Powdered Cheese is ass. Eat the rich.
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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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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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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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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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Hell who can afford hamburger meat anymore?
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.
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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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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Life is so fucking fair
What does Hamburger Helper taste like? I'm English
Poverty.
Yep sounds like it
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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Well what you do is take some hamburger mean and fry it up. Not as patty form but more like taco meat. There is a season pack that is pretty much taco seasoning and there is elbow mac in the box. After you put eh season in and stir it around dump the mac in and stir it around then add some water and let it simmer for a while. I was poor as a child and ate a lot of this shit. It was cheap and was designed to stretch hamburger meat out. There are different flavors but it all taste the same. When I was in the military we called it chilli-mac. Same shit. If I am hungry I will eat it if offered but I will not go looking for it.
So it's just instant macaroni cheese mixed in with beef? That really is poor man food.
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As long as it ain't Avocado Toast, the right people will eat it all up.
I say we're gonna get a revolution and things are gonna look very not pretty if the capitalists don't back off
So you know how in North Korea the government tells its citizens to forage for grass and stuff? How long before we see that in the States?
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Jokes on them, I can't even afford hamburger anymore.
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