Ground beef? In this economy?
Try it with hot dogs!
Try it with Lentils (until they’re too expensive too…)
The soy China no longer buys?
Time for some cheap Soy burritos for the Cyberpunk setting.
This makes me so fucking mad. It was already garbage poor people food, but the fact that food manufacturers are acknowledging that it may be too expensive to use the meat that is in the fucking name without actually doing anything to reduce prices is mind-bogglingly callous and/or tonedeaf.
Oh look at fancy pants over here! We would be lucky to afford monkey wieners.
What does Hamburger Helper taste like? I’m English
Poverty.
Yep sounds like it
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
Taco Mac? So do I spice the meat like taco meat and just add cheese? I’m intrigued 🤔
So usually when I make Taco Mac I use leftover taco meat and mix it with box Mac and cheese. It’s kinda a default leftovers meal for us since the kids will actually eat it and with good taco seasoning it tastes pretty good to us grownups too
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.
Well it’s not all cheesy flavored but it’s essentially flavor *paste seasoning and noodles to be mixed with a pound of ground beef. For example beef stroganoff is gravy noodles
Except you have to provide your own beef mince.
I think I’ll stick to lasagne.
Serious question, what’s the difference between “hamburger meat in taco meat form” and ground beef? Because it sounds like ground beef to me.
It is ground beef
Most people I know refer to it as ground beef when it’s still in the tube/tray/whatever before being cooked. Taco meat is ground beef that’s been seasoned, finely chopped, and browned in a skillet.
It is. I guess I should have been more precise but the name of the product is Hamburger Helper so I went with it.
Kinda like kraft dinner with minced meat. It’s pretty good.
We need Billionaire Helper when we start eating the rich
Luigi just gave them some help.
Jokes on them, I can’t even afford hamburger anymore.
I ate plenty of hamburger helper in my life….thought it was pretty good….
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?
How long before we see that in the States?
We’re about 5 days away from federal food assistance being canceled for the month of November, so less than a week, maybe?
I dont think thats a thing anymore, but there are tons of edible plants growing all around most people in the states. Sometimes youll hear about a recipe involving some random ground weed looking thing or dandelions or something.
But yeah foods sort of fucked right now, I’m lucky I live near an aldis.
Can’t You americans eat eggs, chicken or fish instead?
Eggs
I don’t think they can…
That would make the beef lobby sad.
Those things cost money. Not a lot of people have those lying around this days
It’s not hard to get money. Even third worlders can get that through formal work, informal work or crime.
Work smarter.
Until the stores start closing down and people start losing their jobs.
If you’re poor, just stop being poor
Basically that’s what they tell us in south America lol
They also make Tuna Helper.
Meant to be used with canned fish.
Not everything is the same price everywhere in the world, and on top of that plenty of Americans do eat eggs, chicken, and fish. It’s just that hamburger helper provides resources for a full meal at a good price, something must needed in a dying economy
There’s no actual food shortage, Crushing people into poverty appears to be the objective. If You Want a Picture of the Future, Imagine a Boot Stamping on a Human Face – for Ever.
Those aren’t any cheaper.
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
No joke it gives the same vibe as those Oddworld ads for some random processed food (à la Soylent Green) made out of the dug-up bones of their own people
Dude. Just so much winning.
They can’t even afford hamburger to throw in there so I know this cap. How do poor people look at a big box of noodles for $1 and a small box of noodles and seasoning for $2 and buy hberger helper with no hamburger?
We are going to be the ones eating dogs and cats soon.
I get the point but damn I love Hamburger Helper.
