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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: Kytt on 03 Jan 2008, 20:38
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One of the gifts my loving sister was kind enough to give me, and I've just opened it up.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Tastes a little like dead parrot, though.
(http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/6548/holyalezf9.jpg)
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....dead parrot?
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,18531.0.html
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[tipsy]This burger tastes like crap![/tipsy]
You've tasted crap have you. :-D
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v368/thehollow/IMG_2558.jpg)
My mom bought me the beer, and my brother gave me the pint glass. Haven't opened it yet.
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Weeee have a beeeeer thread allllreadddddyyy.
Also, that TJ's belgian is brewed by Unibroue, who kick the most ass, and is very good!
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Oops, sorry, didn't see either the haul thread nor the beer thread.
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I love Trader Joe's.
They make the best everything.
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...but they were on the front page. likely in the top 15 or so threads...
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I love Trader Joe's.
They make the best everything.
Maybe in California, but around here Whole Foods is far superior. The only thing I get at Trader Joe's that I can't at Whole Foods is stroopwafels.
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I wholeheartedly agree with you Joe, but Whole Foods is so much more expensive.
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STROOPWAFELS
We do not have Trader Joe's :(. I am too poor for Whole Foods :(.
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TJ's is super cheap. And my area doesn't have Whole Foods. *shrugs at California*
You really can't beat two bucks for a dozen organic eggs. A dollar fifty for fresh sourdough. Pre-peeled garlic cloves, vacuumed sealed for freshness for a dollar (quite a few are included, as well). The produce is superb, cheap... and if you want to try something but are unsure about it, it's okay. You can bring back an empty package, claim you didn't like it, and get your money back.
Not to mention flowers. Their flowers are absolutely excellent. Always fresh. Always REALLY cheap, but high quality. At certain times of the year at my TJ's, you can get casa blanca lilies for about $12 for a bunch (4-5 stems). If you've ever worked at a florist, you know that's a lovely price. You can pay anywhere between $10 and $20 for one stem at a florist.
Oh, look at me. I've gone off and rambled about a store. *sighs* What can I say, I love cheap, good, fresh food. Oh, and their organic chicken!
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TJ's isn't for produce, it's for cheap wine and beer, awesome microwaveables and dried goods, and those fucking bomb ass juices.
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Sure. I'm twenty, so I don't know the wine and beer. If I have someone of age over to my home and they ask what to bring, I ask for expensive, good alcohol that I know I already like (usually some sort of amaretto, because I use it in cooking and several different drinks).
*shrugs* I like the produce, and the TJ's I go to has a huge produce section. Their frozen stuff is killer.
Oh, and god do I love their cashews. Their juice is indeed spectacular. And people always rave about "my" apple cider. I hate to tell them that it's from a plastic jug. So I don't.
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Yeah for sure.
What I am saying is TJ's is not like, amazing at really good fresh produce. It's all organic, but it's less varied and way less fancy than the stuff you can get at whole foods.
Their frozen foods, their microwave stuff, and their dry goods, are the reason to go there. The Tamari almonds I get there are literally my favorite snack food, ever.
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I can agree with you there. For a poor college student, though... it's awesome.
We've got Henry's if I want fantastic produce and have quite a bit of cash to burn. It's probably similar to this Whole Foods store.
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I go there exclusively for dried mangos and Black Toad beer.
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Dried mangos are fucking awesome.
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Sure. I'm twenty, so I don't know the wine and beer. If I have someone of age over to my home and they ask what to bring, I ask for expensive, good alcohol that I know I already like (usually some sort of amaretto, because I use it in cooking and several different drinks).
*shrugs* I like the produce, and the TJ's I go to has a huge produce section. Their frozen stuff is killer.
Oh, and god do I love their cashews. Their juice is indeed spectacular. And people always rave about "my" apple cider. I hate to tell them that it's from a plastic jug. So I don't.
I had to do a double take on the first line there. I was like what the crack? You can drink when you are 20..... But then I remembered that you are from California and not the great white north where we can drink legally at 19.
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I really like the mangos covered in chili powder that they've got at TJs. mmmmm.
also, we may want to rename this thread to something about discussing Trader Joes, as we've established that there were preexisting beer/christmas present threads.
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Yeah... damn Canada.
At family funerals, we always pretend we're in Canada. (My family's Canadian... basically all of 'em).
In, oh, a bit over four months, I'll be properly stocking my cabinet and refrigerator with The Drink. And buying a handgun, but that's another story.
Ha, sorry about hijacking the thread to talk about TJ's. ¬¬
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I know not of this trader joes you speak of.
LOL, oh yeah beer. I cant drink the stuff, apparently I am allergic but that doesnt stop me from drinkin' the hard stuff. I got some Raspberry rum for christmas. :P
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Are TJs regional? I live in Texas, and I've heard of Whole Foods but not Trader Joe's.
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Yeah... damn Canada.
At family funerals, we always pretend we're in Canada. (My family's Canadian... basically all of 'em).
In, oh, a bit over four months, I'll be properly stocking my cabinet and refrigerator with The Drink. And buying a handgun, but that's another story.
Ha, sorry about hijacking the thread to talk about TJ's. ¬¬
TJs is better to talk about than a second beer thread, since we already have one about that.
Trader Joes was for a long time California Exclusive, but they've spread out a lot since then. I know they're in CA, NY, and New Mexico
You could learn a lot more from the website, I bet!
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Oh my fuck we do have them! We have shitting five of them!
Fuck yeah!
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Yeah, the first TJs in Albuquerque opened last year. My parents adore it.
Which I find perfectly reasonable, because that a damn sight of a step up from Walmart.
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They're in Oregon and Washington, too.
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Shall we start naming all the places they have them? Because really that's information which the website provides. Although I suppose the website doesn't indicate that the Trader Joe's on Lincoln Ave in Chicago has pathetic produce, and you might not realize there's one in Pittsburgh since the dot is on the opposite side of the state (over by a bunch around Philly; it's not completely stupid, just pretty stupid.)
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I bought a bottle of Bombay Sapphire and some vermouth for my friend's party today! but he is apparently sick so there is no party.
So i essentially have a lot of martinis for myself now.
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There's at least one up here in Wisconsin.
The juices are fantastic
And I'm really hooked on those Trader Ming's microwavable things, especially the Kung Pao
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Where in WI are ya? We've got one here in Madison, I dunno where else there's one.
also:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v368/thehollow/IMG_2591.jpg)
Go TJ's Beer! for being cheap as hell, Black Toad is pretty decent stuff.
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I just cannot quite get my head around selling alcahol in supermarkets. It just seems so odd.
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There are Trader Joe's here in Phoenix. They have Three Buck Chuck, and other goodies that I buy frequently.
I think that there are several around town, but I only know the one close to me.
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Woah did the price go up? I always thought it was 2 Buck.
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Where in WI are ya? We've got one here in Madison, I dunno where else there's one.
I'm in Fond du Lac and there's one in the Milwaukee area that I go to a lot.
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It's 3 buck in Arizona.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v368/thehollow/IMG_2558.jpg)
My mom bought me the beer, and my brother gave me the pint glass. Haven't opened it yet.
Nice Wallonian lion.
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Thanks, I quite like it too. My brother goes to school at St. Olaf and the lion's part of their seal, he got it from the school's gift shop.
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I just cannot quite get my head around selling alcahol in supermarkets. It just seems so odd.
Where I am from there is a taco time/gas station/ liquor store. Right beside it is a grocery store/ liquor store and right across the street from it is a gas station/ liquor store. Good times :P
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If you think buying beer at a supermarket is weird, better not tell you about drive-thru liquor stores. (http://search15.conduit.com/Results.aspx?q=drive+thru+liquor&ctid=CT309158&octid=CT309158)
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Dude, she's from Australia. Australia is the home of the drive-through bottleshop.
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Oh, I know of these drive through liqour stores, the majority of them are located in small towns.
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Over here most of the alcohol is bought from supermarkets, doesn't seem weird at all.
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Of the five nearest bottle-o's to me, one is not a drive through.
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Woah did the price go up? I always thought it was 2 Buck.
"Due to the three-tier system, in other states the price can go up to around $4. As such, the wine is often referred to as "Three Buck Chuck" or "Four Buck Chuck" relative to the price."
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Drive-thru liquor stores are very common around here. And I have never seen a Trader Joe's. The closest Whole Foods is about 45 minutes away, and it's way too expensive for a poor college student like me. There is a liquor store about 5 minutes down the road from here that is known not to ID people, so that's the place I usually frequent if I need the alcomohols.
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Is this whole foods place kind of like a costco or something? I am too lazy to google it.
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It's a really expensive natural/organic grocery store.
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this is what i bought the other day (wiki pictuires because camera is awol)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Vermouth.jpg/273px-Vermouth.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Bombay_sapphire_by_daxiang_stef.jpg)
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mmmm...delicious gin [/jealousy]
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The distributors here have stopped importing Juniper Green gin. Fuckers. Fortunately I've still got half a bottle left.
And almost an entire 1-litre bottle of Tanqueray No. 10 in case of emergency . . .
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this is what i bought the other day (wiki pictuires because camera is awol)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Vermouth.jpg/273px-Vermouth.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Bombay_sapphire_by_daxiang_stef.jpg)
Martini time?
I trust you bought olives as well, or already have them?
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Erf, try not to quote large images mate. Just take out the [img] tags and leave the links.
Hells of yes martini.
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You know what's fun?
Drinking an entire bottle of gin.
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It's a really expensive natural/organic grocery store.
don't forget that Whole Paycheck is also wicked pretentious. The layout is stressful and crowded feeling. The seafood is sub par. I bought some shrimp there two weeks ago, they cost 11.99 a pound and were old.
I was unimpressed.
We gave away bottles of our Irish Cream for Christmas. We found a case of Ezcap bottles at Northern Brewer, which were awesome.
So your sibs an Ole? My Dad used to teach there in the Para-college. He left with the department.
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Gin is the greatest thing ever invented. Good to take the edge off for breakfast, for a pick-me-up at lunch, complimentary with any dinner fare, and excellent for evening relaxation. I'm not real crazy about Sapphire though. I'm more fond of regular old Tanqueray, none of those other botanicals and such for me thanks. For the money, Seagrams really isn't that bad. When April rolls around and I can't afford the half gallon of Tanqueray/month anymore I switch to Seagrams. Also, the bar I go to rips people off so bad, they charge $3.25 for a G&T made with Banker's Club. That shit is bad.
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I agree that the flowery taste of Sapphire is pthththth. A real corundum.
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I really like Sapphire, probably my favourite standard gin.
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Sapphire is probably what I drink most often. Tanqueray is totally acceptable, plus I love ordering a T&T, though about 50% of bar tenders have no idea what I'm asking for. My friend gave me this gin that was actually blue and it was smoooooooth, I would totally recomend it but unfortunately I can't remember it's name.
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Never had gin. Always been either a rum or tequila drinker.
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Tequila equals black outs for me so I have had to cut back. I used to fill a flask and take nips of tequila while at parties, apparently I would go crazy and could act like a real dick. So now I might take a shot of tequila every now and then but I try to avoid it.