Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore

ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Enchilada and pasta. GTFO

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  • M137@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Then OP goes and suggests mac and cheese as a side for it, that’s many levels worse.

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    • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Like poutine and tamales.

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      • nomy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’d fuck with tamale poutine.

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  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You do realize this is to enchilada what Papa John’s is to pizza right?

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    • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Cool, serve some Great Value alfredo and peas next to it.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Brits don’t eat as much as Americans do because all their food is shit

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    • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Hope you manage to travel one day!

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      • isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Lmao good retort

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    • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Naw, they have lots of good takeaway stuff. Hell, I’d almost kill for a decent fish-n-chips near me. Then they have those Indian takeaways… tandori? IDK now to spell it. Currys… hell yeah.

      I imagine the Mexican food is shit and that’s probably 50% of my diet at this point.

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      • Dima@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Currys

        *Curries unless you’re talking about the electronics retailer

        those Indian takeaways… tandori?

        If you’re just referring to the restaurants, I’d just call one of those restaurants and Indian (as in the cuisine) or maybe a curry house. Tandoori, Balti, etc. all relate to styles of cooking and may be used in restaurant names, but if I was referring to restaurants that serve Indian style curries in general, I would just call it an Indian.

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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Fair point, but here frozen family meals in the past would have at least satisfied everyone at the table without any sides and if you wanted to go from satisfied to “stuffed full” then you could whip up a quick side of Mac and cheese or something

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  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well okay, maybe I wasn’t clear. I agree with you that you certainly aren’t getting enough nourishment for an entire family - and in fact, even if you have enough food volume for an entire family, this crap wouldn’t count as nourishment anyway. And you’re probably paying this box of goopy shit dollars on the pennies it cost to make.

    I was just pointing out that, like most things the agro industry puts on boxes, “family size” has no legal meaning and therefore is technically correct depending on how you interpret it.

    Incidentally, another thing that means jack squat on your box of dubious food is “Now with more cheese”. If they started out with zero cheese (and no, the stuff with a cheesy taste used in ultra-processed food isn’t legally cheese) then adding a flake or two of real cheddar makes it technically possible to say “Now with more cheese”.

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    • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I wonder if it would be legal in America to print “No cyanide!” on the box to make people pick it over other stuff from the sea of frozen garbage.

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      • rImITywR@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Relevant XKCD

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        “No added sugars”

        “No added salt”

        “No added preservatives”

        Yup, no cyanide would fit right in.

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  • M137@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Your 'Murican is showing, very clearly. Mac and cheese as a side to chicken enchiladas? How do you not realise the obesity mental illness level that is?

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  • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m old and I don’t think that’s true. Frozen entrees have ways been on the light side. And frozen dinners for one would be 3 oz of meat, and a couple of spoonfuls of boiled peas or something.

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Mac and cheese with “cantina style”? Throw some Texas toast in there why don’t ya, and hit dairy queen after

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    here frozen family meals in the past would have at least satisfied everyone at the table without any sides

    American in his fifties here. No idea what you’re talking about. Family size has only ever meant “larger pack.” It has never meant “complete on its own with nothing accompanying it.”

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  • Cenzorrll@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A family size meal should have enough to at least be the entree for four people. With enchiladas that means two per person, not one. It’s a corn tortilla with stuff rolled in it, barely larger than a taquito, you need two for it to not look like a depression meal (we’re already cooking frozen enchiladas, we’re there already, it doesn’t need to be rubbed in).

    I’ve noticed that sizes are shifting. Party size is now what used to be family size and can actually feed four, sometimes it’s called mega family size or some bullshit. Family size now means two adults and maybe a child <10 yrs. I remember a family size lasagna had leftovers when I was a kid.

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  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s 300 calories per serving (4 servings per box). If you’re on a 2000 calorie diet, a meal is 500 - 700 calories, so this would be a snack or a dish that requires a side. Or eat the whole box yourself and it’s about the same as a Big Mac combo.Image

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