Just had a fresh, choice, 1.5" Costco NY strip. I picked the most marbled package. We grilled one medium rare and the other medium at 650F over charrcol on the BGE. Both
sucked! Dry taste with no flavor. Even put butter on it like some steak houses do and it still sucked. Aldi's Black Angus NY strip is much better and probably cheaper, IIRC.
I would not buy another strip steak at Costco again unless it was prime- and the prices for those were just off the wall. We have never had a problem like this before with any Costco meat, fish or fowl. Last summer we bought prime "tomahawk ribeye and they were beyond belief.
On a positive note, fresh boneless chicken breast was back to it's pre-pandemic price of $2.99/lb. Gas at Costco is down from like $3.79 (WaWa) to $2.85 at Costco over the last couple months. It's been a long time coming.
We have been making giant, awesome crab cakes every New Year's Eve for the last 20 or so years, but not this year. The cost of jumbo lump crab meat went from $24 for 12 oz to almost $40 for 8 ounces, since just last year. Checked prices at largest local seafood store, Costco and Publix. No way that those prices have any chance of sustaining. Demand at that price probably approaches zero.
Now, stone crab or maine lobster are another story, but we'd just end up spending like $250 tonight just for the three of us to pig-out for like 10-15 minutes... like we were at Joe's Stone Crab or at Lobster Pound in Maine again! Did Joe's overnight one year for New Year's Eve and the friends we had over to join in thought stone crab sucked. They got divorced. Serves them right for such blasphemy. LOL.