• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    If you’re gonna tell us how to eat depressingly cheap at least suggest rice and beans. It’s healthy, filling, cheap, vegan, and capable of tasting quite good. It’s just also something you’d be pissed if was all you could afford to eat.

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    22 hours ago

    Definitely a sign of an “A+++++++” economy: one where you condescendingly tell people how to eat cheap and then lie about the cost of the shitty meal you propose.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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      "We stand in longer lines than the Russians ever did,

      Selling our children’s souls to the highest bid,

      I can’t describe the way it feels"

      Electric Six, The Green Building

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    Reading the title made me think this is something they are preparing for school lunches or for prisons and thought it was bad. But the reality is even worse, they are expecting average Americans to prepare this feast for themselves at home.

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      17 hours ago

      In fed prison we were fed more than that for less. Though it turned out we were getting cow hearts, horse meat, and other stuff not fit for human consumption. But boy did they brag about the savings.

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        if it’s any consolation, damn near all meat in the US is considered unfit for human consumption by most of the rest of the world

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    20 hours ago

    This is probably the diet they recommended for the orange fatso who barely moves. A construction worker or lumberjack cannot possibly function on ‘A Piece of Chicken, a Piece of Broccoli, Corn Tortilla, and One Other Thing’.

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    21 hours ago

    With the amount of white people I’ve seen eat a corn tortilla and complain, you’d almost think this is satirically produced

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            16 hours ago

            You have to fold the ends of a burrito tortilla in to seal the filling. It’s a sharp fold that corn tortillas just can’t do. Burrito tortillas are often 12"/30cm or more, and I feel like corn tortillas aren’t strong enough for that (never tried, but also never seen them for sale).

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              Ah okay, that makes sense. Personally when I do something with tortillas, I just fold one end and keep one open. Idk if the exact shape has a name, it’s easy and I mostly care about the stuff inside rather than the (admittedly clumsy) shape.

              I should start doing burritos though. Seems like I’d spill less stuff out while eating.

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        As a half Mexican who grew up with my Mexican family, spent a lot of time in Mexico, and has celiac disease (meaning I cant eat flour), I actually disagree. It makes me sad that I cant eat flour tortillas anymore - especially because my grandma’s home made flour tortillas were the fucking bomb.

        That being said, street tacos only belong on corn.

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    As stupid as this statement was from the AG secretary all the Democratic legislators jumping on it with AI images is pretty dumb too. You’re telling me you couldn’t get a staffer to make a shitty meal and post a photo? Come on.

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    $3 used to go a lot further before the Annoying Orange Pedophile fucked shit up. $3 was enough for a whopper at BK, which means $3 was a lot more groceries.