It’s cheap pasta with a sauce you add hamburger to.
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python@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
marcos@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Oh, you eat it without the bread?
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 22 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
marcos@lemmy.world 22 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.
WraithGear@lemmy.world 1 day 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 day 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!
PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Usually people say ground beef, but some call it hamburger meat, or just hamburger.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 20 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.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 13 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.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lasagna, except way grosser.
daannii@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
A box meal. Like a cake mix. It comes with parts of the meal, the pasta and the sauce, and you add the meat and milk, water, butter. Whatever else it calls for. These are cheap. And don’t take very long to make.
They are mostly eaten by poor people and kids. They have very little nutritional value and are high in carbs, sugar, and salt.
The high carbs and protein (if you are rich enough to add meat) make the food very filling though. Some people call this type of food “comfort food”. It definitely will make your stomach feel full and content.
But it’s not good food for you.