What do you love at Trader Joes?

[Anonymous]

Got the dark chocolate star cookies there yesterday.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:their mac and cheese is better than what I can make at home

OK, so you can't cook.

Oh come on - any boxed/prepared Mac and cheese is better than homemade! I like my homemade mac and cheese just fine but the yellow stuff out of the box still tastes better than anything I've made or had in any high end restaurant! Not healthier of course, but better.

How could mac and" cheese" made with a packet of yellow powder be better than mac and cheese made with actual cheese! You can't cook! My mac and cheese is not healthy, but it is good.

Because for many of us, it's our first and most frequent exposure to macaroni and cheese. Not the PP, and I don't make mac and cheese at home very often (scratch, boxed, or store-bought doctored), but I can appreciate different foods for different reasons. Just like I prefer homemade french onion dip, but will happily dip into someone's store-bought french onion dip.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, box mac 'n cheese is a totally different thing than homemade baked mac n' cheese and both are good. Its like tex mex and real Mexican cuisine.

[Anonymous]

Frozen Mushroom risotto and European style chocolate yogurt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, box mac 'n cheese is a totally different thing than homemade baked mac n' cheese and both are good. Its like tex mex and real Mexican cuisine.

Actually, you can make a stove top version of mac and cheese ( not baked) that is similar in style to Kraft, but better-tasting because it has real cheese. It takes about the same amount of time. While cookie the macaroni, just make a cheese sauce: melt a few tablespoons of butter and add a few tablesppons of flour to make a roux. Add a cup or so of milk, simmer a few minutes to thicken and then add grated cheese ( cheddar or any type you want). Add the cooked macaroni. Takes 10 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, box mac 'n cheese is a totally different thing than homemade baked mac n' cheese and both are good. Its like tex mex and real Mexican cuisine.

Actually, you can make a stove top version of mac and cheese ( not baked) that is similar in style to Kraft, but better-tasting because it has real cheese. It takes about the same amount of time. While cookie the macaroni, just make a cheese sauce: melt a few tablespoons of butter and add a few tablesppons of flour to make a roux. Add a cup or so of milk, simmer a few minutes to thicken and then add grated cheese ( cheddar or any type you want). Add the cooked macaroni. Takes 10 minutes.

Yes, I was familiar with the concept of a mornay sauce when I said I sometimes like to eat boxed mac 'n cheese.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, box mac 'n cheese is a totally different thing than [b]homemade baked [i]mac n' cheese an[/b]d both are good. Its like tex mex and real Mexican cuisine.

Actually, you can make a stove top version of mac and cheese ( not baked) that is similar in style to Kraft, but better-tasting because it has real cheese. It takes about the same amount of time. While cookie the macaroni, just make a cheese sauce: melt a few tablespoons of butter and add a few tablesppons of flour to make a roux. Add a cup or so of milk, simmer a few minutes to thicken and then add grated cheese ( cheddar or any type you want). Add the cooked macaroni. Takes 10 minutes.

Yes, I was familiar with the concept of a mornay sauce when I said I sometimes like to eat boxed mac 'n cheese.[/quote]

Actually, you compared BAKED macaroni and cheese with boxed, which is entirely different than stovetop mac and cheese. You sound like a pompous ass, by the way.

[Anonymous]

I think its more pompous to act like people who like boxed mac 'n cheese either have terrible taste or are simply ignorant of the fact that it can be made at home.

[Anonymous]

Can't we all just get along? It's friggin' mac & cheese, not peace in the middle east.

[Anonymous]

That perhaps explains why our hummus thread was even more heated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That perhaps explains why our hummus thread was even more heated.

That depends. Do you pronounce it ha-miss, or heum-miss?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That perhaps explains why our hummus thread was even more heated.

That depends. Do you pronounce it ha-miss, or heum-miss?

Wait....how is it supposed to be pronounced? I think I have been saying it wong.

[Anonymous]

No one says "ha-miss". It's "hum-iss".
Heu-miss is dirt.

[Anonymous]

I have to be honest - this thread has SHOCKED me. I would have bet $100 that the TJ-is-just-7/11-for-hispsters poster would have posted on the first page. This has to be a record for the longest TJ post ever without that dumb comment.

Granted it only took 42 minutes from the OP for a stupidly condescending response and then it predictably devolved from there, so not shocked after all.

DCUM is so predictable

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to be honest - this thread has SHOCKED me. I would have bet $100 that the TJ-is-just-7/11-for-hispsters poster would have posted on the first page. This has to be a record for the longest TJ post ever without that dumb comment.

Granted it only took 42 minutes from the OP for a stupidly condescending response and then it predictably devolved from there, so not shocked after all.

DCUM is so predictable

And your "reasonable" response about how predictable DCUM is also totally predictable.