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.
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
Ground beef? In this economy?
Try it with hot dogs!
Try it with Lentils (until they're too expensive too...)
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.
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
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.
Kinda like kraft dinner with minced meat. It's pretty good.
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
Hell who can afford hamburger meat anymore?
It jumped 30% in three months in my area.
We need Billionaire Helper when we start eating the rich
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.
Jokes on them, I can't even afford hamburger anymore.
As long as it ain't Avocado Toast, the right people will eat it all up.
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?
Life is so fucking fair
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.
I ate plenty of hamburger helper in my life….thought it was pretty good….
I say we're gonna get a revolution and things are gonna look very not pretty if the capitalists don't back off
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
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.
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