Mad Cow Details Emerge, Costco Food & Booze, Bud Light's Lime-a-Rita & More

Friday, April 27, 2012 What You Didn't Know About Costco Food & Booze Costco breaks even on most of what they sell, which means that most profits come from membership fees -- roughly $1.5 billion a year. Products are sold at bargain-basement prices, which is the main reason they're not money-makers. Costco has to sell tons of them to keep the model viable, so the store is designed to boost a customer's willingness to spend. New Mad Cow Details Emerge Newspaper Scolds Readers For Caring Too Much About Burritos New Drink Review: Bud Light's Lime-a-Rita PHOTOS: Lego Donuts, Tacos, In-N-Out And Chick-Fil-A KFC Ordered To Pay $8.3 Million For Salmonella Poisoning BLOG POSTS Tony Sachs: The Rumpire Strikes Back: A Dozen Sipping Rums To Challenge Your Preconceptions For far too many imbibers, rum is something that comes in a bottle with a pirate on it, and should be followed by the words "and Coke." It breaks my heart, it really does. David Rosengarten: The Riesling Key One could argue that we Americans have been a little slow on the Riesling uptake because of our national delusion that Riesling is necessarily sweet -- and therefore not good for food. Meathead: Preserve Spring: Pickle Ramps And Other Onions Ramps, like other onions, are an underground bulb with long, tall green grasslike stalks. Ramps are much smaller than leeks, more like scallions, but the leaves are flatter. Claire McCarthy, M.D.: When Kids Make Us Look Bad: My McDonald's Moment My latest (by no means the first, and certainly not the last) embarrassing parenthood moment happened two weeks ago. The Daily Meal: The World's Coolest Starbucks Stores It's no doubt a rare occasion when a Starbucks store gets associated with words like "unique" and "one-of-a-kind." Rare, but not outside of the realm of possibility.

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