# A reverse Pitting for Trader Joe's **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 29, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reverse-pitting-for-trader-joes/277160 "2004-11-29T16:16:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reverse-pitting-for-trader-joes/277160/61 "2004-12-01T23:20:06Z")
Now I just have to convince someone with a car that driving six hours for groceries is reasonable. I live in Toronto, it take an hour and a half (at least) to get to Niagara… Look, let’s all practice: “Yes! I want to ship food to **Lissla**!”. I bought Vanilla Almond Crunch cereal. I think I ate it in three days. I don’t normally eat cereal. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reverse-pitting-for-trader-joes/277160/62 "2004-12-02T21:05:07Z")
I don’t think it would take 6 hours. Yahoo says its 5 hrs 18 minutes, and they’re rather law-abiding in their estimates. I think if you speed, not outrageously but the “traditional” 5-10 miles over, it will be about 4.5 hours.You don’t have to get to Niagara first. You go Toronto-Kitchener-London and either cross at Sarnia to go to TJ’s in Royal Oak or swing south to cross at Windsor and head for Ann Arbor Since there’s no enforced speed limit on I-94 in Michigan you be home free once you get there. 🙂 Scenic Ann Arbor Michigan contains many fine Dopers as well. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reverse-pitting-for-trader-joes/277160/63 "2004-12-02T23:15:17Z")
Well, seeing as it’s the holiday season and all, send me a list **Lissla Lissar** and I’ll see what I can pick up for you. Now all I have to do is pick which TJ’s to go to… Email is my user name at yahoo dot com. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reverse-pitting-for-trader-joes/277160/64 "2004-12-02T23:21:33Z")
**lightingtool** , whatever’s on that list, factor in that a package containing triple ginger crisps, some other ginger cookie, and ginger Altoids is going to the USPS in 2 days. But then again, can you ever have TOO MUCH stuff like that? Somehow…I think not. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reverse-pitting-for-trader-joes/277160/65 "2004-12-03T04:05:15Z")
I love you both very very much. Very very much. Look, we’ve still got Bush. I can ship him down for ya. 😃 Seriously, is there anything you’d like me to ship you? I can make cookies or something. :runs off to compile list: ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reverse-pitting-for-trader-joes/277160/66 "2004-12-03T11:11:23Z")
> [@Hello Again](#): > > I recently drove 1.5 hours out of the sticks into Fairfax, VA (with a cooler, of course) to stock up on life’s merest necesities at TJ’s. It was heaven! > > Funny story a about Raspberry Sticks. The appointed shelf was all out of stock (orange sticks too… wah) so I asked a helpful employee if they had any more. He said, “Oh, I’m sure we’ll be restocked by tomorrow.” > > “But,” I said (and you’ll have to imagine the pitiful doe eyes I made) “I came all the way from… Culpeper.” I have found this phrase never fails to elicit gasps of horror from all who hear it, and this day was no exception. “Oh my,” he said, putting down the box of 3-buck Chuck he was pricing. “I’ll look in the back.” I left happy, Raspberry Sticks in hand. Culpeper is ‘the sticks’? I don’t think so. I lived in Bristol for five years. _That_ was ‘the sticks’, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reverse-pitting-for-trader-joes/277160/67 "2004-12-04T17:10:59Z")
Ok, you win. You lived more in the geographical center of nowhere than me. Nevertheless, where I live is in the sticks. You just lived in the doubleplus sticks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-reverse-pitting-for-trader-joes/277160.md?page=3)