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June 28, 2007
Trader Joe's Food Review Blog
Someone should run a blog that reviews all Trader Joe's foods. Very often I go there and think: "Maybe that coconut fried shrimp is delicious, but maybe not -- and I'm not taking a chance." Sometimes I do, I guess, and it pays off, like the time I got the chocolate covered peanut butter pretzels - those were pretty good -- but more often I think of Carrie's claim that all Trader Joe's prepared foods come from a big machine that stamps the same substance into different shapes and breads them, and I end up sticking to the basics.
My brief search for Trader Joe's Food Review blogs turned up a few blogs that specialize in candy or wine, and others that just happen to review a bunch of Trader Joe's foods. And here's a Trader Joe's blog that looks retired.
But nothing that's just purely Trader Joe's.
If I were Trader Joe's, I'd start one as a kind of astroturf ad campaign. I'd offer to do it for them, but I don't think I can eat that much Trader Joe's food.
*Update*: A quick commenter sent in this link:
I'm going to look around and see if I can find anything that gets fewer than 3 stars.
p.s. The picture doesn't have anything to do with a Trader Joe's Food Review Blog, as such -- it's just an Out of Order Donkey I saw in Tucson and I don't know when else I'm going to use this picture. Nat speculated that it was actually there to block the bathroom door it was in front of, but I noted that its tail was broken, too.
Posted by mary at June 28, 2007 4:33 PM
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Try this website:
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at June 28, 2007 5:05 PM
Well, those coconut shrimp are okay if you like *sweet* stuff - they're just a notch short of being candy-like, in my view.
The best stuff I've found there was in the produce aisle (blood oranges!), which is inherently unreviewable.
You can use your Out of Order donkey picture the first week in November every other year, btw.
Posted by: Rich Magahiz at June 30, 2007 5:04 AM
This website is just what you are talking about. It looks good and updated (fairly new) and good pictures: http://food.fearlessflyer.com
Posted by: mks6804 at April 3, 2008 11:25 AM
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