Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
Several months ago I picked up a jar of Tikka Masala sauce at Aldi's and we tried it for the first time, I added chicken, peppers and onions and served it over rice. It was such a hit that we've had it at least once a week since then, we actually had it again last night.
Your comment made me look up the connection between Aldi's and TJ's since I remembered reading somewhere that they are connected. And they are. Sort of. Aldi's in Germany is two companies because the brothers running the company had a disagreement and split the company. As I understand it Aldi South owns TJ's in Europe and Aldi North acquired all US TJ's in the late 70's. (US TJ's started as a convenience store chain back in the 50's. I have no idea when Europe TJ's started to exist.) Aldi South also owns all Aldi locations in the US. So there is a convoluted connection.

I looked up the corporate history because TJ's always seems to source really good quality products for stuff like tikka masala sauce so I was curious if Aldi's would just have the same sauce, perhaps under a different name or whatever. (I've never lived near an Aldi's so I have no idea what type of products they sell.) Since yours was a hit I assume that at least in this case they also have found a good quality product.

Random aside, since we live near wine country I went to check out the Charles Shaw winery one day not too long after we moved to California in 2009. They don't have a tasting room, of course. And actually the winery was in an industrial area of Napa County. Not surprising since they don't actually grow grapes, they just have a factory that ferments and bottles wine made from grapes grown by others.