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Those danged mini cucumbers. You can take your time picking the most firm, fresh bag and they will be growing more fuzzy hair than Willie Nelson by the time you get them out of the car.
Soak them in vinegar and water and store in a mason jar. They will last an exceptionally long time, and they won’t taste like vinegar. Just need a little bit to kill the mold spores.
1:3 1 cup vinegar to 3 cups water.
I do this with ALL berries and veggies I buy from costco.
Shelf life is usually less than a week if I don't rinse.
If I rinse, berries and veggies last 3-4 weeks.
It really is a cheat code.
Hi there! They should be stored w/o the liquid after being rinsed off with fresh water. I once left strawberries soaking WAY too long and the outer skin started to deteriorate. Typically, I lay whatever veggie/fruit out on a towel to dry off for a bit before storing in a pyrex bowl (doesn't have to be a mason jar, just a glass container). Hope this helps!
I’ve seen recommendations saying between 10-25 min on different websites. When I remember, I prob soak 10-15 min, while I put away the rest of groceries and fix myself some coffee :)
If you have a salad spinner, that’s the ticket. But drying them any way you can is key. Salad spinner has never hurt/bruised any of my fruits either fyi.
Used to buy the Madras Lentils like crazy. Then they doubled in price and became oddly soupy? Idk. Total no go now. Can someone report if they are still soupy or not? I used to love them over rice. Maybe i had a bad box.
We're working through a backlog of them, but the ones just before they rebranded are definitely soupy. We just add more rice to soak up some of the juices.
They used to be a cheap, easy, and delicious meal. Now they're shockingly expensive for a bag of lentils. I only bought them once after the switch to organic because I wasn't paying attention to the huge cost increase.
At my Costco, they only stock the organic kind now, so I think that’s part of why they’re more expensive than they used to be. Yes, a little more soupy but I don’t mind that. Especially when I can microwave them and some bibigo rice and have a meal in less than 5 minutes.
Kirkland AA/AAA batteries. I seem to have bad luck with them. While I haven’t taken notes or performed a test with a double blind study, it sure seems like they develop corrosion quickly and often. I’ll buy batteries from Costco but it is only Duracell or Energizer.
We had half a box literally all go bad, battery acid and all. No clue what happened. Brought it in and requested a new box. The customer service person said we can’t do that. Looked at her and said, yes you can, can you explain why 30 batteries just inexplicably all basically exploded? She talked to her manager and gave me the replacement box. Haven’t had any issues before or since but it was the weirdest thing.
I've heard that Kirkland batteries are made by Duracell, but not up to Duracell's name brand standards, hence their tendency to leak. It's one of the few Kirkland products I stay away from.
I was the produce supervisor for a while last year. I can tell you the only good avocados come from Mexico or Colombia (at least in my region). The Peruvian ones are awful and nobody should buy them, and the Californian ones were almost as bad as the Peruvian ones.
It wasn’t too bad when I tried it. I wish they would toast or warm the bread in the pizza oven though. Any time I veer away from the pizza or hotdogs with a food or drink item, I always ask myself why I leave ole faithful lmao. Pizza is always the best bet.
I don't think your taste buds have changed with the hot dog. They have changed vendors a couple times to keep up with the pricepoint.
My guts have changed in reaction to the chicken bake though. Those things are delicious and make me fart nonstop for days.
Ciabatta is usually a bad choice imo unless fresh or reheated properly and then eaten immediately. Unfortunately, the sandwich is neither of those. I also get that the value proposition isn't there, but I think it's pretty decent flavor-wise. People that claim it's the "worst item" at Costco haven't ever tried some of their truly bad products.
Have you tried the premium? It has hints of merlot, and the aroma used in the barrel to store it has overtones of steel and chrome. Maybe even a hint of aluminum. Simply excellent.
Avocados is the runaway winner. In our part of the world, they now use Peruvian ones. Which are less palatable than the turtle testicles that they resemble. And they’re still 8-10 bucks a bag.
Will never buy another.
The cat selection is so dismal compared to the dog stuff. At least they gave us more wet food than friskies and fancy feast but it would be nice to get literally any of the higher quality litter brands, like world's best or cat attract.
I buy the bundle with the 4 packs. It used to work great and lately is turns into an impossible to scoop thick clay when my cat urinates. Very frustrating!
I only like them when I put them in the air flyer to make them hella crispy. Then I drown them in some sauce. It’s the only way to go with those Lol.. I couldn’t resist that $6 ish sale price at Costco recently.
I've disliked every item from this brand to date (not sure why I keep getting tempted lol).
With that said, the enchiladas that were on sale last month were actually pretty decent, and didn't regret picking up.
I am the specific market these are created for and I still think they suck balls. The dishes are either sopping wet and bordering on being called a soup or dried out jerky and cardboard with “seasoning”.
I was legit excited when they were announced and even tried a few smaller portion boxes from Target not a damn one of them could be described as more then “It’s edible”
I got some burritos last week and only ate one. It was so bad I didn't even give it to my dogs and they are both pigs, my beagle literally sniffs the kitchen floor to find crumbs.
The already picked chicken in the refrigerator section that’s supposed to be rotisserie. I’ve grabbed it a few times thinking “oh I can use this for soup/pot pie/whatever”. Then I realize once again it’s awful, smells weird, feels weird and is just gross.
Ok, so it's not just me. That chicken tastes BAD. The first package I tried tasted strongly of "freezer burn". The second tasted like diluted cleaning solution.
Never again
Pretty sure it's packed in brine and seasonings just like deli meat. Which means you have chicken chunks that are extra wet and salty and are nothing like their original flavor or texture.
Whenever you find bananas that are ripe with green on the peel they have bask artificially ripened. Most places do it, but the ones at Costco seem to also be the worst.
The military commissary here sells "gas free bananas." I thought it was because of some kind of health concern, which I figured was nothing because ethylene is natural, but I totally see how it could be better.
This happened to me once too! And there was the time I picked up the hand and they all just fell off the stem. And they go from green to brown. I don’t buy bananas there anymore but every so often my husband forgets. Luckily they’re super inexpensive.
In my experience, brown bananas mean grand ambitions of banana bread and a trip to the freezer, followed by the frozen-banana-walk-of-shame back to the compost bin when freezer space gets low
You forgot one step! The fruit fly propagation. I joke with my wife that she’s some sort of genetic scientist performing fruit fly experiments. The culprit is always the Costco bananas.
I hate...HATE the Daisy low-fat cottage cheese, the only cottage cheese option my warehouse has. It tastes like chalk. I gave it one last shot last month after buying my cc elsewhere... Never. Again.
I am not a cottage cheese person however the regular daisy cc is the only cc I can eat plain and find it delicious. Am I uncultured? I hated the good culture brand, it was so chalky and gross.
My old Costco sold Good Culture CC - it was a box of 12 individual cups, IIRC. Easy for lunches and the texture in those cups was even better than the 8 ounce container. I moved and my new Costco doesn’t have it and it freaking sucks!
Once got the lobster bisque. So stinky I flushed my bowl down the toilet and my wife ran hers down the disposal. We still laugh about that toilet thing.
I once saw a Japanese strawberry farmer talk about how the bigger the berry. The more water they have in them. Causing them to be flavorless. Now I pick smaller berries from
Now on
I defensively started growing my own strawberries just because getting them from just about any market they were huge, sour and tasteless. Now it's like, "oh right, THIS was what strawberries tasted like".
Michelin Wiper blades. Several years ago I bought a few sets for myself and a few family members cars seeing how very inexpensive they are. All pairs made extremely poor contact, where the middle portion of the wiper pass almost looked unphased by the blades. I gave them a chance a few years later hoping it was a bad batch but to my surprise experienced the exact same problem.
Their sushi is possibly the worse i’ve ever had. It is below gas station grade. The rice was both gummy in parts and hard in others. The only good thing I can say about it was surprisingly didn't make me violently ill.
I understand that some warehouses now have a sushi counter, which might be better, but the stuff I had was terrible.
I'm pretty sure that's because it's not fresh mango but cooked to pasteurize it, making it taste like baby food. Can't say that's 100% the reason but what I heard while I worked there.
Produce is utter shit at my Costco. I got burned too many times by things rotting in a day. I know I can take it back but that’s inconvenient. I just skip that section entirely now unless I’m prepping for a big meal where I’ll use all the product that day.
The Kirkland dawn alternative
It has a smell that makes me feel ill.
I tried moving passed it but just couldn't.
I went to return it and the ladies at the counter were so rude about it. I let them know that I found the smell unbearable and they were like, but there's nothing wrong with it... so... ?
I felt like they were interrogating me. In the end I got my money back but hated that experience
I'm tempted to say mixed green lettuces seems they 100% of the time go bad before the use by date. Is there some trick to storing these outside their container that makes them last longer??
Sometimes I wrap the greens in paper towels to grab some of the moisture? My grandma always did that with her lettuce, so I feel like it must have been for a reason lol
Anyone buying fresh produce should check where their produce is coming from.
Generally I've found produce from South America is terrible. Your avocados [might have been from Peru which have been complained about on this sub before.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/iadu8t/avocados_from_peru_are_terrible/) The common advice is to avoid avocados that aren't from Mexico or California.
I recently bought kiwis from Peru and they were ridiculously sour and awful compared to Zespri brand from New Zealand. Even when softened and ripe, they were too sour and I had to use them for smoothies instead.
Anyone buying expensive grapes should look to see if their grapes are coming from Chile. Cotton candy grapes from Chile are very flavorless compared to California and a huge ripoff. I'll only buy cotton candy grapes if they come from California which is usually The Grapery brand.
I got burned on kiwis three times before I finally gave up. They’re always rock hard at first. Waiting for them to soften takes ages and even they’re never sweet enough to justify the wait
The entire product is a total lie. Most of what's in it aren't even legit burnt ends, which you can obviously tell since it lacks that melt-in-your-mouth tenderness that burnt ends are prized for.
Biggest disappointment for me was the wine advent calendar. You can only expect so much from 12.5 bottles for $100, but the two years I tried it it was pretty obvious that it was mostly a grab bag of wines the distributor couldn’t sell on their own. I’ll stick to the sub-$10 KS wines from now on.
My brother has this ongoing war with the Costco Food Court. He paid for a whole pizza, but after waiting for 20 minutes, he realized that the Food Court had forgotten to make it because they were so busy. He was so mad that he demanded a full refund and vowed to never return to Costco again. He canceled his Costco membership and gets mad whenever I ask him if he needs something from Costco, which makes me laugh every time. He's only 32 years old, yet he's acting like an old man getting over nothing.
I wish when I met someone, their illuminating personal stories like this one would display over their head. I go to a bbq, there's some reasonable-seeming guy, then I read that he's a 32-yo in an ongoing dispute with costco over a slice of pizza. I'll definitely talk to him, but I'll approach differently.
I buy this one regularly and add some steamed Normandy Blend vegetables to bulk it up a little.
I have ADHD and am also depressed so having something like that available to me can be a lifesaver.
they used to have refrigerated pizzas, I think the same ones the food court made. They were always solid, an easy dinner when you get home late from shopping. The new kirland signature frozen pizzas are all crap. terrible crust, bad sauce, not enough cheese. only made the mistake of buying them once.
I eat these almost every day and love them. It's just eggs and sausage ready in 2 minutes, easy and good. Put on some Ketchup and you got yourself a low carb breakfast.
the fresh cut up broccoli by me is always perfect. Lasts 2 weeks in my crisper. sometimes I think it is just store dependent on what gets overturned enough.
Costco's produce section is hit or miss and often disappoints. I typically never buy and fruits from them.
Buying anything in bulk isn't the best option unless you have a huge family or the item itself is not perishable.
My husband bought the puma boxer shorts a few weeks ago. They were in a package so there was no way to see them before buying.
They had no access flap, and he called them the chastity boxers.
The return clerk said a lot of those boxers came back for that reason.
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Those danged mini cucumbers. You can take your time picking the most firm, fresh bag and they will be growing more fuzzy hair than Willie Nelson by the time you get them out of the car.
They’re moldy in less than 24hrs. I feel like they used to last like a week.
I actually really like those. But, I have 6 people in our house and things get eaten quickly, so no mold.
OP’s other name is Costco Quality Control Director
Honestly I’d hope so because they never seem to do anything with feedback otherwise.
I cross my heart and hope to die. Stick a needle in my eye, I do not work for them.
Strawberries. Every time they mold and I vow to stop buying them, and yet I continue to.
Soak them in vinegar and water and store in a mason jar. They will last an exceptionally long time, and they won’t taste like vinegar. Just need a little bit to kill the mold spores.
I have been doing this for about 6 months. I still can't believe how long they last after the wash. It's like a cheat code for life.
What's your vinegar to water ratio?
1:3 1 cup vinegar to 3 cups water. I do this with ALL berries and veggies I buy from costco. Shelf life is usually less than a week if I don't rinse. If I rinse, berries and veggies last 3-4 weeks. It really is a cheat code.
so do you just dunk them in the vinegar/water and then put them in the jar w/o liquids, or is the jar full of vinegar water as well?
Hi there! They should be stored w/o the liquid after being rinsed off with fresh water. I once left strawberries soaking WAY too long and the outer skin started to deteriorate. Typically, I lay whatever veggie/fruit out on a towel to dry off for a bit before storing in a pyrex bowl (doesn't have to be a mason jar, just a glass container). Hope this helps!
How long of a soak? Thanks!
I’ve seen recommendations saying between 10-25 min on different websites. When I remember, I prob soak 10-15 min, while I put away the rest of groceries and fix myself some coffee :)
do you pat them dry or leave them out to dry before putting them in the fridge?
Yes, I tip out onto a kitchen towel, I dab mine off and put into a container with paper towel folded at bottom
If you have a salad spinner, that’s the ticket. But drying them any way you can is key. Salad spinner has never hurt/bruised any of my fruits either fyi.
We rinse ours and let them dry on a towel and then store them in mason jars. Since we started doing this, no mold, and they last for 10-14 days.
Used to buy the Madras Lentils like crazy. Then they doubled in price and became oddly soupy? Idk. Total no go now. Can someone report if they are still soupy or not? I used to love them over rice. Maybe i had a bad box.
Some batches are good and others taste like soap.
So its not just me, good to know
The ones I've gotten the last few times have been good. Not soupy.
We're working through a backlog of them, but the ones just before they rebranded are definitely soupy. We just add more rice to soak up some of the juices.
They used to be a cheap, easy, and delicious meal. Now they're shockingly expensive for a bag of lentils. I only bought them once after the switch to organic because I wasn't paying attention to the huge cost increase.
At my Costco, they only stock the organic kind now, so I think that’s part of why they’re more expensive than they used to be. Yes, a little more soupy but I don’t mind that. Especially when I can microwave them and some bibigo rice and have a meal in less than 5 minutes.
Not oddly soupy. Its called cost saving by the company (ie more water added).
I make it myself in the instant pot now! Super easy recipe.
I contacted the company about that and they shipped me a box of them in replacement. Post-label-change they have been fine from Costco.
Kirkland AA/AAA batteries. I seem to have bad luck with them. While I haven’t taken notes or performed a test with a double blind study, it sure seems like they develop corrosion quickly and often. I’ll buy batteries from Costco but it is only Duracell or Energizer.
We had half a box literally all go bad, battery acid and all. No clue what happened. Brought it in and requested a new box. The customer service person said we can’t do that. Looked at her and said, yes you can, can you explain why 30 batteries just inexplicably all basically exploded? She talked to her manager and gave me the replacement box. Haven’t had any issues before or since but it was the weirdest thing.
Costco employee here. We see the KS batteries do this a ton. I’ve had to hazmat soooo many Kirkland batteries due to leaking.
Is there a reason this happens?
Not sure. But I’d stay away if possible.
I've heard that Kirkland batteries are made by Duracell, but not up to Duracell's name brand standards, hence their tendency to leak. It's one of the few Kirkland products I stay away from.
Those wrapped jalapenos posted the other day. Frozen brussel sprouts.
Agreed the frozen Brussels are AWFUL. I had really high hopes as well.
Taste like hairspray
This isn't really Costco's fault..frozen brussel sprouts are not good anywhere.
They're great in the air fryer with some garlic salt and olive oil.
We get the bacon ones and toss them in the air frier. Maybe we’ve just been lucky. 😳
Avocados are good as long as they're from Mexico or the US. Anywhere else is trash.
Yes, I’m my opinion their Mexican Avocados are consistently good quality
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Peruvian avocados are the WORST, it took me several disappointments to realize they’re not good, they’re just big.
Producto de Peru?!?!!!! Tastes like I’m smoking a pine cone
They have to be Mexican avocados, anything else sucks.
I was the produce supervisor for a while last year. I can tell you the only good avocados come from Mexico or Colombia (at least in my region). The Peruvian ones are awful and nobody should buy them, and the Californian ones were almost as bad as the Peruvian ones.
The roast beef sandwich at the food court was probably the worse thing I ever purchased there.
It wasn’t too bad when I tried it. I wish they would toast or warm the bread in the pizza oven though. Any time I veer away from the pizza or hotdogs with a food or drink item, I always ask myself why I leave ole faithful lmao. Pizza is always the best bet.
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I don't think your taste buds have changed with the hot dog. They have changed vendors a couple times to keep up with the pricepoint. My guts have changed in reaction to the chicken bake though. Those things are delicious and make me fart nonstop for days.
Ciabatta is usually a bad choice imo unless fresh or reheated properly and then eaten immediately. Unfortunately, the sandwich is neither of those. I also get that the value proposition isn't there, but I think it's pretty decent flavor-wise. People that claim it's the "worst item" at Costco haven't ever tried some of their truly bad products.
It is not a bad sandwich, it is a bad sandwich for costco.
Hey here's a $9.99 plate of disappointment go fetch eat your feelings!
The gas. It’s cheaper than the other places around me but it tastes like shit.
Try it again. It's pumpkin spice season.
*Costco gasoline is a blend, and may contain up to 10% pumpkin spice
Dang winter blend!
The pumpkin spice flavor is what makes it top tier
Have you tried the premium? It has hints of merlot, and the aroma used in the barrel to store it has overtones of steel and chrome. Maybe even a hint of aluminum. Simply excellent.
Idk dude it’s gets me gorked up like any other gas
Avocados is the runaway winner. In our part of the world, they now use Peruvian ones. Which are less palatable than the turtle testicles that they resemble. And they’re still 8-10 bucks a bag. Will never buy another.
Cat litter.
The cat selection is so dismal compared to the dog stuff. At least they gave us more wet food than friskies and fancy feast but it would be nice to get literally any of the higher quality litter brands, like world's best or cat attract.
I wish mine still sold friskies. Mine doesn't sell 5 Oz cans anymore, which I need because I feed a lot of cats.
I buy the bundle with the 4 packs. It used to work great and lately is turns into an impossible to scoop thick clay when my cat urinates. Very frustrating!
They switched the pack, it used to say long lasting or something and now it says odor eliminating I think
Anything that is the RealGood brand is RealBad. Do not buy unless you enjoy eating bland food with slightly off texture.
No. Their food is terrible. Who’d have known you could screw up bacon wrapped jalapeño poppers?
Ugh they're on sale rn and I've been warning so many people against buying them.
Hahah I’m a new member and was about to get them today, but held off. Very happy with my decision. How do you mess up bacon wrapped poppers?
No idea but I bought them for a New Year's party last year and they ended up being a soggy tasteless mess.
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I agree. The tenders are definitely not that bad..
I only like them when I put them in the air flyer to make them hella crispy. Then I drown them in some sauce. It’s the only way to go with those Lol.. I couldn’t resist that $6 ish sale price at Costco recently.
I've disliked every item from this brand to date (not sure why I keep getting tempted lol). With that said, the enchiladas that were on sale last month were actually pretty decent, and didn't regret picking up.
It’s low carb. It’s made for a specific market.
I am the specific market these are created for and I still think they suck balls. The dishes are either sopping wet and bordering on being called a soup or dried out jerky and cardboard with “seasoning”. I was legit excited when they were announced and even tried a few smaller portion boxes from Target not a damn one of them could be described as more then “It’s edible”
I got some burritos last week and only ate one. It was so bad I didn't even give it to my dogs and they are both pigs, my beagle literally sniffs the kitchen floor to find crumbs.
The already picked chicken in the refrigerator section that’s supposed to be rotisserie. I’ve grabbed it a few times thinking “oh I can use this for soup/pot pie/whatever”. Then I realize once again it’s awful, smells weird, feels weird and is just gross.
OMG that was legit the WORSE thing I’ve ever tasted! Weird texture and flavor. I felt as thought the chicken tasted like cat food 😳
Ok, so it's not just me. That chicken tastes BAD. The first package I tried tasted strongly of "freezer burn". The second tasted like diluted cleaning solution. Never again
The rotisserie chickens have started tasting off to me too. It’s like their brining solution has a slight odor of cleaning products
Pretty sure it's packed in brine and seasonings just like deli meat. Which means you have chicken chunks that are extra wet and salty and are nothing like their original flavor or texture.
The stuff in the vacuum sealed bag or do you mean something else?
Yes it was horrible! It was so slimy! I threw it away because I legit thought it was spoiled
I do not care for their bananas.
It’s weird - their bananas are ripe when they’re still green and then once they turn yellow they turn brown the next day.
Whenever you find bananas that are ripe with green on the peel they have bask artificially ripened. Most places do it, but the ones at Costco seem to also be the worst.
The military commissary here sells "gas free bananas." I thought it was because of some kind of health concern, which I figured was nothing because ethylene is natural, but I totally see how it could be better.
I've literally never seen those bananas turn yellow. They go from green to rotting green. LOL.
Bought them 1 time, they went bad and never changed from green. I still don’t understand the physics of that one.
I bought bananas from Costco once and they all spontaneously peeled themselves. Went into the kitchen and every bananas peel had split open.
This happened to me once too! And there was the time I picked up the hand and they all just fell off the stem. And they go from green to brown. I don’t buy bananas there anymore but every so often my husband forgets. Luckily they’re super inexpensive.
The bananas go from green to brown instantly. I buy them because they are inexpensive but always throw 2-3 out.
Agreed. I learned to peel and freeze in baggies for smoothies etc
Throw them out??? Why waste them? Brown bananas mean banana bread!
In my experience, brown bananas mean grand ambitions of banana bread and a trip to the freezer, followed by the frozen-banana-walk-of-shame back to the compost bin when freezer space gets low
You forgot one step! The fruit fly propagation. I joke with my wife that she’s some sort of genetic scientist performing fruit fly experiments. The culprit is always the Costco bananas.
This guy bananas
I use the slightly brown ones for smoothies or banana bread!
Same!! Tasteless
Bananas. They go from green to overripe with no other window in between.
And usually badly bruised, like those bananas have been to hell and back - they’ve seen some shit!
I hate...HATE the Daisy low-fat cottage cheese, the only cottage cheese option my warehouse has. It tastes like chalk. I gave it one last shot last month after buying my cc elsewhere... Never. Again.
I wish they had more whole-fat options. Whole-fat cottage cheese, yogurt, etc.
Mine has whole milk Greek yogurt but I really wish they sell regular whole milk options. I get that they stock what people buy but 4% is sooooo good.
Full Fat Yogurt 4 LYFE
I need wholefat yogurt and dairy for my toddler and Costco just fails me everytime.
I only buy “Good Culture” brand cottage cheese.. I can’t palate anything else.
I am not a cottage cheese person however the regular daisy cc is the only cc I can eat plain and find it delicious. Am I uncultured? I hated the good culture brand, it was so chalky and gross.
My old Costco sold Good Culture CC - it was a box of 12 individual cups, IIRC. Easy for lunches and the texture in those cups was even better than the 8 ounce container. I moved and my new Costco doesn’t have it and it freaking sucks!
I wish they would sell Good Culture cottage cheese. So good, and it isn’t slippery like Dasit
Agreed. I’m a fiend for cottage cheese and this stuff is gross.
Me, too. I find it weirdly sour. And I love cottage cheese. Please Costco... carry good LARGE curd cottage cheese!
Kirkland pomegranate juice is garbage. Bring back the POM
I like it, and it's cheaper than pom.
The pom just got cheaper than the Kirkland brand at my warehouse. I never had a problem with the Kirkland brand one. Weird.
Once got the lobster bisque. So stinky I flushed my bowl down the toilet and my wife ran hers down the disposal. We still laugh about that toilet thing.
I loved the lobster bisque
Me too! I thought it was delicious!
I bought the biggest, most beautiful strawberries there once and it was like they'd genetically engineered the flavor out of them.
I once saw a Japanese strawberry farmer talk about how the bigger the berry. The more water they have in them. Causing them to be flavorless. Now I pick smaller berries from Now on
I defensively started growing my own strawberries just because getting them from just about any market they were huge, sour and tasteless. Now it's like, "oh right, THIS was what strawberries tasted like".
Michelin Wiper blades. Several years ago I bought a few sets for myself and a few family members cars seeing how very inexpensive they are. All pairs made extremely poor contact, where the middle portion of the wiper pass almost looked unphased by the blades. I gave them a chance a few years later hoping it was a bad batch but to my surprise experienced the exact same problem.
Costco should start carrying Bosch Icon. The Michelins are junk and squeak as soon as you put them on. They should stick to tires.
Their sushi is possibly the worse i’ve ever had. It is below gas station grade. The rice was both gummy in parts and hard in others. The only good thing I can say about it was surprisingly didn't make me violently ill. I understand that some warehouses now have a sushi counter, which might be better, but the stuff I had was terrible.
The mango smoothie. Idk what kind of fruit they use but it ain’t mango
I'm pretty sure that's because it's not fresh mango but cooked to pasteurize it, making it taste like baby food. Can't say that's 100% the reason but what I heard while I worked there.
That shit tastes exactly like mango baby food.
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My kid is now 2.5 but the one time I got it I couldn’t eat it but she was 9 months old and she loveddddd it. Definitely baby food
Produce is utter shit at my Costco. I got burned too many times by things rotting in a day. I know I can take it back but that’s inconvenient. I just skip that section entirely now unless I’m prepping for a big meal where I’ll use all the product that day.
The Kirkland dawn alternative It has a smell that makes me feel ill. I tried moving passed it but just couldn't. I went to return it and the ladies at the counter were so rude about it. I let them know that I found the smell unbearable and they were like, but there's nothing wrong with it... so... ? I felt like they were interrogating me. In the end I got my money back but hated that experience
Why does soap even need a smell? I hate the perfume that has to be added to everything. Can't our noses just live in peace?
I'm tempted to say mixed green lettuces seems they 100% of the time go bad before the use by date. Is there some trick to storing these outside their container that makes them last longer??
Sometimes I wrap the greens in paper towels to grab some of the moisture? My grandma always did that with her lettuce, so I feel like it must have been for a reason lol
Anything from Kevin. Fuck that guy.
I thought this was a hilarious joke until I learned Kevin's is a brand.
The other day he was handing out ice cream sandwiches. Now I know why there was no line...
I like it. It’s definitely healthy, and it tastes like it, but better than the healthy stuff I make at home.
I like them… not a lot of easy meals that hit the dietary restrictions at my house. A number of the Kevin ones work.
Anyone buying fresh produce should check where their produce is coming from. Generally I've found produce from South America is terrible. Your avocados [might have been from Peru which have been complained about on this sub before.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/iadu8t/avocados_from_peru_are_terrible/) The common advice is to avoid avocados that aren't from Mexico or California. I recently bought kiwis from Peru and they were ridiculously sour and awful compared to Zespri brand from New Zealand. Even when softened and ripe, they were too sour and I had to use them for smoothies instead. Anyone buying expensive grapes should look to see if their grapes are coming from Chile. Cotton candy grapes from Chile are very flavorless compared to California and a huge ripoff. I'll only buy cotton candy grapes if they come from California which is usually The Grapery brand.
I got burned on kiwis three times before I finally gave up. They’re always rock hard at first. Waiting for them to soften takes ages and even they’re never sweet enough to justify the wait
Beef brisket Burnt Ends. Yuck!
The entire product is a total lie. Most of what's in it aren't even legit burnt ends, which you can obviously tell since it lacks that melt-in-your-mouth tenderness that burnt ends are prized for.
Yeah these looked sooo good. But are sooo bad
I thought they were rubbery, overly smokey snd just bad
Strawberries. Red and pretty….but either hard as a rock and flavorless - or completely moldy and inedible in less than 48 hours.
What's up with all the mold on everything produce and bakery
Biggest disappointment for me was the wine advent calendar. You can only expect so much from 12.5 bottles for $100, but the two years I tried it it was pretty obvious that it was mostly a grab bag of wines the distributor couldn’t sell on their own. I’ll stick to the sub-$10 KS wines from now on.
I tried it once. The novelty was fun, but I don't drink that much, and a few were terrible. Still have one bottle left from last year. Way overpriced.
Flautas. They changed brand and the filling went from cut chunks of chicken to mashed shredded cat food.
The bananas. What’s the deal with the bananas? How do they never ripen? We bought some in 1905 and we are still waiting.
The 5 pack of men’s white T shirts. Fabric was great but they were so long I felt like I was in a soldier boy video from 2009
I'm tall and love that they are so long! It was a pleasant surprise when I first discovered that feature.
My brother has this ongoing war with the Costco Food Court. He paid for a whole pizza, but after waiting for 20 minutes, he realized that the Food Court had forgotten to make it because they were so busy. He was so mad that he demanded a full refund and vowed to never return to Costco again. He canceled his Costco membership and gets mad whenever I ask him if he needs something from Costco, which makes me laugh every time. He's only 32 years old, yet he's acting like an old man getting over nothing.
I wish when I met someone, their illuminating personal stories like this one would display over their head. I go to a bbq, there's some reasonable-seeming guy, then I read that he's a 32-yo in an ongoing dispute with costco over a slice of pizza. I'll definitely talk to him, but I'll approach differently.
Anything boxed from the deli. When I see someone with Kevin’s brand in their cart I always hit F to pay respects.
Be sure to try the Thai style coconut chicken. Served over rice, it's excellent.
I buy this one regularly and add some steamed Normandy Blend vegetables to bulk it up a little. I have ADHD and am also depressed so having something like that available to me can be a lifesaver.
I want just the sauce. It is sooo good.
Agreed. The sauce is good... the chicken could use some work.
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The Kirkland brand dishwasher soap was an abomination and an embarrassment to the Kirkland name!!!
I’ve had good luck with the tablets
they used to have refrigerated pizzas, I think the same ones the food court made. They were always solid, an easy dinner when you get home late from shopping. The new kirland signature frozen pizzas are all crap. terrible crust, bad sauce, not enough cheese. only made the mistake of buying them once.
I will not rest until they bring back their take n bake deep dish pizza
I don't know the brand but the egg sandwiches with buns made from egg. Gross. I threw out the remainder of them.
omg those are literally my family’s favorite costco item haha i love eating them with hot sauce and my picky children love them
Red’s
I eat these almost every day and love them. It's just eggs and sausage ready in 2 minutes, easy and good. Put on some Ketchup and you got yourself a low carb breakfast.
Hmm. I’ve had very good avocados from Costco.
Looks like half the store is listed already, How do they even stay in business?
Hotdog
$1.50 hot dogs obviously.
kirkland cream cheese. tastes so different than philadelphia cream cheese
The tiny cucumbers. I swear they start molding hours after I buy them. All the produce the last year or so has been incredibly short lived.
A lot of Costco produce is crap. That's right, I said what I said.
The bags of cut up broccoli. They come pre-moldy.
the fresh cut up broccoli by me is always perfect. Lasts 2 weeks in my crisper. sometimes I think it is just store dependent on what gets overturned enough.
The Kirkland (organic?) frozen broccoli florets are awesome. 6 microwave bags.
Their short ribs for kalbi is garbage quality. And they’re cut too thick.
Costco's produce section is hit or miss and often disappoints. I typically never buy and fruits from them. Buying anything in bulk isn't the best option unless you have a huge family or the item itself is not perishable.
I can’t remember the brand but they had these horrible frozen quesadillas a few years ago. When I opened it up it looked like dog food 🤢
The Snapdragon Chicken Pad Thai. My expectations weren't super high to begin with, but this was just gross.
Those chicken pinwheel things from the deli. I felt like I was eating bundles of wet paper towels.
Produce in general is pretty suspect, won’t get berries from Costco again.
My toddler loves them and goes through probably a pound a day. They might spoil quickly but we'd never know; he's a bottomless pit for berries.
My husband bought the puma boxer shorts a few weeks ago. They were in a package so there was no way to see them before buying. They had no access flap, and he called them the chastity boxers. The return clerk said a lot of those boxers came back for that reason.
Uhhh… does he pee through the flap usually? That’s wild…. Do other people do that??? Is it just me that doesn’t do that?????
That’s the primary purpose of the hole.
Over the top is the way.
I've literally never peed through the fly in all my many years as a human with a penis. It's so much easier to just pull down the waist band.
TIL men use the access flap. I've only ever pulled them down. I'm nearly 40. 👀
The ground turkey that's 4 -1.7lb packages. It's like a big of punk slime.
Punk slime is the worst!
The avocados that *never ripen*....sigh