TIL Costco doesn't serve french fries at their american locations due to the lack of deep fryers. Customers who want fries generally need to go to Canadian locations to get some.
https://www.tastingtable.com/2079242/costco-food-court-french-fries/
https://www.tastingtable.com/2079242/costco-food-court-french-fries/
27 Comments
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 47d
But then my hot dog is cold by the time I get there.
DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 47d
Deep fryers are a pain to maintain. I totally get why they don't have them at US stores.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 47d
As a Canadian I can say Costco fries are really good
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 47d
Now I’m doubly mad that my wife won’t let us move there. Sigh…
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 47d
Does she know about Poutine?
Godort@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 47d
you can get a perfectly serviceable poutine at Costco in Canada
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 47d
Lamentably she does not do pork either. I bear a heavy cross indeed.
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 13 pts · 47d
You could probably find you a new wife in Canada.
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 47d
Canada Guy, “They took our wives!”
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 46d
Probably even one at Costco
TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 47d
Costco sells their Kirkland fries, oil, and probably a deep fryer. You have all the tools you need to get those fries.
AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth · 20 pts · 46d
Me living in Texas, "Man i would really love some french fries, seems like i have to take a quick trip to canada to get some because apparently Costco is the only company with french fries"
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 47d
I mean, they could bake them. They have ovens. Unless they make the chicken bake and pizzas in something else... 🤔
I don't think anything other than the pizza is really made fresh in that kitchen; half of it is definitely the same stuff they sell in the store frozen or in the fridge like the chicken bakes and the hotdogs just being reheated.
Also: There is no way FRENCH FRIES COVERED IN CHEESE AND GRAVY would not do well in America. It's actually kinda crazy poutine isn't more common here.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 47d
I think it’s the name. Call it “Eagle’s Nest” or some shit and it’d catch on like wildfire
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 47d
It's catching on!
At least here in the south. We love gravy down here anyway, and dipping fries in it has been around for ages. It's the curds that are entering the equation that's the new thing, but it's getting more and more common to find them in stores, and it's because of poutine
masterspace@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 46d
phailhaus@piefed.social · 1 pts · 46d
The pizzas and chicken bakes go in a conveyor oven that is likely too hot for fries.
Not sure what they are baking the recently-added chicken tenders in.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 46d
There are in fact places to get French fries in the us besides Costco, so I'm not sure traveling to Canada is your best choice here.
Linktank@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 46d
They're supposedly adding chicken strips soon? So maybe they'll be putting them in.
PenguinMage@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 46d
You can cook those in an oven (sorry to be the downer here)
phailhaus@piefed.social · 1 pts · 46d
Yep, their tenders are baked.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 46d
We have fries in Australian Costco's as well.
kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 46d
No poutine In the USA either
taiyang@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 46d
And TIL you all get fries. Huh. Are they any good?
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 46d
All that Costco hot food is so, so overrated. Like okay its a cheap hot dog. The pizza is disgusting. I wouldn't trust them with a potato
DisasterTransport@startrek.website · 9 pts · 46d
Truly, Lemmy is home to a wide variety of takes.
Manjushri@piefed.social · 3 pts · 46d
To each, their own, I guess. I like their pizza.
masterspace@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 46d
In Canada they're just normal frozen Cavendish fries. They're solid.