\u201cNot everybody gets as excited about pizza and hot dogs as I do.\u201d<\/p>\n
These were the blasphemous words of Costco CEO Craig Jelinek when he addressed shareholders in January announcing major menu changes for the warehouse club’s popular food court, including adding more vegan, vegetarian and healthier options.<\/p>\n
Of course, the addition of things like a\u00e7ai bowls and vegan al pastor salads stood in stark contrast to what made the food court famous in the first place: its seemingly never-changed $1.50 all-beef hot dog or Polish dog\u00a0<\/em>combo.<\/p>\n Many feared the worst\u2014mainly, the fact that the six quarters in their pocket would now be strictly reserved for laundry rather than spent on a phallic edible consumed within a food court situated between a parking lot and a warehouse.<\/p>\n It turns out the drama is only half-worthy of the pain, since Costco will be ridding itself of its Polish dog\u2014filled with more spices than its all-beef counterpart and, by the estimation of dog connoisseurs across the nation, more flavorful\u2014but will still be offering the all-beef hot dog with a Pepsi-not-Coke-but-why? beverage of your choice for a buck-fifty.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, the heartache and questions remain:\u00a0Did anyone ever really order the all-beef? Who\u00a0<\/em>didn’t get the Polish? Where did these people live and how did they come into existence?<\/em><\/p>\n Still, #SaveThePolishDog moves on in its fight to return its European sausage back into the American buns it was meant to be nested in. As long as this continues, Costco continues to ruin the childhoods of everyone.<\/p>\n My entire childhood is eating a polish hot dog after shopping at Costco. And not to mention y’all took off the berry sundae and added an a\u00e7ai bowl. You also took off the chocolate ice cream and only have vanilla and this vanilla a\u00e7ai swirl. Genuinely mad. #SaveThePolishDog<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Olivia (@mylifeasliv11) July 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n