Dear Trader Joe's at Masonic/Geary,
I stopped by your store last night to pick up a few necessities for dinner this week: bread, cat food (for the cat's dinner, not mine), pasta sauce, string beans, etc. And I had this eggplant at home, so I was really excited to whip out my Szechwan-style eggplant dish with rice. The flavors mix together in a sweet and tangy way, perfect on a cold, foggy night like last evening. But this never came to fruition because you were out of Soy Vay Chinese Marinade! You know, the hoisin-like sauce that used to be strategically placed at eye-level next to the Soy Vay Teriyaki sauce, and probably where the "temporally out of stock" sign should have been posted, but wasn't. Using this marinade, I could combine 3 of the required ingredients and make my eggplant in 5/6's the time. Instead, all I found was teriyaki sauce galore: pineapple teriyaki sauce, spicy teriyaki sauce, sweet and sour teriyaki sauce, soyvay teriyaki sauce. Oh, and then there's the soy sesame ginger sauce that tastes mighty similar to the legit teriyaki sauces. Plus, you're selling Chinese chicken salad sauce to the left. But no Chinese marinade. Feeling hurt and dejected, I bought everything else on my list and slinked away. But now I have eggplant and no sauce plus an unhappy tummy. Where has my marinade gone? Please bring it back soon. Like by tomorrow. Otherwise, I'll have to go to Albertson's. Gasp.
With warmest (yet empty stomach) regards,
Becca H.
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