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Aldi has the best knockoff products. Were they Aldi doritos?
The worst thing in the world is when your wife tells you that she bought pop tarts at the store and you get super excited and think about it all night and then the next morning you go to the cabinet and it turns out that your wife thinks Toastems are Pop Tarts and what's worse is that she bought the Brown Sugar Cinnamon kind because she knows you love that kind but what she doesn't know is that while that is the best kind of Pop Tart it is the worst kind of Toastem.
the aldi's knock-off honey nut cheerios are far superior to regular honey nut cheerios.
Quote from: OK Cat on July 10, 2012, 11:30:03 PMthe aldi's knock-off honey nut cheerios are far superior to regular honey nut cheerios.Yeah, so are their frosted mini wheats and light popcorn.
ingredients rich in glutamic acid, the molecules that provide the savory quality known as umami.There are a few natural umami bombs in there, namely Romano cheese, cheddar cheese, and tomato chowder. Slightly less potent (umami grenades?), though still packing their own glutamate punch, are onion chowder, garlic chowder, and the various forms of whey. If Frito-Lay were to stop right there they'd probably have a pretty good chip on their hands. But they aren't interested in making a pretty good chip; they're crafting Doritos.To reinforce these sources of naturally occurring glutamic acid, they go for the nuclear option: pure monosodium glutamate (MSG), the sodium salt form of glutamate (I hope that by this point Serious Eaters are aware that MSG's reputation in the '60s and 70s for making Chinese restaurant-goers sick is fully undeserved). You may be thinking that since a little MSG goes a pretty long way to upping the umami factor, Frito-Lay probably stops the onslaught there, right? Wrong. The last two ingredients on the list (meaning that they appear in the smallest quantities) are arguably the most important: the free nucleotides disodium inosinate (IMP) and disodium guanylate (GMP).Both IMP and GMP are what professional flavorists refer to as flavor potentiators—which just sounds awesome. To continue our arms race analogy, IMP and GMP are the heat-seeking ballistic missiles of the group. They fly in first, target taste receptors for umami and physically alter them, allowing the glutamate bombs better access (to destroy your mouth with flavor!). Put another way, with these flavor potentiators (YES!) in the mix, our perception of glutamates is amplified up to 30 times.
Trader Joes oatmeal is fantastic
Cereal is a bag is much worse than the cereal in a box.
Quote from: steve dave on July 11, 2012, 07:16:52 AMTrader Joes oatmeal is fantasticMrs.Hamburglar recently started shopping at Aldi. It's fantastic. The apples she brings home there there are far better than the regular grocery store.Little known fact: Trader Joes is owned by Aldi.
Quote from: TheHamburglar on July 11, 2012, 10:27:15 AMQuote from: steve dave on July 11, 2012, 07:16:52 AMTrader Joes oatmeal is fantasticMrs.Hamburglar recently started shopping at Aldi. It's fantastic. The apples she brings home there there are far better than the regular grocery store.Little known fact: Trader Joes is owned by Aldi. I think that's a pretty well-known fact. And don't sleep on Aldi milk! BITB!
