August 23, 202613 road milesAll four of us70s clearOrder 796Food court $6.4413 photographs
Four hot dog and soda combos, $6.00 plus $0.44 Connecticut tax.
In the warehouse, $127.13 across 17 items. Groceries, basically. Nothing that needs explaining.
The board. A quarter-pound-plus all-beef hot dog and a twenty-ounce soda, $1.50, calorie count and all.The food court receipt. Tap it to read every line.
What we found
Four hot dogs and four sodas. Six dollars, before tax.Ketchup, mustard, onions, assembled at the station like everybody else.Order 796, photographed on the center console before we had left the parking lot.
The condiment station. The onion machine is gone, they come in little plastic tubs now, and it is not the same.Kirkland Signature beef dinner franks. Costco makes its own hot dogs, which is a large part of why the price has never moved.Ordering at the kiosk. This one was the hot dog.
The last screen before the food. $6.44.Foxon Park white birch soda, twenty-four for $25.49. A Connecticut drink you will not find in most of the country.An electric dirt bike, $1,099.99, forty feet from the rotisserie chickens. This is the whole Costco experience in one photograph.
Chicken feet. In quantity, as everything here is.New Britain, from the parking lot. One down.Leaving. Six hundred and forty-seven to go.
What we thought
Hot dog and soda, $1.50 Would order again
All four of us, the same order, which is the whole reason any of this exists. Ketchup, mustard and onions are a must, according to Rich. — All four of us
Not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected to Costco Wholesale Corporation. We just really like the hot dog.
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