11 Monday Aug 2014
20 Sunday Apr 2014
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@thejohnjernigan, business model, culinary, culture, dating, dining, dogs, Edamame, funny, gay, grocery store chains, LGBT, love, perspective, pets, point of view, Quinoa, relationships, sex, St. Petersburg, tampa, Tampa Bay, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods
Tampa’s Trader Joe’s has finally opened, and it’s busy as hell. You would have thought the baby Jesus himself was promoting the Curried Quinoa Salad with Mango or something on this Easter Sunday. Conceding that it should have been opened years ago and that I am certainly behind the times, I still love this place! I am such a foodie now…
“Trader Joe’s is no ordinary grocery chain. It’s an offbeat, fun discovery zone that elevates food shopping from a chore to a cultural experience. It stocks its shelves with a winning combination of low-cost, yuppie-friendly staples (cage-free eggs and organic blue agave sweetener) and exotic, affordable luxuries — Belgian butter waffle cookies or Thai lime-and-chili cashews — that you simply can’t find anyplace else.”
My grocery basket:
the Sea Salt Butterscotch Caramels $3.49
Edamame Crackers $2.69
Mandarin Orange Chicken $4.99
BBQ Pulled Chicken $5.99
Homecut Fries $1.99
Petite Cocoa Wafers $1.99
Sesame Sticks $2.29
Carrot Cake Cookies $3.99
Dried Mandarin Slices $1.99
Chicken Jerky Dog Treats
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04 Friday Apr 2014
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animals, atlanta, Bacon, boston terrier, buy John's book, cats, dating, dining, dogs, food, foodie, french bulldog, funny, gay, Hardee's, humor, LGBT, love, McDonalds, pets, relationships, sex, St. Petersburg, Taco Bell breakfast, tampa
I was intrigued, and since I am such a foodie and have real refined taste and whatnot, I had two breakfast offerings from Taco Bell this a.m…not sure why I thought their breakfast items would be of higher quality than their regular fare. I am leery of sausage of any kind, subconsciously aware that all the other piggy parts (tails, snouts, feet) are probably ground up to make them. I shudder to think what quality sausage Taco Bell (who boils their meat in bags) was using. Instead I chose a bacon and cheese waffle and a bacon and egg taco, thinking I couldn’t go wrong with bacon: wrong! Taco Bell’s bacon is like bacon bits bacon, little shrivel scrapes of fat and processed meat. The waffle was meh, bacon artificial, and my raggedy little taco didn’t even have cheese…I think you’re safe for now, McDonald’s…actually Hardee’s breakfast is the bestest.
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