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Re: Bring Back Kosher Hot Dogs to Costco Snack Bar--Sign the Petition!

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From: Al Eisner
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:47
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On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, spamtrap1888@gmail.com wrote:

> On Mar 2, 8:18=A0am, "Sanity" <San...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> "Karen" <ksoa...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:15578c20-d947-4e95-80f0-af2c0e9dff93@l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com..=
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>> On Mar 1, 2:15 pm, SMS <scharf.ste...@geemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We urge Costo to bring back kosher hot dogs and polish sausages to the
>>> snack bar. If necessary raise the price to $1.75 or $2.00 because of th=
e
>>> extra cost of a superior product.
>>> Maybe it's not such a bad idea, changing hot dogs at the snack bar?
>>> Maybe they'll be more like the hotdogs at the baseball games, and
>>> those taste better than costco snack bar hotdogs.
>>
>> Baseball hotdogs taste good? =A0Dirty water hotdogs?
>
> They taste good chiefly because you're at the ball game.

Maybe Costco could stage ball games to make the food more palatable?

> I've made the local (A's) ball park dogs at home -- Miller's -- and
> they're nothing special.

When I've been there (not for a couple of years, so my info. might be out o=
f
date) I figured that so long as I was paying for overpriced food I might
as well use the Saag's stand, which had pretty good dogs.

As to the comment about the variability of Kirkland's food products,
isn't that reason enough to object to them?  (Not that it matters a
great deal to me -- I rarely feel a need to eat while at Costco, unless
I'm in a long wait for tire replacement.)
--=20

                                                              Al Eisner
                                                      San Mateo Co., CA
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From: Al Eisner <eisner@slac.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.consumers.frugal-living,ba.food,nyc.food
Subject: Re: Bring Back Kosher Hot Dogs to Costco Snack Bar--Sign the 
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