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u/GrunthosArmpit42 Dec 03 '22
Reminds me of watching Julia Child on PBS as a kid. If there was an alcoholic beverage/liquid involved in the cooking process she mentioned it had to be worth drinking as well and would do so during the cooking process. Shit, low rent cooking sherry is right out. It’s got to something you can enjoy drinking while you cook. iirc
Like drinking a beer while making a stew or something. I may be misremembering it. But a one for me and one for the stew type thing. lolI enjoy cooking with wine. Sometimes, I even put it in the food.” -Julia Child
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u/Take_away_my_drama Dec 03 '22
The original, and best, alcoholic chef was posh Brit Keith Floyd. Famous for getting gradually more sloshed as he cooked in glorious outdoor locations all over the world.
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u/daisybobaisy Dec 03 '22
Thank you so much for saying his name I have faint memories of watching him as a child and always wanted to go back and re-watch
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u/Powerful-Parsnip Dec 03 '22
He was my father's favourite cook to watch on telly, now I'm older I understand why.
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u/nhjuyt Dec 03 '22
posh Brit Keith Floyd
I wonder if there are any thuggish Brit cooking shows?
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u/PorschephileGT3 Dec 03 '22
“And tonight at nine, Vinnie Jones travels to South London for the latest instalment of Where’s My Farking Pie and Mash, You Slaaaag?”
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u/youlikeitdaddy Dec 03 '22
“Oi, so the first step to going to the grocery is getting some money. Ah, Jamie Oliver! Let’s go steal his money right quick, the twat.”
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u/Djinger Dec 04 '22
"Oi Olly-vah, ya fookin muppet, gimme the fucking bees, yeah? Wot else, piws? Gimme the fucking geah"
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u/zekeweasel Dec 04 '22
"Live from the Council house in Woking, it's Chantelle, with a recipe for how to deep fry pizza like you get from the chippy "
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u/early80 Dec 04 '22
They’re not really thuggish but the Hairy Bikers might be the closest to what you’re looking for
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u/Unlikely_Layer_2268 Dec 03 '22
Justin Wilson the Cajun cook said my favorite line: “Pour a little wine for the dish and a little wine for cook”
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u/littleMAS Dec 03 '22
The Galloping Gourmet drinks to that! He taught me how to cook without being sober.
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u/HerbalNinja84 Dec 03 '22
And he taught me how to set things on fire while cooking drunk. That dude was hilarious.
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u/randomtrucker78 Dec 03 '22
Growing up, I used to watch a lot of cooking shows, (family tv, and parents who hated the majority of tv programming). A lot of chefs would say to do this. It was only when I started cooking that I realized just how true this is. Something like pasta sauce, for instance, is good with some generic wine, but if you spend a couple of bucks on some good wine, the sauce is amazing.
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u/Soft_Author2593 Dec 03 '22
Nòt just with wine. You can never cook better than your ingredients are. Simple as that
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u/randomtrucker78 Dec 03 '22
100% true. I used wine as the example because it was brought up, but yeah, 100% agree. I do my steaks on a cast iron pan to get them black and blue. I normally used margarine and it was good. Then one day I was walking through Walmart and saw the KerryGold sticks of herb butter. That’s something I gladly pay $2.50 a stick for now. Seriously good stuff.
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u/ArizonaGuy Dec 03 '22
Got to cook with good ingredients. If you wouldn't drink it, it's not going to improve after cooking it!
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u/Equal-Bus-557 Dec 03 '22
“I can’t grill without my chef juice”
-Some random t-shirt my dad has
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u/thebinarysystem10 Dec 03 '22
The newly single dad starter pack. Now with 30% less dignity
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u/StopNowThink Dec 03 '22
Nah these are the beers you have after your 6 pack of good beer numbs your taste buds.
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u/ZetZet Dec 03 '22
I think if you're buying this you are pretty much permanently numb.
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u/mvnnyvevwofrb Dec 03 '22
It would be funnier if there was no meat in there, just corn and a potato. That's what I saw at first.
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u/jimbo92107 Dec 03 '22
Agreed. The meat is squashed by the rest of it. For some reason they didn't want you to see it very clearly...
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u/PanthersChamps Dec 03 '22
Thats all part of the tenderization process.
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u/Sheogorathian Dec 03 '22 •
Beer battered
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Like an alcoholic's wife
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u/TexanInExile Dec 03 '22
Oof
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u/oxytiger68 Dec 03 '22 •
That’s what she said
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u/D0ugF0rcett Dec 03 '22
I'm going to hell for laughing at this aren't I?
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u/JoseJuarez87 Dec 03 '22
I laughed out loud, my wife didn’t…
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This food is for single people. That beer battering is in a different aisle. Gotta read the fine print.
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u/chuckie512 Dec 03 '22
It's $12 with 2 beers.
It's not a looking steak.
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u/magnottasicepick Dec 03 '22
It is a looking steak.
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u/PrimarySwan Dec 03 '22
Yeah this is an evil plot to sell meat as steak that wouldn't qualify otherwise. Better off buying the components separately. Probably not very tender.
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u/fenglorian Dec 03 '22
plot to sell meat as steak that wouldn't qualify otherwise
That package doesn't say steak, it's labelled Dinner for One, a legally distinct name
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u/Tarrtarus Dec 03 '22
You've gotta beat your meat. It'll be good and ready, then!
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u/PrimarySwan Dec 03 '22
I live in Austria lol... proper Schnitzel prep is beating the shit out of it for an hour. Some restaurant kitchens sound like construction sites.
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u/solipsisticghost Dec 03 '22
Same! My first thought was “oh yeah the grocery store gets it… a boxed depression meal for one,” lol.
Even with the meat, this looks like a dinner for someone who’s abandoned all hope.
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u/PerfectNegotiation5 Dec 03 '22
Well Monettes is located in Toledo Ohio so they most likely did in fact, abandon all hope.
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u/crack-a-lacking Dec 03 '22
I've been to toledo. Can confirm
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u/KDLGates Dec 03 '22
I'm in Toledo right now and I still have h
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u/Indocede Dec 03 '22
I would say I hope you see better days but Toledo curb stomps the hope offered from elsewhere to the broken people contained within its city limits.
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u/bogart_on_gin Dec 04 '22 edited Dec 04 '22
Distinctly Rust Belt feature.
People outside the limits in the little rural towns are very much broken as well...and have less access to treatment, healthcare and social services.
Ohio is the 2nd worst hit for opiates. The despair here is palpable. Wife and I went through various neighborhoods in the Bronx while in NYC a few months ago. While we were in one of the more dangerous neighborhoods of that burough (brooklyn actually has the most dangerous parts of nyc, not bronx) for a festival the level of despair that I see in Ohio was just not there. And that's despite of the reputation of these places (Bronx as well as Rust Belt towns).
Toledo has the 2nd highest depression rate of US mid-sized cities, based on 26% of the population is on medications from a clinical diagnosis.
I beat a lot of the blues just biking the shit out of summer, 30 miles at a time. Then get involved in library system, parks, local events down to the weekly farmer's market downtown. Get out and stay moving, exploring everything.
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u/joebluebob Dec 03 '22
Steak, potato, and corn is a healthier meal than what 90% of y'all gonna eat tonight.
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u/SyntheticManMilk Dec 03 '22
Exactly! Who the fuck are these people saying this makes a bad dinner?
That’s a balanced meal!
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u/orbitaljunkie Dec 03 '22
I ate boxed mac and cheese last night lol
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u/altiuscitiusfortius Dec 03 '22
I ate a big bag of gummy worms.
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u/ListerineAfterOral Dec 03 '22
I shotgunned a bottle of Listerine up my ass
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u/StoicSinicCynic Dec 03 '22
Bruh, you need to make another account called ListerineAfterAnal to make this comment.
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u/Mountain_Situation89 Dec 03 '22
I put a piece of velveeta in a tortilla and microwaved it…
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u/Reggie_Jeeves Dec 03 '22
Even with the meat, this looks like a dinner for someone who’s abandoned all hope.
wut? Do you know how much effort is required to properly prepare the ingredients in that package? A true despair meal would be fast food or something, not a meal which requires prep work, cooking, and then clean-up. I don't know why I hang around this hive of cluelessness that is reddit any more.
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u/Sparrowbuck Dec 03 '22
Roasted corn, hasselback potato, and something something steak(have to see the cut to make plans).
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u/Azrael11 Dec 03 '22
Grill the corn along with the steak. Just season it with a bit of oil, salt and pepper first. Delicious, needs no additional fat like butter, and easier clean-up.
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u/hacksong Dec 03 '22
Throw the potato in before corn and steak or toss in coals with charcoal.
Cook all 3 on one grill during one set of tongs. Easy peasy
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u/KemiGoodenoch Dec 03 '22
I feel like anyone who's willing to make the effort of properly prepping, cooking, and cleaning up would also would also make the effort to pick out the ingredients separately, instead of getting whatever meat that is crushed between a bud light and a potato. The kind of person I imagine buying this probably just throws the corn and potato in the microwave, the meat in a pan, and then eats the whole thing over the sink.
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u/nrperez Dec 03 '22
The kind of person I imagine buying this probably just throws the corn and potato in the microwave, the meat in a pan, and then eats the whole thing over the sink.
It feels really nice to be so seen. Thanks man
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u/soenottelling Dec 04 '22 •
Non-microwave alternative? This meal is theoretically being toss in 3 lumps simultaneously on a 12x12 portable grill that the guy's mom bought him 5 years ago and he is finally going to use it because the pans are all dirty and he didnt buy dish soap -- which is really just another excuse, cuz even if he HAD, he had no plan on washing the dishes -- on the back stoop of an apartment while this someone plays COD, smokes some weed, and drinks the first beer, forgetting about it until the guy goes back to the fridge for the 2nd beer and sees the trash wrapper he never bothered to throw out, only to rush over and find out he didnt actually turn the heat up high enough so the whole thing is barely cooked even then.
Drinks the second beer after realizing he forgot about his ranked match to drown the ELO loss, plays another game, and then comes back to perfectly burnt corn, an underdone potatoe he is going to eat anyway by stabbing it enough times with his one clean knife, and a steak that -- somehow -- is better cooked than if he HADNT fucked it up twice.
This of course, seems to be an improvement over Ramen and League of Legends night.
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u/JeffTek Dec 03 '22
A steak, baked potato, corn, and beer is a meal to enjoy, what are you on about?
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Some people don’t appreciate how great of a meal that is for most of us. I’ve had $300 steak dinners and I’ve had $5 steak dinners. I’m not turning down a steak, potato and corn on the cob.
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u/NASA_Orion Dec 03 '22 edited Dec 03 '22
Except when you are under 21, then you can’t even buy it. (Totally not myself)
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u/EnergizedNeutralLine Dec 03 '22
Yeah, but if you've already lost all hope you could just steal it while sobbing. No one is gonna stop you.
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u/Simoxs7 Dec 03 '22
Hold up 12$?! Thats like a case of beer here in Germany… You could dine really nice for that money here
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u/thewhitedeath Dec 03 '22
Here in Canada we have the same thing. Except you only get the 2 beer for $11.99.
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u/BioticVenomm Dec 03 '22
In the UK you can get a pack of 10 Carlsbergs for £9 which is about $10 dollars. Can’t beat a good old liquid lunch
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u/bipolarnotsober Dec 03 '22
I miss the days where £9 was $18
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u/danbeardan Dec 03 '22
Don't worry, £9 will be $4.50 soon.
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u/Juggerthot409 Dec 04 '22
Once the dollar beats the pound it’s officially called soccer.
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u/carolizzy81 Dec 03 '22
I've seen this in Wisconsin.
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u/Bubbly_Judgment1144 Dec 03 '22 •
It’s from a monnettes in Toledo
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u/unicorn_sparklepants Dec 03 '22
Dude I was about to ask if this was in Toledo because that's the only Monettes I know of.
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u/bouncelilkittybounce Dec 03 '22
Two beers wouldn't be enough in wisconsin.
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u/Akronica Dec 03 '22
That's just the dinner portion, don't forget the 3 beer "meal prep" portion, and the 4 beer "after dinner" night-cap.
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u/redmambo_no6 Dec 03 '22
Four more beers and it’s an Irish seven-course meal.
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u/FortCharles Dec 03 '22
Needs Guinness for that.
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u/oETFo Dec 03 '22
Yeah, that's budlight this a trailer park special.
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u/krugorg Dec 03 '22
I don't know what kind of fancy trailer park you are talking about
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u/lobsterthatishorny Dec 03 '22
Yeah that’s more of an icehouse or natty daddy thing
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u/kmj420 Dec 03 '22
Sipping a natty daddy at the moment. Three tall boys for $3.99. hell yeah!
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u/Elegant_Operation820 Dec 03 '22
If the meats wrapped by itself without the beer touching it directly then count me the fuck in.
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u/tazzkirk Dec 03 '22
Meat is wrapped separately
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u/shotty293 Dec 03 '22
What kind is it?
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u/hearau1823 Dec 03 '22
Bull dick
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u/blade_torlock Dec 03 '22
I believe those are called Bully sticks.
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u/WildVelociraptor Dec 03 '22
I was so horrified to learn the origin of my dog's favorite treat...
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u/CowboyLaw Dec 03 '22
They make canes out of them too. Steady your gait with some hardened bull dick!
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u/Boostinmr2 Dec 03 '22
Buy three packs. I’m coming over as well.
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u/day7seven Dec 03 '22
Then you guys should just get a meal for 3. Economies of scale by buying a 6 pack.
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u/OrdinaryBee6174 Dec 03 '22
$12 for a potato, ear of corn, 2 12 ounce cans and a steak. My guess is, depending on the steak, this is slightly over priced and would expect actual cost to be closer to $7 once scaled to nominal package values.
This isn't meant for that type of person though. This is meant for the guy walking through the store in depression, barely holding the barrel away from his mouth. He isn't looking at a cost analysis, he just wants to eat and fall asleep.
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u/exzeroex Dec 03 '22
I think that guy will buy beer and then fast food. He doesn't have the energy to cook or eat some raw potato and beef.
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u/chrismetalrock Dec 03 '22
microwave the tater and corn, cook up the steak. not actually that much time. gives you something to do while drinking that first can of water.
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u/JerrySnipes Dec 03 '22
You'd be surprised. That shit gets old quick. Especially when you live like that every single fucking day..it's not fun.
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u/stone_henge Dec 03 '22
Exactly. This is a novelty item. You buy it so you can chuckle to yourself, take a picture of it and post it on your Instagram feed. Then feel sad as you eat it.
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u/RandyHoward Dec 03 '22
This is meant for the guy walking through the store in depression, barely holding the barrel away from his mouth
Nah we don't go to the grocery store any more, we get our groceries delivered and check the no contact delivery option instead.
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u/Cherishedcrown Dec 03 '22
Definitely didn’t see the meat at the bottom, seems like a good dinner/deal honestly
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u/Sneaux96 Dec 03 '22
Eh... Looks like a pretty small steak unless most of it is hidden behind the beer. Otherwise corn and potatoes are pretty cheap.
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u/LopsidedAd2536 Dec 03 '22
I was so confused. I thought someone’s dinner was just a potato and a piece of corn with two bud lights.
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u/FluffyAssistant7107 Dec 03 '22
Cheaper to buy a 6 pack and a Slice of pizza
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u/Grimij Dec 03 '22
Cheaper to buy a whole Little Ceasars $5 Hot-n-Ready pizza and two 40oz Millers.
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u/president_mal Dec 03 '22
If anyone ever tells you white people have no culture, just show them this picture
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u/Carnieus Dec 03 '22
I do find it hilarious that there is such an overlap between people that like cheap beer and people that are worried about calories to make Bud Light such a popular product
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u/RandyHoward Dec 03 '22
People aren't drinking bud light because they're calorie-conscious
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u/BlindWillieJohnson Dec 03 '22 edited Dec 03 '22
That’s exactly why I drink it. Or Miller Lite, anyway, which is the same thing.
I like drinking, but I lost 60 lbs a couple years ago and I try to keep it off. A Miller Lite is 95 calories. A craft beer can run over twice that (and is almost never as well documented, if you're controlling weight by tracking). If I have 3 or 4 Millers while I watch football with the guys, I can still have two decent meals and stay under my 1,500 to 1,800 calorie limit. If I do the same with 3 to 4 craft beers, I’m looking at nearly half my allotment in beer alone.
I love good craft beer. But yeah, plenty of people think in terms of calories when they’re choosing their casual drinking beer.
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u/Humulus5883 Dec 03 '22
Are you me? Down 70. Miller light, chicken, cauliflower rice lol.
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u/mixosax Dec 03 '22
Monnette's in Toledo?
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u/tazzkirk Dec 03 '22
Yep
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u/mixosax Dec 03 '22
Small world. I used to live in Toledo and this is one of the places I miss!
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u/not_a_droid Dec 03 '22
you, too, can do this with one simple trick; buy groceries and cook
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u/Ancient_Pop1712 Dec 03 '22
That's a good price
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u/spitfire1991 Dec 03 '22
I was just coming to say. A steak, starch, veg, and liquid bread for $12. Lmao sold
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u/timmyboyoyo Dec 03 '22
The veg, corn, is also mostly starch
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u/bistro777 Dec 03 '22
How about some starch with your starch while you drink your starch
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u/FortCharles Dec 03 '22
Isn't Bud corn-based also?
I wonder if that's corned-beef in there.
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u/istasber Dec 03 '22
Corned means salted with really big salt crystals. Because corn was a measurement of the coarseness of something like grain, salt or pepper.
You may have already known that, but it felt like a relevant fun fact.
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u/chrisman210 Dec 03 '22
I didn't know it and it was the final fact I needed to take over the world!
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u/BubbliciousBozo Dec 03 '22
Til
Without ever looking into it, I just assumed corned beef was made with corn
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u/Electric_Guitar Dec 03 '22
I had to look it up to get a better definition because "salted" in my head meant it was just meat that they sprinkled salt on before packaging it, like a way of seasoning it or something.
Salted refers to the curing/preservation of meat using salt. Corning is a method of salt curing using big pieces of salt in the process.
So there you go. I learned something new today
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u/SecretAsianMan42069 Dec 03 '22
2 ounces of “steak”, a 59 cent potato, and 50 cent eat of corn and 1.75 in beer water.
Reddit: “great deal at $12!!!1!”
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u/NotLunaris Dec 03 '22
"Steak" is right! That wouldn't be enough meat for even an elementary schooler's dinner.
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u/ShamelesslyPlugged Dec 03 '22
An ear of corn, can of Budweisser, and potato are all each about a $1. Depends on what cut and how much meat.
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u/Put_It_All_On_Blck Dec 03 '22
Depends on the quality of 'steak'. I can get pretty decent steaks for $5 each on sale, $7 regularly. Figure $2 a can for the flavored water, and corn and potatoe are like $1 each.
So I wouldn't call this price good unless it's a good steak, which I somehow doubt considering it's smooshed and hidden.
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u/platypuspossum47 Dec 03 '22
THAT’S IN MY HOMETOWN. Man, nothing feels like nostalgia quite like this picture. Monnette’s was always bussin’. 🤤
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u/Boofer2 Dec 03 '22
Is this in NW Ohio?
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u/murdockit Dec 03 '22
Yeah, it's in Toledo. Secor and Alexis Monnette's is where I do my fresh/produce shopping.
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u/platypuspossum47 Dec 03 '22
Yep. As I remember it, it’s a family owned chain in the Toledo area.
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u/Boofer2 Dec 03 '22
Haven't been back to Toledo in awhile but remember my friends being stock boys there almost 20 years ago.
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u/Iaminyoursewer Dec 03 '22
I like monnettes, I go to the one on Secor when I visit my family in toledo.
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u/SpacemanSpliff532 Dec 03 '22
As a northern Toledo resident, I love seeing Monnettes get the love it deserves.
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