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I’ll pile on. They threw their weight in and fought back against the tariffs also: https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5628405/costco-sues-the-trump-administration-over-tariffs
I feel slightly out of touch here, what’s up with this Trump Mystery Meat?
the big orange man wants americans to have government subsidized hamburgers so people think that food costs arent as insane as they are, but he refuses to say where he’s getting it from. the general consensus seems to be that he’s allowing the import of a bunch of meat that was rejected by other countries for failing to meet quality standards. because that’s how you help struggling cattle ranchers, after all.
“We have Russian Mobniks cube at home,”
-said the Americans.
Word is the mystery meat is all that Argentine beef that was recalled recently.
WDYM “that was recalled recently”? How would that work?
Isn’t this meat going to be available long term?
I had thought they didn’t disclose the origin simply because their abatoirs are not compliant with US standards.
I might have to go vegetarian if this is the future of meat thanks to Trump.
Come, join us, as we feast on seitan.
Hail Seitan!
If you can afford to gamble $25 on the advice of an Internet stranger, do this:
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Buy a 4lb bag of Vital Wheat gluten. (Can be aquired on Anthony’s Goods website.)
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Mix it about 50-50 with water, and just… do stuff with it.
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Example1: Mix 350 grams of gluten powder with 450 grams of water (Optional 5 grams of MSG) and stir it together until it’s a big blob. Pick it up and stretch it in every possible direction and knead the absolute shit out of it. Divide into 7 portions, and place on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 250°F/120°C for about 2 hours. You now have a 50 grams of protein blob for each day of the week, to be sliced and dovided however you wish throughout the day.
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Example2: Get a ripping hot skillet and dump in Some™ gluten powder and Approximately® twice as much water and vigorously stir it with, like, a fork or something like that, and dump some cooking oil on it as an afterthought, and dump some spices in it and boil off all the water to make a fake Taco meat mix. If it sticks, take it off the heat and add a splash of water to unstick it, and it’s okay to jave juicy taco seitan crumbles. You actually cannot fuck this up.
Enjoy.
Will have to see if I like that, that sounds strange but probably better than Trump meat
I’ve made the seitan recipe printed on the back of Bob’s Red Mill brand vital wheat gluten, and it had a taste and texture similar to bologna. It was actually pretty nice cold in a sandwich, and fried up in a pan. If that doesn’t float your boat, there’s about a billion ways to prepare beans, you’re bound to like one of those.
I’m a picky eater (thanks, autism) but I’m sure I will find something that works for me. Thanks for the tips
Seitan is pretty good, my only issue with it in a sando or with noodles is like… you’re basically having wheat with wheat, it’s too much for me. But served with vegetables and sauce, it’s probably my favorite meat replacement
Switch to rye bread and rice noodles and problem solved.
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The meat comes from Russia I’d wager . The CIA director travelled on the c17 Globemaster heavy lift aircraft to deliver Fort Knox as payment.
(I’m being conspiracy sarcastic btw)
If you didn’t say you were being sarcastic, you could probably get bluanon types to run with it.
As much as this is basically an ad, I agree.
Support businesses that don’t take any shit because then you know they actually care about providing a service in addition to making money, as opposed to strictly the latter no holds barred.
Costco was very clear with the tariffs that they would eat the cost and just sue because they felt it was illegal. Low and behold, it was illegal, and they are getting a refund after not raising costs like everyone else. And their customers loved them for it.
This is actually their entire buisness model as well. They don’t really make much money from their products. They make almost 100% profit from their memberships. If I remember right, over 2/3 of their total profit comes from membership revenue. So if they piss people off and make them cancel their membership, that would really fuck them over.
Who would’ve thought that doing the right thing is good for public sentiment.
Man the fucking Simpsons again! Soon we’re gonna see Trump brand MALK at all schools.
Your bones are disintegrating because you didn’t drink enough MALK.
I don’t get it. Everyone likes rats but no one wants to drink their milk?
Costco is the Bernie Sanders of retail.
Notice that all the employees there smile and laugh as they work. It’s heartening.
Welcome to Costco. We love you.
Except for the people who run the hotdog thing, they are miserable. Maybe that’s just my store…
The amount of personal expression allowed is honestly impressive, and I love it. I saw an androgynous person wearing mild BDSM accessories working there and my thoughts were “go you, I’m so glad you’re allowed to be yourself in the workplace.”
Hopefully that kind of stuff can spread and we can get rid of treating workers as soulless drones elsewhere too.
Our local Costco banned rainbows and compared them to swasticas. So I don’t go there anymore.
You should message corporate. They would probably like to hear this. If you got enough people to mention it, it will reverse. Their buisness model depends on customers being happy and keeping/renewing their memberships.
Tried that. A few times. Some people agreed with that. Others were really upset by it. And ultimately nothing was done because the policy was instituted after a Karen complained about an employee wearing a rainbow pin.
It is the number one reason I keep coming back all these years. There are employees whose tenure rivals my age.
trump always seems to send the dangerous stuff to racial minority areas beware if you eat beef in one of these areas.
Or Trump Steaks to Sharper Image. Yeah, the mall electronics store.
Costco runs it’s own rigorous food inspection program
I haven’t had meat since I heard the laws were relaxed.
Haven’t had a hard time at all. Beans, seitan, impossible meat. It’s all delicious!
Never going back.
My daughter started calling Seitan “wheat meat”, and that’s its name now.
You’re right that’s a one way road 😂 It’s forever wheat meat to us now too
I wouldn’t be surprised if beans are the next thing in their list of stuff to ruin.
Goya beans
Sadly, it’s more common to get food-borne illness from (uncooked) produce than from meat.
I think the worry isn’t food poisoning or parasites, it’s cancer from the latest imported beef. Or maybe mad-cow. I just remember it was somehow worse than explosive diarrhea.
Was it not metal contamination? The cows had screws and worms in them or something.
Screw worm is a parasitic blowfly that eats by burrowing into living mammal flesh.
chloramphenicol - a banned for use in livestock antibiotic
So, the effects are rare. But China turned away beef that tested positive. Then the US government announced a mystery-origin meat to help lower prices. Maybe it was a false positive and a coincidence on the trade deal timing.
But I remember when mad cow disease was a concern. It was rare too. But also not a good way to die.
I feel like we are living the hypothetical, “if a bowl of skittles has up to 1% of them poisoned, do you eat them because your odds are decent?”
If I was only going to vomit a couple times, maybe if I’m hungry enough. If I’ll die an agonizing death from a poisoned skittle, then no, I’ll ty to find something else.
Just don’t eat meat, it’s better for everyone that way.
This is the ethically and factually correct approach.
Doesn’t fix this issue though. The lettuce and tofu are contaminated now.
Cook the lettuce, and you should have already been cooking the tofu.
I know you’re joking, but the bacteria itself often isn’t what gets you sick. It’s the waste products of the bacteria that gets you sick. Those don’t cook out.
In the case of the lettuce parasites, cooking does render them safe.
I wasn’t joking, kilt lettuce with potato cubes fried in the bacon fat and crumbles of crispy bacon is amazing.
You can also stirfry it with some garlic, and ginger, salt, and sugar, just make sure you get the oil super hot before you add the lettuce, cook for like 30 seconds, then throw in cornstarch slurry and remove from heat. Maybe fry it with some blanched carrots, bell pepper, w/e.
Theres also soup.
Yes, but i honestly can’t stop myself
Have you heard of the idea of vegan plus bacon? Something like someone said i would go vegan but i just love bacon. And the response was, ok, go vegan plus bacon.
Basically don’t think of it as all or nothing. Being as vegan as you possibly can is better than not trying. Imperfect veganism still makes a difference.
I am working out a diet that is primarily vegan but get to keep chicken for now. Until i figure out something else to replace it. Also sometimes pork, but only sometimes.
If everyone did it there would be far less need for factory farming, harmful inhumane killing of animals and damage to the environment as we would all be eating sustainable and environmentally friendlier foods. Just with some bacon.
This mentality has me and my family eating dramatically less meat than we otherwise would and I hope to continue that slide, I think it’s a great strategy most folks who want to try can use to get started.
Have you tried petting a cow? I eat way less beef after a random cow on the side of the road rolled over so I could rub its belly.
Just avoid buying it.
Simply avoiding meat is a lot easier than going completely vegan. You have a very good motivator to do so right now too.
If only…
Like virtually every other US government body, the corporate capture of the USDA is nearly total, they are little more than a rubber stamp for whatever the meat industry feels is most profitable. It’s been a long, long time since the US led in the world in the safety and cleanliness of our food production.
Maga meat is deported immigrants. Sounds crazy, but wasn’t long ago they were telling the world Ohioans were “eating the pets.”
He’s had to have eaten at least one child post rape, right? I mean, that’s his modus operandi.
Also, never met a golfer I could tolerate for more than 20 seconds. Mini golf is where the real ones play.
All correct except the golf. You can’t pretend cracking drives ain’t therapeutic.
Sure, so would smashing in some billionaire kneecaps. But we don’t have courses for that.
…Unless, you just do it on golf courses? Hold on, I’m doing my own thing now
That’s why they put a driving range next to the putt, putt.
I got a course with a pirate ship closeish by. It makes me feel like a real adult playing it.
As it should!
Plus, they dropped Callaway Golf after their horrific ad depicting violence against women.
Wait… What?
Looked it up, apparently they did an Obsession parody, but no one got the reference so it looked like the CEO of the company just pushed a woman to the ground for trying to touch his golf clubs.
I’ve seen the ad, I didn’t get the reference either. I haven’t seen Obsession, but apparently that’s what that was in reference to…
If you have to be told what the reference is, you’re probably not doing references right.
It is awfully suspicious how they make this ad after the CEO sells a bunch of stock while also doing this during a stock buyback.
Some have theorized the ad was done intentionally to make the stock buyback cheaper
Why did it have to be his partner he pushed down helpless? Why couldn’t he push down a friend guy?
Thank you for the context! I’ve seen the ad in passing and really for the life of me, couldn’t understand why anyone thought that was a good idea. Now I kinda get it. It’s still terrible, but at least it’s not just “haha, hurting women funny”.
I honestly don’t give a fuck if it was a reference to something, depicting violence against women to protect your fucking golf clubs from cooties or whatever is wildly unacceptable. The fact that even the script got approved is mind boggling, let alone that the shoot, editing, and distribution all pushed it through.
Callaway is now on my ‘never buy, even used or on sale’ list.
Na, I’m cool with buying second hand preemo stuff. My money isn’t going to them, and no one is going to notice the logo flying 300 yards through the air.
you throw your golf clubs 300 yards?
Only the sand wedge.
Personally I don’t think any anti-woman message was intended by it.
I don’t think this is anywhere on the level of “Has good jeans/genes”
That said I don’t play golf so I wasn’t going to buy the clubs even if it was a transwoman shoving Elon Musk
The golf club company ran an ad where a woman went to touch a golf club and her man pushed her down and threatened her for her transgression.
Costco stopped carrying their clubs in response
To be fair, it wasn’t Callaway directly. It was Good Good Golf, a golf youtube channel, that aired the ad. Callaway had a partnership with them to cobrand the golf club, but dropped Good Good immediately after the ad and canceled the branded club.
Callaway still deserves the backlash from associating with them though and apparently someone giving the ok for the ad.
Thank you for the added context. It is slightly less worse, but still bad.
Does the US not have some kind of advertising standards board that you have to get adverts approved before you’re allowed to publicly post them?
Dude, no, this country is tragicomically fucked up!
We don’t have standards keeping the ass parasites out of the lettuce, take a second and ponder
Thank god it’s just lettuce though… Right?
Only the salad eaters get the unstoppable diarrea. If you want the flesh eating worms you need to choose the beef.
If you eat both, you can let them fight it out in your gut
We generally presume companies will choose not to do that to their own reputations, but apparently that presumption was wrong.
With economies of scale you end up with basically one producer producing stuff for incredibly cheap. Take poultry for example, Tyson is like the only name you’ll see at major retailers. Even most store brands are just relabeled Tyson product. So it really doesn’t matter to them if they get a couple people sick, cause we’re else you gunna go? Blackbird farms, and pay $38 a chicken? Not the very large majority of price sensitive people living paycheck to paycheck.
Sadly it is on brand for the US. Really trying to bring back the good ole days where the white man can do whatever with impunity. Keeping women in their place, bare foot and pregnant without means.
That sounds like it would go against the First Amendment.
Nope. Free speech.
Free speech just protect you from the government, gone out of the window anyway as of late.
But even when free speech wasn’t forced it wouldn’t force channels to carry your advertisement.
No, the First Amendment only protects you from the government. “Free speech” is a philosophical principle which has nothing to do with governments directly.
However, an “advertising standards board” that decides what can and cannot be posted publicly sounds pretty governmental to me.
But even when free speech wasn’t forced it wouldn’t force channels to carry your advertisement.
Of course, but that still isn’t any kind of universal standards board, that’s individual channels deciding independently.
No one is boycotting the companies which showed the ad.
Imagine commenting this on a comment discussing how an entire retailer is boycotting one of the companies involved.
Yes, the company that made the ad. Unless something happened that I’m not aware of, nothing has happened to the marketing firm who made the ad nor the various companies who served the ad to audiences.
The question was phrased in a way asking if an ad platform ran it across their standards and practices to see if the ad should be aired. The ad was in poor taste, but it could be shown on network television so no one stopped it. The risk for showing a controversial ad is near zero. The only company dealing with a boycott is the company that was advertising its product.
That’s not what free speech is. Free speech doesn’t let you say whatever you want to anyone, it’s intention is to protect you while speaking out against government officials and offices. Last I checked Callaway wasn’t the 4th branch of the government, let’s not give turkey neck any ideas.
The FCC should be regulating ads like this, but this is a clown country and capitalism says domestic violence is a viable commodity to sell.
Free speech doesn’t let you say whatever you want to anyone, it’s intention is to protect you while speaking out against government officials and offices.
It sounds like you’re getting freedom of speech mixed up with the First Amendment. They aren’t the same thing. The First Amendment’s intention is to protect your freedom of speech from the government. If you want your freedom of speech protected from other things (such as your employer), the First Amendment won’t protect you.
No sir, no confusion here. You and I both said the same thing. Freedom of speech / free speech are the same thing in the US, a very specific legal construct under the first amendment, which many people don’t understand the boundaries of. I have a degree in this field, so I’m pretty up to speed on basic civil rights. Hence why I questioned the other user on why they think costco boycotting callaway because of a gross chud ad had anything to do with a law that deals with government overreach.
Now if the ad depicted the dude tackling Trump to the ground and threatening him for touching their underage caddy, and the FBI raided their offices in response, NOW we’d be talking about a first amendment issue as that’d be direct political commentary and an illegal response by the government.
I’m not talking about the legal construct, though. I’m talking about the philosophical principle.
While the topic was abhorrent and in bad taste, I don’t think there was ever a time when the FCC banned jokes about spouse/family abuse.
The Honeymooners regularly joked about the husband finally breaking and beating his wife. I Love Lucy had an episode where Lucy tried to get a sunburn so Ricky wouldn’t beat her as hard for buying an expensive dress. The Simpsons had Homer choking Bart as a running gag. All these shows were on Broadcast TV.
The FCC being useless and bought off still doesn’t mean that Callaway gets special first amendment protections. They’re a corporation, they aren’t protected from consumers and retailers dropping their products for promoting crimes, or from potential lawsuits as a result of harmful marketing.
Again, this topic has nothing to do with free speech.
I bring it up because companies which broadcast and publish material are generally given greater deference by the public for showing material they disagree with. As long as the standards are adhered to evenly, the broadcaster isn’t going to be boycotted for an ad. No one is boycotting the television stations and streamers for airing this ad; all the attention is going to Calloway.
The consequences of free speech are felt by those paying for it in public opinion, not those serving it.
It’s such a gross concept. Wild anyone thought this was a funny, gotta be pretty deep in bro to not see red flags.
To add just a little bit of extra “fuck you” to the situation, this was the first advertisement from Callaway featuring women. Practically progressive!
That was probably the worst ad I’ve ever seen. Concept, execution, humor, morality, all terrible. There’s not one redeeming factor here.
Like what is the point they are trying to make even?
Is the club so fragile that it’ll break if touched?
Golfers are seriously superstitious?
Women suck and can’t golf?
If anything it would have been a better commercial to do the opposite, hand the club out to literally everyone that’s playing and they all hit better.
“Our golf clubs are so good, it’ll make you want to beat a woman.” Callaway Golf Clubs
No, they’re playing on a fetish, just like sexy women in a car ad, but infinitely grosser.
I’m NGL, initially i thought “This is probably one of those wacky ads taken out of context.” And no, it’s really really super gross. There’s nothing humorous about it, it’s just a really serious ad about pushing down and threatening a woman who touches your golf club.
It wouldn’t be any better if the victim was a man either. The fact that there’s no other words except ‘the victim’ is telling.
I mean, ‘golf company owner’ is already selecting for the biggest chud in existence.
Personally I think that if you set out to invent the most boring sport you wouldn’t be able to beat golf but I accept that some people strangely do find it attractive and they’re not all toxic masculinity “alpha” types, so they should really have seen that one coming.
I don’t like golf, but at least it gives you an afternoon’s walk in something resembling nature
Cricket on the other hand, takes a week to play and is just running back and forth
There is absolutely nothing about a golf course that resembles nature. It’s nothing but chemicals and underpaid guys with gas fume belching machines.
If you want a wandering outdoor sport with real nature, try out frisbee golf or field archery. They also have the bonus of not destroying habitats and polluting local waterways with way too much nitrogen fertilizer.
Aye and no. Don’t get me wrong, golf courses are as you say fertiliser polluted and lacking in biodiversity. But the rough, surrounding the whole course, and the woods they’re often placed in certainly resemble nature. There’s still birds, foxes, squirrels, etc, going about.
Certainly in Scotland at least, which is my only personal experience of courses. And being the home of golf I don’t think it’s disingenuous for me to use that as a basis for the claim.
I have seen videos and pictures of courses in places like Florida though and if a Scottish course is a tragedy of nature, a Florida course is an abomination.
You’re right that Scotland and a few other places with a climate identical to Scotland it’s fine. That is a very small portion of the world’s golf courses.
And being the home of golf
Is it true that golf was invented when someone wacked the severed head of a goblin down a rabbit hole with a shillelagh?
It’s fun to play, but I really don’t understand how people watch it regularly.
I haven’t played golf yet (only minigolf), but i could see me enjoying it on a warm spring day with some clouds to take a stroll on the green while actually pursuing a specific goal. But I would rather take a walk in the woods, which is a much more relaxing area to be in.
I’m quite fond of golf (it’s really cheap to play near me) and honestly there’s a steep learning curve. And it’s only fun once you get past that. But I like how you get instant feedback on how you did, especially if you play with friends. Improving at golf feels great, but I imagine it kinda sucks once you plateau.
Croquet is more boring than golf. And I fucking hate golf and golfers.
holy shit lmao. i can just imagine all the people involved in making this chuckling to themselves over how funny they think it is.
I work in marketing. There’s a point where where you make so much money you honestly believe you take massive shits and everyone thinks it smells great.
Lmao, “This is not who I am.” Dude, you’re not an actor, you seemed to do the thing pretty well
Even if it was a guy pushing another guy I don’t see how that would’ve ever been a funny spoof skit.
There was no way to salvage this.
Say the guy had just grabbed the woman’s arm or put his arm in front of her to stop her instead. You still have that threat he makes towards her.
Even if that threat was changed to “no one touches my club except me”, you still have that underlying implication of a threat.
There’s no universe that could’ve salvaged this.
I think the only way would be to have it be Bart and Homer replicating the old Butterfinger ads with Homer’s golf club.
So if you walk into an electronics lab and see a piece of equipment with squee 😍 all these cool dials! 😍 and 🥰 🥰 lights!!! 🥰 🥰 and a threatening 😠 sign that says “don’t touch,” and you turn a dial just a little, but you totally didn’t hurt anything, who was in the wrong now that the equipment isn’t calibrated? The person for making the threatening sign? The person for leaving their equipment where any toddler could get to it? Or the the toddler for not having agency enough to know not to touch something that doesn’t belong to them? Are you going to pay for the engineering time it took a team to calibrate the equipment for a First Article Test the next week? You’re going to pay for the customers to fly back home after flying in on a Sunday for a Monday/Tuesday test that now can’t happen?
Just because you don’t assign a value to a golf club doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a value to the person who bought it, trained with it, and went through the effort to carry it somewhere to play golf. And golf clubs or engineering labs aside, you don’t seem like you’ve ever had something broken by someone else before you even got a chance to use it. Are you going to refund the guy’s once in a lifetime golf vacation because you don’t know what forces a graphite shaft can/can’t withstand? Are you going to replace his grandpa’s headcover that he uses because it reminds him of his deceased grandpa teaching him golf?
The engineering lab would obviously have access controls because of people who don’t understand what they’re doing. Someone’s golf clubs on a golf course, within sight of the owner and within asking distance to see if it’s OK to look at one can usually rely on common sense and etiquette. Usually…
That’s no excuse for violence
So you agree with the ad’s message then? That violently shoving people to the ground if they reach for your golf clubs without asking is okay?
i had to watch an ad before i got to watch the ad
That was so much more fucked up than I expected. This has to be intentional, it is very hard to believe that anyone thought this made for a good commercial in any way other than to appeal to chuds who enjoy violence against women. It is blatant and explicit, the mask is off.
A joke ad that was blown way out of proportion by a bunch of people saying it promoted women’s violence. An overreaction.
What was the joke?
A woman reaches for his club and he violently SHOVES her to the ground. How is that in any way not violence against a woman.
It was the guys IRL girlfriend and it was an obvious joke commercial. It could have easily been the same commercial with the girlfriend shoving the guy if they were her clubs or a guy shoving his brother and no one would have batted an eye.
Also, you say “violently shoves” and that’s what it was supposed to be made to look like, but if you actually look at the commercial he barely pushes her at all. It had nothing to do with being sexist or promoting violence against women. It was a funny lil “don’t touch my golf club” commercial that had nothing to do with promoting violence.
You keep saying “joke commercial”. What was the joke?
That someone would violently guard against having their golf club touched.
But he didn’t depict the other way around, they depicted a man shoving a woman down on the ground over a golf club. Nothing is funny about that and perpetuates the idea that this is ok for younger generations
Anyone who would actually believe it’s acceptable to shove tackle anyone down from touching a golf club is an idiot. The fact that you’re harping over an ad where it was a guy doing it to a woman is just the proof of that. Sounds like you’re sexist.
They also ate the cost of the tariffs instead of raising prices
Every time I hear anything about Costco it always seems to be the only US company that’s run by someone within an actual brain and who is capable of thinking more than 1 quarter into the future.
Apparently they do exist in Europe but I’ve never seen them
It’s true, and I think a big factor is they have a genuinely brilliant business model.
Basically they sell everything in bulk and roughly at cost, and make their whole profit from membership fees. This is brilliant because it creates upsides for all 3 parties involved:
- the consumer gets cheap items
- the brands selling things get large bulk sales negotiated in advance
- Costco gets a stable and extremely popular store
I shill for Costco whenever I can because this has been my experience too. Their employee badges have “member since” on them and there’s a LOT of people who have been there for 15+ years. Also 2 dollars gets you a slice of pizza that takes up a whole paper plate.
They are in Canada too, and yeah they are the best US store chain by far. Still don’t buy from them tho
Costco Canada employee here. Yeah there is a lot of corporate bullshit, but also a lot of good. I help send out pallets of stuff to local food banks and animal shelters every day. I have the mid level benefits that give me 80 percent of all my healthcare expenditures. All of them.
In two weeks I will top out on the pay scale at $34.40/hr. I started with Costco in 2022, and I’m just a returns clerk in the back, not a manager or supervisor.
In Canada it feels like a, “the enemy of my enemy” situation. Yes they’re a massive US company, but our own grocery oligopoly doesn’t feel great to support either. Shopping local is the best option, but cost can often be a problem.
True enough. I’d rather keep money from flowing south tho.
I think there are two Costco stores in Paris. Not sure about anywhere else.
