{"id":791,"date":"2006-03-08T08:32:51","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T16:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/the_pre-packaged_salad_mixes_the_hawaiian_shirts_the_peppermint_bark.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:08:52","slug":"the_packaged_sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/the_packaged_sa.html","title":{"rendered":"The Pre-packaged Salad Mixes, The Hawaiian Shirts, The Peppermint Bark!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/03\/08\/dining\/08joes.html?ex=1299474000&#038;en=beebdb9f7a286647&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">further investigates this peculiar phenomenon from the wrong side of the Hudson<\/a>, this &#8220;Joe,&#8221; this &#8220;Trader Joe&#8221; person:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The stores are small, the selection is uneven and the corporate culture can be described as dorky. But because its products are often not available anywhere else; because they mysteriously appear, disappear, then reappear on the shelves; or perhaps simply because they often taste very, very good, Trader Joe&#8217;s has become tremendously popular among Americans who like to be entertained and educated by what they eat, as well as nourished by it.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>t will soon be clear whether the cult will take hold in New York City, where scores of local retailers specialize in top-quality imported house-brand products (among them Zabar&#8217;s, Sahadi&#8217;s, or Agata &#038; Valentina).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traderjoefan.com\/\">Trader Joe&#8217;s Fan<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times further investigates this peculiar phenomenon from the wrong side of the Hudson, this &#8220;Joe,&#8221; this &#8220;Trader Joe&#8221; person: The stores are small, the selection is uneven and the corporate culture can be described as dorky. But because its products are often not available anywhere else; because they mysteriously appear, disappear, then reappear on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","category-sliding_into_the_abyss_of_elitism_pretentiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}