Interamnia

I have to say (and I have said it elsewhere) that I quite like this store. Apart from the fun of working out the contents of things from the endless euro-names, LIDLs has big central bins of "stuff" that change on a frequent basis. It's where my laser-level (£8.99) and thread-cutting tools (£4.99) came from, for example.

But this week is classy, in the extreme.

Just beyond the ridiculously cheap imported canned carrots (which are way too salty) were a heaped stack of ...



...flippers. Swim fins.

I live in a Scottish town that is about as far from the sea (or any water you'd want to swim in) as you can get. I suspect the percentage of people who can swim, in my town, is much lower than the national and euro-average. And there I am - surrounded by flippers (from £9.99 to £18.99).

Clearly the central LIDL computer has made a mistake. Possibly, in a LIDL somewhere near Bodensee, is a large stack of unsold tartan umbrellas and frozen haggises, causing equally raised eyebrows.