Thank you!!! I wish the salesperson had directed me to that type!
Their refrigerated pesto is quite good if you don’t want to make your own, equivalent to Costco’s.
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I recently learned that the closest TJ’s to me is the #1 highest seller of fresh flowers in the company. It is right next to a huge Hasidic Jewish community. I don’t know much about their customs but apparently fresh flowers are a big deal. They go through more flowers per week than any other store in the US
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Well it certainly isn’t for funerals.
So I’m guessing they’re always fresh. Wish they were at my TJs.
Got the refrigerated variation to try this week since my pesto craving was not satisfied last week… Will report back
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Is that the kale basil pesto?
I was talking about this one (not sure which @ieatalotoficecream meant)
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The shelf stable one didn’t have kale, and neither does the refrigerated one I just got yesterday. This is the refrigerated one, looks like just different packaging of the same one @Saregama posted about.
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I will look for it! Ty and to @Saregama
It’s kind of amusing that they write “classical blend” and than include walnuts in the pesto which definitely not “classic” but just cheaper
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This is so interesting. That store is also the closest one to me.
Fresh flowers are a common adornment for the Sabbath table in the Hasidic community. If you go there on a Friday just about everyone will have several bunches in their carts.
I was just wondering this myself. I’m no Italian food expert and was wondering if this is what made it a “Genovese” pesto. 
yay: 70% peruvian dark chocolate. nicely balanced. around $2.50 (i think:) — tossed the receipt.
meh: chocolate coffee granola. a little heavy on the coffee for my taste. thinking about grinding the rest into crumbs to use for an unbaked cheesecake crust.
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Pesto genovese contains herbs, usually basil. As opposed to Pesto Rosso.
My 2 cents…Genoa being the acknowledged capital of pestodom, small leaf basil is grown all over the Cinque Terre portion of the Ligurian coast.
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Here’s mine , sold as Genovese basil, and I include the very fragrant flower buds on occasion.
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I wish I had a review of the TJ’s $4.99 knockoff of Dubai chocolate (made with dark choc instead of milk) but unfortunately and predictably, it was all snapped up immediately in the Atlantic Ave. store in Brooklyn well before I could get there, and an employee said it might not be back until the end of the month. Anybody get lucky enough to get ahold of this?
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I didn’t even look for it, because a friend brought back a few bars from Dubai recently and when we opened one up for dessert, after a taste each, you couldn’t pay anyone to take the rest of the bars home 
. Very one-note — sweet.
But on the off chance they haven’t disappeared at my store, I’ll pick up one for you.
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I don’t know how things are in other parts of the country, but the local TJ’s has had the best, completely reasonable prices for eggs, somewhere in the $3.99-4.99/doz large, for the last year. Save Mart or Safeway will still be pricing them at 6.99-7.99, and even at Winco or the other warehouse style discounters have them in the $5-6 range. I don’t know how or why, but we just reflexively hit TJ’s now if eggs are on the list. It’s only a few blocks farther, and as long as you don’t hit the after-work rush, parking isn’t SO terrible.
@Ike No luck, but they said it will be back in July.
