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raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

EvilJoven posted:

Ya. They're called CobraFists.

lol

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raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
They got a ton of those on the mopeds in China, where they are probably also called CobraFists, because that name is really bad and Chinese people love really bad names for things

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

FilthyImp posted:

My costco started carrying Bulgogi Potstickers and THEY'RE loving AMAZING

I buy those all the time

I put them into the egg drop soup I make usually

I used to live in an area with a ton of Asian markets and one of the most consistently good products were the frozen dumplings, there were whole freezer aisles of them in a million iterations, america hasn't even begun to awaken in the frozen dumps department

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Sir you're going to have to wait for the churros to be done out the frier

An extreme base idiot: HUFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Also you said oven but proper churros are fried

You can get away with baking them but they're doughnuts so if you like the baked one at Costco you still have worlds to explore

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Making them is a pain in the loving rear end

Buying them is ancient wisdom

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

jerry seinfel posted:

Got costco gas for the first time today

One customer looked at me like i was a wizard when i pulled the hose to the far side of my car after getting in an entirely empty lane

Should get a back window print of that and put it on your car

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
I thought the Costco card had US based customer service which is always worth having even if you have to wait to get someone on the phone

Also they may still be having growing pains because Costco just shifted en masse to it fairly recently

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Teabag Dome Scandal posted:

I've never had any problems but I've never had to call customer service for anything which seems to be the issue? I didn't realize different branded cards had different levels of customer service with Citi?

It's super common for large retail operations to have specific arrangements for their branded cards, and that includes different customer service pods taking care of calls. My dad had a Cabela's card for years (a midwestern sporting goods store) and Cabelas was super insistent that anyone that calls the number on the card gets to talk to an American with minimal wait time, no computers.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Chinatown posted:

posted this before but the fuckin' Trident beer battered halibut is tits.

you can go fish and chips, fish and veggies, fish and whatever, or put it in a tortilla and you got a freakin' fish taco.

PBUC.

U gotta deep fry it?

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Do they have sherpa not throws

I don't like throw size

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

GORDON posted:

I have one of every size... I'm not sure why they made the massive king sized one. It's huge... hard to fold, hard to wash and dry, and the Queen is already bigger than your couch so it's more than big enough for 3 naked adults to cuddle under.

SO... the king really feels like overkill.

Maybe it is for your king sized bed you rube!

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Gatts posted:

I like how I went to the west side market, like a farmers market and butcher area with some prepared stuff too, in Cleveland to look for bulgogi and uncooked tortillas but couldn’t find it and yet Costco has both.

Anyone tried their bulgogi and uncooked tortillas? How is it?

Peace be upon Costco

Bulgogi is a good take and bake

Main issue is that even if you have a huge frypan you gotta do it in two batches (it's not a take and bake it's a take and pan fry)

I ain't gonna buy halfcooked tortillas even if some goon comes in here and says it's the best thing in the world so I don't know about that

raton fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Oct 20, 2018

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Do they have twin sherpas for my dad who lives in his chair now and gets cold

Not throw or queen or King, the other size

Also does the sherpa stuff come off if you pull on it with your fingers

I demand you tell me

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

The Hambulance posted:

Costco boils the food court hot dogs, and I believe in the infallibility of the church.

Realtalk: As a rule, I’d never boil a hotdog, but the Costco food court dogs that you buy in the refrigerated section are far too salty when microwaved or grilled. Boiling them for 10 minutes makes them taste better, IMO.

It's normal to boil a sausage before you grill or fry it, it's hard to get the middle cooked otherwise which you don't want to do with ground pork

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

FCKGW posted:

Juts booked a 9 day European vacation through Costco. It costs more than a similar trip I was looking at through Groupons but Costco is only giving you 4 and 5 star hotels in city centers within walking distance to all your destinations. The ones on Groupon were all tiny 2-3 star hotels 30min out of town. The Costco deal even includes private pickup from the airport with one of those little dudes holding the sign with your name on it.

PBUC

Opposite of how I travel but I'm sure your wife will enjoy it

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

durrneez posted:

Same but i found a way around the weather!! I have the fans blasting at night to make the house cold.

Once upon a time in the tropics I came home and my gf was under a comforter she had bought somewhere with the AC dialed down to 60 and I asked her what she was doing and she said "Having fun"

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Except that wasn't me but that's how the guy who told me that story said it

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
I went to COSTCO and looked at SHERPA BLANKETS and all they had was Queen ones and I like the other kind of fleece more the rough and creuel kind

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Costco is a terrible place to buy onions

The 20lb bag is too much onion!

Don't you know onions go bad COSTCO you DUMB PRICK

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

jerry seinfel posted:

eat more onion

I made pelemeni and varenitikik for parents one time and tey each got a pile of carmelized onions

Neither of them knew what a caremelized onion was somehow and I thought they were joking about "what did you do to the onion" and dad said "fine dpon't tell me whatever"

Anyway they each ate the equivalent of one giant sweet onion with their russian raviolis

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
The cool thing about onion is that they tried their best to be poison and that just made us want to eat them more

Garlic too

Peppers

Caffiene

gently caress off plants lol

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

hope and vaseline posted:

How do you go through life without ever having caramelized onions, amazing

The first time my dad ate lamb was when I grilled some when he was about 64 years old

His lamb review: "Oh this is something different!"

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

pacerhimself posted:

Do you have a cool dry place unexposed to sunlight?

They will still go bad pendejo, that's 20lbs I gotta go trhough in like two weeks or its too late

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

pacerhimself posted:

They last for much longer than that if stored properly but most people don't have a root cellar so it's understandable.

I refuse to take that chance

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Fallom posted:

put them in your crawl space

thats full of those plastic drums murderers use

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Do you live in Adelaide or something?

Wherever has the most murderers

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

FogHelmut posted:

I had to drive up 7000 vertical feet to Big Bear to get to a temperature where I could use my flannel. It's been upper 80s at my house the past several days.

Did you get the thangs you doin did?

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

hakimashou posted:

Have you ever read all the crazy poo poo on the label?

Everyone who had a girlfriend in college has at one time read all the crazy poo poo on the label

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
When I first bartended in NY I was surprised and horrified to find out that Henny and Coke and Henny and Cranberry are normal (black guy in a night club) drinks there.

There's a drink called a Sidecar that uses cognac/brandy (it's the usual liquor + orange liqueur + lemon or lime juice thing that every hard liquor has variant on) but other than that usually you drink brandy neat.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
There are very nice brandies too, the cognac region doesn't have a lock on quality grape whiskey

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

El Jebus posted:

Now that I think about it, my mother likes her Old Fashioned with VSOP. So XO would just be more expensive but also maybe higher quality? Really though, it's the VS/VSOP/XO is similar to Silver/Reposado/And for tequila. Sip that expensive stuff and if you want to make mixed drinks, buy the lessers.

You could sub cognac or brandy in for the whiskey in any whiskey cocktail really but with the price points it usually doesn't make sense to mix cognac with anything

It's not quite the same as silver/reposado/anejo because a VS cognac is already dark and wooded up whereas a silver tequila is not but whatever

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Prokhor Zakharov posted:

I read somewhere that Costco is the single largest wine buyer on planet earth so all the top brands are constantly begging for the mighty 'Cos attentions/shelf space

It's like that with any large retailer though, getting your wine into Target or Walmart or Costco or one of the major grocery store chains involves a lot of work and probably razor thin margins on your behalf etc, but I saw the same thing you did at one point so maybe Costco has that going on more than most

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
You can mix cognac or brandy if you want, but any time you're thinking of mixing a 40 or so dollar bottle of booze there's probably a 20 dollar one that would do just as well

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

naem posted:

are there chefs whose whole job is to slice that properly

Yeah but they're Spaniards so "properly" is pretty forgiving

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Sweeter wines are easier to keep drinkable and get more repeat buys

Doesn't bother me though I don't care about sweet v dry so long as the wines tolerable

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
No skylights, no fancy hams at mine, sherpa throws only in Queen, a very provincial Costco

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Ham can be butt or leg meat, the name comes from the same place as hamstring

Sometimes butt ham is more money than leg ham or maybe the other way around I forget, but it's like a ten cent difference or something

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

eonwe posted:

I just got a costco membership

whats some good poo poo to get there

I basically bought a bunch of non-perishables to start

a big rear end bag of oats, some annie's mac and cheese, etc

Take and bakes

Booze

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raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

eonwe posted:

oh I didn't notice they had take and bake stuff

thats good poo poo, lately ive been really tired when ig et off work

Did you just go in the front of the store and timidly buy sometihing and then run away haha guys look at this guy lol

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