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

loving the monkey business trek mix. wish i had a "trek" to eat it on!

the bistro salad with kale, edamame, etc. is fantastic.

lime floe is good but caribbean floe is best

love sweet potatoes, love gnocchi, the sweet potato gnocchi was pretty nasty

Ditto, ditto, and ditto. I warned against it upthread.

the "hummus salad dressing" is really just tahini sauce and/but is v. good. i bought it as a dip for their falafel, which are otherwise a little dry.

how are their tortilla chips?

Not a TJ's branded product, but deal alert -- they're selling variety packs of Butternuts Beers (Porkslap Pale Ale etc.) for like $15 a 12-pack. Surprisingly good in spite of corny packaging and names.

btw I assume that's just NY area TJ's, since they're a local brewer.

Fuck PA and NJ liquor laws so fucking hard tbh

yeah they have so stupid ass laws on the books in that regard

The tortilla chips are good! They have salted and unsalted, so look sharp.

CARRIBEAN FLOES OMG!!!! It is going to take every oz of strenth not to finish the rest of the box before sundown

They softened up on my ride home and it was like strawberry-mango sorbet on a stick I can't even

And the coconut!! Some floes are fresh but these floes the freshest!

I probably eat 5 to 8 floes a week.

And damn I miss the chili mango floes.

Why did they go away?

I guess a lot of their stuff comes and goes seasonally. Maybe it will return.

I loved the coconut floes until about a week ago when they were suddenly way too sweet for me. I wish I had come to that realization at the end of a box instead of at the beginning of one.

TRIPLE GINGER SNAP LEMON ICE CREAM

cannot stop eating the fake twizzlers.

Oh yeah those are weirdly addictive. I love real Twizzlers so maybe I'm just predisposed to enjoy chewy plasticy strawberry candy.

I had a severe problem w that licorice (the black kind not the red kind) and it was hard to give up!! I ate like a lb a week!!

fucking obsessed with the everything bagel chips

also been fucking heavy with the frozen burritos & the kung pao chicken is pretty good in a jiff

how's the coffees here? I want something complex and good for iced americanos

the coffee is all meh

the ones I've liked the best: colombian, fair trade bolivian, honduras

but they all have a slight nast to them

just made their gluten free brownies - the verdict - good!

I really like the Organic Sumatran coffee, but I am not a coffee snob.

I appreciate your egalitarianism in caffeinated beverages

The Bay-something one (known around our house as "the one in the blue can with the boat on it) was the least offensive IMO, but I have not tried others recently and have just switched to Whole Foods pleasant moring buzz (for regular drip) and Peet's Major Dickinsomething for espresso drinks.

"Whole Foods pleasant morning buzz" = ground way too coarse for the likes of me (coffee vampyre)- and too lazy to grind the berries myself

I can't believe everyone hates TJ's coffee so much. It makes me wonder if my tastes are those of an unwashed barbarian horde because so far it has been one of the more enjoyable coffees I've had in the last year or two. And I even bought some Kenyan AA whatever fancy stuff from the shop in Grand Central thinking that I should try the "good" stuff, but thoroughly disliked it.

what shop in Grand Central, Joe?

"Whole Foods pleasant morning buzz" = ground way too coarse for the likes of me (coffee vampyre)- and too lazy to grind the berries myself

― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Tuesday, September 4, 2012 12:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IDGI -- can't you just get the beans ground to your liking at WF?

No, the coffee bean stand in the market.

oh w/e, a lot of "fancy" coffee is crap, so I wouldn't doubt your taste buds. If you want to taste the difference, get something like counter culture, intelligentsia or stumptown, preferably roasted within the last couple of weeks.

Whole Foods coffee is very good imo though

and Joe is good. I don't like it as much as the three I mentioned, but it's good.

There's actually a place right by Grand Central called Rize that sells Stumptown iirc, although it seemed to be more expensive there than it was in Brooklyn.

i don't have a problem with trader joe's coffee, i like the tarrazzo coffee in particular

metropolis coffee is the only kind i've had that tastes notably better than the stuff i get from TJs

I had Peet's in an airport once and I was blown away by it, but I don't require that like every Sunday morning when I'm hungover and just hanging around home.

yes you do

you DESERVE it

in other news

* is the flower pepper just gone from my TJs or is it ;_; gone forever?
* highly recommend the fresh rice noodles in the refrigerator aisle for super quick and easy stir fries/soups and whatnot

I've never tried the flower pepper but if they're discontinuing stuff I will buy all the smoked salt. Lechera, that one I owe 100% to you.

That shit is so good. I love the flower pepper with all of my being. Flowers and pepper, together at last.

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2),:

TH MATTER IS MOOT - now that I found Cafe Bustelo at your local Hanafords - dark, rich and fine ground - perfect