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Ground pork is good for $4.49 in my area. 80/20 is $6.79. a 50/50 mix would cost costs by 16.5%. But for me the real benefit would be the added depth of flavor from the pork.

You bring a lot of good variations on this.

For tacos specifically, you can stretch it even further by mixing in a can of refried beans once the meat is cooked through

This is the Way.

our society is dumb.

it loves cheap gender-based attacks and blaming individual choices for failures of our society at large.

instead of taking about stagnating wages and impossible education/healthcare costs, we just mock young people for being poor. and since young men are poorer than young women, subverting traditional breadwinner gender roles, they get mocked even harder.

on the radio yesterday NPR was mocking people for not going out and spending $50 on two drinks. telling gen z that pre-gaming, nips, etc were all 'cheating' at life, and they should just 'grow up' and fork over their money they don't have to overpriced bars and restaurants because they are 'killing the restaurant industry'.

it's absurd. personally I am doing quite well, I'm in a top 15% income bracket, but all around me society and my peers are constantly acting like anyone who isn't making a top 5% income is a failure of a human being, because if you aren't filthily rich you are clearly lazy and pathetic! I've even had people straight up tell me I shouldn't have been born because my parents were not rich and couldn't pay for my college and give me a downpayment on a house...

and i'm in my 40s. i can't imagine how awful it is to be like 25 and in a mountain of debt and being told by society/friends/family you're a pathetic loser for trying to climb your way out of it by eating cheap food.

I remember this shit being delicious when I was a kid, but a couple of years ago I bought a box on a whim to try it out and it was almost inedible.

Yeah, I'm eating stuffed bell peppers because I'm from the future: 1970.

Mock me all you want Hamburger Helper slaps.

Honestly. SO wanted a dish with it. Picked up 2lbs it was $17

Yeah no thanks

If it's seasoned, turkey meat can make a good substitute. But not for burgers and the like.

It's just rice with ground meat, which is nothing new. That's cheap and easy to make in bulk and it freezes well. So someone decided to call it 'boy kibble' and it's become a viral thing as large numbers of men realize they are in fact capable of operating a stove to create something tasty without burning their house down. .

Ground beef has long been considered poor people food in the US. It's gotten too expensive to still feel that niche, but that is the niche it used to fill.

I was looking to see if anyone would post this. This one made me seriously naseous when I watched it.

being mean to men is the point.

didn't you know we're all poor losers who never grow up when we could just get jobs in finance and become Michelin star rated chefs if we 'made an effort'??

but when women do 'girl dinner' it's celebrating their independence or something...

Red kibble is the best.

I think the bigger issue is people policing their own diets. We have some people addicted to convenience foods while others are so dedicated to an ideal that they are starving themselves and disguising an eating disorder as ethically or nutritionally superior.

Self policing is way more prevalent than the food police.

In this particular case we have people basically using the same idea of the billionaire wardrobe as nutrition advice. The same thing every day. No variation. Just shove the same thing in every day because cravings and nutrition blindspots don't matter. Just shove it into the food hole. Same stuff day after day. It's a form of self policing.