/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20045646
It's one of those things like expensive downtown areas. It's a tax you pay to have an outing without ghetto minorities involved.

>>20045646
Five buck chuck is pretty decent for table wine.

The quality of the people around you rise considerably. If you go to Walmart, you'll see nothing but ugly people and lowlifes

>>20045646
Their olive oil is the best mix of quality and low price.

>>20045646
store for hippie liberals who think theyre better than you because they buy organic

>>20045646
>Live in major metro city in the US
>Decide to go into Trader Joes one night because former roommate used to go their all the times and a few of things he bought that I tried were pretty decent
>Every other girl in there is a 8/10+ giga Stacey
What the fuck? Even Whole Foods isn't like this.

>>20045646
They have a really good frozen section and lots of TJ-brand items that are either very high quality or very cheap, sometimes both.

>>20045646
snacks and such are overpriced. cheese and bread is top tier. you have to know what to buy here.

This store is literally made for single childless career women. Every item in the store caters to their needs, offering tons of things that seem "healthy," plenty of fruits and veggies and salad shit, but also decadent sweets and snacks. Additionally, it's all in smaller package sizes/quantities, so they don't feel too guilty for crushing a family size tub of macaroni and cheese in one depressed night while they watch Netflix alone.

>>20045656
*Quality of the whites

>>20045693
Don't worry, champ. You'll get to 1st base one day.

>>20045679
>you have to know what to buy here.
This.
Specific things are fantastic. Personally I've always been underwhelmed by the cheese-- good selection but average quality, and the only good bread is the sourdough. But they have great nuts and a handful of other things. Frozen naan, tomato bruschetta, dark chocolate peanut butter cups. But they also change recipes/vendors sometimes and quality can decline.

>>20045646
Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen a black person in a Trader Joes before, not even as an employee. Its all middle-class White people with the occasional Pajeet or Asian sprinkled in

>>20045693
This is a hilarious observation

>>20045703
Karen

>>20045646
its just American Aldis, the suckers all buy overpriced snackfoods and the normal groceries are significantly cheaper than whatever Krogerslop is in your area.
Produce must be consumed immediately - they blatantly use a just-in-time system to lower prices.
Their meat and cheeses are wildly inconsistent, but still better than most non-local options.

>>20045693
For the doubters like >>20045703, Joe Coulombe (the original trader joe) stated as much in his book he wrote about his time running the company. He said they explicitly targets areas populated by the affluent childless, or at least whose children dont live with them anymore.

Its a fascinating and enlightening book, everybody should read it. It will answer many of your questions OP.

>>20045651
What? TJ's is cheaper than anywhere else near me. I have to drive longer to get there or else it would be my only store.

>>20045651
trader joe's is cheap though. some things there are even cheaper than wal mart

>>20045646
It's where Mask People continue to congregate with others of their kind after "muh science" left them in the dust.

>>20045646
>orange chicken
>kung pao chicken
>teriyaki chicken
These are the 3 best frozen items there and literally all I buy from there. I tried the broccoli beef but it's spicy for some reason and not in a good way.

>>20045693
I think you're wrong when talking about the whole store but you're absolutely right when you're talking Trader Joe's branded frozen food.
That stuff is without exaggeration, Hungry Man but for single childless career women.

holy shit
>18g of grounds => 31' pull
>15g of grounds => 11' pull
damn

>>20045646
used to be good when it was for hippies, now its for regular amerifats so it sucks

>>20045656
and what do you think youll catch the ugly?

>>20045659
Lmao, my choice of what products I purchase is not the reason I'm better than you.

The product isn't anything special, but the prices and popularity make it trash filter. Shop there and you'll feel like a patrician.

>>20045693
You’re right kek

>>20045693
Maybe this was why I felt so uncomfortable the one time I went there. I kept expecting the other patrons to realize i didn't belong and out me like...
>Hey! This guy doesn't care about responsibly-sourced free-trade organic cauliflower... get him!!
And then I'd be chased by a mob of hippies.

>>20045666
fr
>almost bump into a qt while we went into the same line
>I stop ask her to go on
>she gives me a huge smile
>she insists that I should ahead
She was so qt bros, still think about her sometimes

I like the seeds, the olives, the taco spice mix, the frozen mac and cheese, and the canned stuffed grape leaves. I think their juice is the same as Whole Foods store brand. I don't get anything fresh there but I think the store near me is smaller than normal.
Their bean dip was good but I think they stopped selling it.

>>20045652
Subsequently Sneed’s