{"id":6917,"date":"2012-01-27T06:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T14:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=6917"},"modified":"2012-01-27T06:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T14:57:04","slug":"trader-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6917","title":{"rendered":"Trader Joe’s Frozen “Kobe Style” Burger Patties"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Trader<\/a>Geez, FINALLY.\u00a0 Truth in labeling about a\u00a0 “Kobe” burger.\u00a0 You know those restaurants where you are shelling out $10-$20 for a “kobe” burger?\u00a0 It ain’t “Kobe.”\u00a0\u00a0 It’s American beef in the kobe style, whose actual name is Wagyu.\u00a0 The full explanation is in Wikipedia<\/a>, so I won’t delve into it at this point.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s akin to labeling sparkling wine from California as “champagne<\/a>.”\u00a0 (It’s not, technically).<\/p>\n

Well, enough snobbishness for one article.\u00a0 Point is, Trader Joe’s continues their not-so-subtle campaign to garner more and more of my weekly grocery budget.\u00a0 In the frozen foods department, I picked up their American “Kobe Style” frozen burger patties, two half-pounders to a package, and the copy proclaims “may be one of the best burgers you have ever had,”\u00a0 or something along those lines.<\/p>\n

And damn.\u00a0 May just well be.\u00a0 At minimum, it is the best frozen burger patty I have ever consumed.\u00a0 Most of them I take umbrage to.\u00a0 Too fine a grind, a lingering frozen meat aftertaste.<\/p>\n

Not so with TJs.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a fine burger.\u00a0 Pan fried low and slow at my house this morning, very little shrinkage or fat left in the pan, a nice coarse grind, a hearty beef flavor.<\/p>\n

You guys continue to amaze me with your quality, taste and price points.\u00a0 I’ll be back later today to clean out your freezer of these puppies!<\/p>\n

\"Trader<\/a><\/p>\n

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Geez, FINALLY.\u00a0 Truth in labeling about a\u00a0 “Kobe” burger.\u00a0 You know those restaurants where you are shelling out $10-$20 for a “kobe” burger?\u00a0 It ain’t “Kobe.”\u00a0\u00a0 It’s American beef in the kobe style, whose actual name is Wagyu.\u00a0 The full explanation is in Wikipedia, so I won’t delve into it at this point.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s akin… Continue reading Trader Joe’s Frozen “Kobe Style” Burger Patties<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16,34],"tags":[2036,2038,3543],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}