# I need to make a trip to Costco. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803 "2010-02-13T01:58:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/1 "2010-02-13T01:58:19Z")
Where, wearing my Costco pants and Costco shoes, I’ll buy $12 of Kirkland® Mayonnaise and eat my Costco hotdog. I shall stare wistfully at the Costco TeeVees, and buy a Costco/Disney/Pixar special edition BluRay. I do not know if this makes my happy or sad. I will forget the only reason I went to Costco ($5 worth of Milk) but will leave $300 poorer. ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/2 "2010-02-13T02:06:07Z")
$12 mayo+ $5 milk. bluray disc costs $283? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/3 "2010-02-13T02:13:20Z")
> [@Claude\_Remains](#): > > $12 mayo+ $5 milk. bluray disc costs $283? A thousand gallon jar of pickles adds to that figure just the right amount. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/4 "2010-02-13T02:23:54Z")
$42 worth of Toilet Paper, 12 dozen eggs, 78 Pair of socks, and a Bottle of Ibuprofen that is mathematically impossible to use up before it expires. ETA: And a bag of puck shaped breaded chicken patties carefully engineered to JUST BARELY fit on a shelf in the freezer ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/5 "2010-02-13T04:28:52Z")
Don’t forget a 24-pack of canned tomato paste. At least the individual cans are normal-sized. I also like the 12-pack of gel pens with the three stubby little bonus pens in festive colors. I only need to buy the pen pack about once a year - that’s how long it takes my kids to drop them all down gratings on their way to school. Thanks to Costco, I can afford to use olive oil for all of my cooking and frying needs. If theories about the Mediterranean Diet are correct, I may owe them several years of my life when all is said and done. ---
**Author:** ![RhapsodyInBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RhapsodyInBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RhapsodyInBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/6 "2010-02-13T04:36:57Z")
At Costco a double pack of printer cartridges, inch thick rib eye steaks, fresh crab legs, and the wine selection will eat through the better part of $300 in nothing flat. ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/7 "2010-02-13T04:49:31Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > $42 worth of Toilet Paper, 12 dozen eggs, 78 Pair of socks, and a Bottle of Ibuprofen that is mathematically impossible to use up before it expires. > > ETA: And a bag of puck shaped breaded chicken patties carefully engineered to JUST BARELY fit on a shelf in the freezer Everything but the fuckin cardboard chicken is what I need when I/ We go there. I live with two woman and I just want to have a nice piece of char broiled dead cow now and then but I’m the devil for wanting this. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/8 "2010-02-13T04:52:16Z")
Try the frozen shrimp spring rolls (Aquastar brand) with the chili sweet and sour dipping sauce. SO tasty, and probably chock full of Chinese preservatives, but what the hell—We all gonna die of something… ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/9 "2010-02-13T04:59:04Z")
A bag of dog food too heavy to lift, a barrel of Kirkland® laundry detergent, another 6-pack of socks because these also fall down the gratings on the way to school, and a set of swim goggles because apparently it’s already summer inside Costco. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/10 "2010-02-13T05:15:24Z")
I love Costco. I LOVE COSTCO. I go weekly. I pretend it’s for soda and bottled water and rotisserie chickens but it’s really for chocolate chunk cookies and wine. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/11 "2010-02-13T05:22:44Z")
Frito: Yah I know this place pretty good, I went to law school here. Pvt. Joe Bowers: In Costco? Frito: Yah I couldn’t believe it myself, luckily my dad was an alumnus and pulled some strings. ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/12 "2010-02-13T05:53:41Z")
I went myself today. I needed laundry soap and Jack Daniels. I came out with a fancy bottle of Gentleman Jack on a holder, Dungeness crabs, some Costco pillows and a 700-thread count sheet set that I did not need, a tub of heart shaped ravioli, a gardening book that probably doesn’t contain any useful information, a two-pack of backhoes, and a bushel of asparagus. Oh, and I found the laundry soap, at the end of the chip aisle where they’d creatively located it. This forced me to wander all of the aisles and is probably to blame for my thousand gallon jar of pickles. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/13 "2010-02-13T05:56:35Z")
Don’t forget the 24/case bottles of Bacon Salt. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/14 "2010-02-13T08:09:50Z")
I buy a ribeye sub-primal. It costs nearly $100, but it gets their exceptional ribeye steaks down to $4.99 a pound. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/15 "2010-02-13T09:35:22Z")
Sorry, I don’t speak Costco, we don’t have any 'round these parts (NE Ohio). I think there may be some North of here, but too far for my purposes. I go to Sam’s Club several times per week. Similar? ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/16 "2010-02-13T14:02:48Z")
Welcome to CostCo. I love you. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/17 "2010-02-13T14:12:07Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I buy a ribeye sub-primal. It costs nearly $100, but it gets their exceptional ribeye steaks down to $4.99 a pound. How do you cut them down? X-acto, Sawzall, or Bandsaw? If I used my bandsaw, my meat would be a little sawdusty, or alumineummy ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/18 "2010-02-13T14:20:23Z")
My parents went last week and got some really awesome stuff for the “Big Game”–yummy lobster dip, spinach dip, and some great chips. Costco is kind of amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/19 "2010-02-13T14:31:33Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > How do you cut them down? X-acto, Sawzall, or Bandsaw? If I used my bandsaw, my meat would be a little sawdusty, or alumineummy [Alton Brown on preparing a tenderloin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7-_ka3DAuY). Prep starts about 3:00 in. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803/20 "2010-02-13T14:55:39Z")
aaaaaah, when you said Ribeye, I thought you were dealing with bone-in, my bad. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-make-a-trip-to-costco/528803.md?page=2)