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I have a Costco that is walking distance from my office. If I need to decompress, I walk to Costco for lunch solo, get a hot dog and a slice of pizza, sit down, and watch both the people and what's in their cart. It's so diverse and pretty fascinating.

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Hot dog and a slice? That's your calorie needs for the day.

LOL, don't mess this up for me.

Unless you are particularly sedentary, 1200 calories is pretty low for daily consumption.

I'm thinking their hotdogs are huge, like 1/2 lb?

And the slices are huge also.

And most people probably get a 32oz cup of sugar water with them.

Maybe I'm overestimating.

Fair, I did leave out the soda that comes with the hotdog. But that could be a diet soda. (and seems to frequently be, given that my local Costco has 4 diet coke spouts, as opposed to 1-2 of any others)

I did look up the calorie count for both. 550-ish for the hotdog, 650-ish for the pizza.

The hot dogs are 1/4 lb, with the bun it's probably 500-600 calories.

hotdogs are 1/4lb, sodas are ~22oz

If I eat just a hot dog or just a single slice, I'll still be hungry.

Eating a hot dog and a slice, or two slices, and I won't be hungry...for an hour or two.

...I need to get a doctor and ask about a GLP-1.

The food court is where we can all be ourselves.

When I shop early I salute the people having breakfast in the food court. One afternoon I saw people at a table with an empty rotisserie chicken package, hittin' their macros. I had my baby with me one time, offering him bites of my hotdog and being praised for being a man spending time with my child as if I had vaccinated a needy village.

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