So, I’m grazing with my family at Costco yesterday. There wasn’t much sampling going on for a Tuesday. I really do need to figure out the prime grazing schedule and work my meals around it. Basically there were two selections for the evening. Ham, which was good. It actually tasted a bit like ham in fact. And… are you sitting down? Spinach nuggets.
Yes, when I saw them, I almost passed out too. I thought to myself – this is wrong on so many levels. When I eat a nugget of some kind, I want there to be animal parts, chopped, and formed inside that deep fried breading of goodness. I ran away screaming like a little girl back to the ham lady. I eventually bumped into my wife who was eating and, seemingly, enjoying a spinach nugget. The contrasting colors of the golden breading and the vibrant green spinach made my head spin. For a second, I thought an alien was attacking her. She said the nugget was pretty good. Well, I don’t normally believe my wife when it come to anything dealing with vegetables, but I was hungry, and the ham lady banned me from her cart. So, I headed over to the spinach nugget lady.
The other grazers milling around the spinach nugget cart all had the same changing expressions on their face. First of excitement – ah, free chicken nuggets – then of horror – ARGH! SPINACH NUGGETS – then, after trying a bite, a look of bewilderment, then relief. I think most people think they are automatically going to die when they eat these things. I know I thought that, but I didn’t and echoing everybody else throughout Costco, I agree, they weren’t so bad. They mostly tasted like the breading from a chicken nugget with a hint of spinach.
The packaging states – Now with 70% More Spinach! Uh, I’m confused. These are supposed to be spinach nuggets. If they had 70% less spinach before – they really couldn’t be called anything else but breaded nuggets. Which actually sounds pretty yummy.
OK, so I didn’t die, they weren’t so bad, and with a little ranch dressing, they’d probably be pretty good. Grazing at Costco is always an adventure. 2.5 lbs for around $10
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