One of the many journalism ideas that has been floating around in my divergent brain is to write food product reviews for a publication called Condiment Vehicle.
Vegetarian since 1969 I will eat meatless meat but only Morningstar fake bacon that I call Facon. I don't eat it because it is suppose to assuage meat cravings--I don't have any, but to have a salty crunchy flavoid. I don't celebrate Thanksgluttony day because of the turkey genocide that all real Americans are so caught up in. I do like and use condiments often and like to experiment with making them from scratch. I love cooked food that I make and hardly go out for food unless it is Thai, Vietnamese or French Fries with Ketchup!
I no longer celebrate the uniquely American genocide holiday but I will be polite and have dinner with people who do and will avoid talking about US sponsored genocides past and present while at the table.☠️
As a regular Trader Joe's shopper (and, full disclosure the blogger's life partner) I don't have the same bad feelings for TJs although I completely understand the sentiment and distaste for a store that in fact has some marketing folks with brain cells --- keep it simple, white-label (almost) every product, appeal to our societal reliance on convenience, and most brilliantly, use TikTok creators (paid and unpaid) to feature products and quick recipes based on them. Love them or hate them, Trader Joe's is a solid and successful brand. I am just more willing than my daily, fresh-food-shopping foodie partner to debase myself at the altar of convenience, over packaged vegetables, and bad ingredients that provide some flavor. Alas, I will remind the blogger of the complicated food politics and culture of our (soon to be highly unregulated) country's food and grocery environments that we swim in as a family with two online teens and two tired parents with little-to-no bandwidth for robust, regular food planning. Perfect isn't on the menu. But you've eaten that fake beef a few times without knowing it was fake and you liked it. Love, the other person who grocery shops in your household.
The corporate market I shop at the most, Kroger-owned QFC, is far worse, so there’s that. They don’t wrap all their vegetables in plastic though. Also, QFC workers are unionized. TJ didnt have a union until 2022 (!) and it is not affiliated with the ufcw.
Vegetarian since 1969 I will eat meatless meat but only Morningstar fake bacon that I call Facon. I don't eat it because it is suppose to assuage meat cravings--I don't have any, but to have a salty crunchy flavoid. I don't celebrate Thanksgluttony day because of the turkey genocide that all real Americans are so caught up in. I do like and use condiments often and like to experiment with making them from scratch. I love cooked food that I make and hardly go out for food unless it is Thai, Vietnamese or French Fries with Ketchup!
I no longer celebrate the uniquely American genocide holiday but I will be polite and have dinner with people who do and will avoid talking about US sponsored genocides past and present while at the table.☠️
As a regular Trader Joe's shopper (and, full disclosure the blogger's life partner) I don't have the same bad feelings for TJs although I completely understand the sentiment and distaste for a store that in fact has some marketing folks with brain cells --- keep it simple, white-label (almost) every product, appeal to our societal reliance on convenience, and most brilliantly, use TikTok creators (paid and unpaid) to feature products and quick recipes based on them. Love them or hate them, Trader Joe's is a solid and successful brand. I am just more willing than my daily, fresh-food-shopping foodie partner to debase myself at the altar of convenience, over packaged vegetables, and bad ingredients that provide some flavor. Alas, I will remind the blogger of the complicated food politics and culture of our (soon to be highly unregulated) country's food and grocery environments that we swim in as a family with two online teens and two tired parents with little-to-no bandwidth for robust, regular food planning. Perfect isn't on the menu. But you've eaten that fake beef a few times without knowing it was fake and you liked it. Love, the other person who grocery shops in your household.
The corporate market I shop at the most, Kroger-owned QFC, is far worse, so there’s that. They don’t wrap all their vegetables in plastic though. Also, QFC workers are unionized. TJ didnt have a union until 2022 (!) and it is not affiliated with the ufcw.