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Best cupcakes in town?
Magnolia ain't all that special. Over-hyped, so-so cupcakes. The real turn off is watching customers pick out their own cupcakes: pick, decide not, put back, lick frosting from fingers, pick up another. Repeat.
Ugh.
Where's the Board of Health?
Buy in Bulk?
I recently moved to NJ from Chicago area. Back home there's stores called The Home Economist owned by John B Sanfillipo (Sanfillipo Nuts) with locations in Skokie, Westmont and Elk Grove Village.
They sell sundry 'gourmet' items (mustards, teas, cheeses, etc) but the bulk (no pun intended) of their items is nuts, grains, candy, pasta, snacks, spices sold in bulk, by the pound. Wonderful if you only want a 1/4 cup of couscous or need 3# of oat bran or have a jones for pumpkin seeds or Jelly Bellys or just want to get different colored sugar or sprinkles for cookies/cupcakes.
My question to you:
Is there any place similar to it in New Jersey/New York that is designed for the home consumer & isn't a big-hassle wholesaler?
Thanks for any info.
Here's an info/review page from YELP to give an idea of what I'm looking for:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-home-econ...
Buy in Bulk?
I recently moved to NJ from Chicago area. Back home there's stores called The Home Economist owned by John B Sanfillipo (Sanfillipo Nuts) with locations in Skokie, Westmont and Elk Grove Village.
They sell sundry 'gourmet' items (mustards, teas, cheeses, etc) but the bulk (no pun intended) of their items is nuts, grains, candy, pasta, snacks, spices sold in bulk, by the pound. Wonderful if you only want a 1/4 cup of couscous or need 3# of oat bran or have a jones for pumpkin seeds or Jelly Bellys or just want to get different colored sugar or sprinkles for cookies/cupcakes.
My question to you:
Is there any place similar to it in New Jersey/New York that is designed for the home consumer & isn't a big-hassle wholesaler?
Thanks for any info.
Here's an info/review page from YELP to give an idea of what I'm looking for:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-home-economist-skokie
Buy in Bulk?
I recently moved to NJ from Chicago area. Back home there's stores called The Home Economist owned by John B Sanfillipo with locations in Skokie, Westmont and Elk Grove Village.
They sell sundry 'gourmet' items (mustards, teas, cheeses, etc) but the bulk (no pun intended) of their items is nuts, grains, candy, pasta, spices sold in bulk, by the pound. Wonderful if you only want a 1/4 cup of couscous or need 3# of oat bran or have a jones for pumpkin seeds or Jelly Bellys or just want to get different colored sugar or sprinkles for cookies/cupcakes.
My question to you:
Is there any place similar to it in New Jersey/New York that is designed for the home consumer & not a big-hassle wholesaler?
Thanks for any info.
Also---
Why is it so hard to find SALTED peanuts-in-the-shell in New Jersey?
Roasted, yes. Raw, yes. SALTED seems to be a rare commodity.
Best cupcakes in town?
I totally agree about Magnolia. The cupcakes are NOT anything special, Sex in the City notwithstanding. The thing about the place that has always creeped me out, is that customers are allowed to select their own cupcakes. Stand outside and watch through the window as these Carrie Bradshaw wanna-bes pick up a cupcake, decide they don't want THAT one, lick frosting off their fingers, pick up ANOTHER one, decide no, lick icing from THAT one off their fingers, pick up a different one...and so on and so on. I watched one little chickita do that about 7 times before she decided upon her cupcake. I related this to a friend who said she'd seen the same thing happen many times. Someone call the Health Inspector...!
