Costco? I'm not "getting" it.

Shrinkrap
Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:58:34 +0000

Prime beef. End of story. Only place to get it around here, and in packs of three New York strip steaks. They also have some of the best seafood in my town, albeit in packages bigger than needed for our family of two, and often farmed.

Always go there when I’m feeding a crowd, like a party or a meeting. We have no Trader Joe or Whole Foods in town.

Also ditto the gas, pine nuts (pignoli), pecans, both stored in the freezer till gone or the new crop, whichever come first. Olive oil, maple syrup, canola spray, parmigiano-regiano, unsalted butter, beef jersey, frozen shrimp, ice scream (Hagan daz), ink jet cartridges, and random stuff we might need that we can review before we buy, like cordless phones, a vacuum sealer. I am so about to get new glasses there.

It helps that mine is three miles from home, and about one from work. It’s actually a bit faster on weekends because there are a lot more lines open. Things don’t seem to move around the store, or at least the things I get.

I did once buy some straw baskets made by women in Africa on impulse.