On 2018-07-10 7:40 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 7/10/2018 1:49 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 08:37:25 -0700, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>
>>> I shop at Costco on occasion, typically for the deals on 100 pounds of
>>> chicken wings and 55 gallon drums of shampoo.Â*Â* I am not a food
>>> activist but
>>> I intend to fight this one.Â*Â* I always eat 2 polish dogs when I shop
>>> there
> (snippage)
>>>
>>> https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0c523e262061f
>>>
>>
>> The Polish dog has been gone here for over a year.Â* And contrary to
>> what the article says, they are not sold in bulk back in the aisles.
>> Nor are the 1/4+ hot dogs.Â* The new ones mostly sucked anyway.
>>
> Maybe they have in some locations.Â* There doesn't seem to be much
> consistency among stores.Â* <shrug>
>
> I heard about this on a national news channel this morning.Â* It's no
> skin off my nose since I don't shop at Costco.Â* But the report I heard
> claimed Costco intends to replace the polish dog at the *snack bar* (not
> on store shelves sold in packs) with "healthier" alternatives.
>

FWIW, I was in Costco yesterday and my friend and I had a "
tube of death". That Costco still has the Polish Sausage on the menu. I
looked at some of their other offerings and they are cheap, but they
don't come near the value of the tube of death and a soda.



> I'm sorry, what?Â* Does the average customer eating at a snack bar in a
> store really think about whether or not that polish dog (or anything
> else) it is healthy?Â* I'm thinking they're just hungry.Â* Damn food police.
Restaurants here have to show the calories in their food. Costco's
stuff is pretty high. Their Poutine in something like 1500 calories. I
was surprised to see how many people were eating that.

We ended up sharing our table with a man and his wife and had a nice
chat. It turned out that the wife grew up in the same small town I did
and lived just a few blocks from me. My friend told about growing up in
Baie Comeau QC and the other guy had cousins there and my friend knew
them.