This might be the most stereotypically American thing I've ever seen
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In Britain it would be "try with BANGERS instead of black pudding"
No one would call that donkeys anus in a temu bratwurst a banger.
Not going to lie, I call this the "fuck we're out of bread" when she says she wants a hot dog. I don't care for hot dogs much, but I just leave them in the freezer door and they last.
When she says she wants a hot dog, she's not talking about the kind you have to cook :-D
I mean, you're not wrong.
I grew up poor, in the US, mom had 0 cooking skill, mac and cheese and sliced hot dogs was pretty common.
I can try to spin that positively as 'at leasr I have more experience being broke than most people who are new to being broke', lol.
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Wtf are you guys eating over there.... Jesus christ, I wonder why Americans seem so crazy. Artificial food, artificial media, Artificial work culture...
And two weeks vacation, maybe, on a full year of work... What? And still no money in the wallet at the end of the day?
I watched a video last night about an American guy that was just losing it, and rightly so:
Watch five minutes of that and be happy if you are European, I guess.
Two weeks? If you're middle to upper middle class, sure. If you're lower middle to lower class, you'll get a week, if anything at all, unpaid. Sick? Unpaid. Spouse died? Unpaid. What, give people welfare? Not on my tax dollar, that's communism!
The US stopped being the land of opportunity two generations ago, and only now people are starting to realize.
"You can have the funeral in the alley behind the restaurant during lunch. Throw your wife in the dumpster after you're done."
-Your manager
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I get 40 hours of sick time off per year that I can use for vacation. This is the New York State minimum that had to be fought for.
I mean, yeah.....a lot of people here have it very rough. I am lucky in that I work for the federal government and get 10 weeks plus holidays off. A lot of people here do not get that.
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Protip: Hamburger Helper has always been the most expensive way to do this. Buy raw macaroni and one of those seasoning spice packs (e.g. taco mix) if you're not good with measuring seasoning or have none at home. Take a photo of the Hamburger Helper directions (on the box) with your phone if you need something to go by.
There are probably tons of such recipes online too.
What in gods name even is this product?
Pasta and seasoning. And cheese I guess. Intended to me mixed with ground beef in order to stretch it into more meals. It's not awful, just poor people food.
Its food for the new poor. The generationally poor were eating chicken wings back in the 80s for $0.19 a pound and loving them. Now, after the dreadful gentrification of wings post-9/11 we've got ways to stretch a dollar you'll never learn unless you marry in.
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You mean pasta surrogate and cheese surrogate.
The pasta is real, the seasoning is real, the cheese basically is not real.
For example, regular Cheeseburger Hamburger Helper contains trace amounts of blue cheese, which is absent from the Deluxe Cheeseburger Macaroni Hamburger Helper. The “Deluxe” product also contains parmesan cheese, palm oil, and lactic acid. These can all impact the texture and taste of the dish.
In an email to the Daily Dot, an Eagle Foods representative wrote the following: “The difference between the Double Cheeseburger Mac and the Cheeseburger Mac products are that, for the Double Cheeseburger, the ingredient ratios are slightly different and there is double the amount of cheese powder in the seasoning packet.”
https://www.dailydot.com/news/regular-deluxe-cheeseburger-hamburger-helper/
Its only 'real cheese' if you consider a dehydrated powder that you have to add butter or milk / water to, and then prepare with heat as a 'cheese flavored sauce' to be 'real cheese'.
Yep, the tiny trace amounts of '100% Real Cheese!' it contains are indeed tiny denydrated crumblets of real cheese... but I am fairly sure that by that metric, Cheetos are also 'real cheese'.
For most Americans under the age of 40, the idea of making an actual cheese sauce out of... an actual block of actual dairy cheese from their refrigerator... that is literally a foreign concept, nobody has time to be that fancy, or even knows that is a thing you can do.
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Usually not. I have not had the pleasure of this particular variety but in my experience it's just plain old pasta and cheese and herbs.
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Cheaper if you grind up your nearest billionaire and share with your community
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This is FAKE NEWS because Trump said the Economy is doing GREAT!
-Free Thinking TM Republicans!
The comments are teaching me I grew up poor and still eat poor.
I mean I knew the second part. But those damn canned mixed veggies were disgusting.
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Sorry, I'm European, could someone explain what Hamburger Helper actually is?? I've heard the brand name before and assumed it was just some kind of seasoning powder for making hamburgers, but this image looks more like it's more like powdered sauce base for a whole range of random meals?
it’s the kit to make the meal in the front, just need to add the hamburger… or hot dogs…
but yea it has the seasonings, maybe emulsifiers, the macaroni, and instructions, and that’s it
ooh, hamburger as in, ground meat? For me a hamburger is always the round puck of meat between buns, makes more sense if it's just the generic name for the meat itself!
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You're not quite there yet. It still says 'real cheese'.
It's not "real cheese" it's "Real Cheese™", it really tastes like cheese.
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This is my easy hamburger helper recipe in case people want real food. I skip the box and throw paprika and onion and garlic powders on my ground beef, brown it. Add ziti noodles, or anything I have, add beef stock and water. Let the pasta become tender, abt 7-8 mins. And throw in a huge glob a sour cream and mix it in. Salt as needed, skip the sodium spike
American food makes British food look yummy.
Meat!? In this economy?
Don't use Hamburger Helper, switch to the store brand Lasgana Skillet Meal. It will taste much better. The people who make Hamburger Helper have seriously cheaped out on their ingredients in the last several years, speaking as a childhood fan.
Great Depression? Shit I was serving that shit with hot dogs in the 90s.
Last time I checked ground beef was $6 a pound. It is now a luxury I no longer buy.
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I don't know why they call this stuff hamburger helper, it does just fine by itself, huh?
Coming in 2029 - SkwrlHelper!®
Hyper processed shit. I feel sorry for children who are fed this.
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