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| - Cover Story: Speculoos Cookie Butter at the End of the World
Did you hear? More than one-third of people are terribly worried that there might not be enough cookie butter to go around (fake shortages). The situation is so dire that there is a 3 jar minimum at most locations. Bad news indeed.
Do you know what this means? It means that Trader Joe's is consistently packed with cookie butter preppers, stocking up for the next drought. This means that I sometimes have to park as far as two stores away just to shop at the Baseline Rd location. It's an arduous struggle that I'm willing to deal with. I go about once a week.
The efforts are rewarded with: conveniently packaged organic produce, mini pots of fresh herbs, $2 bundles of seasonal flowers, the absolute cheapest nuts and dried fruitbits I've ever seen. Even the processed junkstuff is somehow less junky, less infused with artificial flavors, colors, toxins, and evil gmo monsanto-ness. So, when I do want to buy junk food, I feel a little better about getting it at Trader Joe's. The eclectic frozen foods offerings are also appealing. Predictably, if you cram some Kale into anything, I'll put it in my cart. And the two buck chuck ($2.99 in Arizona) ain't bad either.
Did I mention the conversation? On a recent visit, an employee wearing footed pajamas (I am totally not even making this up - it was pajama day for the staff) indulged me in a debate about how to best win if a game of "Supermarket Sweep" were held in the store there. He suggested that it would be best to fill the cart with some of the more expensive cases of wine. I countered by telling him I'd likely risk it by making a bee-line straight to the nut butters and fill my whole cart with Speculoos Cookie Butter.
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