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If you are looking for an artisan soft pretzel, or even one that rivals the cheap frozen variety you find at your regular supermarket, these are dissapointing at best. Not much pretzel flavor, light, fluffy bread-like texture and a strange sweet-sticky coating on the outside make these rather un-pretzel like except for their shape. Maybe it's good as a sandwich roll, but as a soft pretzel it's not even close.

This is absolutely delicious, so much so, that it makes me wonder why other frozen foods can't be this good. The buttery, crisp crust is sublime. If I was served this at a lunch place, I would go back for it every week. Easily my favorite thing in the freezer section.

The texture of styrofoam packing peanuts and the taste of white cheddar popcorn. Good, but it takes some getting used to. Or you just have to be really hungry and have nothing else to eat.

A nice sturdy chip that can hold up to TJ's delicious Smokey Black Bean Dip without falling apart and that is tasty enough to be eaten straight out of the bag, one after the other.
Other corn chips come and go, but these old-school chips are still the best.

I love lemongrass, Thai flavors and I particularly like seeing them in something crispy, but these were so salty I had a hard time choking them down. The lemongrass flavor is extremely strong, which is usually a good thing as most packaged products use as little as possible to keep costs down, but that combined with the extreme salt content made them something I'll never buy again. Plus the chicken was awfully dry. Probably a casualty of the fact that (mostly Caucasian) consumers refuse to buy any chicken product that isn't "all white meat".

I don't know much about Indian snack foods, but the Tandoori Masala chips are rediculously good. Spicy, tangy and almost impossible to stop eating. The texture is a little more like a fried flour tortilla chip than crisp all the way through like a potato chip. Even so, they are so incredibly tasty and resonably priced that I'll be buying these every time I hit TJ's. Looking forward to trying the Yogurt & Dill flavor.

Absolutely delicious sweet, spicy, salty, chewy combination. My only beef is a that the TJ's version are cut very thin. I've had them from a wholesale company that I do business with and they were exactly the same except sliced about two to three times thicker resulting in a much chewier, less lethery texture. Either way, these are still fantastic.

Some people love pot pie, I like shepherd's pie. I've been going to TJ's for about 20 years now off and on (as I have spent a lot of time off an on, outside of CA) and every few years I forget that I've had the shepherd's pie and buy it again. I see it in the freezer case and say "Great! I love shepherd's pie!" Then, after my first forkful, I groan inwardly and say "darn it, I forgot".
The mashed potatoes, beef, sauce, and sparse vegetables all taste exactly the same. Like nothing, or rather like frozen cardboard. No amount of salt will help as salt is a flavor enhancer and when there's nothing to enhance, it just tastes like salty cardboard. It amazes me that something this flavorless has managed to withstand the test of time, while other, far more deserving items are phased out (the frozen Spicy Chicken Sausage Greek Pizza was outstanding).
I guess if you are considering this or cold cereal on a winter night, I can see the choice would be clear, otherwise I'd pass.