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I love fried pickles but I thought your comment about spears was really weird because I find the exact opposite to be true. The chips tend to get soggy and cold much faster than the spears. Which made sense to me because the spears are crunchier in the first place. I actually avoid places that have chips. Hooters for example has the chips. Which almost everywhere has a hooters so there you go but I don't go because I want the real thing. The full on spear and if you're lucky and you're at Little River BBQ in Townsend, TN then you get the special sauce too (some sort of sweet mustard). It's absolutely the best. Chips really?!!? So confusing....

I sooo missed TJ's from when I lived in NJ. Had to load up the car everytime I went back for a visit. Thankfully they finally opened one up in Richmond. Made me a happy woman.

Thanks for posting that pcullie!!!
I KNEW I had heard that melody before and it was driving me nuts!! Hubby is a big Jobim fan and we both really enjoyed the clip them singing.

That was just the best commercial. I love Trader Joe's and have contacted them at least 5 times about putting one in a nearby college city, but they seem to have no interest. Too bad for all of us. They would be doing a bang-up business and I would be just too, too happy. I wonder why they dont think Vestal, NY is worthy?? We have everything else on the Parkway and a decent population. Methinks they should come take a look!

Sweeeet!!!!!!!! He really did capture the TJs experience! The first time I went to Trader Joe's, I didn't get it. Now I do--the staples--milk, eggs, etc. are all less expensive than you're regular A & P, Shop-Rite, etc. so you get that stuff there and you try the strange little things that sound interesting and are not expensive. "It's the two dollar wine that tastes like four". In NJ, it's three dollars, but I'd say it tastes more like a ten dollar wine!! In NJ, only the Westfield store sells liquior. I'm lucky to have one TJs on my way home from work, and two others that are a short drive away.

Caroliiine, it is the one in San Francisco on Masonic!

I was watching it, just liking the video, and then I saw that it was the TJ's that I visit regularly from my school (the University of San Francisco)...and that made me just love it. Oh Trader Joes, how I love thee and your quirkiness.

LOL how cute. I wish we has a Trader Joe's here in Austin. Is it kinda like Whole Foods? The prices he shows certainly look better than Whole Foods prices.

The closest Trader Joe's is 550 miles away, a shame, looks like a nice place, and I've heard good things about it. Closest we have here is maybe an Aldi... or Big Lots.

Great stuff! We were excited when Trader Joe's opened here in Richmond, VA...we moved from San Francisco and missed the TJ shopping experience.

That totally looks like the TJ's near me in San Francisco! Anyone else think it's the one on Masonic?

awww, that was adorable! I've never been to a Trader Joe's though, how sad for me...

Delightful!

Thanks so much for posting this -- I used to live in Louisville and we had an ice cream shop that served something akin to this, and since they closed I have been looking for a recipe. Their ice cream, however, also had chocolate chips and pecans in it. I'm not sure what quantity you would add to the above recipe -- anyone have suggestions?