Lidl's Weirdest Find?

I've seen some wild stuff at that Lidl, but never Klingon. If the cashier shrugged, it's probably just a regular pickle with a misprint from a promo. I'd crack it open and taste one if you're brave.

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The April Fools promo theory is solid, I remember that week. They also had "Vulcan" brand olive oil and some Romulan ale-looking sparkling water. If it's actually Klingon text and not just a gimmick font, check the bottom of the jar for a tiny import sticker, those usually have the real product name in German. The one near Brandenburger Tor definitely gets overstock from the bigger Friedrichstraße store, so mismatched shipments happen all the time.

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tbh the Klingon label is prob just a leftover from Lidl's April Fools promo a couple years back. they did a whole "alien invasion" themed week with weird packaging for normal items. if it's bright green and tiny they're just cornichons, pretty standard french style pickles. i grabbed a jar during that promo and they tasted like regular pickles, just with a funny label. your cashier's shrug tracks, they prob saw hundreds of those things that week

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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