Costco

[rotuts]

@&roid

 

so your cell phone does not work inside a Costco ?

 

or you can make a voice call 

 

but can't Surf web sites ?

 

very interesting 

[Shel_B]

2 hours ago, rotuts said:

@&roid

 

so your cell phone does not work inside a Costco ?

 

or you can make a voice call 

 

but can't Surf web sites ?

 

very interesting 

I've not observed that.

 

Time passes, I asked a friend and she wrote back:

 

I know we can make phone calls inside Costco because I've had to call Ron to see which aisle he's at.  Also, he's used the internet to see what Amazon is charging for a similar product. 

 

 

Edited July 8, 2024 by Shel_B (log)

[lemniscate]

One of the most unusual snack foods I've purchased from Costco, Quail eggs prepared 2 ways.   So far I've used them on ramen.  The flavors are really not too intense, the texture is a bit rubbery.   Each individual egg is packaged in something like a food service jam package.  Shelf stable.

 

No one else in the house is a fan.

 

[curls]

Lots of varieties of shelf stable quail eggs at Lotte and H Mart. Some much better than others. I have found brands with jammy yolks and non-rubbery whites.

[liuzhou]

4 hours ago, lemniscate said:

One of the most unusual snack foods I've purchased from Costco, Quail eggs prepared 2 ways.   So far I've used them on ramen.  The flavors are really not too intense, the texture is a bit rubbery.   Each individual egg is packaged in something like a food service jam package.  Shelf stable.

 

No one else in the house is a fan.

 

 

 

Very common here. The one labelled stewed doesn't look stewed. It very much looks like quail century egg.

These are sold in every mom 'n pop corner store as well as supermarkets. And, yes. Always rubbery. I never buy them. I buy fresh and D,I,M, (Do it Myself)

 

 

 

[gfweb]

First visit in a long time to Costco today.  Mainly I go there for meat and parmigiano reggiano. 

 

Parm prices are about the same as I recall, but beef is no longer cheap. 15 or so inch beef tenderloins are over $150.  Spare ribs and oxtails are way high too. Our local Giant is less.  NY Strip steaks are higher than Wegman's and appear to be of lower quality.  They offer a whole flat iron steak for about $35 which isn't bad although I have no standard of comparison.  Pork isn't so pricey though, four hefty tenderloins are about $14.

 

So I'm down to parm as a reason to stand in line.

[weinoo]

6 hours ago, gfweb said:

So I'm down to parm as a reason to stand in line.

Possibly not the best way to spend your time…you could be fishing!

[gulfporter]

Went to Costco Tucson on Monday for fresh salmon, lamb racks and the mandatory $4.99 rotisserie chicken.  

 

Struck out on the lamb racks; a Meat Dept. employee came out to help me look.  He didn't find any either, went back to check the butchery area, then returned to say, "I can't believe it: not an ounce of lamb in the store!"  Dejected, I left with the salmon and rotis.  There is no other place to readily find lamb near me in Tucson.  

 

I've been checking their online same-day delivery app and saw Out Of Stock on the lamb racks the rest of the week, until this afternoon.  I will likely wait until post World Series and Football weekend, and head there Monday.  

 

Our local Costco has Express Self-Checkout lines.  Have used twice and they are F-A-S-T!!  Of course we only buy 4 or 5 items each trip, bring our own bags, but we never had to wait in a line to access these checkouts.  

 

Costco's rotis chickens remain large and tasty.  We got 5 meals out of it for the two of us.  A Thai chicken salad; an Indian-spiced hot sandwich topped with raita; two meals (4 servings) of white bean chicken chili; and a chicken salad sandwich with pecans and dill.  

[AlaMoi]

does your Costco carry steelhead trout?  looks like salmon, slightly different, really good.

 

our fav use for the rostissed chick is 'a meal' + chicken salad, then simmer down the carcass for chicken noodle soup base.

when it gels, you get super stock for the soup!

[haresfur]

5 hours ago, AlaMoi said:

does your Costco carry steelhead trout?  looks like salmon, slightly different, really good.

 

our fav use for the rostissed chick is 'a meal' + chicken salad, then simmer down the carcass for chicken noodle soup base.

when it gels, you get super stock for the soup!

 

Fwiw, steelhead is called "Ocean Trout" in Australia (not that we have very many Costco stores; nearest is about 2.5 hours from me). It is usually a bit cheaper than salmon - both of which are almost all farm raised, sometimes from Norway. I like it. The best, though was when I had a neighbour who liked to catch them when they were running, but didn't like to eat fish.

[AlaMoi]

several states (west coast) and the Federal government list steelhead trout as 'endangered' - so one rarely find wild caught.

at our local PA Costco it is fresh/never frozen - farmed in Norway.

most/all? of the salmon Costco carries is farmed, from Scotland - but "previously frozen'

 

pricing is similar tho....

[gulfporter]

16 hours ago, AlaMoi said:

does your Costco carry steelhead trout?  looks like salmon, slightly different, really good.

 

Not seen here at Costco in Tucson, but surprisingly the Costco in Guadalajara carries it.  That Costco is less than an hour away from our MXN home).  We bought it and it was excellent, similar to salmon but milder.  

 

Here's a picture of the steelhead I bought in early October at the Guadalajara Costco.