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Costco’s Big Cheese

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Costco’s iconic $1.50 hot dogs

Costco’s most legendary meal deals are its $1.50 hot dogs and sodas—the price not raised in decades—and $8 rotisserie chickens.

As well, its cheese prices are significantly lower in an otherwise expensive Canadian dairy market. Which is why I always pick up a hefty $10 wheel of its Kirkland double brie whenever I’m shopping there.

The latest deal is a Kirkland partnership with Coastal cheddar, arguably the best, crumbliest cheese in the Costco roster. While the $19 price may not sound cheap, the 810-gram block is a virtual doorstop. If you like full-bodied cheeses, I’m sure you’ll love this one.

Fabulous Coastal cheddar

A couple of Costco deals I never take advantage of. Gasoline is considerably cheaper than elsewhere, but I can never bring myself to wait in line to fill up (also, you can’t clean your windows). Second, Costco will accept almost any returns, but again I won’t wait in line to return a bag of avocados that didn’t ripen.

Waiting in the Costco returns line

This Cougar Definitely Well Aged

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They may not be so good at football, but Washington State University produces champion cheese

It may not be so good at football, but Washington State University produces champion cheese

When I was growing up in Edmonton, Alberta, a big part of any visit from our Pullman, Washington relatives was the tin of Cougar Gold cheese they’d bring as a gift. It was old and crumbly and came in a nearly two-pound tin. Yes, a tin. In my opinion, it’s the finest sharp white cheddar in North America, developed in the 1930s and still produced by students at Washington State University, with the individual maker’s name stamped on each tin.

So when I hear South Fork Public House in Pullman has a mac and cheese with Cougar Gold sauce ($11.50), I have to head right over. I don’t need a menu, steering right past the burgers, sandwiches, sliders and other pub food straight to the mac and cheese. The bacon bits and scallion topping are nice but don’t get in the way of the thick, rich Cougar Gold sauce sticking to the penne like a warm blanket. Now, that’s my kind of childhood comfort food.

After licking the bowl clean, I go in search of Dissmore’s IGA, so I can take a tin or two back to Canada. Note: The cheese is cheaper to buy at Ferdinand’s Ice Cream Shoppe, if you can find nearby parking on campus, but it doesn’t have Dissmore’s outstanding selection of beers. It can also be ordered online in the U.S. through the link above.

South Fork Public House makes an excellent mac 'n cheese featuring, of course, Cougar Gold

South Fork Public House makes an excellent mac ‘n cheese featuring, of course, Cougar Gold

South Fork Public House
1680 South Grand Avenue, Pullman
Opens daily at 11:30 am
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