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They carry litre bottles of flavored Italian sodas under the Archer Farms brand name. They are really nice for making quick cocktails or simply on their own. There are about 10 different flavor combos too.

Wasabi mustard kettle chips!

We're with you pumpkin bear: choxie is awesome Target black pepper and sea salt chips are such a decadent treat..Their chipolte salsa is a hit in my house..Not sure if i can go here: chupolulu hot sauce, one third of the price of the local supermarket.SWEET

Jcrisco, that reminds me of my husband and I driving around town to 4 different Targets to get wasabi mustard kettle chips. They were all out. He was almost in tears -- I have a tendency to curse him by saying, "Oh, you like that, huh? I'll bet they'll discontinue it." Of course, a week later, they had them in stock.

I hate onions, but I love their Maui Onion kettle chips.

During the holidays, an inexpensive stocking stuffer and communal snack table addition at work are their macadamia nut caramel clusters and spicy trail mix with chocolate drizzle.

I don't go to Target specifically for groceries, but I often end up picking up a few items when I'm there. I've noticed things like ziploc bags and cereal are much cheaper there.

Our target in my current town is ok, they really don't have much of a grocery selection. However, when we lived in Florida, Target was the best for finding tasty odd-ball treats at a decent price.

A Super Target opened here just recently. I usually don't go there specifically for groceries, but if I need other stuff, I usually check out the grocery section, just to see what's there. I'm not particularly impressed with the veggies. If I go there with a grocery list, I usually have to go somewhere else, because they don't have everything I'm looking for. Now and then I find something interesting.

Funniest thing about Super Target is that someone I know was totally appalled at it. She was disgusted that people's clothing purchases and food purchases would be going down the same belt at the checkout. I was so surprised at that comment that I never got around to asking whether she thought the food was contaminating the clothing or whether the clothing was contaminating the food.

Then again, her husband said he was appalled when grocery shopping to see that people were picking out lettuce and other veggies and sorting through them with their hands instead of using tongs or the plastic bags. I didn't mention that those same veggies were grown in dirt, that various birds undoubtedly flew overhead and unknown bugs and ground-dwelling critters may have visted those same veggies, and the veggies were either picked by farm workers or by unsanitized farm machinery. Not to mention that the store employees used their hands when they set out the produce.

@Cass---Wasabi chips are totally worth the drive! Luckily for me (also in Florida) they just built a Super Target 5 minutes from my house. The problem with this, though, is that whenever I go in for one or two things, I walk out with over $100 worth of stuff. It's evil!

However, another thing I got at Target was a 3 cheese plate from igourmet.com. I bought it for $9.99 and when I looked it up on igourmet, it sold for $35.00!!!!

@dbcurrie.......would you happen to know in what increments they buy their deli meats? Just curious.

I love Super Target! Target is a looong subway ride away from me (c'mon, build one in Manhattan! Actually, don't. It'd be a zoo). But at my parent's house in SC, there's one about 5 miles away.

I love the Maui Onion kettle chips, the monster mix (I think that's what it's called) and Archer Farms makes a garlic bread that's studded with big cloves of roasted garlic. My sister turned me on to it, and I could eat half a loaf for dinner. So good!

i don't have a Target here in Puerto Rico... but I always stop by one whenever I travel to the US to buy FOOD Stuff - like their fruit leathers, butterscotch popcorn with cashews and almonds and their risotto mixes - which I then embellish at home to make my own. Check it out - ">my Spinach Tomato Risotto made from their Archer Farms 4 cheese Risotto box. Love it!!

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The Archer Farms curry flavor baked potato crisps are addictive.

pasta. cheap, bronze-cut, sauce-holding pasta. fits my graduate student budget and snobbish sensibilities.

The idea of buying a melon/tomato/nectarine/peach/plum/box of berries/etc. without smelling them first is kinda giving me hives.

I'm glad we're all enjoying the wacky people that populate my world. I don't know if I attract these folks, if they feel unusually comfortable saying strange things to me, or if I'm just more observant of the logical inconsistencies in their thinking.

With the one couple (primarily the wife) I dread seeing them because I know she's going to say something insane and I'm going to have to sit there politely and say, "Mmmm hmmmm..." and not thwack her upside the head and say "Get a grip!" Afterwards it's so much more fun when I tell my husband the lastest notes from her alternate universe.

Cooking-related, she once told me that she couldn't boil water because she was allergic to the wiring in the stove. I was at a loss as to how the wires in the stove were any different than the wires in the rest of her appliances, or in the whole house. Or why boiling water was worse than sauteeing. If it was a gas stove and she was having issues with the gas odor, I'd understand that. But this was a flat-top electric stove.

When I run into her at the farmer's market, she always says something noteworthy (nut-worthy?)

BTW, if the olive loaves are free-range, does that mean the olives leap out and cavort around, and just return to the loaves to roost at night? Just askin'

Hee Hee, I love the idea of olive loaves and deli meats roaming free!

As for Target brands - we also don't have a Super Target here, so any grocery purchases at Target are random, but we do love their Archer Farms vegetable crisps! Hubby is also a huge fan of their Pico de Gallo tortilla Chips (but can't find them lately). Also, they always have good chocolate, although I did not really like their Choxie brand, but perhaps I should give it another try.

@LoCo says we're crazy, so it must be so. But it's what keeps me from going totally mad, so that's okay.

So, I think we all need to go to the local deli counter and ask them if they have free-range olive loaf. Can you imagine the reactions? It would be a hoot.

We have occasionally picked up the odd bits and pieces from Target, but after having noticed items past their sell by date, and bought spoiled perishables.. it's the rare dry goods that I'll buy there.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that PETA will not take up the cause of either the olives or the pimentos that are being slaughtered to ruin perfectly good free range luncheon meat, in order make loaf. Loaf is not their concern and neither are additions that are not members of the animal family.

RIP little olives and pimentos. Your romping in the field days are over.

I need to put a wet towel on my head and take to my bed now.

I am pretty impressed by the Archer Farms chips...all the flavors I have tried have been good so far. Here in So Cal, Target tends to be less expensive than the supermarkets, but not cheaper than the Walmart Supercenter. The Choxie is good, but I wonder how much longer they will make it because it is always on clearance at my local Target stores.

@SayWhat.........darlin' you come up with the very best ideas!

Mom loved olive & pimento loaf and put it in our school lunches. I hated them! I still don't care much for pimentos, but had a delicious, salty olive in a martini two years ago and now I want to snack on them!