What do I want from Costco?

[Ottime]

Yeah dude. Sorry your kids dick punch you. That shit must be rough. My kid tries to duck punch me and I drop kick him firsts.

[Ottime]

Yeah dude. Sorry your kids dick punch you. That shit must be rough. My kid tries to duck punch me and I drop kick him firsts.

And who the fuck eats organic cheese? I said “quality” not “new aged”

[bagtagley]

I go out of my way to make sure my kids eat well. I couldn’t care less about other people’s kids.

[bagtagley]

Fair enough, ha, and that's who I buy them for mainly. We buy strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries. So we don't need 1-2 pounds of each every week of each kind.

Fair enough back. I think yours are younger, too. My kids eat as much as I do now.

BTW that gif is from the Lemony Snicket series on Netflix. Really good, IMO.

[riser4]

Ottime must be a lot of fun at parties.

[Ottime]

You, sir, are quite the enigma. I approve.

Here is a statement that is honest about how I feel.

As fast food, the menu item listed as “pizza” at Costco is perfectly fine. As pizza, it is complete garbage.

I really don’t care what other people feed their kids or serve at their parties.

My kid rarely eats at other peoples parties regardless. He actually has a pretty nice palette and has a preference for certain things. He will eat his Costco pizza if I tell him he needs something in his stomach before he chows down sugar bomb cake. He will typically instead eat a few handfuls of “baby” carrots.

Anyone ever been to a kids birthday party in Italy. Highly suggested.

[highangle]

Ottime must be a lot of fun at parties.

Self-involved motherfuckers prating on and on about their personal dietary conceits aren't central to your entertainment paradigm? You sound like a real dick, r3.

[getoutside]

I'm all about healthy eating, but you aren't going to ruin them by letting them get crunked on junk food occasionally. My kid just had a birthday. We bought cheap pizza and cake and spent the real money on a 2-hour private Go Kart session for him and seven of his friends.

^^ agreed and if you are talking about k1 speed, that place is rad! excellent birthday present for sure.

[Ottime]

Who talks about the food at a party? That is rude.

Does it bother you if I don’t eat your crappy cheap food. Fuck, you save even more money.

Y’all all sound like my neighbor who tries to serve me that crap, saying it’s quite good, while paying off his Tesla. We all have different values. I drive a ‘97 Tacoma. Thing looks as shitty as Costco pizza.

[DJSapp]

This. I'm all about healthy eating, but you aren't going to ruin them by letting them get crunked on junk food occasionally. My kid just had a birthday. We bought cheap pizza and cake and spent the real money on a 2-hour private Go Kart session for him and seven of his friends. Pretty sure he preferred that to wood-fired arugula and prosciutto pizzas and a cake made by some Duff Goldman wannabe.

DTM gets it. Put the money where it matters more for the kid. I have 364 other days of the year to feed my kids well.

And I make it a point not to hang out at tween birthday parties in the U.S. or anywhere else unless it's my kid hosting, and then I'm around only to the extent necessary. Kids parties are for kids only from about 1st grade onward.

[Cruiser]

I'm partial to little cesar's for kids birthday parties. But, as my kids keep reminding me, you do you.

Kirkland bar soap has kept the old undercarriage spick and span lately

[Boissal]

A few years back I baked an elaborate bundt cake for a kid's birthday party. I went all out with a 3-chocolates concoction topped with a chocolate & coffee sauce, a real beauty. The kind of project you start the day before and stress like crazy about because 12 things can go wrong and ruin it. The cake was gorgeous and delicious. The little assholes took 2 bites of it and dumped it in the fucking trash cause it wasn't sweet enough or something. Granted they were all full of Coscto "pizza" and more interested in the Costco chocolate cake which I had bought as a backup. Quite the discerning palate on those kids for sure, that was a real casting of pearls to the swines moment for me.

Which reminds me, the Costco All American chocolate cake should be on everyone's list.

[Danno]

As fast food, the menu item listed as “pizza” at Costco is perfectly fine. As pizza, it is complete garbage.

Costco pizza IS fast food. It's not artisan neapolitan pizza that you eat with a knife and fork, it's a fucking slice.

Maybe my view is different, I grew up in NYC and the most ubiquitous fast food was pizza; you were hungry and wanted something quick, you stopped at the nearest joint and got a slice. I don't feel the need to put quotes around it as "pizza" like it's demeaning "real" pizza to call them the same thing. Just like a burger at McDs is still a burger even if I can go to fancy-pants McDuffin's and get an $18 burger made with hand chopped beef and cheese made from cows that get massaged daily, they're both burgers. Most of us understand that one is of much higher quality than the other, but they're both ground beef (ok, arguable for McDs) formed into a patty, cooked, then placed on some kind of bun (i.e., a "burger").

But as cruiser's kids say, you do you.

ETA: for the record, I don't eat Costco pizza and the few times I have had it, only the price impressed me. But in a thread devoted to people posting what they want at Costco, I feel no need to post that they're not eating real pizza and they're horrible humans for feeding it to their kids. Or that their kids are raised poorly because they like basic pizza and prefer it to the artisan crap.

[RootSkier]

cows that get massaged daily

Goddamn, that's hot.

[Single Track]

fava bean mint purée with sliced veggies.

Everybody had that friend growing up whose birthday party food would be, uh, a bit different. Not your typical Hot-N-Ready, liter of Hawaiian Punch, and Duncan Hines cake mix affair. But this...

My God.

[Ottime]

Kids parties are for kids only from about 1st grade onward.

Yup. Last party we threw was 1st grade. So, yeah.

Danno, nyc as well and the difference is you’d have a hard time finding a slice as shitty as costco and any locally owned joint in the boroughs.

[XXX-er]

what does Costco have to do with the obesity problem in USA

assuming there is an obesity problem?

[seano732]

Goddamn, that's hot.

You sir owe me a new keyboard......LOL

[Danno]

Yup. Last party we threw was 1st grade. So, yeah.

Danno, nyc as well and the difference is you’d have a hard time finding a slice as shitty as costco and any locally owned joint in the boroughs.

I came to terms with the pizza wasteland a LONG time ago. I think someone in this thread equated Costco with Dominos, and that's the category it's in. If I eat it, that's the quality I expect and it's fine. When I was in grad school and there would be various lunch meetings with free pizza, I went to the meetings and ate the pizza. It may have been Dominos but the price was right and I was happy and sated. It didn't matter one whit to me that it was shitty pizza compared to Vinnie's Pizza that I grew up with.

If I paid $18 for a personal pie and got Costco quality, that would be an entirely different thing.

[bagtagley]

Dominos is in a special category. I think legally they have to call it pizza food.

Double deuce packs of Cholula

Locally roasted coffee

The super thick uncured bacon

Frozen cherries and strawberries

Our store used to carry Jones breakfast sausage. They were thin, frozen patties that were tasty and quick. They replaced them with some Kirkland brand that probably would have been pretty good if we hadn't gotten hooked on the Jones.

[skaredshtles]

bagtagley's post reminded me of other stuff:

dried fruit - big bags of dried cherries, blueberries, and sometimes strawberries - very well priced and "human-sized" quantities, unlike most grocery stores

[irul&ublo]

Bagged almonds, big cans of roasted peanuts, big bags of pretzel chips, Kirkland uncured Black Forest ham lunch meat, prime beef, Australian lamb loin chops and racks, frozen individually wrapped wild salmon filets, cheese of various types, salamis and other cured meats.

[XXX-er]

Wife always asks and I never really think of anything until after shes home so help a brother out...

something that doesnt make your ass look fat

[irul&ublo]

something that doesnt make your ass look fat

You’ve got it wrong. (Hypothetically) Nothing makes her ass look fat....

Her fat ass makes her ass look fat

[MakersTeleMark]

what does Costco have to do with the obesity problem in USA

assuming there is an obesity problem?

Is this a joke?