There we are, in the packaged foods aisle, wondering just what to have for dinner. Time is tight and nobody really wants to spend all evening cooking. Right next to us is the ginormous Hamburger Helpertm section, with Tuna Helpertm right next to it. Those flirtatious photos on the cover are convincing; the only challenge is choosing between beef stroganoff, potato stroganoff, lasagna, spaghetti, tomato basil penne and about 50 other tempting flavors.
Our take: basically edible, but we won’t be buying again. This experience left us wondering just who is buying all that hamburger helper… grocery stores don’t make enough money for 2 inches of unused space, much less for 50 feet of Hamburger Helpertm to sit in the same place for 50 years, as I imagine it should. Do kids like this crap? I must have lived a charmed life (who knew?), having made it 29 years without tasting the stuff.
No matter all the flavors, I am pretty sure they all taste alike. I’ve tried at least 5 of them.
yet you kept going back to try more… is it the box cover? there must be subliminal messages (which are now thought to work) contained in the photo like those liquor ads that supposedly had naked women hidden in ice cubes.
Hmm…charmed life…I never thought I’d hear you speaking of your childhood food in those terms. We ate meals even more basic than hamburger helper.
(There is always Amy’s or Newman’s pasta sauce. Or cold tofu and ketchup.)
And I swear I have seen those naked women in the liquor ad ice cubes.
well mom you never could tell when i was being sarcastic. but yeah, i’ve realized that a life without hamburger helper really is a charmed life.
Sam:
I try to eat HH at least twice a week. Helps the colon and has made me the man I am today!