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

and, as a documentary I saw showed, juices from concentrate probably end up with more actual juice content (and definitely more fresh-frozen juice content)

Laurel, did you ever read "East of Eden"?

the containers are often refrigerated

the peanut butter filled pretzels don't have enough pretzel. there's too much air inside.

I haven't had any for days but I still cannot get over the pom limeade

Simpler Times seems to be gone from the TJ's by my office nooooooooooooooooo

RIP $4 six-pack of 6.2% of drinkable beer in Manhattan

I drank the last of my lemur tea hoard today. ;_;

i had the meatless orange chicken last night. it wasn't bad. i stir-fried it with some broccoli florets and added soy sauce, chinese five spice, and the juice of a cara cara orange. i usually don't like tj's asian sauces, but with my modifications this one worked.

the fake speculoos and nutella (almonds not hazelnuts, wtf) are a little weird, but the dark chocolate candy bars with speculoos paste inside are pretty good.

wtf is a speculoos

weird kinky fetish iirc

in a chocolate!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculoos

so they're dutch windmill cookies! i love those.

more specifically: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculoos#Modern_paste_version

CHOOSE WISELY: EURO-NOIZE SANDWICH SPREADS OF THE GODZ SMACKDOWN

i didn't see any speculoos when i was there today, but i wasn't looking too hard either.

the falafel chips are pretty good.

Has anyone ever won their raffle?

the chocolate-covered potato chips were promising, but not salty enough, and the chocolate isn't v good quality.

i accidentally bought salt-free potato chips today and they are DIRE

ugh that sounds horrible

they're revolting pieces of flavorless cardboard and i hate them

bake them in a casserole

i don't want chocolate anywhere near my chips tbh

i was trying to think of alternate uses for them -- crunched up on top of something would be good
maybe even on top of a salad?

tonight i made some tj's cod that turned out to be possibly the worst piece of fish i've ever eaten. so disappointed. so weird because i've had the same cod before and it was wonderful.

scrod

i accidentally bought salt-free potato chips today and they are DIRE

far too many times (ok, like three times) i have done this with butter and spent the next three months disconsolately sprinkling salt on my buttered bread...

So much of Trader Joe's packaged stuff is just garbage and so loaded with salt I don't bother with it anymore.I used to like the green curry tuna until I looked at the salt content. The salt free chips being shit seems right -

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/22/FDT41MR2SM.DTL

That paper tests a lot of food products and TJ's stuff is usually always at the bottom.

i accidentally bought salt-free potato chips today and they are DIRE

How about using them as breading for fried chicken?

Give me all your salts

i had some disappointing potato chips a few months back and i used them to add texture to my mac & cheese.

The three-potato unsalted potato chips are pretty good if you microwave them a little bit. And sprinkle salt on them. I use the smoked sea salt.

Why not just pour salt into the bag??

I don't think the salt would stick as well? You'd just wind up with a bunch of salt on the bottom of the bag.

Use vinegar too.

i don't want chocolate anywhere near my chips tbh

― buzza, Monday, February 6, 2012 10:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

but sweet-salty is a thing now

far too many times (ok, like three times) i have done this with butter and spent the next three months disconsolately sprinkling salt on my buttered bread...

― bentelec, Monday, February 6, 2012 11:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

unsalted butter is generally all around better - I think they only invented salted butter to help it keep better in the days of no refrigeration

TJ's fish is the absolute worst. Will not buy.

some boston newspaper ran an investigation into fish-labeling and only TJ's and Wal-Mart consistently had correctly labeled fish

labeled correctly as 'crap' and 'refuse eating bottom-dweller' and 'something that looks like cod, but probably isn't' and 'potentially salmon; at the very least salmon-colored' and 'frozen chunk of aquatic protein supporting many nigh-invisible pin-bones at regular intervals at what we can only suppose is a sternum'

the only fish ya'll should be eating are sardines imo

Fishist

2 out of 10: http://www.whatsgoodattraderjoes.com/2012/02/trader-joes-pasta-with-sockeye-salmon.html

Tried a sample of the beet and carrot juice. Was gross.

I said I was going to cut back on buying the orange chicken

bought more orange chicken

Story of my life, right there ^^

Only not with orange chicken. That's a freezer emergency staple though, I'll admit.

see, I tell myself that, but then it mysteriously ends up cooked, in my mouth, within a few days

can we talk about the people who buy frozen, precooked white rice? like the lady in front of me who bought 12 boxes so she'd get a discount? that is so odd to me. unbelievable and lazy. how hard is it to make rice? i mean

take rice
wash it
put it in a pot
wait
eat

or

buy a rice cooker
dump rice in, with water
eat