# Your Favorite Trader Joe's Products? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 14, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531 "2007-08-14T05:38:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/1 "2007-08-14T05:38:23Z")
Oh, man, do I love Trader Joe’s. Let me count the ways. Peisporter German wine, in a green bottle. $3.99, light and fruity, I love this wine. Greek cream-top maple-flavored yogurt. I don’t know why none of you told me about this and I had to find it out for myself, but damn you. Apple Blossoms- individual itty bitty apple pies, in the frozen section. So freaking good I could just slap your mama. Organic lemonade. I started craving lemonade for the first time in my life this summer, and that stuff really hits the spot. Those are just a few of my favorite TJ things. What are yours? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/2 "2007-08-14T05:43:49Z")
Chenin Blanc from Arciero winery. $2.99 a bottle. A pound of pine nuts. I think it was about five bucks the last time I picked it up. Two Buck Chuck. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/3 "2007-08-14T05:54:16Z")
For me it’s their cherry cider, hands down. I love that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/4 "2007-08-14T05:59:12Z")
Clif Bars, non-stale, a buck apiece. Most of the TJ-specific beer, or any of the cheap white wines for that matter. Some sort of breakfast cereal that looks like tiny brown worms and costs two dollars. Garlic-flavored naan. Frozen cheesecake. Why, yes, I am going to die early 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/5 "2007-08-14T06:25:18Z")
Their dill pickles are surprisingly good. I like their spicy flaxseed tortilla chips (as a bonus, they have reasonable amounts of fiber and protein). Cheap Atkins bars (shelf-stable emergency snax to keep in my office). I forget what the specific name is, but in the dried-fruit section they have a mix of three different kinds of raisins which is way better than the big-name stuff. Their marcona almonds are decent quality and about as good a price as you’re going to find. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/6 "2007-08-14T06:32:15Z")
Chocolate-covered candied ginger is my favorite candy at TJ’s. I love their creamy unsalted peanut butter, the strawberry jam, the Greek yogurt, and the hummus four-pack sampler thing. Their ground cumin is amazingly flavorful. But my favorite product, for combined flavor and nerdosity, is Avocado’s Number guacomole. (Unless they still sell Rosencrunch and Guildenpop- I haven’t seen it lately, but that stuff was awesome.) ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/7 "2007-08-14T07:30:43Z")
Frozen beef tamales (well, after they’re cooked, of course) with TJ’s tomatillo (green) salsa. Also, Tofutti Cuties. Scary good. A similar thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6002118#post6002118](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6002118#post6002118) ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/8 "2007-08-14T11:39:32Z")
I’m not a big TJ’s fan but their mesquite honey is just about the only good cheap varietal honey I can easily lay my hands on that is available in the amounts I need for mead making. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/9 "2007-08-14T13:25:59Z")
[QUOTE=Leiko] Chocolate-covered candied ginger is my favorite candy at TJ’s. [/QUOTE] Man, that is just about the only thing we’ve bought at TJ’s that the whole family considered inedible! I think I started a thread on it a while back. Led my son to comment that TJ’s could market chocolate covered nuclear waste and some people might buy it and claim it tasted good! 😃 For me, it’s the milk and dark chocolate coated almonds. And those flaky cookies sorta shaped like a bow or a butterfly? ---
**Author:** ![Figaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Figaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Figaro)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/10 "2007-08-14T13:33:17Z")
The pound-plus dark chocolate bars…the bags of salted nuts and dried fruits…the wines I buy other places for at least $3 more per bottle…and especially the frozen fish. I love the marinated tuna steaks! (oooh…and the marinated frenched rack of lamb is damn good, too) ~fig ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/11 "2007-08-14T13:35:39Z")
[QUOTE=Laughing Lagomorph] I’m not a big TJ’s fan [/QUOTE] _faints_ Black pepper cashews. Raspberry juice. Tortilla chips. I’ll have to try some of the other stuff in this thread. But no ginger. Indian people love ginger, which makes me really weird but ugh! I can’t eat it. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/12 "2007-08-14T13:47:03Z")
I go out of my way to buy their peanut butter. It’s just peanuts and salt (if you please), for under $2 a jar. If you eat that you can’t go back to regular peanut butter without thinking “wow this tastes like sugar and hydrogenated oil!” ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/13 "2007-08-14T13:50:49Z")
Frozen macaroni and cheese Giant blue cheese stuffed olives ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/14 "2007-08-14T13:54:09Z")
Frozen Green Beans The stir fry mix with edaname. Pickled Asparagus Marinated boneless leg of lamb… ready for the grill! Chili- Lime Cashews ---
**Author:** ![Figaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Figaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Figaro)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/15 "2007-08-14T14:07:23Z")
[QUOTE=Smokinjbc] Chili- Lime Cashews [/QUOTE] Amen to that! ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/16 "2007-08-14T14:11:16Z")
Ginger snaps ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/17 "2007-08-14T14:27:42Z")
I love a lot of things at Trader Joe’s, but my favorites are probably the dried granny smith apple rings and packs of pomegranate seeds. I love pomegranates, hate all the work involved to get to the good part. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/18 "2007-08-14T15:22:33Z")
They have a Korean sesame marinade called “Bool Kogi”, which they sell both in a jar and packaged with beef (with the beef in the marinade so it’s nice and tender). We stopped buying it a while ago because they changed the packaging and stopped selling it as strip steaks, instead making them medallions, which are almost impossible to grill. But it’s very good. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/19 "2007-08-14T15:24:15Z")
That cane-sugar black cherry soda they sell. Mmmm. Methinks I’ll have to go grocery shopping today… ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531/20 "2007-08-14T15:29:17Z")
Gerolsteiner mineral water, by the case. I can’t seem to find it anywhere else! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-trader-joes-products/415531.md?page=2)