Jean B. wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>>
>>> The Times's recipe for Green Goddess dressing, which originally ran in 1948,
>>> is a garlicky, demanding mash-up for which the romaine acts as a soothing
>>> counterpoint. You cannot eat the salad dispassionately, because it commands
>>> your attention with welcome lashings of chives, vinegar, anchovies and
>>> cracked black pepper. It's not the salad to have for lunch at work.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> onto shelves. Now produced in limited quantities by Kraft, it's sold at
>>> places like the Vermont Country Store - purveyors of "the practical and
>>> hard-to-find" - for about $7.50 a bottle.
>>
>> I have a bottle of Trader Joe's "Goddess" dressing, which I picked up a
>> few weeks ago thinking it was their version of GG, which I hadn't had in
>> decades. Not so! All it contains is: Canola oil, water, tahini (sesame),
>> apple cider vinegar, soy sauce, lemon juice, sea salt, garlic, sesame
>> seeds, parsley, chives, xanthan gum.
>>
>> Now, I didn't really remember what proper GG tasted like, but when I
>> tasted this stuff I knew what it *didn't* taste like.
>>
>>
> Mine needs tarragon of some sort. Perhaps I'll drag out mom's
> recipe when I come back.

Following up to my experiment with TJ's "Goddess", while I was at my
mainstream chain supermarket today I scanned the whole section for any
kind of goddess-related products. Nothing at all, not surprisingly.


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