I originally thought one, to give it some of the doubt, but seriously considered a zero too. She gave it a two despite her misgivings.then again, she loves salt and vinegar chips, too, but this is a low, low grade for her with anything involving black beans as a primary ingredient. Like I said, though, the love of my life also loves her black beans madly, and like she has to do with me from time to time, I think she affords the black bean dip a certain level of grace. It's just nasty, not the nastiest thing I've ever had from Trader Joe's, but not too far off either. I took several tastes of it trying to figure out if there was any other aspect to the flavor but there's absolutely none. I look at the ingredients label and wonder where all the other stuff is - Onions? Jalapeños? Bueller? - it's indiscernible in this horrid mix of blahness. "I wish it actually tasted like black beans or was actually spicy," she said. Sandy, who likes it marginally more than I do, wholeheartedly agrees. TJ's might as well have marketed this under dark vinegar hummus-y matter. To be honest, by now, I so distrust that pepper pictogram and believe it is so full of lies and deceit I expect it to run for office any day now, or at least call me about a credit card offer. Each successive bite wasn't much better except I was able to brace myself better and not stomp as much. It was if someone condensed all the flavor from a bag of salt and vinegar chips, ground it down and dumped it into the one corner I lifted with my tortilla chip. I took a bite tonight and immediately made the bitter beer face the instant this assaulted my taste buds. Once again, Trader Joe's, VINEGAR ≠ SPICE. It's about 2/3 full, so I was expecting it to be at least somewhat spicy. Hate to do it, but I have to call out the pepper spice-o-meter on the label on this one. And what talents Lebron James may or may not have brought. If it were a basketball team, it would definitely be this year's Miami Heat.sans the heat, that is. If TJ's dips and salsas were Jennifer Lopez, this would be her "Gigli." If it were Sean Connery, this would be George Lazenby. Which is exactly why TJ's Fat Free Spicy Black Bean Dip is so incredibly disappointing. Both Sandy and I like hot and spicy fare as well (I can stand hotter and spicier, but she has a pretty boffo palate, especially for a girl), so hot and spicy, black bean based dishes are almost always a hit for us. They're good, wholesome, tasty, and satisfying. I've quickly learned to really enjoy them, too and I'd say they're now considered a definite staple of our diet, and I don't mind that one bit. Black bean burgers, omelets, quesadillas with corn too, beans and rice with chorizo, bean chips, pizza, brownies.the only thing she won't touch with black beans is my homemade chili. Any way she can eat them, she will and be on Cloud 9. That might not be strong enough of a word. It might be worth a whole $20.thanks early '90s market glut!īut once Sandy and I started spending some QT together, one of the first things I learned was, girl loves her black beans. I'm willing to bet my surviving baseball card collection on it. But black beans? Except black jelly beans (my absolute favorite - there was a candy stand my folks took us to every Easter Saturday that sold a bag of only black ones - I was in heaven), nope. And I think my mom very occasionally made lima beans when my siblings and I were being jerks and deserved to eat something nasty. There's not a single childhood dinner I can recall with them included - the only beans I can remember were green, Boston baked, or red kidney when my dad and I made chili. Before I ever met Sandy, I seriously doubt I ever ate a single black bean in my life.
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