What in gods name even is this product?
Great Depression: Part Deux
Submitted 6 months ago by MTZ@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Lauchmelder@feddit.org 6 months ago
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 6 months ago
Sodium’n Protein possibly slightly higher quality than Friskies cat food.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
It’s more of a BYO protein meal kit, with shelf stable seasoning+carb in a box, where you’re expected to add your own protein.
thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
You mean pasta surrogate and cheese surrogate.
danc4498@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t know why they call this stuff hamburger helper, it does just fine by itself, huh?
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Who can afford hot dogs?
NateNate60@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They’re like $12 for a pack of 18 huge ones at Costco
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 6 months ago
4 USD for 9 small ones in Denmark.
450g=16 oz or whatever you use.
Blackout@fedia.io 6 months ago
Meat!? In this economy?
Qkall@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
…y’all didn’t grow up eating kraft mac n hot dogs cut up in it?
o.o
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Ours had a can of tuna and some frozen peas in it.
0ops@piefed.zip 6 months 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
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 6 months 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.
Seleni@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 6 months 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.
protist@mander.xyz 6 months 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 months 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.
thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 6 months 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 6 months 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.
9point6@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This might be the most stereotypically American thing I’ve ever seen
Soulg@ani.social 6 months 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 months 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 6 months ago
Man hotdogs in KD is still awesome. Hotdogs in beans is also great.
lemmyman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
In Britain it would be “try with BANGERS instead of blood pudding”
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No one would call that donkeys anus in a temu bratwurst, a banger.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 months ago
claps
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
When she says she wants a hot dog, she’s not talking about the kind you have to cook :-D
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Bold of you to assume you’ll still be about to afford hot dogs.
Brutticus@midwest.social 6 months 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.
Brutticus@midwest.social 6 months 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.