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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?

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PillowTalk420@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s cheap pasta with a sauce you add hamburger to.

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- marcos@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oh, you eat it without the bread?
  
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  - PillowTalk420@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah; you don’t put a hamburger into it, just ground beef (or chicken, or tuna, or whatever other meat you’d like, really). lol
    
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    marcos@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, that makes sense. I can even imagine how it tastes now.
    
    Around here, people use spaghetti (and probably an egg to make it larger), what is probably not too different.
    
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WraithGear@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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 and the macaroni, and instructions, and that’s it

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- python@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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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  - PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Usually people say ground beef, but some call it hamburger meat, or just hamburger.
    
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    vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s because ground beef became synonymous with Hamburg steaks, which was basically a patty of ground beef. Some dude went to a Hamburg steak place and wanted to get it to go so they slapped it between two pieces of bread and thusly the hamburger was born.
    
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- roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Thickeners too. Modified corn starch. Less objectional ingredient really since starch as a sauce thickener instead of reduction is pre industrial and modified starch is frankly a good innovation. I don’t want to sit there and stir.
  
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MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Lasagna, except way grosser.

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