Valerie Bertinelli Shares the Trader Joe's Snack She's ‘Addicted' to — and Walked Around a Store 3 Times to Find
Valerie Bertinelli revealed she's "addicted" to Trader Joe's Trio of Soft Licorice Twists
She shared an Instagram video in which she recalled trying to find them in a store that wasn't her usual location
They come in three flavors: ripe raspberry, tropical mango and tart green appleValerie Bertinelli is making a confession about a certain chewy candy.
'I haven't been to a Trader Joe's in weeks, months possibly, because I am addicted to these,' she admitted in a video taken in her car that was posted to her Instagram Stories on Wednesday, June 4.
The celebrity chef, 65, then held up a package of the grocery chain's Trio of Soft Licorice Twists.
'But what am I supposed to do?' Bertinelli asked. 'I'm driving home from an appointment. I'm stopped at a stoplight. And I go, 'Well, look at that right around the corner, there's a Trader Joe's.' I've never been to that particular Trader Joe's because I don't often drive down this particular street. But I might as well turn left and go into the very crowded parking lot and wait for a parking space."
Explaining that it was raining and she didn't have an umbrella, the Food Network alum went on to share her next course of action.
'Why don't I just walk into the store and get rained on so I can look for these particular things that I'm addicted to?' she continued. 'And I don't know the layout of this particular store, because every Trader Joe's is laid out differently. But did I walk around the store three times to see if I could find these, because they're not in the place they usually are, at the Trader Joe's I usually go to?'
'Okay, so what?' she asked viewers. 'And I ain't telling you how many bags I bought.'
A description of the product on the Trader Joe's website calls the twists 'superbly soft and pleasantly chewy.' They come in three flavors: ripe raspberry, tropical mango and tart green apple.
Bertinelli shared another playful anecdote on her Instagram Stories this week.
In a video posted Tuesday, June 3, the One Day at a Time star said she was mistaken for a Valerie Bertinelli lookalike while running a recent errand.
'People are adorable,' she began the funny story.
Bertinelli said when she visited a government office earlier that day for some paperwork, she was approached by a stranger while walking out.
'This guy stops me, holds up his phone and says, 'Hey ma'am, anybody ever tell you you look like her?'' she recalled. 'And it's me. And I said, 'Yeah, all the time.''
'Everybody waiting in line all started laughing,' she added. 'I don't know if they knew it was me, or they really thought it wasn't and that I looked really a lot like Valerie Bertinelli. … We had a good laugh. And I love people.'
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