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qyron @sopuli.xyz

2w ago

Nobody needs this crap.

I'm in Europe, where american football isn't a thing and the NFL is nothing we care about.

We also tend to have better standards to serve and eat our food.

So why am I to find this crap in Lidl?

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So why am I to find this crap in Lidl?
Because it's fucking Lidl.
- And it was being treated as a poor taste novelty by everyone.
  
  To be fair, this isn't exactly an uncommon thing for Lidl. Have something absolutely insane for no reason whatsoever.
  
  Poor taste plastic novelties are sadly as American as Apple Pie.

I’m in Europe, where american football isn’t a thing
You'd be surprised. I know a number of people that organize Super Bowl watch parties every year here in Germany.
- I knew someone from Newcastle who was a bigger Green Bay Packers fan than a lot of the Americans I've met. And they had no connection to Green Bay; they just liked the franchise.

Retailers don't bring in products unless they have reason to believe they can sell it.
and the NFL is nothing we care about.
The viewership numbers of a game that happens at lunch time says overwise

Shitting on other people's lifestyles and the things they like because you don't like them and don't understand them seems kind of antithetical to the philosophy of this community as I understand it. No? Would it be appropriate for Americans to start mocking English football and their scarves?
- the post looks more about a consumerism critique rather than shitting on personal preference of favourite sport
- Yes? As most americans already do? I wouldn't feel insulted or aggravated.
  
  Okay then, I guess you're okay with idiots ranting the same way about your pronouns.
- Scarves?
  What year is this?
- I don't think it's shitting on American football or Americans. It's more why would they sell stuff we just don't have any connection to. It's like if wallmart would start selling shirts about Raymond van Barneveld (Dutch darter).
  It wouldn't make sense.
  
  They wouldn't be selling it if they didn't have a market. Just because it doesn't make sense to you, doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense.

Its a lidl bit crappy.

what is that? a bowling ball with an attached pissoir?
- Give this person a medal! This is the best comment on the thread up to this point!

I'm in Europe, where american football isn't a thing
In 2024, three NFL games were played in London, one in Germany. In 2025 scheduled games include the same plus a game in Madrid and Dublin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_International_Series
So it is "a thing", but not caring about it is understandable.

I don't even understand what it's supposed to be
- i think the top thing is a lid that opens to a bowl, for chips. the things in the front inside the facemask are trays for chip dips or nuts or other little things.

Wait is there no rule here
- The rule is post before you leave.
  The title is just a convention.
- Lidl sells some random crap is the rule.
- I’m kind of glad tbh, this community constantly shows up on the front page and I gets tiring seeing so many posts contain “rule”.

I don't get it?
Is this an appliance you use BEFORE you eat? or AFTER?
- That is supposed to be a snack tray. The top of the helmet is an ice bucket and the face guard has two small trays for - I don't know... - peanuts and salty snacks?
  
  I couldn't tell ... I thought it looked like some sort of strange hospital bed pan ... or a toddlers toilet trainer
  And if they were those things, I thought it was funny that it was all sponsored by the NFL ... and judging by the way the US is going, I wouldn't be surprised if this contraption was meant for toilet use.

Do you ever eat garbage?
This is what you serve it in.

I can't post a picture without doxxing myself. But I found a Star Trek Picard ship in the kids toys section of a local grocery store. I have no idea why it exists in the first place, why it was in among the kids toys or why it was in a local grocery store here in Europe. Weirdest thing I saw in a long time. Must be for all those European kids who are a fan of Star Trek Picard?

lidl mentioned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4kBcm-ls8Y

Taylor Swift. I think it’s cause of her that we’re getting hoodies and socks in Aldi with NFL logos etc, they seemed to appear about the time she got with that lad.

Use it as a dice tower.

Apparently some of these sell pretty well depending on which team.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=nfl+snack+helmet&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1

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