As long as it ain’t Avocado Toast, the right people will eat it all up.
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.
Try with acorn shells!
Hamburger helper is good yes, but I’m in the mood for eating the rich yum!
I say we’re gonna get a revolution and things are gonna look very not pretty if the capitalists don’t back off
Life is so fucking fair
Hell who can afford hamburger meat anymore?
you technically don’t need the hamburger to have the helper. 🤷♂️
It jumped 30% in three months in my area.
Powdered Cheese is ass. Eat the rich.
deleted by creator
You haven’t had the right recipe. You need a lot of acidity to cut through the richness.
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
It can be okay. I like to add peas and depending on the type beans. Just to make it a bit more nutritional
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.
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
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.
In Finland, there is a dish called “Nistipata” or “Junkie’s pot”. It’s the cheapest macaroni with the cheapest mincemeat. Gourmets add ketchup.
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.
You can’t afford to have your cake, so you can’t eat it.
I mean that was the case back then too
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?
No one’s gonna have the prominence america had, relative to other countries. So a basket of currencies is possible, or even different currencies for different industries
Americans would sooner switch to Bitcoin than Chinese money.
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.
You don’t get the joke.
