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

Let me just say that the frozen turkey meatballs are the best I've had outside of my Abruzzo-born great grandmother's kitchen. Like, for any meatball period, not just turkey.

I had those tonight based on all the recommendations in thuds thread. Yum! A little salty, as tj products tend to be.

Thuds thread? And yeah I can kinda see them being a tad on the salty side, but not overwhelmingly so.

Lol autotext... This thread!

sea salt brownies are VERY SALTY

like, too much salt -- i mean, i'm eating them. but damn.

trader joes MYSTERIES: the sesame bagels are 20 cents cheaper than the plain bagels

maybe the plain bagels are sesame bagels that have been de-seeded by migrant farmers.

too much salt is just enough salt

Yeh, I agree with Jordan (and Jeff, I'm sure). The meatballs are not salty in my opinion.

I thought I was weird for loving those meatballs! I'm glad to get confirmation that they actually are very good.

love those meatballs as well. u r not alone

I think basically anything I don't make from scratch seems too salty to me.

"Southwest Style Salad"

^ this is good

choc covered PB-filled pretzels are simply not that good :(

i was disappointed in those chocolate salt & sugar almonds :/

If they were the same salted almonds Donna Rouge had in his pantry this one time (I think they had a yellow label?) then you are sooooorely mistaken.

ROSEMARY PECANS AND MOTHERFUCKING CRANBERRIES

THAT IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY

LEMON TART
LEMON TART
LEMON TART

ROSEMARY PECANS AND MOTHERFUCKING CRANBERRIES

would eat.

tried the chicken mole (from the freezer section). it was good, but a little goes a long way. the sauce is very thick and complex.

I'll chime in again for the Chicken Gorgonzola (frozen section). Large enough for three servings.

Those thai lime & chili cashews reappeared after having been sold out. I bought two packages.

seafood rangoon appetizer, whatever happened to you?

has anyone has the spoorloos filled choc bar? Too much sweet not enough yum imo

it wasn't as bad as being buried alive in a coffin by a weird, doughy nemesis though?

xp - i have. it was ok. definitely could've been more yum imo

their lentil wrap is just okay but i would drink a gallon of the accompanying spicy tahini sauce.

and i've said it before, but the pumpernickel pretzel sticks are awesome -- they're crying out for a nice sharp fondue or at least a "pub cheese."

the trader joe's pub cheese is gross. it's just cheez whiz.

most pub cheese is gross. but it has a perverse appeal for me.

wtf is pub cheese? i've seen it, and it just looks like cheez whiz in a tub

that's what it is

yes, but why do they call it "pub cheese" - is it for aspirational "yuppies" that like british things and see themselves as above eating cheez whiz in a tub?

I like it. But I'm also a cheese whiz fan.

"pub cheese" (and port wine cheese, and low-end cheese spreads)

I tried to like port wine cheese and I just cannot.

The four-cheese jumbo raviolis they have w the fresh pasta are prob like top 10 TJ's products btw

Their cheese tortellini (from the dry pasta aisle, not the refrigerated kind) is not great. Some of the ones that are more tightly folded don't absorb enough water and the cheese inside stays dry and grainy.

I don't know if I could ever trust shelf-stable dry tortellini

Also those chocolate croissants were flaky in the wrong kind of way, and also pretty bland.

Jesse OTM. That shelf-stable tortellini is just not good. I don't know if all shelf-stable tortellini is like that or if it's specific to TJs. I do really like the spinach and cheese tortellini in the refrigerated section.

Really? All I tasted was pasta and no filling :(

I've had shelf-stable tortellini from other grocery stores that were just fine. Not amazing, but very decent for convenient tortellini when you need them.

"need"

Haha also, I'm not sure how inconvenient cheese tortellini that you keep in the freezer is (I buy the stuff from the refrigerator section and freeze it).

It didn't occur to me to do that.

Given your proclivity for freezing things, that kind of shocks me! But I'm glad you found out now, when you're young and have many years of freezing tortellini ahead of you.

Right now I have a zip lock bag of milk in my freezer. Why because I don't keep milk around very much anymore and sometimes I need some for cooking.

Yeah that sounds about right.

It didn't occur to me to do that

That is so good though bcz I always drink non-dairy milk and hate cooking things that call for regular milk bcz I buy a quart, use half a cup, and the rest just goes bad