Puff-n-Stuff -- Authentic German Peanut Puffs

First a little housekeeping. In her post about the cinnamon pretzels, the Lady sent a shout out the Food Science Lab at UGA without giving them a hearty GOOOOOOOO DAWGS! So GOOOOOOOOOO DAWGS! GET 'EM, SIC 'EM! My apologies, she went to Tech. Now on with the review.

Peanut Puffs, I just love saying it. Ingestinging it...well....you'll see. Ladies and Gentlemen, on my triumphant return I give you....Deutsche Kuche Authentic German Peanut Puffs!

 And you thought rotten cabbage was a bad idea!

The German people have a long history of bad decision making. The Eurozone, Kraftwork, that really angry dude in the 40's. I mean their love of David Hasselhoff alone should disqualify them from making any choices for the remainder of the human habitation of this planet. So you would think that I would know better than to try some German snack food. But they had me at puff. As you know from earlier reviews I love cheese puffs and I also love the Lady's pancake puffs (oddly, not a euphemism AND a euphemism).

ALDI Oddity: Pitching Machine

Crackers, milk, eggs, cereal, grapes, pitching machine. Oh you know, just doing my weekly shopping.

Cinnamon Sugar Pretzels

Blog Business Up Front: I just want to say "Hi" to my extended family! I heard at a recent wedding that some of you are reading. Annnd, now you're famous - congratulations. As repayment, you must all write a guest review for us.  Haha, just kidding. Or not, we do need the help. Also, a wave to the Food Science Lab at UGA (seriously).

April was German Cuisine month at ALDI (at least at our ALDI). There were little Deutsche Küche brand items all over the store and most of them had high novelty factors. I knew I wanted to try at least one of them before they were ripped back out of the store and out of my life. There were a lot of questionable choices (bratwurst, peanut puffs, goat cheese, etc).

Out of all the choices, these Cinnamon Sugar Pretzels practically floated into my basket.  I thought these were a slam dunk, GC was predictably skeptical. They break open like any other pastry in a tube, with a satisfying pop. Then you have to form them into pretzel shapes, which I thought I could do with pizza-dough-spin dramatic flourish (I could not). You sprinkle the cinnamon sugar mixture on top and put them in the oven.

Guest Post: Bremer Kids Chicken Nuggets Complete Meal

We would like to welcome our first guest reviewer! Thanks for sharing the burden of this completely voluntary blog with us; we couldn't do it without you, GD.

Hi there loyal readers, nice to meet ya. I’m the Gentleman’s daughter and possibly only reader of What’s Good at ALDI? So this blog entry is somewhat of a diary to myself. Listen, self, I love ALDI. My husband and I are trying to raise three kids and I don’t know if you’ve ever been around a child, but they like to eat. As much as I love to cook for the family, there are those nights when a bottle of wine and some water crackers is a full meal for me. Those nights are the times that I forget about the words “healthy” and “mono sodium glutamate” and turn to frozen meals. The kids are always begging for those god-awful Kid Cuisines, so when we saw these on sale at ALDI, we couldn’t resist. These guys were on sale for a meager $0.99. When I see something on sale for less than a dollar, my brain reads “Free”. We scooped up three and headed home with three super excited children.

You want dinner AGAIN? I just fed you dinner yesterday!