Costco just did something it has literally never done before, and the internet cannot handle it. The warehouse giant’s bakery quietly rolled out its first-ever Southern Style Buttermilk Biscuits, and within days of hitting a TikTok feed, they were being crowned “an actual dream come true” by shoppers everywhere. If you’ve been sleeping on the bakery section lately, it’s time to wake up — because these things are already flying off shelves.
The Biscuit That Broke the Internet (Almost)
It started with a single TikTok. Creator Laura from @costcohotfinds posted an August 2 video showing off Costco’s brand-new bakery item — item #208379, Southern Style Buttermilk Biscuits — and called them “buttery, fluffy, and taste just like homemade.” The clip racked up over 34,000 likes and hundreds of comments, and just like that, another Costco bakery item joined the ranks of viral must-haves, right alongside the Kirkland Marshmallow Crispy Cookies that broke TikTok earlier this year.
Here’s the deal: you get 10 oversized biscuits — each about 4 ounces and nearly 4 inches wide — for just $6.99. That works out to under 70 cents a biscuit, and unlike a lot of bakery-case competition, these are baked fresh in-house daily with real buttermilk instead of coming from frozen, pre-portioned dough.
“Failure to sell pints of sausage gravy next to those is an egregious oversight,” one shopper joked in the comments — and honestly, they’re not wrong.
Not Everyone Is Convinced Yet
Like most viral Costco finds, the reaction has been a little split. The first wave of comments was pure hype — “dream come true” energy all around. But a second wave of skeptics pushed back on the biscuits’ appearance before even tasting them, calling them dry-looking in photos. Sound familiar? It’s basically the same split-internet reaction we saw with Costco’s Kirkland Pumpkin Spice Bar Cake when it landed this fall. Our take: buttermilk biscuits are notoriously hard to photograph well, and the real test is in the bite, not the lighting.
How to Actually Eat These
The versatility is really the whole pitch here. These biscuits work for basically every meal of the day:
- Breakfast: Split, buttered, and topped with jam, or turned into a full egg-bacon-cheese breakfast sandwich
- Lunch: A DIY chicken biscuit sandwich using a leftover chicken cutlet
- Dinner: Smothered in sausage gravy, or served alongside chili to sop up every last bite
- Dessert: Turned into an easy shortcake with peaches, whipped cream, and a drizzle of honey
That kind of range is exactly why this find is spreading so fast — it’s not a one-note novelty item, it’s a genuinely useful staple that happens to also be having a viral moment. Kind of like how we’ve been stretching a single Costco rotisserie chicken into a week of dinners — these biscuits are the kind of buy that keeps giving all week long.
Should You Grab a Box?
At under $7 for 10 fresh-baked biscuits, this is a low-risk, high-reward buy — especially if your warehouse restocks the bakery case regularly. Pull up the Costco app, search item #208379 to check availability at your local warehouse, and grab a box before your neighbors clear the shelf. Just don’t blame us if you end up buying a second box “for later” that never actually makes it home.
Have you tried Costco’s new buttermilk biscuits yet? Let us know your verdict in the comments, and keep checking back with GroceryGoodies for the latest viral finds before they sell out.
Photo credits: Image 1 — Photo by Ray Shrewsberry on Unsplash, via Parade. Image 2 — Cris Cantón / Getty Images, via Parade.
