all-purpose COSTCO thread (show your membership card and receipt at the door)

our Costco list is still pretty much the same as upthread

add to that list occasionally:
batteries
wiper blades
Brita water filters
Giant block of sliced pepper jack cheese!

they started selling Rosie's chicken sausages, no Aidells last time. Rosie's sausages are pretty gross, I don't think I'll get them again. The chicken is way over-processed, has the consistency of a corndog. Had to cook them with really strong flavored sauces to disguise the icky taste.

my boss has been promising me a membership here for a while, still waiting. MIL took me on a shopping spree at our local costco for my b'day, loved it.

Giant tubs of Buffala Mozzarella! 2LB bags of chocolate covered Acai berries for $7.50! Variety cases of Kirkland brand beer (made by Saranac, I think) for $18.99! I bought a fucking 42-piece snapware set for $24. I bought an HD video camera for $200.

The Don Pedro burritos are pretty good for frozen burritos. The Cedarlane ones less so.

A few weeks ago when I was there an old black dude who was handing out Oreo samples intoned "America has changed, but the Oreo is still the same."

old man otm

their giant bags of green beans are p good come Thanksgiving time

I used to think "this shit isn't for me, it's for people with five kids." But you can make it work if you have even a little bit of storage space in your apartment -- we go every two weeks, and we stash stuff like cans of tomato paste, boxes of chicken stock and rolls of paper towels in pretty much every free nook and cranny of our kitchen. We buy the giant thing of salad greens and make ourselves eat a lot of salad. We buy the six pepper pack and actually use it. We buy a big bag of apples. We buy huge things of meat and fish and divide them up and freeze them -- you get like good flounder for the price of supermarket salmon! Prime steak for the price of choice! Giant loaves of whole grain bread at like $2/loaf!

yeah when I first met Mr Veg he was living in a tiny apartment and every single cupboard/closet in the whole place, kitchen/hallway/bathroom/bedroom were filled with Costco toilet rolls, lol

more like Jerkland

guys they started carrying these containers of dried shiitake mushrooms at very reasonable prices. I bought multiple in case they do not have them later.

Last time I got a tub of goma wakame. It was pretty good.

Wish I could snap my fingers and change the Sam's Club in Tupelo into a Costco.

I wish you could snap your fingers and turn Tupelo into Kansas City

That too! Although if I could have done it a few years ago, I'd be dead of Too Much Barbecue disease by now.

I know of no such disease

I got a 48-count Durex Pleasure Pack for $10 this week.

Then I realized the probable reaction of a girl who sees me reaching into my industrial can o' condoms.

lol

what you should really do is empty it almost all the way so you can reach into it dramatically and fish around like "gee, do I -- have -- any -- left -- aha"

xp:

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_439/1253540304rzws4h.jpg

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can you stash the bulk pack somewhere and have a smaller, 'normal size' box you can refill?

Yeah, I'm just going to put a couple at a time in my bedside table. Though I kind of want to test the giant metal can o' prophylactics experience.

maybe I can find a gallon jug of lube to go with it

haha

it'd be funny if you had a spare room in the house that just had a mattress on the floor, a giant jug of lube and a huge bulk can of condoms

that room would inevitably smell horrible

^^d3athdr0ne's apartment

eek

forget I said anything

costco hotdogs are good, so +1
on the other hand, they tore up my familiy membership card b/c it had a picture of my dad on it, and i was apparently not the authorized user, so – 2
their vanilla extract is surprisngly good +1

net 0 i'm going to BJs

otm vanilla extract!

how to obtain costco lunch w/out being costco member:

1. approach costco front entrance
2. take the "out" exit, as if either to talk to management/"go to work"/return something
3. wait in line, decide whether you want polish or regular
4. free drink

it'd be funny if you had a spare room in the house that just had a mattress on the floor, a giant jug of lube and a huge bulk can of condoms

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, March 22, 2012 11:34 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a condo with nothing but condoms in it?

condo(m)

In the process of moving from this house to a new apartment, I may have to stage the bare mattress, jug o' lube and condom scene for a photo.

:D

should there also be a bottle of cheap vodka?

costco also apparently has a gel-foam-mattress-in-a-box as I learned today. It's probably like double king size though.

oreo guy was back, but today he was doing an elaborate spiel about some layer cake that all his customers have been waiting for since it last went out of stock. He's really quite a gifted sample barker.

Mine has those gel foam mattresses in all the standard sizes. I almost got one, but apparently they're miserably hot in Texas.

how much produce do they have there? is it good? trying to figure out if it's worth it for a single person to be a member. it's on my way home from work.

If you can get through a 4 lb bag of brussels sprouts or 3 lbs of asparagus or 5 heads of romaine before they go bad, it's possibly worth it. Ours usually has a good deal on avocados, but I have to eat one every day or they get gross. We have been going through their raspberries like nobody's business this summer though.

Have never seen fresh kale or collards at ours btw, nor zucchini. Lots of carrot and celery sticks, and various tubs of precut salad greens abound.

yeah super quantities of vegetables are not gonna work!

Green beans are good, or tomatoes if you can't get decent ones elswewhere. Otherwise it's kind of a miss, produce-wise

what about other foods? frozen meat/fish? not so interested in prepared frozen foods.

True, the only produce we buy on the reg are the campari tomatoes, romaine hearts, asparagus and mushrooms (which always go manky before we use them all). You can't rely on anything to be there, sort of like Trader Joe's. Also, I will never buy a giant bag of onions at Costco ever again - the last ones all rotted from the inside out and I have never dealt with anything so gross.

The meat is all good quality, and ours carries grass-fed pastured beef now - 3 lb minimum for ground though, so you'd probably need freezer space. Decent selection of fresh fish here, but again it's a side of salmon or 4 big halibut steaks.

They used to have good prices on boneless chicken breasts; red meat is usually a little on the fatty side & not alway much of a deal...but Aidells sausages are way cheaper than store prices, if you have occasion to buy them

Never even considered a membership here once my kids were out of diapers, but I've heard OK things about their liquor selection and prices.

i don't think they have alcohol in maryland. i started thinking about this because i want a new blender and some other stuff i could get cheap there and my coworkers keep talking it up. one is married with no kids and one is single and i think uses her mom's membership. she had a big container of seaweed salad in the fridge that was really good.

VG, I always think they trim the beef and pork way too close! But then I'm an oleophile (plus we are on the all-fat diet basically).

When I was making cat food, we'd get 20 lbs of organic boneless chicken thighs to grind up way cheaper than anything at the grocery.

Got a very nice wool/cashmere London Fog car coat for $99. Warm, water resistant, and feels very nice. Only drawback is that it's black, and I usually prefer charcoal or navy.

Just joined formally for the first time ever. That said every visit to my local one has been essentially terrifying.

whoa i still have a chase freedom that i never closed, i think? would probably be shut down as suspicious activity if i tried to use it though ;)

tuscan pork tenderloins: a bit too salty but too economical to turn down. i cook about 8 at a time and freeze about 8 in each of two vacuum seal bags. takes 15 min to cook and great cold the next day at lunch!

just got "organic no-salt seasoning" and i'm putting it on everything, too

yo yeah that stuff is great

We also bought some kind of steak seasoning mix there and H made rack of lamb and roasted vegetables with it a couple weeks ago, and it tasted like food from a good steakhouse.

is it the montreal seasoning? my father in law swore by that, his tri-tip was from the gods

oh yeah, that's what it was!

It was off the chain, seriously

yeah it's dope

that and mustard powder: boom

http://www.kiro7.com/news/couple-got-married-in-a-costco-food-court-and-it-looked-surprisingly-beautiful-1/615981960

they have these cookies at the moment that are craaaazy good - mix pack of oatmeal raisin, white choc macadamia & chocolate chip
idk who makes them but they’re my favorite rn

and Einstein bagels! but have to freeze them asap, they go stale really fast :/

The one by me seems to be trying to up its coffee game a bit. For a while they had this stuff called Parisi, specifically a light-to-medium roasted Bolivian coffee that is the first Costco coffee I've found good enough to make in a french press. It tastes like a pretty good approximation of some of the fancier light roast single origin coffees and is only $7.50/lb. Then they suddenly stopped carrying that again, but they had this new organic mexican medium roast that I'm about to try.