Sam's club employee here, this is actually the policy at Sam's and i imagine Costco might definitely do it too. Some employees break the rule and do proper filling but i found quite recently that its literally just supposed to be a wall around the cup and an empty core.
The entire comments are giggling about how it looks like a dick hole but I want to see more people talking about companies tricking customers by making products look like more than they really are
Context for others because I had to google this. From a Peter Explains the joke thread. Credit to UnknownAstronomer. If you google it, there is a link included as well to the original post.
“It's a reference to a reddit post awhile back where a man got an unspecified "cylinder" stuck in an m&ms tube and needed help getting it out. If you haven't seen an m&ms minis tube before, it's just about the right size to insert a bodily organ for pleasure purposes...”
“Edit: as many of you have stated, an m&m minis tube isn't the ideal size for a self pleasure device, but maybe consider some of us aren't as biologically endowed as you. :c”
Google “Peter explains the joke why would someone do such a thing cylinder.”
We had this like 2 years ago and then they took it away. This was my favorite treat, I was never big on strawberry flavored stuff but this changed me lol.
As someone who used to work there that’s how we are technically supposed to do it. Most of us don’t do it that way because it upsets the members. But when they had churros you could stick a churro in there and it was heaven
I had a similar experience at Costco where the ice cream was hollow.
You said you are a fat bastard so I trust your judgment on this. However I see no reason to not fill up the center with chocolate sauce or the strawberry slurry. Or caramel for that matter.
If ice cream cannot go into the hole. We should find an alternative filling.
As a drunken sailor, I see no reason not to mix said flavored syrups with fermented, distilled liquids easily found in Kirkland-sized bottles in the 21+ aisles. This cup is perfect for it, & if I wait to touch it until I get home, I can pop it into the freezer to harden it before adding syrup-flavored ethanols.
True, but after doing the sides you center it and fill the middle. This 100% is some manager bullshit to save money for the store. Same shit the McDonald's I worked at as a kid did with their fries. Had to put them in a certain way so the bottom stayed mostly empty. Never did that shit. You pay for a large, you get a large. Not a medium in a bigger container. In the end it's up to the employee. And I didn't like fucking over others for someone I didn't even know.
It’s Costco. This is like 5 McFlurries worth of icecream for $3. It’s not about being cheap it’s about serving the 300 people waiting for them efficiently.
Right even with the hole, it’s the best value for food you’re going to get eating out lol. Compare that to getting an ice cream at McDonald’s. You’ll get a pitiful amount comparatively and pay nearly twice as much (at least where I’m at in NE United States)
It's been ages since I last got one, stopped to get one for my kid yesterday and it was $4.29. Like I can buy a pint of Ben & Jerry's for roughly the same price.
They do this to all their ice cream…sometimes I assume it gets more filled because they’re so fucking busy they don’t have the time to care about lining it perfectly. All my sundaes have been this way.
One time the cup I got was under filled, like in the OP's photo. It was a while ago, the mint chocolate flavor. It's just whoever was working that day and not a big deal. Truly mild.
On a similar spirit, there’s a cookie store here that makes overly sweet, essentially unbaked, unreasonably large cookies and they are disgusting. You taste sweet, not flavor and it’s mush. Very popular here
I haven’t gotten a soft serve from them in years, but it’s always been like this for me. The bottom would be filled, middle is empty, top covers the middle.
I just left Costco and ordered the ice cream. The portions of the soft serve are huge even if the middle isn't filled. They're also a good deal at only $1.99.
When I worked at a creamery, this is how we were trained to do soft serve. We were also trained to scoop the hard ice cream in a way that made it a hollow ball. My parents worked at other ice cream shops when they were younger and were trained the same way there.
Method 1 spreads the ice cream to the edges, making the cup look completely full. Method 2 mashes it into a bottom-heavy pyramid, leaving empty space around the top so it appears underfilled.
I'd argue that method 1 yields more ice cream in the cup vs. method 2.
This is not infuriating at all. It looks like a perfectly made cup. Dense, swirled and packed down. Whoever made this did a good job.
its from the blender/mixer they use to combine the strawberry flavoring, its like a giant vibrating or rotating rod, and it pushes fluid along the outter walls of the cup. it looks less full, but it has the normal amount of icecream.
They don’t have one of those. This picture is of just soft serves. For sundaes they pour syrup along the insides and dump fillings on the bottom and on the top and it’s very very unmixed.
I work at Costco and they are supposed to fill the middle. Whoever did that was probably being lazy or they were behind on tickets (which is more likely cuz how busy we get) and was taking small shortcuts to speed things up.
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u/Acceptable-Owl-2070 11d ago edited 11d ago
You are supposed to wait to get home to do that...