I watched the video about Kangaroo Island Free Range Eggs, and thought it was very well done. My supermarket had them and the first ones were tried this morning (boiled). The shells are slightly less robust than some others, but the eggs are excellent eating.

Glad to hear - the chooks are extremely free-range and they eat stuff that they normally would in nature (insects, grubs etc) so the eggs taste how eggs should be. My mate who lives on the island says that the people who run the farm are highly regarded and they treat their staff really well, they pay $30 an hour for picking and packing.

Cluck Cluck Cluck Cluck Cluck.

chickens grow too big too quickly due to aggressive genetic modification intended to breed bigger birds

chickens grow too big too quickly due to aggressive genetic modification intended to breed bigger birds

Absolutely incorrect. Chickens are certainly bred to grow faster and bigger, but this absolutely not due to genetic modification in the method implied by this person. Sadly, and yes, I genuinely mean sadly, we do not have genetically modified animals for consumption in Australia.

We only commercially grow GM cotton, canola and safflower here, with some others under trial planting only. I am very privileged to have GM safflower, strawberries and a grape vine growing in my house, and I was able to relatively recently buy golden rice (the real deal, in an organics shop no less!) Which both impressed me, and disappointed me, nothing worse than a special product being sold in a market that doesn't need it.

chickens grow too big too quickly due to aggressive genetic modification intended to breed bigger birds

Absolutely incorrect. Chickens are certainly bred to grow faster and bigger, but this absolutely not due to genetic modification in the method implied by this person. Sadly, and yes, I genuinely mean sadly, we do not have genetically modified animals for consumption in Australia.

We only commercially grow GM cotton, canola and safflower here, with some others under trial planting only. I am very privileged to have GM safflower, strawberries and a grape vine growing in my house, and I was able to relatively recently buy golden rice (the real deal, in an organics shop no less!) Which both impressed me, and disappointed me, nothing worse than a special product being sold in a market that doesn't need it.

So what causes the striations in the breast meat that poster was talking about?

I have used Aldi's laundrite laundry powder. Just threw half the box out. No matter what I do the powder won’t dissolve. Even in Hot water. Leaves chunks of powder on our clothes. Love a lot of Aldis products but this is the worst. Cheap and nasty. Do not buy.

Didn't notice the fact that it didn't dissolve properly - but DID notice the cheap stench it left.

I have used Aldi's laundrite laundry powder. Just threw half the box out. No matter what I do the powder won’t dissolve. Even in Hot water. Leaves chunks of powder on our clothes. Love a lot of Aldis products but this is the worst. Cheap and nasty. Do not buy.

Didn't notice the fact that it didn't dissolve properly - but DID notice the cheap stench it left.
We use the same washing powder as it's really cheap compared to the others AND because it's cheap it does NOT have added perfumes which I hate.

As I always soak clothes in my machine overnight once the powder is dissolved even in cold water, I always get a good result and no 'cheap stench'...perhaps that's from the Murray

Mike.

I have used Aldi's laundrite laundry powder. Just threw half the box out. No matter what I do the powder won’t dissolve. Even in Hot water. Leaves chunks of powder on our clothes. Love a lot of Aldis products but this is the worst. Cheap and nasty. Do not buy.

Didn't notice the fact that it didn't dissolve properly - but DID notice the cheap stench it left.
We use the same washing powder as it's really cheap compared to the others AND because it's cheap it does NOT have added perfumes which I hate.

As I always soak clothes in my machine overnight once the powder is dissolved even in cold water, I always get a good result and no 'cheap stench'...perhaps that's from the Murray

Mike.

So you like walking around stinking like a harlot's hankie? You'll certainly be easy to find in a crowd.

And call me old fashioned but I shouldn't have to pre-soak overnight - that sort of process belongs back in the thirties along with washboards and manglers.

Although I'm not surprised that you do your washing that way to compensate for the cheapness of your choice.

I have used Aldi's laundrite laundry powder. Just threw half the box out. No matter what I do the powder won’t dissolve. Even in Hot water. Leaves chunks of powder on our clothes. Love a lot of Aldis products but this is the worst. Cheap and nasty. Do not buy.

Didn't notice the fact that it didn't dissolve properly - but DID notice the cheap stench it left.
We use the same washing powder as it's really cheap compared to the others AND because it's cheap it does NOT have added perfumes which I hate.

As I always soak clothes in my machine overnight once the powder is dissolved even in cold water, I always get a good result and no 'cheap stench'...perhaps that's from the Murray

Mike.So you like walking around stinking like a harlot's hankie? You'll certainly be easy to find in a crowd.

And call me old fashioned but I shouldn't have to pre-soak overnight - that sort of process belongs back in the thirties along with washboards and manglers.

Although I'm not surprised that you do your washing that way to compensate for the cheapness of your choice.

Again...the best rebuttal you can cobble together ...how the 'mighty' have fallen

M.

Had to throw out a Coles chicken the other night. Should have guessed when I tipped out a heap of water from the bag. It came out of the oven like it had been boiled, and even more water came out of the smeg end when I tipped it over the sink. It did not smell nice.

I have eaten torisashi.

For example, Aldi is owned by two super-secretive German billionaires who are worth more than $40 billion. Why would they want any more money?

Yeah but you get what you pay for though - if Aldi brands were really that good then why do they always - ALWAYS - emulate the packaging of the product they're trying to knock off? Case in point is Arnott's Tim Tam biscuits. Arnotts sued Aldi to stop them from using the name "Temptin's" which confused consumers into thinking they were the same as the Australian made biscuits - yet Aldi still knocks off the basic design of the Arnott's packaging and gets away with it:

Yeah but you get what you pay for though - if Aldi brands were really that good then why do they always - ALWAYS - emulate the packaging of the product they're trying to knock off? Case in point is Arnott's Tim Tam biscuits. Arnotts sued Aldi to stop them from using the name "Temptin's" which confused consumers into thinking they were the same as the Australian made biscuits - yet Aldi still knocks off the basic design of the Arnott's packaging and gets away with it:

Obviously a marketing ploy. I'll buy the Aldi choccy bickies over Arnotts any day, they are ~half the price and much nicer. Aldi Corn Flakes have less sugar than Kellogs.

Yeah but you get what you pay for though - if Aldi brands were really that good then why do they always - ALWAYS - emulate the packaging of the product they're trying to knock off? Case in point is Arnott's Tim Tam biscuits. Arnotts sued Aldi to stop them from using the name "Temptin's" which confused consumers into thinking they were the same as the Australian made biscuits - yet Aldi still knocks off the basic design of the Arnott's packaging and gets away with it:

Obviously a marketing ploy. I'll buy the Aldi choccy bickies over Arnotts any day, they are ~half the price and much nicer. Aldi Corn Flakes have less sugar than Kellogs.

So you don't mind sending 100% of the profits off-shore to a German private company then? Good to know.

For example, Aldi is owned by two super-secretive German billionaires who are worth more than $40 billion. Why would they want any more money?

Years ago Bob Hawke told of meeting Rupert Murdoch in America, and saying to him something like, "Rupert, you're worth billions now; when are you going to say that enough is enough, and retire?" Hawke later said about the exchange that "Rupert looked at me as though I was mad".

It seems that the pursuit of money may be some form of addiction. I worked for one man who was personally worth at the very least A$30 million.  He arrived at the office at 7.00am, stayed until after 6.00pm, and came in every Saturday morning as well.
He had a house at Portsea, and none of us knew why. On any Saturday, he never got there until 2.30 at the earliest and was home for dinner on Sunday. He always bought used cars. Even when he was terminally ill, he was in his office as usual. As far as any of us could work out, he had tunnel vision with only $ at the end of the tunnel. His "quality of life" was a constant source of wonder.

Yeah but you get what you pay for though - if Aldi brands were really that good then why do they always - ALWAYS - emulate the packaging of the product they're trying to knock off? Case in point is Arnott's Tim Tam biscuits. Arnotts sued Aldi to stop them from using the name "Temptin's" which confused consumers into thinking they were the same as the Australian made biscuits - yet Aldi still knocks off the basic design of the Arnott's packaging and gets away with it:

Obviously a marketing ploy. I'll buy the Aldi choccy bickies over Arnotts any day, they are ~half the price and much nicer. Aldi Corn Flakes have less sugar than Kellogs.

Pull your head in imposter from SA, you just HATE that Aldi is getting good press. Bad luck...have another Pimms and a lie down, I'm sure you'll feel better.
BTW, free travel in Vic on NYE & NYD, whats your doomed conservative government doing for you poor crow eaters over the Christmas period

Mike.

That was HIS quality of life. I can understand an obsessive compulsive person doing exactly as you described as that was his quality of life. Not to beat my own drum, but I'm working today and right through to Easter despite how quiet it is right now, although I was very busy yesterday. A part of my quality of life is knowing I'm assisting in keeping the wheels of government turning when many are on holidays, including our dear leader Dan. Mike.