"Don't have a hard time forgetting it" What is your favorite Hot Dog?

[RavingLunatic]

The food court is outside on some Costco, so I assume so.

 

[Lee Vining]

I don't know about down there but here you don't need a membership for a hot dog. Just enter via the 'exit' to go to the service area (returns, memberships counter).
The food court is just behind it (as are the washrooms). These are all after you have exited the check outs.
1. Of course, this is supposing you are willing to drive around for hours looking for a parking spot.
2. Of course, never having eaten there - this is supposing that you do not have to tap your membership card in the food mall.

Cigarettes and booze no membership required at the COSTCOs here.
Dunno if they still sell smokes.

 

[jennyema]

I’m making pigs in a blanket for a small Super Bowl gathering tomorrow so I bought 3 packs of Hebrew National. They make the best PIBs.

 

[medtran49]

We also only buy Hebrew National or Nathan's. Buns are either a potato bread brand or 1 of the other good sandwich bread brands. Can't remember names. We'll get brioche buns when the bakery in our grocery has them on sale.

We were a bit hesitant to try, but, after seeing it on a food/travel tv show, I came up with a recipe for Unicorn dogs as a copycat from The Unicorn/Narwhal in Seattle. A jumbo hot dog battered in a corn dog batter made with fresh corn and butter, fried then split and stuffed with a sriracha/cream cheese mix, covered with caramelized onions, drizzled with more sriracha, garnished with green onion tops. A bit of work for a hot dog but it was really quite good.

 

[caseydog]

Cigarettes and booze no membership required at the COSTCOs here.
Dunno if they still sell smokes.

They don't sell cigarettes here, that I have seen. The COSTCO in Frisco does not have liquor, just beer and wine. The locations that do have liquor in Texas have to have the liquor in a separate area with no access to and from the rest of the store. Liquor can not be sold in grocery stores, or any other stores except dedicated liquor stores (which must be closed on Sundays).

I don't know if you can shop COSTCO liquor stores without a membership. I don't have one close to me.

CD

 

[taxlady]

Liquor can not be sold in grocery stores, or any other stores except dedicated liquor stores (which must be closed on Sundays).

In Quebec, liquor can't be sold anywhere except the SAQ, the government run liquor stores. Grocery stores can sell beer and wine. I think they can sell fortified wine, but I won't swear to it. However, the SAQ is open on Sundays. They even have SAQ Express stores that have a smaller selection but they are open until 22h (10PM) seven days a week. In some small towns a local store gets a license to sell all of the same kinds of booze as the SAQ. There are very strict rules about that. I'm not sure what they are, but it's not that they have to be closed on Sundays. When I first moved to Quebec in the 1970s, you couldn't even wander around the SAQ. You stood in line and when you got to the counter, you told the sales person what you wanted and they would get it from the back and sell it to you, assuming you were sober and looked at least 18 years old or could prove you were. I guess I should have written, "looked sober", because there wasn't a sobriety test.

 

[caseydog]

In Quebec, liquor can't be sold anywhere except the SAQ, the government run liquor stores. Grocery stores can sell beer and wine. I think they can sell fortified wine, but I won't swear to it. However, the SAQ is open on Sundays. They even have SAQ Express stores that have a smaller selection but they are open until 22h (10PM) seven days a week. In some small towns a local store gets a license to sell all of the same kinds of booze as the SAQ. There are very strict rules about that. I'm not sure what they are, but it's not that they have to be closed on Sundays. When I first moved to Quebec in the 1970s, you couldn't even wander around the SAQ. You stood in line and when you got to the counter, you told the sales person what you wanted and they would get it from the back and sell it to you, assuming you were sober and looked at least 18 years old or could prove you were. I guess I should have written, "looked sober", because there wasn't a sobriety test.

I'm pretty sure there are still some States in the US that have "State Stores" for liquor purchases.

As a teenager in Port Arthur, Texas, I was able to buy beer, wine and liquor when I was sixteen. The legal age was 18, but we all knew places we could buy liquor where the only ID you needed was some green pieces of paper with dead presidents pictures on them.

It's a lot different now. It is way harder to buy booze underage, which now means less than 21. Yeah, you can join the Army and die for your country, but can't buy a beer.

CD

 

[Sir_Loin_of_Beef]

Yeah, you can join the Army and die for your country, but can't buy a beer.

CD

On base, you can do both!

 

[Andy M.]

I'm pretty sure there are still some States in the US that have "State Stores" for liquor purchases.

NH has state liquor stores. Just for liquor. Beer and wine are sold elsewhere. We buy ours at the supermarket. Have to cross the street for bourbon.

 

[Lee Vining]

Utah may have both.

 

[caseydog]

NH has state liquor stores. Just for liquor. Beer and wine are sold elsewhere. We buy ours at the supermarket. Have to cross the street for bourbon.

I have to go to the next town for Bourbon, or any liquor. Frisco has still not successfully voted to allow liquor stores. We are the only suburb around that does not allow them. I live a couple miles from the Frisco/McKinney border, and the liquor stores are lined up on the East side of the road that defines the border. Four miles South of me is Plano. Same thing, liquor stores all along the border. All that tax revenue going to every city on every side of us. No wonder our city property taxes are so high.

CD

 

[onedaychef]

We also only buy Hebrew National or Nathan's. Buns are either a potato bread brand or 1 of the other good sandwich bread brands. Can't remember names. We'll get brioche buns when the bakery in our grocery has them on sale.

We were a bit hesitant to try, but, after seeing it on a food/travel tv show, I came up with a recipe for Unicorn dogs as a copycat from The Unicorn/Narwhal in Seattle. A jumbo hot dog battered in a corn dog batter made with fresh corn and butter, fried then split and stuffed with a sriracha/cream cheese mix, covered with caramelized onions, drizzled with more sriracha, garnished with green onion tops. A bit of work for a hot dog but it was really quite good.

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the onions... mwah!