed opinions as to what flavor was the best. The ale & onion version is more flavorful overall, and some of us, myself included, preferred it. Other people liked the original with its milder flavor the best.
Do be aware that these contain a significant amount of wheat flour, which gives them a bready, mushier internal consistency compared to a traditional sausage made with just meat with spices.
The Verdict:
Parkview Irish Style Bangers are an interesting limited-time buy at Aldi as St. Patrick’s Day approaches. They come in original or ale & onion varieties. The original is fine, while the ale & onion has very good flavor. These contain a fair amount of wheat flour, which gives them a different texture compared to traditional sausages. If you’re looking for something other than corned beef and cabbage to serve for St. Patrick’s Day, these are worth a try.
