Trader Joes

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For whatever reason the maplenut crunch white hipster dudes love to squat on the floor while selecting a bottom shelf item. Despite this, they have no ass from their squats. I wanted to grab something but white dreadlocks guy just had to chat with a femaledreadlocks chick for five fucking minutes. I haven't kicked a field goal in awhile but I'm sure I could've knocked his prostate into another zipcode. I swear to fuck I can't wait until I can afford to shop from home 100 percent. People are so wrapped up in their phones it's like wandering through a game with bad AI anymore.
I recently learned to yell "Pay attention dicklick!" in Polish for my shopping trips in Skokie.
 
I tried the ghost pepper potato chips at Trader Joes and they weren't spicy at all. They literally just tasted sweet. Horrible let down after trying Paqui's ghost pepper chips that made my mouth burn for like 15 minutes.
 
Flowers For Sonichu said:
If you're a Eurofag, Trader Joe's is owned by the Aldi Corporation. Actually, a lot of products sold at Trader Joe's are the same as sold at Aldi's which is where poor people shop.

Their beer is pretty good. That is all.
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A lot of trader joes stuff is just more expensive relabelled brands.. I forget which ones are which but there are blogs that try and figure out the dupes.

I don't think Trader Joe's is that cheap, "cheaper than Whole Foods" is a pretty low bar. One summer in college I lived in an area without a car where the closest grocery was Whole Foods... did not have a lot of money that summer :(
The wine is cheap but you can get just as cheap wine at other places in boxes or 1.5L bottles.
Here the meat always seems too expensive except for the bag of frozen chicken wings, that's a good deal.
The fruits and vegetables vary a lot, the ones priced per piece are overpriced but I sometimes get them anyway. I recently picked up a large container of strawberries for $6.99, which is a normal price for that size container, but they were some of the best strawberries I've ever had.
I've heard good things about their plants. I have an orchid from there, but while it's not dead or unhealthy, it hasn't flowered again in over a year since I got it and I can't figure out why. I repotted it, too.

Also I think it's weird they don't sell ramen, at least mine doesn't. They only sell some sort of curly rice noodle that's not like ramen at all.
 
melty said:
I don't think Trader Joe's is that cheap, "cheaper than Whole Foods" is a pretty low bar. One summer in college I lived in an area without a car where the closest grocery was Whole Foods... did not have a lot of money that summer :(
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It's not super cheap, but much of it is hipster boutique grocery quality at normal grocery prices. If I have the time, I'll usually get anything that is also at a cheap grocery store, and then only get at TJ's what they have at higher quality. Whole Foods, though, jacks up the price to such an absurd degree that only things that are only available there are worth getting there.
 
I've been really into their chicken soup dumplings or whatever they're called. It's a soft little pocket of warm chickeny goodness.
I've started checking out their beer section more as I've discovered I like hard ciders. Not much of a drinker but I've had a few that were nice and fruity but not too sweet.
 
not sure how this didn't get posted yet it's like fat person crack cocaine.

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MakeItRain said:
not sure how this didn't get posted yet it's like fat person crack cocaine.

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Legends has it that you will literally lose your virginity if you eat a whole jar of this stuff in one sitting.
 
Now that it's fall they are putting out all the pumpkin stuff and seasonal whatnots. I tried this:
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And they were really good, both crispy and kinda chewy at the same time. Very good with the cheap double or triple cream brie I also get at TJ's.
 
I love the cookie butter. I just eat it by the spoonful. Trader Joes even offers a chocolate bar filled with speculoos butter that I like to get when I spot it in the sea of chocolate caramel bars. Their frozen croissants are also really good.

I like Trader Joe's but they're not super close to me so I rarely go there. As for "regular" grocery stores I like Aldi's and Publix.
 
Yes, the chocolate croissants are bomb, as is the Dark Chocolate Pudding. They also have the cheapest goat cheese logs in town.
 
hotcheetospuffs said:
Yes, the chocolate croissants are bomb
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I'm assuming you're talking about the frozen ones... but when I was in San Francisco they had fresh ones that IIRC came 2 in a bag. They were made nearby, so I'm assuming they were only sold locally. Now that I've moved further east, my local Trader Joe's doesn't have them. I guess they could have been a nationwide product they discontinued around the time of my move, but when I try to find information about them, the only thing that comes up is the frozen ones.
 
I tried the butternut squash parmigiana with the cookie crumbles and that is honestly not a thing that I will be eating again. I was expecting the cookie crumbles would be mixed in with other breading, but it is just cookie crumbles on butternut squash chunks and cheese. And that's just weird.
 
I've noticed Trader Joe's seems to be lacking in good produce. They have decent niche items like dark chocolate, ice cream, and soy-flaxseed tortilla chips, their truffle chips and salsa... lots of great snack foods. But they're missing out in certain produce I like. :/
 
cawk mcnibbler69^% said:
I've noticed Trader Joe's seems to be lacking in good produce. They have decent niche items like dark chocolate, ice cream, and soy-flaxseed tortilla chips, their truffle chips and salsa... lots of great snack foods. But they're missing out in certain produce I like. :/
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The one near me is pretty on-point for its produce especially compared to its brother Aldi, but there's a lot of farming in an hour or few from me so that might make a difference.
 
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