Seems very popular with my good lady, her mum and sister in law.
I get emails from Prezzo restaurant and many include an offer for Prosseco, no other wine is mentioned. It just seems to be the most popular wine at the moment, not my thing though.
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Seems very popular with my good lady, her mum and sister in law.
I get emails from Prezzo restaurant and many include an offer for Prosseco, no other wine is mentioned. It just seems to be the most popular wine at the moment, not my thing though.
TSB
Captain Hindsight
Ha.
Just the four months of taking up storage space to save, what? A fiver and change?
They shouldn't be in pubs either.
What's wrong with a pint of mild and a packet of Big D peanuts.
BensGrandad
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Just ask yourself why Prezzo include it in a meal deal. Cost Price? I am like you not a great lover of it. It does have a very snob /must have name about it. Like all wines the price varies considerably for it.
Must have name, yes you are correct, a couple of years ago it was something else ( that I can't spell)
Granted Blue Nun was yuk. But there are different types of Prosseco which is a generic name for sparkling wine made from the prosecco or glera grape, which is native to the Veneto region of Italy. There a some good Prosecco's and not so good Prosseco's like there are some good Champagne's and not so good Champagne's. So to label all procsecco's a poor product shows a distinct lack of knowledge regarding the wine!
Cian
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Every customer that goes to Lidl for a promotion at the very least sees their own brand products; some will take the specials leaflet that doesn't just have the middle aisle randoms on it but offers on normal food. That's how they slowly get customers from outside their traditional markets.
The Irish arm has moved in to being a general format supermarket - they sell substantial amounts of major brands, do newspapers and sandwiches and so on, and are now the 4th biggest retailer by volume from it; but they could only get the general market through the door with the offers at the start. People are reluctant to change supermarket and extremely reluctant when its a new name. Look at the trouble Morrissons had outside of the north.
The Irish arm has moved in to being a general format supermarket - they sell substantial amounts of major brands, do newspapers and sandwiches and so on, and are now the 4th biggest retailer by volume from it; but they could only get the general market through the door with the offers at the start. People are reluctant to change supermarket and extremely reluctant when its a new name. Look at the trouble Morrissons had outside of the north.
Raleigh Chopper
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They shouldn't be in pubs either.
What's wrong with a pint of mild and a packet of Big D peanuts.
I never liked peanuts.
My retro pub snack of choice was a packet of Chipmunk Cheese & Onion with a pickled egg in it.
HastingsSeagull
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The 14 year olds who used to drink Lambrini in the park are now older, aspirational and want a more alcoholic chav drink? Can't afford 'Champers' but think they can be like Coleen Rooney (classy in their world and in my day would have said Jordan) by drinking it?
cloud
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Just like chilling Coke makes it drinkable, adding fizz turns a very average wine into something more appealing.
Having said that, a good Prosecco is excellent and is miles apart from Blue Nun or Liebfraumilch.
There's no way these people will be buying it to lay down for Christmas, chances are it will have been drunk by the end of the month.
As an aside, each year around October or November Lidl get in a telescope with very good optics, which they sell for a fraction of the price, brought over from Germany.
We bought one a couple of years back, and there were no queues at all on the release date.
Having said that, a good Prosecco is excellent and is miles apart from Blue Nun or Liebfraumilch.
There's no way these people will be buying it to lay down for Christmas, chances are it will have been drunk by the end of the month.
As an aside, each year around October or November Lidl get in a telescope with very good optics, which they sell for a fraction of the price, brought over from Germany.
We bought one a couple of years back, and there were no queues at all on the release date.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Lidls won retailer of the year in 2016. Germans don't sell rubbish.
chimneys
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- Jun 11, 2007
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Your mum
Wouldn't happen in Germany
They saw you coming.
Top tip for nuts, go to the bakery aisle. Cheap as .
BensGrandad
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She didnt she drank Booths Gin and Schw Tonic and her mother Gin & It.
Reagulls
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- Jul 22, 2013
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They shouldn't be in pubs either.
What's wrong with a pint of mild and a packet of Big D peanuts.
Ahhh, Big D peanuts...
I remember being about 10 years old being allowed to sit in the corner of the Pierpoint public bar in Hurstpierpoint.
The nuts came on a card backing with a picture of a topless lady that was slowly uncovered as the packets were taken.
I admit that depending on how uncovered the pictures were swayed my choice of salted, dry roasted or nuts and raisins!
The Large One
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Makes for excellent Sangria. Perfect on a day like today.
Quite. BG, not for the first time, doesn't know what he's on about.
That said - as a wine-seller told us on the Roar a few years ago, any £3.33 bottle of Prosecco is going to be - in quality and cost - a £3.33 bottle of Prosecco. There are some excellent ones further up the price scale, mind.
Publius Ovidius
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We do! Aperol spritz is magnificent