The Trader Joe's Product Discussion Thread (S/D)

or at least the insane parking lot is

Second dud ever for a Trader Joe's product- the chicken sausage with garlic, spinach and fontina. It wasn't due to expire for another month, but it smelled soooooooo bad when i took it out of the package. I still cooked them and it made my house smell like dead hooker vag. Or what I would assume...

weirdly, that tj's had only one kind of pork sausage (bratwurst) and like 50 kinds of chicken sausages.

that was the case at the tj's i was at yesterday -- no idea about the pork sausage, but there were many chicken sausages to choose from. i went with the spinach/fontina/roasted garlic ones and they were delish.

xp hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha

i didn't think they smelled like dead hooker vag, but i am a bit congested.

yeah hopefully not from your memory there Yerac. Today I wrote Jennis Macaroons to tell them they taste like vomit

The garlic and herb chicken sausages are really, really good on a crusty roll with sauteed mushrooms and caramelized onions. And mustard. And I throw a little red wine in with the shrooms and onions. I'm classy.

my daughter excitedly bought "yogurt beans" - yogurt covered raisins - boy was she sad when she tasted them. Also a boxed soup languished in our cuppboard for a year and then was executed to the trash

dead hooker vag

rejected DJP screen name

I don't buy much produce at TJ's but the jumbo-size packages of blueberries are consistently plump & juicy. product-wise my son now reps for the jarred marinara sauce. it's OK.

I like wild Maine blueberries
http://www.wymans.com/

you can get em frozen and thaw the delight

I bought the Donut O's and they are not that great.

I love the horseradish hummus.

Is that a donut flavored cereal?!?!

No. Trader Joe's Old Fashioned Donut O's are donut holes.

THE CURRY TUNA IS BACK. BACK AGAIN. TUNA'S BACK. TELL A FRIEND.

really liking the pistacho/white chocolate cookies and i'm by no means a white chocolate head

actually, most of their cookies are pretty boss

i will have some now, in fact, having just eaten TJ's pork gyoza

Do they have gyoza sauce?

Their sweet chili sauce is kind of underwhelming. Plus I'm used to paying $1.75 for a big ass jug of the good stuff in "Little Saigon" and it bothers me to pay any more.

idk, i have sriracha

My lips are pursed in disapproval.

they do sell gyoza sauce. i've never bought it. damn i have some of their sweet chili in the cupboard (unopened). sad to hear it will be not awesome.

It's OK, but I like the real deal.

Why can't I buy salt or white sugar there? I guess I know why, sort of, but I still want it.

them

They have salt at TJs. A bit plastic tube of sea salt, with a kind of inconvenient spout.

it's blue

they usually have sugar, too, but i find that stuff is always getting moved round and isn't always in the most obvious place.

uh, "big" plastic tube of salt. hey guess what else, trader joes has. booz

when I'm walking by a trader joes I stop in for a little coffee

I worked a job earlier this year where my main duty was to buy the best things from trader joes that I could

THE CURRY TUNA IS BACK. BACK AGAIN. TUNA'S BACK. TELL A FRIEND.

i have four (4) boxes of the red curry tuna in my kitchen. they didn't have any of the green curry this time, or the last time i checked.

I just want plain old salt. I'll stick with my local crappy little overpriced supermarket for that.

They only pepper they carry comes in a little plastic pepper grinder, which I get goes with the whole TJ's ethos, but that is also annoying.

pepper is evil

That's weird.

The pepper grinder is not bad. The top unscrews too, so you can dump it into a nicer grinder.

Unlike a giant plastic tub of pepper that I bought at Costco which had a built in, unremovable grinder, so I had to take a hacksaw to the thing. Annoying.

That's what I did, but it felt very wasteful with all that unnecessary excess plastic and parts.

okay, so i don't know what they did, but this jar of dijon is hands-down the most vinegary, sinus-clearingly painful dijon i've ever tasted. i like things spicy, but it's too much. i don't remember my last jar tasting so crazy. anyone else have this experience with the TJ's Dijon?

oh i love that stuff!
but their brown/grainy mustard tastes like shit to me.

i like their dijon -- makes great salad dressing!!

btw have we discussed the roasted seaweed snacks? totally a delivery method for salt and sesame oil but low calorie (most of the cal is from fat, sigh) and deliciously addicting.

weird! maybe i'm just becoming more sensitive or something? i could hardly eat my tuna sandwich just now, every bite made my eyes water and snot come pouring out my nose.

i maintain what i'm guessing that i said upthread, but am too lazy to cntrl-f to confirm. basically, any trader joe's premade product or snack or whatever kinda tastes great on the first five or so intial buys, but after that, burnout sets in quickly. this holds true even though they will sell umpteen varieties of stuff, so iow across the flavor range. doesn't matter-- hummus, salsa, whatever, it all gets gross too quick. not sure exactly what this speaks to; am entirely willing to entertain notions that my palate is just dumb or i am simply crazy in this particular sphere of life.

table, I feel the same way--I have to use the TJ dijon really sparingly. usually end up using it w/chinese...too strong for my usual sandwich needs.

i feel that. there are things that i used to LOVE that now i just buy occasionally. i don't think i ever consciously thought, 'this doesn't taste so great anymore' but maybe they taste SO good originally that yeah, you burn out/overdo it and then learn to taper off.
xpost to dell

i am all about that dijon, ditto on the salad dressing uses

i pretty much only buy a few things at TJs— condiments, salad greens, almondmilk, bubble water, chips— so i don't really get fatigued that easily. imo their hummus sucks, and most of their veggies are below par (ie i'm a california vegetable snob, sorry). i also never, ever buy pre-fab food, it just grosses me out too much.

i'm on a horseradish mustard tip lately, so with all due respect, you dijon assholes aka ppl can all go SUCK IT

cheers

:D

do not feague with trader joginger !

I stopped buying TJ's "imported" dried pasta (.99/lb) after two consecutive batches had the faint but definite taste of cinnamon

I probably eat their filled pasta (ravioli etc.) once a week so I've tried a bunch of different ones.

Really good: Arugula & Prosciutto Ravioli, Spinach Ricotta Ravioli, Portabello Mushroom Ravioli, Artichoke Ravioli

Not so good: the one with chicken, the spinach tortellini