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Strictly a snack-bar / food review, in response to a group of online acquaintances of mine who keep trying to convince me that Costco snack bar is a good place to grab some lunch.
I have managed to avoid having the experience up until now, but today I bit the bullet, and took up the challenge.
I just knew this was a bad idea, thus why I had taken my time about even trying it, but curiosity got the better of me and I bravely ordered myself some fries with gravy, and a Polish sausage hot dog.
My Scoring goes like this:
*Polish Sausage Dog: +3*/5
- not a great dog by any means, but the flavor was decent and it was properly cooked and nice and juicy. It lost a couple of stars for the lackluster bun and the very weak selection of condiments, namely just mustard / relish / ketchup, with no onions or kraut or anything worthwhile.
*French Fries -1*/5
- those horrendous McCain's crispy fries, frozen flavorless Potato Sticks apparently coated in Clark Griswold's "non-nutritive cereal varnish".
*Gravy -3*/5 (yes, minus 3!)
- congratulations to Costco for creating a gravy that is somehow completely devoid of any flavor whatsoever, there is not the slightest detectable shred of seasoning, beefiness, nor any hint of tomato-ey flavour, despite the weird Rosy pink color.
The combination of these fries and this gravy was staggeringly 100% flavor-free, setting a brand new standard for the term empty calories, and likely making the lackluster dog seem to taste much better than it actually did.
The fact that this place continues to get positive reviews for its snack-bar food can only be explained by assuming that it exists in the same Alternate Dimension that makes Pizza-Pizza Ontario's most popular pizza.
So, totalling up the score, 3 -1 -3 = -1*
So apparently Costco owes ME one star!!
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