You say that like the two are mutually exclusive.

I'll enjoy mixing the meat of the rich into my artificially-cheesed hamburger helper, thank you very much.

It…. Doesn’t help make hamburgers.

Hamburger helper is a boxed spice mix, you also need ground meat, then you brown the meat and add the seasoning mix. You end up with sorta a taco meat (different flavor of course) that you can then eat, mix with pasta.

It’s…. Fine? But it’s pretty depressing in this context.

Hamburger Helper is a boxed pasta mix you add to ground beef to increase the volume and "make it go farther".

TBH, it's not awful.

It's because Americans on the whole think "ground beef" is "hamburger". Like the lettuce is "salad" thing.

They need an anthropomorphic glove to sell them on the idea of adding a protein to a carbohydrate so they can manage to feed their families.

It is a shelf, stable pasta and cheese mix that you are supposed to mix with a pound of ground beef to make an easy stove top meal. Tldr it's kind of like Kraft dinner but different cheese.

Might be that it's because Lemmy is such a small place. We had the hamburger helper meme in all yesterday and now people are posting about the general concept.

Try with acorn shells!

Try with Soylent Green!

It jumped 30% in three months in my area.

you technically don't need the hamburger to have the helper. 🤷‍♂️

Must be with they started putting “try it with hot dogs” on the package.

What about the Euro? That's also a good contender for reserve currency. Maybe they won't be one but 3 or 4

Try it with hot dogs!

The good tuna isn't cheap either. I don't want the quasi cat food from a can.

Poverty.

It tastes like being poor.

It's like taco meat mixed with Mac and cheese but with less flavor to both. Honestly anyone's just better off making taco Mac

Can you clarify if you mean hamburger is fine by itself or if the sodium packed box mix is fine without the hamburger.

One answer will probably have The Hague asking for your location.