{"id":10675,"date":"2013-07-17T12:25:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=10675"},"modified":"2013-07-17T12:25:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:25:20","slug":"a-quick-trip-to-trader-joes-colorful-candy-isle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=10675","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Trip to Trader Joe’s Colorful Candy Isle!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am not a regular Trader Joe’s customer so it’s quite an adventure and a treat when I get to visit one of their stores.\u00a0 My lack of regular trips should not reflect any shortage of affection I have for the place – as it has everything to do with the simple fact that I don’t have a location conveniently near me.\u00a0 And I like my grocery shopping to be convenient.<\/p>\n

Beyond the quality of their actual products I’ve always admired so much of Trader Joe’s in-house brand packaging.\u00a0 They often come up with some outstanding stuff.<\/p>\n

So after a recent trip to a digital transfer studio in Brooklyn (to get six 1970’s candy commercial film reels transferred – to be premiered later on this summer) I decided to make a detour to my closest Trader Joe’s location in order to sample some of their neat confectionery offerings.<\/p>\n

Trader Joe’s is known for offering up GMO-free food — in other words no genetically-modified goods.\u00a0 We live in quite the sci-fi world where I find myself writing that, but I guess that’s life in 2013.\u00a0\u00a0 Avoiding futuristic chemical preservatives was not my motivation during my trip there, as I was far more interested in seeing what kinds of sweets-with-cool-wrappers they currently had in stock.<\/p>\n

As I turned the corner into their candy isle, I immediately realized I would not be disappointed.\u00a0 I first picked up an interesting Organic Milk Chocolate Truffle bar:<\/p>\n

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Trader Joe’s Milk Chocolate Truffle – chocolate candy bar wrapper – July 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

Right after I put that Truffle in my basket, I spotted a Trader Joe’s offering I was at least somewhat familiar with (and one which I think I have an older wrapper for already, unsorted in a box somewhere) – it was Trader Joe’s PB&J bar, which features a pretty distinctive wrapper:<\/p>\n

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Trader Joe’s PB&J milk chocolate bar – candy bar wrapper – July 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

Next up in the candy isle were a trio of boxed dark chocolate bars, each with a pretty neat woodcut art style design:<\/p>\n

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Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Bar – Caramel with Black Sea Salt – candy box – July 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

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Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Bar – Coconut Caramel – candy box – July 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

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Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Bar – Toffee with Walnuts and Pecans – candy box – July 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

Just down the isle from those exotic chocolate offerings was a candy classic in Trader Joe’s version of Good N Plenty, served up in an eye-catching retro style box:<\/p>\n

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Trader Joe’s Candy-Coated Licorice – 6oz candy box – July 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

At this point I assumed I was at the end of the especially-interesting sweets from this Trader Joe’s location when I spotted two awesome-looking gummies packages:<\/p>\n

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Trader Joe’s Gummy Bears 7oz candy package – July 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

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Trader Joe’s Gummy Tummies Penguins 7oz candy package – July 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

With a full basket of Trader Joe’s confectionery offerings in hand, I went to stand in the crowded Saturday afternoon lines and waited to pay.\u00a0\u00a0 But my shopping time wasn’t complete as I found one final unusual-sounding bar near the checkout.\u00a0 While the wrapper was not the most exciting design I’d witnessed that day, the bar’s description demanded that I buy it:<\/p>\n

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Trader Joe’s – Dark Chocolate Filled with Speculoos Cookie Spread – candy bar wrapper – July 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

So with my last little goodie, a chocolate bar filled with Speculoos (a name that could have been right out of Roald Dahl’s imagination) I departed, happy to have finally made my way back into a Trader Joe’s, and determined to make it back there again – the next time sooner, rather than later.<\/p>\n

And that’s everything for today’s post and the tale of my quick trip to Trader Joe’s colorful candy isle.<\/p>\n

See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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