Peppermint JoJos Sightings?
 

Last holiday season I discovered Peppermint JoJos - Trader Joe's version of Oreos with crushed up candy canes in the minty filling. Delicious!

I bought two boxes in Burbank, and loved them so much that I bought six more boxes closer to home in Maryland a couple of weeks later.

I even served them up on a silver platter on Christmas Eve surrounded by my homemade peppermint bark.

I don't know if it is a rational fear, but I am somewhat worried that I won't be able to get them this year. :eek:

So help a Flyertalker out, and please post your Peppermint JoJos sightings. I am willing to travel to procure my stash! TIA.

it's your lucky day, i work for Trader Joe's :) i'll see what i can find at my store.

Might be a bad idea to admit that. We'll try not to hound you with too many questions. ;)

But yeah, I'd love to know the rough date at least of when these should turn up in the store. I completely missed them last year, they were apparently gone that quick....

Oh, I'm eager to know this too! I bought a box last year, and when I went to get more, they were gone. Sigh.

I have some good information that they're on the way, at least out here on the west coast. :)

Score One for Trader Joe's East Coast
 

While I was reading this thread, I thought I should pick up the phone and call my local store in Towson, MD.

The woman that I talked to was very nice, and said that they were in stock, on the shelf and she has already eaten some. :eek: It was like she stuck a dagger thru my heart.

I pretty much threw away my lunch and raced down to buy 20 boxes. This year they are calling them Candy Cane Joe-Joe's and the boxes are red and white rather than pink and white.

As I was loading up my cart, another shopper became curious about them, picked them up, looked at the nutrition information, put them down and said "too many Weight Watcher's Points." Uuuuh, okay.

So the same shopper was behind me at check out and asked me how long all of those cookies will last me - as if I am eating them all?!? Uuuuh, okay.

I better start eating soon if I have 44,800 calories of Candy Cane goodness to consume! :rolleyes:

:Stef you beat me to it!I just returnes from my favorite TJ's(Lake and Del Mar in Pasadena)They had just put them out today.
Boss told me to buy 10 boxes(plus one for myself :D)

They arrived at the La Jolla store on last night's truck :) I'm stoked.

They've been on the shelf at TJ's north of Seattle since about Nov. 5. We bought three boxes, but we're going back for 30 more. ^

We have zilch so far, was there today. I wasn't in the mood to ask about it, we just got some of our other usual stuff anyway. Will check with them again soon. If everyone's going to go in and buy so many boxes, they'll be gone in no time. Did get to try the Double Rainbow pumpkin ice cream, wow, that stuff is good.

So lets see. If you are in for 33 boxes, and I have bought only 20 boxes, then I need to buy 14 boxes more to have more Candy Cane Joe-Joe's than you! ;)

So I have a degree in Journalism. Not math. Oh, and did I mention that I bought them with my United Mileage Plus Visa?

Thankfully we all know what a non-competitive bunch those Flyertalkers are! :D

How's this for competitive:
I work there

unlimited joe-joe's for me :D

:mad: Fine. Both you and that woman who told me earlier today that she has already eaten Joe-Joe's both strike a dagger thru my heart. :mad:

And for the record, I had them in my house for a little more than 10 hours before I tore into a box. And they were every bit as good as I remembered from last year.

Take that!

Yep they were delicious...when I tasted them a few weeks ago :D

FYI...peppermint JoJos taste AMAZING when dipped in chocolate. My sister brought some at Christmas and I couldn't stop eating them.

If only I lived in a decent city that had a TJs...

Shipping can be arranged :)

Mmm... I'm having some right now.

A little more news on Candy Cane Joe-Joe's (as they're officially called this year): my wife was told by our local TJ's manager that the TJ empire ordered every cookie possible from their supplier this year, but volume is about equal to last year. The problem is that there are more TJ's locations than last year, so each store gets less. Ours expects about 100 cases total, in two shipments. The manager said they should all be gone by December 1. Sooner if posts like this spark a buying panic.

Hope you signed the petition :D
Now that y'all have a WFM if it does well Tj;s might just be next ^

Get back JoJo! Get back Loretta! :D

M8

I grew up in SoCal but am now deprived of TJs here in Denver. And of course, my regular work flights are also to TJ-free zones. :td:

Mmm... thinking of chocolate covered orange and raspberry sticks. :cool: I need to set up some shipping from my family members still in Cali.

reading this thread I'm starting to crave these jo-jo's...

i saw a trader joes in vegas last week and told a buddy of mine we don't have them here... well it turns out there are quite a few in bergen county alone, so I'm sneaking out of work now to pick up some snacks.

thanks for the suggestions!

--Russ

I did...we'll see. Fortunately, I'm moving to a real city soon. :)

Ahhhh-but then you will miss the "meat and 3's"!

we opened a box last night at work and everyone agreed they were better than last year's batch.

UCBeau - How do we arrange shipping? I looked at the TJ website it says that you can't order online.

I meant through me :) I can always go buy some and ship them to anyone who'd like them.

Aren't you a good person??!! Check PM in a minute or two...

Mmm Mmm good. My 18 boxes arrived about 20 minutes ago (thanks UCBeau!) and my office has already snarfed down two of them. They are so yummy. Double time on the treadmill tonight...

I went to TJ's here a couple nights ago and they still had the Candy Cane JoJos. Got a few boxes. Not bad, really, although I think a bit overhyped by some. ;)

A few weeks back, the Sunset Road TJ's was pushing JoJo's and I had no idea of the craze, so I passed. So... I made a mistake? I did have more than my share of Perfectly Pumpkin ice cream, however.

just saw this post, glad you are enjoying them. i had a few last night and boy were they tasty.

to anyone else seeking them, i have lots available, feel free to PM me if you have any questions :)

Pretty much EVERY cubicle in my office (and it's a pretty big cube farm) has a box of these on their counters...and we're going thru several boxes a day. Wow, these are good!!! Dangerously addicting. Stopped by my local trader joe's last night, and they said they can't keep them stocked up fast enough, they're going so fast!

Hmmm.........I can definately call by brother in L.A. He shops at Trader Joe's very often. Would ask him to check out if they are still stocking them.

If you're ever on this side of town, the Summerlin store had them a couple as of days ago. Tasty.

An elderly neighbor just gifted a box of these to me as a thank you for taking in her mail for a few days (she broke her arm while visiting relatives in NJ over Thanksgiving).

At first bite, I immediately thought they were reminiscent of Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies.....yum. But after I finished the second cookie, they no longer tasted that good. (Maybe it was the Diet Pepsi I was drinking along with them??)

Flyerwife - I would definitely say that the diet pepsi was the problem. There are only two (well, maybe more than two, but these are the definitive two!) ways to eat these - with milk (purists love this) and crumbled over ice cream. Vanilla, chocolate and peppermint work well for this. My daughter also likes to put hershey's syrup on top of the whole concoction. I suppose you could just dip in the syrup too.

Had my first JoJos of the season...met up with my sister who took the liberty of covering them in dark chocolate. mmmmmmmmmm...I forgot how good they were. Wish I had a TJs...but then it's probably better that I don't. :)

smothered in chocolate, eh?

Ack. Syrup?

I love the filling of these things, but the cookie is not as good as hydrox.

Hershey's syrup, not Log Cabin. :p