Yep, exactly what I called it too. My wife still says I’m making bachelor chow whenever I do some low effort ground meat with finely chopped veggies and some seasonings.

Exactly what came to mind. It's funny how this show ended up being about 50% dated 2000s pop culture references and 50% extremely accurate social parody

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

Yeah no thanks

Ground beefillionaire. It's surprisingly affordable, but for the best quality cuts, you have to work for it.

Beefmaxxers

Hit up your local restaurant supply if you can. $4.20/lb here currently in a 10lb tube and I usually hit a sale for under $4.00/lb for 80/20. A lot of those places don't require a membership, you just need the freezer space.

I recently started to mix in granulated soy protein into ground beef whenever I'm making burger patties. It's way cheaper and granulated soy has a lots of vitamins. Makes it a better "alternative"

Why is the "we don't know what to do with these leftovers, so we shoved 'em in a grinder"-meat so expensive?

I use ground turkey instead. Its under 2 dollars a pound if you buy it frozen. Doesn’t do all the things ground beef does but you can still make spaghetti without going into debt.

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.

No thanks

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 just thinking "I need to stock more stuff for variations on rice and beans to stretch since dollars." But now I know that it's because I'm poor.

Okay but hear me out:

What if you did mince... and beans! Possibly even assorted frozen vegetables. We're getting closer to good food!

Mince is cheaper than beans where I live (Germany).

All genders can be boys, I'm not gonna stop them

makingwork@lemmy.ca What about Bachelor Chow?

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

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...

It's unnecessarily wrong lol

Kibble is dry

The pelletizing process generates a lot of heat which can harm nutrition retention. A high quality pelletizer is cooled with liquid nitrogen to prevent that from being an issue.

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

It isn't claiming to be. It's saying these dishes are what you can make instead of "boy kibble."

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 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.

I've been hearing the term for years.

Red kibble is the best.

I believe the terminology used is "in" the belt

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.

Between Tasting History and Townsend I get the impression that all it used to be all ships biscuit all the time.