Hyper processed shit. I feel sorry for children who are fed this.
Great Depression: Part Deux
Submitted 9 hours ago by MTZ@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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whatevercomeon@lemmy.world 20 minutes ago
MTZ@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
9point6@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This might be the most stereotypically American thing I’ve ever seen
lemmyman@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
In Britain it would be “try with BANGERS instead of blood pudding”
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
No one would call that donkeys anus in a temu bratwurst, a banger.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Not going to lie, I call this the “fuck we’re out of bread” when she says she wants a hot dog. I don’t care for hot dogs much, but I just leave them in the freezer door and they last.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
What a privilege it is to live in walking distance to a supermarket - this problem doesn’t even exist for me, being out of something just means I walk 4 minutes and buy it.
vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
When she says she wants a hot dog, she’s not talking about the kind you have to cook :-D
Soulg@ani.social 3 hours ago
I mean it’s just some pasta and seasoning that you add beef to, it’s not even that weird
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
I mean, you’re not wrong.
I grew up poor, mom had 0 cooking skill, mac and cheese and sliced hot dogs was pretty common.
I can try to spin that positively as ‘at leasr I have more experience being broke than most people who are new to being broke’, lol.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Man hotdogs in KD is still awesome. Hotdogs in beans is also great.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
claps
python@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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?
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 44 minutes ago
It’s cheap pasta with a sauce you add hamburger to.
WraithGear@lemmy.world 1 hour 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
python@lemmy.world 1 hour 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!
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Lasagna, except way grosser.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You’re not quite there yet. It still says ‘real cheese’.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 58 minutes ago
Minimum viable product kind of cheese
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 minutes ago
“Minimum viable product” describes a lot of the items that end up in my grocery cart these days – produce especially.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
water pie all over again, but who can afford hotdogs?
x0x7@lemmy.world 53 minutes ago
I was about to say, hot dogs are more expensive per pound than ground beef.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 10 minutes ago
Lips we hope. Honestly never got the aversion around what parts go into your processed meat, its a good thing to not waste meats.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Protip: “hamburger helper” has always been the most expensive way to do this. Buy the raw macaroni and one of those seasoning spice packs (e.g. taco mix) if you’re not good with measuring seasoning or have none at home.
Qkall@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
…y’all didn’t grow up eating kraft mac n hot dogs cut up in it?
o.o
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
Sorry, but this is like one of the many litmus tests for people who think they grew up in the middle class and then actually find out they grew up poorer than they initially thought.
Another good one was having canned mixed vegetables more than a couple times a week.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
You’re overlooking an important detail - kids love that cheap, shitty food. It was also quick and easy to make, so their tired, overworked parents were easily persuaded to make it.
Naturally there’s a line where it becomes too much, but even rich kids love hot dogs and Mac & cheese.
thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
Grew up poor, didn’t know it. Lots of Mac 'n Cheese w/ hotdogs and canned vegetables. I remember the first time I had a fresh green bean, I was put off by the texture. Wasn’t used to vegetables with structure.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
It could still be very much middle class. Parents make it out of nostalgia from when they were kids, instead of making it out of necessity.
protist@mander.xyz 6 hours ago
I really disagree with this. My parents grew up in the 50s and just thought this kind of highly processed food was normal and easy. There were also commercials that constantly reminded them to buy it. We could 100% afford better food, this is just what they wanted 🤢
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
I figured out we were poor once I hit middle school, and me asking about this and further realizing the truth of it… well of course that sent Republican dad further into an insecurity/rage/alcoholism loop.
Being honest would have been too difficult, I guess.
Seleni@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I mean, maybe, but in my case I’m sure a good part of it was neither of my parents were good cooks lol
If I didn’t watch them make it, it was pretty hard to tell if the veggies were canned or not; they boiled fresh veggies to the same consistency as the canned ones.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Middle class isnt a clear cut distinction anyway. It mostly serves to divide those of us who live off of labour rather than ownership so we go after one another instead of the capitalists.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Ours had a can of tuna and some frozen peas in it.
0ops@piefed.zip 7 hours ago
No way we did that too! I still do it every once in awhile, not because it’s that good but fit the nostalgia
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
Given how strong the link is between cured meats and cancer and how that is quite public knowledge now days, I interpret this as Hamburger Helper telling me to get cancer. “You don’t actually want to live long enough to enjoy retirement, right?”
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
Don’t use Hamburger Helper, switch to the store brand Lasgana Skillet Meal. It will taste much better. The people who make Hamburger Helper have seriously cheaped out on their ingredients, speaking as a childhood fan.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Les pieds de raccoon, such a delicacy
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
Hehe. I’m eating marbles!
Cronch cronch cronch
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Not to mention la queue du rat, la tête de pigeon, and la langue d’une botte!
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 8 hours ago
What in gods name even is this product?
thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
Pasta and seasoning. And cheese I guess. Intended to me mixed with ground beef in order to stretch it into more meals. It’s not awful, just poor people food.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Its food for the new poor. The generationally poor were eating chicken wings back in the 80s for $0.19 a pound and loving them. Now, after the dreadful gentrification of wings post-9/11 we’ve got ways to stretch a dollar you’ll never learn unless you marry in.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You mean pasta surrogate and cheese surrogate.
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
This is FAKE NEWS because Trump said the Economy is doing GREAT!
-Free Thinking TM Republicans!
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Fill that freezer with ground beef, salmon, steaks, etc
Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Last time I checked ground beef was $6 a pound. It is now a luxury I no longer buy.
elbiter@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
American food makes British food look yummy.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
How soon till it says roadkill?
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Poached venison.
Don’t need a tag if you’re not going to a game station, just gotta get a little bloody.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Dont use hamburger helper, learn to make goulash. Its a pretty good recipe for beginners
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Great Depression? Shit I was serving that shit with hot dogs in the 90s.
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DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 hours ago
The Poor People Useful Tips Recession Index
Blackout@fedia.io 8 hours ago
Meat!? In this economy?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Bold of you to assume you’ll still be about to afford hot dogs.
Brutticus@midwest.social 5 hours ago
I used to watch this youtube channel, Depression Cooking, with this old lady who lived through it showing recipes she made during the depression. It was uploaded by her grandchildren. (This was about a decade ago, before she died). Hot dogs do feature into her recipes a lot, as they were made of less choice parts and less choice meats or parts could be mixed in to stretch it. Sausage in general is like that.
It is of course possible that sausages could be too expensive, but you see that more in a war/famine type situation, as the government procures food stores for fighers and trade routes collapse. So like, the Max Miller episodes on food of the Soviet home front.
Im sorry I find historical food so interesting.
Brutticus@midwest.social 5 hours ago
Also, in these cases, get a chicken who can lay eggs (and be prepared to guard that thing, but you should also have eggs to share), or be ready to grow some beans.
danc4498@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I don’t know why they call this stuff hamburger helper, it does just fine by itself, huh?
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Who can afford hot dogs?
NateNate60@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They’re like $12 for a pack of 18 huge ones at Costco
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
4 USD for 9 small ones in Denmark.
450g=16 oz or whatever you use.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Clearest recession indicator I’ve seen so far
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Also FYI hotdogs roughly contain about 2% human DNA in them.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It’s achingly frustratingly clear that the dumbasses at ClearLabs accidentally contaminated their samples. This is horseshit.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
This guy trying to rain on our human flavored hot dog parade!
1984@lemmy.today 22 minutes ago
Wtf are you guys eating over there… Jesus christ, I wonder why Americans seem so crazy. Artificial food, artificial media, Artificial work culture…
And two weeks vacation, maybe, on a full year of work… What? And still no money in the wallet at the end of the day?
MTZ@lemmy.world 15 minutes ago
I mean, yeah…a lot of people here have it very rough. I am lucky in that I work for the federal government and get 10 weeks plus holidays off. A lot of people here do not get that.