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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #20 on: October 25, 2019, 11:32:53 AM »
the trader joes in hewlett is ridiculously small. I went on sunday (to buy pareve ice cream of course..) and the whole store was just lines of people waiting to pay! it was crazy.

Because you went on Sunday. Stay away from Trader Joes, Costco and Walmart on Sunday. It's like the DMV on any day.
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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #21 on: October 25, 2019, 11:41:40 AM »
Is that new? I've never seen that before
Think so

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #22 on: October 25, 2019, 11:41:59 AM »
Care to explain what would make a hashgocha funky? ;)
The fact that it's not familiar to most people. But you can check crc and star-k lists (online/app) for them (or call).
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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #23 on: October 25, 2019, 11:42:56 AM »
Because you went on Sunday. Stay away from Trader Joes, Costco and Walmart on Sunday. It's like the DMV on any day.
Friday afternoon also, once in the city the line was all around the entire store on Friday

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #24 on: October 25, 2019, 12:03:22 PM »
Care to explain what would make a hashgocha funky? ;)
The fact that it's not familiar to most people. But you can check crc and star-k lists (online/app) for them (or call).

Exactly.... should have made that clearer, or just said - a lot of lesser-known hashgachot.

Incidentally - I don't know if this is a feature of all Trader Joe's, but if you go to customer service, they will print you a list of all of the hashgachot on their products and their contact info.

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #25 on: October 25, 2019, 12:45:16 PM »
The one in downtown Brooklyn often has a line wrapping halfway around the store, but it moves quite quickly, they have something like 30 checkout lanes.

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #26 on: October 25, 2019, 01:11:30 PM »
Exactly.... should have made that clearer, or just said - a lot of lesser-known hashgachot.

Incidentally - I don't know if this is a feature of all Trader Joe's, but if you go to customer service, they will print you a list of all of the hashgachot on their products and their contact info.
https://www.traderjoes.com/PDF/tjs-kosher-dietary-list.pdf

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #27 on: October 25, 2019, 02:02:27 PM »
https://www.traderjoes.com/PDF/tjs-kosher-dietary-list.pdf

Actually, this is the list I was talking about - https://www.traderjoes.com/PDF/Kosher-Index-print.pdf

The one that @moko posted is a simple product listing which doesn't even list who certifies which product.

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #28 on: October 25, 2019, 03:37:57 PM »
Actually, this is the list I was talking about - https://www.traderjoes.com/PDF/Kosher-Index-print.pdf

The one that @moko posted is a simple product listing which doesn't even list who certifies which product.
that's the one I was trying to post. My bad.

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #29 on: October 26, 2019, 08:05:31 PM »
Tried the peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and the cream sandwich cookies and my kids thought they were awful. The chocolate bobka was mediocre. There’s plenty in Lakewood that are better. The parve ice cream is amazing.

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #30 on: October 26, 2019, 08:15:38 PM »
Cinnamon Rugelach from the freezer section (bake at home) :)
Just got these for Shabbos this week, they were really good!
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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #31 on: October 26, 2019, 08:27:43 PM »
Just got these for Shabbos this week, they were really good!
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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #32 on: October 26, 2019, 10:16:44 PM »
Mods, can we rename this thread "Trader Does Anyone Know if this Hechsher is Reliable Joes Master Thread"?

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #33 on: October 26, 2019, 11:11:32 PM »
Exactly.... should have made that clearer, or just said - a lot of lesser-known hashgachot.

Incidentally - I don't know if this is a feature of all Trader Joe's, but if you go to customer service, they will print you a list of all of the hashgachot on their products and their contact info.
Here's the list of Hashgachos https://www.traderjoes.com/PDF/Kosher-Index-print.pdf

Here's the list of kosher products https://www.traderjoes.com/dietary-lists/kosher-print

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #34 on: October 26, 2019, 11:16:12 PM »
5+ pages of hashgachos - many of which I've never heard of...some definitely not acceptable that I noticed on there
« Last Edit: October 26, 2019, 11:20:37 PM by MarkS »

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #35 on: October 27, 2019, 09:46:20 AM »
Mods, can we rename this thread "Trader Does Anyone Know if this Hechsher is Reliable Joes Master Thread"?
That is what the title is already now.
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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #36 on: October 27, 2019, 08:39:07 PM »
Tried the peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and the cream sandwich cookies and my kids thought they were awful. The chocolate bobka was mediocre.
I think "awful" is pushing it a bit. I would probably say mediocre there as well.

Definitely nothing special if you live in Bkln or Lakewood, but in a city with nothing else pas yisroel they're not so bad.

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #37 on: October 27, 2019, 11:52:30 PM »


but in a city with nothing else pas yisroel they're not so bad.

What Trader Joe's has done for Shluchim...

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #38 on: October 28, 2019, 10:36:17 AM »
PSA: The rustic apple tarte is neither cholov yisroel or pas yisroel as per the COR who certify the product

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Re: Trader Joe's Master Thread
« Reply #39 on: October 28, 2019, 11:03:41 AM »
Definitely nothing special if you live in Bkln or Lakewood, but in a city with nothing else pas yisroel they're not so bad.

This is how I view TJ's as well. It's not replacing my trips to Brooklyn or Monsey, but it I find myself going there instead of my local Shoprite or Stop and Shop.  I am one of those people who lives halfway between 'out-of-town' and 'in-town'. I find myself in Monsey or Brooklyn once every 4-6 weeks where I stock up on meat, cheese, etc. I find myself in Trader joes 2x per week, where we buy almost everything else - milk/eggs/bread/etc.

In fact the only time I hit stop and shop any more is on Thursday nights where DW needs that one ingredient to finish cooking for shabbos.