REVIEW: Trader Joe's 3 Plus Blue Cheese Italian Flatbread - rec.food.cooking

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From: Kalmia <tweeny90...@mypacks.net>

Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:22:09 -0800 (PST)

Local: Sun, Nov 8 2009 8:22 am

Subject: Re: REVIEW: Trader Joe's 3 Plus Blue Cheese Italian Flatbread

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On Nov 7, 4:59 pm, Mark Thorson <nos...@sonic.net> wrote:

> This is the newest product in Trader Joe's frozen
> Italian-style flatbreads. One of the other ones,
> the tomato and pesto version is really good and
> the other, truffle and mushroom, is really bad.

> This one is sort of in the middle. It's okay if
> you like blue cheese. The other cheeses are
> mozzarella, grana padano, and parmasean. If you
> don't like blue cheese, you won't like this product.
> You can definitely taste the blue cheese. It costs
> $3.69, the same as the tomato and pesto version.
> I think the truffle and mushroom version is $4.29.

> It's got some tomato-based sauce below the cheese
> layer, making it something like a pizza. It doesn't
> have as much cheese as I expected -- I think the
> tomato and pesto version has more cheese than this
> one. And the latter has chunks of cut-up tomato,
> not a tomato sauce.

> I ate the whole thing, which is better than I did
> with the truffle and mushroom one. But it reminded
> me that I'm not very fond of blue cheese, and I'm
> sure I won't be buying this product again.

Yeah--blue cheese can be overpowering. I ordered a blue cheese
stuffed hamburger once in a la-ti-da eatery, Could NOT finish it, it
it was so loaded with the cheese. Same goes for chocolate chip
pancakes - waaay too rich. Some food goes a long way on a little -
like some wasabi. And ginger. And oregano.

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