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Let them eat Hamburger Helper®
(lemmy.nz)
Powdered Cheese is ass. Eat the rich.
Idk, I like hamburger helper every now and then. It reminds me of childhood. But I’d rather eat the rich.
You haven’t had the right recipe. You need a lot of acidity to cut through the richness.
You say that like the two are mutually exclusive.
I'll enjoy mixing the meat of the rich into my artificially-cheesed hamburger helper, thank you very much.
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wtf is a hamburger helper and how is it helping me making hamburgers
It…. Doesn’t help make hamburgers.
Hamburger helper is a boxed spice mix, you also need ground meat, then you brown the meat and add the seasoning mix. You end up with sorta a taco meat (different flavor of course) that you can then eat, mix with pasta.
It’s…. Fine? But it’s pretty depressing in this context.
it sounds depressing tbh but i never had it so take my opinion with a big bag of salt
Have eaten it. It’s depressing. I think it’s like 1600 kCal for the mix and ~0.5kg of Lean Ground Beef.
Edit: Big bag of salt included. You will feel bloated for days.
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Hamburger Helper is a boxed pasta mix you add to ground beef to increase the volume and "make it go farther".
TBH, it's not awful.
It's because Americans on the whole think "ground beef" is "hamburger". Like the lettuce is "salad" thing.
They need an anthropomorphic glove to sell them on the idea of adding a protein to a carbohydrate so they can manage to feed their families.
I only eat greens cause if I don’t that green giant will go from jolly to angry and nobody wants that
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It is a shelf, stable pasta and cheese mix that you are supposed to mix with a pound of ground beef to make an easy stove top meal. Tldr it's kind of like Kraft dinner but different cheese.
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Is this some marketing campaign or something.
Why am I suddenly seeing so many posts mentioning some cheap American junk food I've never even heard of before?
Might be that it's because Lemmy is such a small place. We had the hamburger helper meme in all yesterday and now people are posting about the general concept.
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In Finland, there is a dish called "Nistipata" or "Junkie's pot". It's the cheapest macaroni with the cheapest mincemeat. Gourmets add ketchup.
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Hamburger helper is good yes, but I’m in the mood for eating the rich yum!
almost like you need to seize the means of distribution to have democratical rights upheld
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Try with acorn shells!
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Hell who can afford hamburger meat anymore?
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It jumped 30% in three months in my area.
you technically don't need the hamburger to have the helper. 🤷♂️
Nice assumption that people can afford the hamburger needed. Boxed mac and cheese is more likely, or if milk and butter is also too costly, ramen.
Must be with they started putting “try it with hot dogs” on the package.
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Beef is unaffordable and hamburger helper is more expensive than buying the basic ingredients.
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America is a rancid and failed country. 99% of their population don’t see the empire crashing before their eyes, but the rest of the world has noticed and China will come out as the dominant fiat currency for decades
What about the Euro? That's also a good contender for reserve currency. Maybe they won't be one but 3 or 4
That raises a question - what's better, easier commerce with a financial powerhouse, or easier commerce with the country that makes everything?
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Ground beef? In this economy?
Try it with hot dogs!
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You can’t afford to have your cake, so you can’t eat it.
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Can’t afford hamburger. It’s tuna helper now.
The good tuna isn't cheap either. I don't want the quasi cat food from a can.
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We need Billionaire Helper when we start eating the rich
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What does Hamburger Helper taste like? I'm English
Poverty.
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It tastes like being poor.
It's like taco meat mixed with Mac and cheese but with less flavor to both. Honestly anyone's just better off making taco Mac
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Life is so fucking fair
As long as it ain't Avocado Toast, the right people will eat it all up.
I don't know why they call it hamburger HELPER. It does just fine all by itself.
Can you clarify if you mean hamburger is fine by itself or if the sodium packed box mix is fine without the hamburger.
One answer will probably have The Hague asking for your location.
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I say we're gonna get a revolution and things are gonna look very not pretty if the capitalists don't back off
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