Thursday, November 8, 2007

Trader Joe's kicks the leg out from under my food pyramid

I like Trader Joe's. The food is cheap, it is easy too cook, it seems like it's good for me, and you can buy cheap beer and wine. That all adds up to a successful business model targeted at semi-poor young professionals. For about a year, TJs supplemented my diet of cereal and donuts.

So I swing by there this weekend to pick up some of my favorites, and I get the devastating news:

Trader Joe's potstickers have been discontinued....

If you never had them, it was probably because I would eat half a bag a night for weeks on end. I bought the last bag at the store on 39th in SE Portland and cried my way home. I will have to try out this Wei Chuan brand and let everyone know my thoughts. In the meantime, the cereal and donut industries are crying out in joy.