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Re: Nachos for the 4th, while everyone's waiting for BBQ

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:27 pm
by collin
RIC_FACTORY wrote:Great thing about TJ's is that their stores are known for the wide aisles and easy access to certain (especially dairy) sections. Never any trouble with people parking their shopping carts in front of the cheeses and deliberating for ten minutes between low fat double smoked gloucester with chives and slow churned Irish goat yogurt cheddar. Now that they have decided to sell produce, you have to make deft zig zag manuevers around those organic Chilean Kiwis and inconveniently stacked 12 packs of cheap, water down 2 buck "Simpler Times" beer that wisely, no one purchased (I wasn't so wise). Also, the fact that their bread has 0 preservatives in it forces you to wolf down an entire loaf in roughly 36 hours before it gets covered in mold. I guess they want to make sure you get all that good fiber from their rustic sheepherder's sourdough bread with raisins.

At least, this is the normal experience I have at my local store when I go there every weekend... :cry:
I'm with ya Ben.

Sometimes variety sucks. I'm not too into high-brow hippie cuisine, which TJ's seems to specialize in.

Sometimes you just want macaroni and cheese without needing aged brazilian camel peppercorn and 12 grain whole wheat vegan macaroni pasta imported from sicily. I'll just take Kraft blue box and some hot dogs. :wink:

Re: Nachos for the 4th, while everyone's waiting for BBQ

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:42 pm
by cjj
That's why we still have "normal" grocery stores...

I have no idea what TJ's has evolved into over the years. Back in the early 80's, they had a variety of specialized stuff you just couldn't find anywhere else. Like almond butter and cashew butter, much better (IMHO) than plain old peanut butter, but you had to keep 'em stirred up which was a bit of a pain. They had a bunch of vegan/hippie weird stuff, but it wasn't totally rampant at that time, as seem to remember. 'Course, it's been a while, so maybe I'm only remembering the parts I liked...
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Re: Nachos for the 4th, while everyone's waiting for BBQ

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:28 am
by marc61
My favorite thing about Trader Joe's are the prices. Yes, pretty much everything is their brand but, I can spend $100 and walk out with some groceries, while at the local supermarket walk out with double bags without much inside. Just my take.