I ate plenty of hamburger helper in my life….thought it was pretty good….
I’m disgusted at the thought of eating hamurger helper. We ate it too often as a kid and it’s just worse than kraft mac and cheese. I’d rather add hot dogs or chicken nuggets to the latter if I need to have a cheap/depressing dinner.
Sick of winning yet?
w/o the hamburger of course
We are going to be the ones eating dogs and cats soon.
I get the point but damn I love Hamburger Helper.
Powdered Cheese is ass. Eat the rich.
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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.
Eat is ass. Powdered cheese the rich!
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.
It can be okay. I like to add peas and depending on the type beans. Just to make it a bit more nutritional
Goulash is better, and just as cheap. Fuck national corpo scum.
The problem with goulash (and soups in general) is the time commitment. A struggling parent often doesn’t have an hour to wait for soup to boil. Hamburger Helper comes together in 15-20 minutes, tops.
So it helps hamburgers?
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
Lmao this is the sickest roast I’ve ever seen of my college ex, thanks
Hopefully he’s finally learned how to cook.
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.
It’s basically mac and cheese with cut up hotdogs in it. Or like carbonara, with beef instead of ham. You brown some ground beef (hamburger meat, if you have never cooked anything fancy before and only know it as “that stuff you use to make hamburgers”). Then once it’s browned, you add some water, maybe milk or butter if the particular box calls for it, and the pasta+seasoning mix from the box. It basically turns into some variation of macaroni and cheese, with ground beef added.
TBH, it’s actually not awful in terms of taste. It’s as “peasant food” as peasant food can get; cheap, filling, easy to make, absolutely loaded with calories, and hopefully not awful tasting. It’s awful for you, and you’ll probably feel awful after eating it. But it checks most of the boxes that a broke and overworked parent needs to be able to feed their kids a hot meal 15 minutes after they get home from work. Just swing by the store on your way home, grab a box of Hamburger Helper and a pound of ground beef. Now you’ve fed the whole family for like $8 total.
It probably helps to understand ‘hamburger’ in this sense is very low quality minced/ground beef*
*might be ‘beef’
In Finland, there is a dish called “Nistipata” or “Junkie’s pot”. It’s the cheapest macaroni with the cheapest mincemeat. Gourmets add ketchup.
Sounds like a perfect comparison.
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.
It’s a couple of different factors at play:
- Sales of this particular product are up and Fox News, the largest and most influential conservative media source, ran a story about it as if it’s a sign of the nostalgic return of something today’s old people remember from their youth.
- Most younger people correctly recognize that this trash is actually a bad sign for the economy, because it reflects a shift down market where people are opting to make this stuff instead of the more expensive option of restaurants or takeout.
- Consistent with worsening economic conditions, the price of beef in the United States is skyrocketing, so that the product itself is changing the label to recommend replacing the beef (which customers would ordinarily buy separately) with something else, like cheaper hot dogs.
The political and economic discussion is happening in the United States, and that generally means that it spills out onto the internet where national borders are less significant for where conversations might end up.
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
Good thing it’s Lemmy and not Reddit, so save for a few instances, you can say that.
Fuck Reddit
Try with acorn shells!
I hear a acornmeal is pretty healthy. Hard to make though
Just put all the neighborhood squirrels on leashes and dig up the ¾ of the nuts they forget about.
Try with Soylent Green!
but I hear it’s peeepulll
Made by the people, of the people, for the people! Where’s your patriotism??
Maybe even peo-pulp!
It’s OK, it’s from that new factory in El Salvador. It’s not like it’s real (i.e. white) people!
That is more expensive then beef! And an abomination so foul that even god would look away.
Hell who can afford hamburger meat anymore?
We use tofu now. It’s cheaper
Red lentils would be a good replacement, and you can still get them in bulk at a somewhat reasonable price. For now.
If you want them to taste more like ground beef, give them a pan quick fry with a bit of soy sauce and worcestershire before incorporating into whatever you’re making.
Thanks! I appreciate the tip!
I’ll try that soon.
Plenty of Soy around I hear.
EXACTLY! Apparently I’m going to be a soy boy? 🤷♂️
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.
Even though hotdogs by weight are more then ground beef (the people who make the food don’t understand food apparently) and make a terrible add. Hamburger helper is not even a good price on its own, its like a $3 sidekick. Boxed mac and cheese can be found for about a $1 (sometimes) and can be made with just water and margarine (its not good but most of us have had to at some point). If you want to add hotdogs to a box of stuff its going to be the mac&cheese, not the helper. To make a box of helper in my area you are looking at $10 at best ($3 for the box, $5 for the meat and $2 for the milk), and it feeds maybe two people.
This is the let them eat cake moment, but much stupider. Beans and rice have almost doubled in price in the last few years here, that is an indicator of a crisis. This is not any way even a band aid, hamburger helper is just an easy meal for busy people who still want something hot, not in anyway cheap.
Beef is unaffordable and hamburger helper is more expensive than buying the basic ingredients.
You can just order a hamburger via uber eats™ for only 30 dollars. Youtubers told me that’s really smart actually
