OK, Dealer Joe’s followers, time to open the envelopes and allow you to know in case your nominees made the grade.
On Monday, the beloved alt-grocery chain introduced the sixteenth Annual Buyer Alternative Awards — 11 in all, with a brand new class for 2025, Greatest New Product.
TJ’s devotees began casting votes late final yr. The one merchandise not eligible for these honors have been those which have received so typically over time that they’ve been put in within the TJ Corridor of Fame. (Amongst these GOAT honorees are the Sudden Cheddar, Darkish Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups and Mandarin Orange Hen.)
This yr’s winners are:
Favourite Lunch & Dinner: Butter Hen with Basmati Rice, for the third consecutive yr.
Favourite Beverage: Spiced Apple Cider, a seasonal product. (Coming in second was the French Market Glowing Lemonade.)
Favourite Cheese: Goat cheese, in all its variations (Crumbled Goat Cheese, Chevre with Blueberries, Chevre with Honey and Chevre with Cranberries for the winter vacation season).
Favourite Produce: Teeny Tiny Avocados, up from second place final yr.
Favourite Appetizer: Creamy Spinach & Artichoke Dip
Favourite Breakfast & Brunch: Hash Browns
Favourite Candy Deal with: Chic Ice Cream Sandwiches
Favourite Snack: Chili & Lime Flavored Rolled Corn Tortilla Chips — for the fifth time, which suggests this product now goes into the Corridor of Fame.
Tub, Physique & House: Brazil Nut Physique Butter, a seasonal product that can return in Could or June, TJ’s says.
Favourite Total: Once more the Rolled Corn Tortilla Chips, Chili-Lime taste, received high honors.
And the brand new class, Favourite New Product: Cashel Blue Cheese Irish Potato Chips, made in Eire with Eire-grown potatoes and an Eire-produced blue cheese.
Because the Dealer Joe’s award announcers famous, this got here as a shock as a result of, for starters, blue cheese is a “polarizing” taste — you both find it irresistible or hate it. Additionally, they stated, this limited-time providing arrived in shops late within the yr, in November. However there’s one thing new coming quickly from this producer — a garlicky potato chip.
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