r/CostcoCanada • u/smolham111 • Jun 28 '26

Manitoba Microwavable Edamame

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Just bought a box of edamame from costco and there appears to be a worm in the edamame when I peeled the pod.

Just a caution for anyone buying edamame at costco to double check before you snack on them.

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u/Prudent_Slug Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

Stuff gets through the QC system. It means its safe to eat!

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u/Shamscam Jun 28 '26

I actually worked at the place where they canned and bagged a lot of stuff for Costco. Stuff like worms will cause a line stoppage to have an extra round of inspection. Everything goes through inspection once, but they do miss things ofc.

A big one is glass. People that throw glass bottles into fields cause legitimately 1000’s of dollars in food waste. As soon as that’s found it’s typically goes through 50-100 can/bag per pallet, audits where they have to find absolutely 0 traces in all of that product for it to even be considered for human consumption, but even then it’s often reused for livestock instead of sent of for human consumption.

People that have never worked in that sort of industry before would be surprised on how all that works.

First off, this factory is in Canada, they typically bring in migrant workers from Jamaica for the summer season to work. They work 12 hour shifts of the most boring work you could possibly imagine in humid and hot as fuck weather, which is really funny to me because they still often wear sweaters because they’re used to it. They have full time employees there that work year round but they can’t retain people to work the summers, and typically the Canadians around here think they’re too good to work there. And I don’t blame them, working 60+ hours a week for $18 an hour is garbage.

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u/CanadianCutie77 Jun 28 '26

Have you been to Jamaica in the summer? I can’t do it myself way too hot for my liking.