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Re: holiday foods disappointing

This is surprisingly disappointing if true.  Years ago when I was a teenager I went with my parents & family to visit relatives in Manhattan.  Junior's was a new thing, and my mother's cousin served a Junior's cheesecake for desert.  Everyone there was oohing and aahing over the cheesecake and I still remember after all this time, how yummy it was.  I haven't purchased it from QVC mostly because I don't want to spend the money.  It seems nothing is as it used to be.

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Re: holiday foods disappointing

I ordered Enstrom’s toffee candies to be added to travel mugs I ordered for my team at work. I selected the 12/11 ship date as I assumed that would allow plenty of time for them to arrive before our last day of work on 12/19. But nope. I came home from work that day to a giant bucket of toffee on my doorstep. The same thing happened last year with Mrs. Prindable’s apples.
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Re: holiday foods disappointing

I'm sorry to hear @LisaMofSLC that you didn't like the minis.  I've never had those.  I prefer to slice my own servings.  

 

In 2017 I got the huge Junior's "Piecaken" which was awesome, and wonderful, but they did not offer ever again.  

 

Maybe you could contact Junior's to see if you needed to do something differently?    

 

I always order @PhilaLady1 the full size cheesecakes.  This year my swirl cheesecake came from Q, but I ordered the pumpkin and the chocolate ones from Zulily earlier in autumn, which is under the Qurate umbrella.  Both were excellent.  The chocolate one was decadent--very chocolatey--pure delight!

 

I don't completely unwrap it from the plastic-- I slit down one side and fold it under the cardboard plate it sits on.

 

I always cover mine up completely with the wrap it is originally covered with and an extra piece of my own Stretch Tite wrap once I've put it in the fridge back in its original box after taking slices out to warm to room temperature.  I keep the box on the lowest or midle shelf of my refrigerator. 

 

I have eaten at the Brooklyn Junior's about six years ago when still I lived in CT and was always quite pleased.

 

As a little girl in New Jersey I remember my mom and best girlfriend taking me to the original Brooklyn Junior's location where we had a from "soup to nuts" delicious meal in the very early sixties.

 

QVC and Zulily's prices are slightly lower but Junior's also runs specials and I have ordered directly from them as well.

 

If it was that disappointing I would let QVC know if your order was from here.

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Registered: ‎05-31-2010

Re: holiday foods disappointing

I feel bad for anyone duped by Juniors.....such an expensive product and having it turnout to be a dud....  Smiley Sad

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Re: holiday foods disappointing


@so so wrote:

I feel bad for anyone duped by Juniors.....such an expensive product and having it turnout to be a dud....  Smiley Sad


 

I have served Junior's pumpkin pie cheesecake every year since it was introduced.  It has never disappointed.  I am sorry others have had a bad experience.

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Registered: ‎07-09-2010

Re: holiday foods disappointing

Something fresh cannot be compared to something frozen and thawed. I've only had Junior's eaten at their restaurant or bought from their restaurant not even a supermarket. It is still pricey but delicious.

 

3 oz of meat doesn't seem a lot at all - less than McD quarter pounder

 

sorry for all that spent money hoping to serve somthing delicious and were disappointed -