Costco Shoppers Are Slamming a Popular Meal Kit From the Warehouse—Calling It a 'Huge Miss' and 'Inedible'
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You can always expect Costco shoppers to keep it real when it comes to the items they've purchased at the warehouse, whether they love it or hate it. Despite this consistent honesty, we were not prepared for the vitriolic review one customer gave for a meal kit sold at Costco.
In a Reddit post shared earlier this week, the customer gave their brutally honest thoughts on the "inedible" Take Home Chicken Sesame Noodles meal kit.
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"I'm not one to usually complain and I'll usually just take the L, but I can't get over how….bad this meal was," they wrote. "The noodles are fine, the veggies were meh, the sauce tastes like 1990s lean cuisine while being salty and bland simultaneously, and the chicken was inedible. I've always heard the expression rubbery chicken, but up until tonight, I hadn't experienced it. It was so bad I actually spit it back out on my plate. Even though the chicken is pre cooked, multiple pieces felt raw / rubbery."
According to the comments, the Chicken Sesame Noodles meal kit isn't the only miss from Take Home.
"I've tried one of these 'Take Home' products from a different non-Costco store and it was absolutely terrible. I don't think it's a bad batch I just think the brand is terrible. It wasn't even this specific meal but it was inedible," read one message.
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"The only thing I've enjoyed from that brand is the chicken enchiladas (not sure if it's available at Costco)," another person chimed in.
Others are just grateful that they were spared from having to try the meal kit for themselves.
"Thanks for the heads up. That might've been something I would have bought, depending on the ingredients. Sounds absolutely awful," one Redditor wrote.
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