My Peanut Butter Lacks Consistency!
Trader Joe's, previously the source for the single best peanut butter on the planet, has apparently changed suppliers, and their peanut butter is now an unsatisfying mass of goo that has insufficient taste, annoying consistency, sparse crunch content, and an overall poor quality that leaves my breakfasts wanting.
Why, God? Why?
posted by Teodoro Callate @ 7:24 AM
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I had a simiar experience, though not with a daily necessity. More an annual indulgence. Every now and then, I MUST HAVE oreo o's. Mmmmmm ... chocogoodness. And THEN, as if sugar-encrusted, puffed brownie bits didn't provide enough cavity-drilling sweetness, they went and added -- are you ready for this? -- MARSHMALLOWS.
Every now and then, when the craving gets to be too much, I buy it and waste lots of time picking them out. But, somehow, just knowing that the marshmallows HAD BEEN there changes everything. I mean, I'm just not a marshmallow-cereal-eating kind of girl.
At least, I didn't used to be (sob!) ...
I feel that pain. I also hate it when products I am used to become totally unavailable (or when hats suddenly cost 375 dollars), and as such, I never want to speak to J. Crew again, just for one example.
There is a balance to the universe, Teo. Your perfect peanut butter lies elsewhere in the cosmos. Find it you must. Find it you shall.
Ah yes, Master Kevlar, but the problem is not that the perfect peanut butter does not lie in the cosmos. It's that it no longer lies in my apartment.
You've been watching the Star Wars movies, haven't you....
jane's crazy mixed up salt. my grams turned me on to it. "onto" it? anyway. i can't find the shit in stores. i'm addicted to it. i put it on everything. it's spicelicious.
not to mention, 'crazy mixed up' fits me perfectly.
the guy at jewel in the grocery section was kind enough to get the manager who was kind (patronizing?) enough to actually take down my number!, but no call. i think he took down my number cause i was all passionate and crazy about this salt, and maybe he was afraid of me.
i just love the salt. i didn't think he'd call, since he just told me that the buyers in melrose park make all the decisions.
i found it online, but the place makes you have a $20 minimum order. it's a 'old-fashioned' candy website, so who knows. maybe i'll buy some zots and live it up.
I have been watching the Star Wars movies lately, unfortunately. My sons are at that age. I now communicate to them most effectively in Yoda-speak: "brush your teeth now you must".
They both want Star Wars legos for Christmas (ah yes, the list starts early), which is fine except for the fact that I'm the one who always gets stuck putting them together. The first 6 or 7 pieces are fun to assemble, and then it's a downward spiral for the remaining 1,342.
Tell you what, smussy, if I could buy my peanut butter fifty bucks at a time through the mail I'd do it in a heartbeat. My trips to Trader Joes generally consist of, and I'm not making these quantities up: 8 bags of frozen mangos, 4 bags of frozen berry mix (raspberry emphasis), 4 bags of frozen berry mix (cherry emphasis), 6 half-gallons of organic orange juice, 8 pre-made frozen meals, and no less than 8 jars of peanut butter.
The reason for this bizarre cart-full of food is that A) I make smoothies all the time, and B) I stock up on their peanut butter because it 1) is cheap, and 2) was previously spectacular, and 3) the grocery store down the street doesn't offer either of those options, and back to C) Trader Joes does a few things great but I only get there every 6 or 8 weeks.
(By the way, this is the MOST Betsy Crane-ish paragraph I have ever written.)
Anyway. I digress.
Peanut butter. If they sold it online, I'd buy it.
I found a new brand tonight at another niche-market store. I'll keep you posted.
dude. they sell EVERYTHING online. you can buy it. i can 99.9% guarantee it.
I tried to post this yesterday but it didn't show. Very important. One more time: Jane's salt - Dominicks.
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