Aussie’s video tour of a super fancy Aldi store in Portugal goes viral — are Aussies being shortchanged?
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Travellers don’t often have supermarkets on their bucket list. A trip to the shops might be a grudging necessity for some milk, bread, and other essentials (ahem.. Tim Tams), but usually it’s not a particularly memorable experience.
But the opposite happened to a Sydney couple currently touring Europe.
Queenie Tan, 26, who is travelling with her fiance Pablo, 30, was surprised to find an Aldi supermarket in Portugal that offered perks absent from most of its Australian counterparts.
She shared the experience through an Instagram ‘reel’, a term that refers to short-form videos shared through the app.
Since then, the video has gained more than 41,000 views.
But what are the perks, you might be asking.
The couple found an orange juice machine and a bread slicer, which shoppers are free to use, much to their delight!
All they had to do was bring a couple of oranges with them from the supermarket’s fruit section.
In the video, Queenie had trouble carrying the citrus fruits to put in the machine. However, Pablo devised a clever solution: toss in the oranges one by one!
They did not need to peel the skin to use the juicer, either.
Within seconds, they were already enjoying freshly squeezed juice in clear Aldi bottles!
Customers can also buy loaves of bread they can put inside an industrial slicer.
While sliced bread is available in the store, the machine allows shoppers to get cuts of bread based on how thick they want the slices to be.
All they had to do was place the loaf on the conveyor belt and the slicer did its magic.
According to Queenie, the slicing is music to the ears! You can see the machine in action, which is also satisfying on its own.
Once the freshly sliced bread comes through, customers put it inside a paper bag.
The pair then featured a variety of choices of fresh seafood and canned fish on their reel.
There’s a reason the European travel destination is popular for its seafood dishes such as bacalhau (salted cod), lapas (sea molluscs), and bruxas (slipper lobsters).
And of course, the supermarket also had tasty-looking Portuguese tarts.
Aussie followers were just as excited to see Queenie’s European Aldi finds.
'I want freshly squeezed orange juice in my local!' one person commented.
Another Instagram user chimed in: 'OMG, I wish Australian Aldi was like this!'
(For the uninitiated, OMG stands for ‘oh my god’.)
Others expressed envy for having a not-so-fancy Aldi nearby: ‘I want freshly squeezed orange juice in my local also!’
But one comment seems to imply that the Portuguese Aldi wasn’t so special: ‘So you guys don’t have that? I mean it’s all over Europe!’
While rare, Australia also has its share of ‘fancy’ supermarkets offering many of the same conveniences.
'Some Coles have those orange juice machines! So good,' one user commented.
Do you folks make it a point to check out supermarkets on your travels? Or are they more of an afterthought? Let us know through the comments!
But the opposite happened to a Sydney couple currently touring Europe.
Queenie Tan, 26, who is travelling with her fiance Pablo, 30, was surprised to find an Aldi supermarket in Portugal that offered perks absent from most of its Australian counterparts.
She shared the experience through an Instagram ‘reel’, a term that refers to short-form videos shared through the app.
Since then, the video has gained more than 41,000 views.
But what are the perks, you might be asking.
The couple found an orange juice machine and a bread slicer, which shoppers are free to use, much to their delight!
All they had to do was bring a couple of oranges with them from the supermarket’s fruit section.
In the video, Queenie had trouble carrying the citrus fruits to put in the machine. However, Pablo devised a clever solution: toss in the oranges one by one!
They did not need to peel the skin to use the juicer, either.
Within seconds, they were already enjoying freshly squeezed juice in clear Aldi bottles!
Customers can also buy loaves of bread they can put inside an industrial slicer.
While sliced bread is available in the store, the machine allows shoppers to get cuts of bread based on how thick they want the slices to be.
All they had to do was place the loaf on the conveyor belt and the slicer did its magic.
According to Queenie, the slicing is music to the ears! You can see the machine in action, which is also satisfying on its own.
Once the freshly sliced bread comes through, customers put it inside a paper bag.
The pair then featured a variety of choices of fresh seafood and canned fish on their reel.
There’s a reason the European travel destination is popular for its seafood dishes such as bacalhau (salted cod), lapas (sea molluscs), and bruxas (slipper lobsters).
And of course, the supermarket also had tasty-looking Portuguese tarts.
Aussie followers were just as excited to see Queenie’s European Aldi finds.
'I want freshly squeezed orange juice in my local!' one person commented.
Another Instagram user chimed in: 'OMG, I wish Australian Aldi was like this!'
(For the uninitiated, OMG stands for ‘oh my god’.)
Others expressed envy for having a not-so-fancy Aldi nearby: ‘I want freshly squeezed orange juice in my local also!’
But one comment seems to imply that the Portuguese Aldi wasn’t so special: ‘So you guys don’t have that? I mean it’s all over Europe!’
While rare, Australia also has its share of ‘fancy’ supermarkets offering many of the same conveniences.
'Some Coles have those orange juice machines! So good,' one user commented.
Do you folks make it a point to check out supermarkets on your travels? Or are they more of an afterthought? Let us know through the comments!
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