Costco - worth the hype?
Jul 11th 2019, 12:14 am
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Re: Costco - worth the hype?
I'll bet you mean durian fruit, (breadfruit [might as well be] *). You can buy it in Superstore here, have been able to for ages. If it was Duran fruit and you bought 2, you could say Duran Duran. My friends shop on the Drive and get veg at a nice open air market, which isn't expensive, sausage at JN&Z's, which is worth every penny, Asian specialty foods at any Asian grocery, which is cheap, and booze at the liquor store, which is expensive. They like to get their seafood on Granville Island, which costs far more than anywhere, but I don't. When I want to get a quart of oysters or some mussels I go to one of the Chinese fish stores on the edge of Chinatown near the park where the Italians play bocce; it usually costs half as much and they're just as good.
*https://foodstruct.com/compare/bread...an-raworfrozen
*https://foodstruct.com/compare/bread...an-raworfrozen
Most people can't get past the smell to taste it, but OH had it in Indonesia and likes the taste. Durian icecream or gelato can be found in some of the speciality stores in Vancouver, and OH always tries to find out who has it "this year".
Imagine walking into the Superstore to find a very large cardboard box filled with ripe durian ............... people were walking in one door and turning right around and going out the nearest exit
I think breadfruit is completely different ..... it is smaller and doesn't have a smell. I tried some in Australia, and it was pretty good..
Jul 11th 2019, 6:17 am
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Re: Costco - worth the hype?
I get overwhelmed by the exaggeration of the floor to massive ceiling abundance. It's so over the top it's oppressive. Maybe a symbol of western consumer arrogance? . . . It's a far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts . . .
Jul 11th 2019, 12:22 pm
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Re: Costco - worth the hype?
OK, it's not Enoch Powell or the boss of Distillers on the cover of Private Eye but it's the best example local humour I've come across.
Jul 11th 2019, 7:54 pm
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Re: Costco - worth the hype?
Adam is an American cartoon published in Canadian papers, so a very poor example of Canadian humour.
I don't think there are many Canadians doing those strip cartoons, though there are several very good Canadian political cartoonists that are usually published on editorial pages of the newspapers.
I don't think there are many Canadians doing those strip cartoons, though there are several very good Canadian political cartoonists that are usually published on editorial pages of the newspapers.
Jul 13th 2019, 9:21 pm
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Re: Costco - worth the hype?
No...we have none! I did discuss it this week...you have a bigger French community in Moncton apparently...that being said ‘we’ have been discussing your purchases this week...so I am demanding the same...if you don’t sell it, nobody will buy it! I am hopeful 
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Jul 13th 2019, 10:06 pm
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Re: Costco - worth the hype?
Jul 13th 2019, 10:10 pm
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Re: Costco - worth the hype?
I asked the store manager of Save On once about a specific item in produce they didn't carry, the manager was able to bring it in, they stocked it for about 2 months but sales were too low so the main office wouldn't let the store order it anymore. But the manager tried.
Jul 19th 2019, 11:39 pm
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