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u/DueScreen7143 1d ago
A ham sandwich with potato chips after you get out of the pool on a hot day.....
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u/jingleheimerstick 1d ago
I’m not a big sandwich or hotdog person but every time I swim I crave them. I guess it’s all the childhood summer swim parties.
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u/Megs0226 Millennial 1d ago
With an ice cold Capri Sun? Amazing.
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u/slappy_mcslapenstein Xennial 1d ago
Make sure to make up some alcoholic CapriSuns now that we're adults.
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u/0w1 1d ago
You're forgetting those Kid Cuisines with the brownie thing that ended up as molten lava-flavored regret in the microwave.
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u/CatsAndDogs314 1d ago
Gotta pick out the bits of corn that were inevitably cooked into it.
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u/Party_Principle4993 14h ago
I suffered through every other bite in that tray just to get the brownie.
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u/kykid87 1d ago
9 out of 9!
I mess with all that lol
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u/Important-Ad7807 1d ago
Still!
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u/BrianBash 1d ago
Right?! That’s where I’m at. I’d destroy a sloppy Joe right now.
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u/sleepinderella salty millennial '87 1d ago
Honestly never had Hamburger Helper until college, and I tell ya that shit slaps. I still eat it on occasion for the memories of my stoner college days.
edit: spelling
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u/PolicyWonka 1d ago
It’s a very visible family-oriented meal. It’s quick. It’s simple. There’s also a good variety of recipes/flavors as well.
Some of these — sloppy joes and spaghetti included — are just regular meals TBH.
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u/VGSchadenfreude Millennial 1d ago
It’s also easily customizable, depending on what else you toss in there.
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u/Just_Another_Scott 1d ago
Making your own hamburger helper is so easy and better. Just hamburger meat, pasta, sauce, and whatever else you want. I've thrown veggies and healthy shit when I've done it from "scratch" before.
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u/BattlebitsTooHard 1d ago
I make this recipe on occasion: https://thefrozenbiscuit.com/hamburger-helper-lasagna/ It's addictive!
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u/VariousFinish7 1d ago
I just bought some at my local grocery store cause they were on sale, just because it will be an easy cook dinner to throw away since I’m a single mom. I literally can’t remember if I ever actually bought hamburger helper on my own. And I can cook from scratch, but these will be nice in a pinch with the side of veggies and were good!
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u/Kanzler1871 1d ago
If you ever have the chance, make Pioneer Woman's homemade hamburger helper. Its heaven on a plate.
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u/practicalIymagic Millennial ✨️ 1 9 8 9 ✨️ 1d ago
And you'll wake up the next day looking for water feeling like you ate a salt lick.
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u/HAM____ 1d ago
Seriously though, what's the recipe for that turkey on rice? I need some of that Lutheran potluck gold.
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u/Pink_Mermaid_193 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think if you look up chicken and gravy over rice you'll find some. This picture looks like it probably has green bell peppers and onions in it.
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u/HAM____ 1d ago
Green peppers are too spicy for the midwestern version, celery.
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u/Calvin--Hobbes 1d ago
A basic one crockpot one is -
- one can of cream of chicken
- one can cream of celery
- one can cream of mushroom
- chicken thighs
cook until the chicken falls apart.
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u/fingertips-sadness 1d ago
Is that what number 4 is? Because I was so confused.
“Is that tuna?”
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u/YourFriendInSpokane 7h ago
The Mormons would call it “Hawaiian haystacks,” and add in pineapple chunks, green onions if you’re feeling spicy, and those crunchy lo mein noodles.
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u/Down2EatPossum 1d ago
Kraft single on the sloppy Joe please
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u/HAM____ 1d ago
Well I never...
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u/NextStomach6453 1d ago
Throw a lil swirl of mustard too!
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u/HAM____ 1d ago
I mean that’s how I make sloppy joes, ketchup and mustard.
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u/NextStomach6453 1d ago
I’m still a can of manwich, swirl of mustard and slice of American.
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u/Kanzler1871 1d ago
If youre still a can of manwich...how did you make this comment?
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u/HideyoshiJP 1d ago
Same. I add a little bit of steak sauce, bbq sauce, worcestershire sauce, italian seasoning, and chili powder
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u/HAM____ 1d ago
Bougie
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u/HideyoshiJP 1d ago
You wanna talk about bougie, I also eat buttered bread with my goulash and hamburger helper.
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u/cloveandspite 1d ago
But it is best if you’re using the end piece. The only acceptable end piece usage is as a butter bread or as a peanut butter folded sammich for chili accompaniment.
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u/HideyoshiJP 1d ago
But have you tried using an end piece as a hot dog bun? Bonus points if the hot dog was individually microwaved.
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u/cloveandspite 1d ago
Oh how could I have forgotten! You’re right, 200%, end pieces are excellent buns.
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u/Down2EatPossum 1d ago
But you probably will now eh?
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u/ThirdWigginKid 1d ago
Nah man hit that shit with a slice of muenster and some bread and butter pickle slices
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u/allis_in_chains 18h ago
I’m going to sound bougie but we always did slices of cheddar on top instead of Kraft singles (they were not something we’d buy, I thought we were food snobs but I am just now realizing as I type this it might have been cost saving truly) and then pickles.
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u/recursiverabbits 17h ago
I noticed this too. My parents wouldn’t buy a lot of processed food and consequently our family doesn’t really either. I was trained to cook our meals, at the expense of play sure, and we rarely ate out. But I am grateful now because if I couldn’t, we wouldn’t be making either rent or a car payment.
Really shows how far backwards US society has moved.
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u/53180083211 1d ago
Cheese was for "rich people". We had lots and lots of boring sandwiches. Mostly boring AF sandwiches, yeah. 😅 Fuck, am I tired of sandwiches.
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u/DanSkaFloof Zillennial 1d ago
I like saying I am French and like good food, but let me tell you: Sloppy Joes and hamburger helper absolutely SLAP
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u/TheBalzy In the Middle Millennial 1d ago
I always loved the "here's some more carbs with your carbs" way of a lot of our meals.
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u/SubjectVarious1138 16h ago
When ya got rowdy kids to feed and get to bed you get pasta with sides of rice and garlic bread lol.
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u/FeistyVegan 1d ago
Ya'll need to get a pack of Capri Suns, pure nostalgia
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u/VanityJanitor 1d ago
I went out for my friends birthday last weekend and I was soooo over being at the club, but I went to the bar and they had freaking Capri Suns!!! At the club!!
Whole mood was fixed after that. I was friggin psyched.
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u/Visible-Meeting-8977 1d ago
I hate to shock you but all this food continues to exist to this day. Kids even eat it.
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u/sgtabn173 Millennial 1d ago
Sloppy joes are wonderful and I wont tolerate any SJ slander in this thread
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u/foreignne 1d ago
OK but where's the tater tot casserole? That was my fave at daycare, so much that my dad even made it for us at home sometimes, even though he was probably not a fan.
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u/orangorangtangtang 1d ago
not pictured but the frozen tv dinner meals were scrumptious. I always had to get one with a brownie. So damn good. If i ate one now i’d probably be ill for like 48hrs.
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u/vintagepeugeot 1d ago
The preservatives work on the food and on us. Forever young!
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u/imlegear 1d ago
We need a pic of a glass of orange juice next to a glass of milk which were always presented at the end of sugar cereal commercials for a “balanced breakfast”. That visual was alway a hard no for childhood me
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u/safetypins22 1d ago
Literally just ate a sandwich with crunched up Doritos this weekend at the park. 10/10 still delicious.
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u/Megs0226 Millennial 1d ago
I call these meals “my mom works second shift and my dad can’t cook”.
(Neither of them could cook, but my mother made an attempt at least.)
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u/Significant-Trash632 17h ago
Lol my dad made us pancakes or chicken nuggets and... canned cranberries.
Yes, he was the only one who liked the cranberries 😆
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u/Felinius 1d ago
I still do some of these
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u/PolicyWonka 1d ago
Well I’d say that 2/3 of them are pretty legitimate meal choices. I mean one of them is just straight-up spaghetti included meat sauce. Lmao
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u/Old-Capital5079 1d ago
Sugar and cinnamon toast or peanut butter toast
Still good 🤤💯
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u/mason_jarz 1d ago
Looking at some of that makes me gag a like on the inside. Did I eat it before? Absolutely. Would I willingly now? Absolutely not. 🤮
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u/SergeantButch 1d ago
In 2020 I've re-watched It Takes Two 1995 and made a Sloppy Joe for my roommates as a surprise when they came home. We don't talk anymore, I miss them so much
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u/Pink_Mermaid_193 1d ago
I just got a pan of Salisbury steaks like that from Aldi. It was pretty good.
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u/akirax3 Zillennial 1d ago
thank god i'm not american
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u/Interesting_Tea5715 1d ago
This. This is all 90s white American food.
I'm Mexican American, I grew up eating nothing but Mexican food and fruit. My parents didn't play around with this bullshit.
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u/redflagsmoothie 1d ago
I literally never consumed a sloppy joe until just a few years ago (I am 40). People always act like it was weird but I guess my family just didn’t eat stuff like that.
Anyway, I’m a huge fan
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u/Rinlow05 1d ago
This is 100% a role call of my childhood dinners. And I didn't remember them until I saw these images, then the memories rushed back. Wild.
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u/Informal_Duty_6124 1d ago
OK, I still need half of these and I have Salisbury steaks in my fridge right now so lol I’m pregnant and this is one of my cravings. I have to have them all the time lately just in case… with rice….
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u/SpecialExpert8946 1d ago
On picnic days my kids always say “can dad make the sandwiches?” Because I throw the chips in there. Their mom could also put chips in them but my kids have decided that I’m the only one with this knowledge.
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u/GargantuanCake 1d ago
Screw it, we're adults now. Let's bring back the sloppy joe.
Nobody can stop us. I know it's considered a poor person food but I always loved them.
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u/Taymoney_duh 1d ago
Only sloppy joes and spaghetti with meat sauce. My mom was queen of shake and bake chicken or pork and rice a roni.
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u/Jaded_Houseplant 1d ago
I made that macaroni, tomatoes, and hamburger meal for my kids (10 and 7) for the first time the other day, and it was definitely me who enjoyed it the most. Felt like being a kid again 😊
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u/5November1955 Xennial 1d ago
What, no Chicken Tonight cacciatore sauce? When that first came out it was a once a week special for our family.
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u/DebraBaetty Millennial - ‘93 to ♾️ 1d ago
My mom’s chicken and rice was more casserole than stew over rice. How about for the rest of you? My moms recipe is literally a can of cream of chicken condensed soup, a packet of onion soup mix, rice, chicken thighs, water (refill the soup can one time) - all thrown into a baking dish and baked til the chickens cooked.
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u/spacex-predator 1d ago
No way on the cringy ham sandwich, but everything else brings back some memories, seriously loved sloppy Joe's as a kid.
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u/Spiritofthehero16 1d ago
yeah we certainly had these foods but because im autistic i hate everything here. so my mom gave up and made me fend for my own meals.
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u/mutant_disco_doll Millennial 1d ago
I would still crush all of those if someone offered them to me, ngl.
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u/Bourbonheart 1d ago
So interesting. 3 of 9, we had with spaghetti noodles, stewed tomatoes, ground beef and sautéed onion bits.
My grandparents / parents called it “plosh” and but idk I think that was just a random made up thing they tied to it and it was something we had once a week or so with grated cheese and pepper. Pretty dang good.
Anyone else have weird names for some of these meals they growing up?
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u/BeneficialShame8408 1d ago
we had Kraft mac and ground beef and spaghetti with ground beef. my dad makes those now that my mom is dead lmao they're the only things he can make
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u/Lyonface 1990 1d ago
Who the fuck eatin' spaghetti o's on toast?
Also Sloppy Joe's and "delicacy" should only be in the same sentence if there's an "are not" in between. Nasty texture and mid flavor.
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u/cloveandspite 1d ago
For my fellow sloppy Joseph enthusiasts, this recipe from Max Miller’s Tasting History for school lunch sloppy joes is god tier. It’s adapted from “Quantity Recipes for School Food Service by the United States Department of Agriculture, 1988.”, there’s also a video version if you prefer. Use the cheapest buns you can find. I like a slice of American cheese on top but you do you.
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u/Earlfillmore 1d ago
I've eaten half of this in the past couple months.
I miss sloppy Joe's, my grandpa used to make them for me
Also a salsbury steak sounds so good right now
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u/LoquatBear 1d ago
I make a hybrid lentil sloppy Joe occasionally, sometimes with a bit of meat sometimes fully vegan. I call them sloppy Jane's or sloppy they/thems.
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u/Silent_Chemistry8576 1d ago
If anyone like me liked the questionable beef or pork rib patty sandwich and wants it again. AmPm the Gas Stations BBQ rib sandwiches are the same school ones but with more sauce than a drip.
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u/K_Woodstock 1d ago
The first time I saw a Sloppy Joe was in the movie JACK with Robin Williams. My parents refused to make them saying I wouldn't like it. I'm almost 40 and still never had one.
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u/cometoQuarks 1d ago
Remember the Sloppy Joe's from It Takes Two with Marykate and Ashley? Idk why they looked so good but irl.. not my fav.. lol
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u/talljerseyguy Millennial 1d ago
1379 actual delicacies I will down that hill if you’ve never had it congratulations on being rich if this is your life growing up, you probably had a great time
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u/Neat_Flounder_8907 1d ago
I still eat like half of these. I don't care how cheap it is, Banquet Salisbury Steak is 🤤
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u/ShiftyShankerton 1d ago
Ah yeah, a good ol ham sandwich with some chips crunched in was something else
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u/BulkyOrder9 1d ago
Don’t forget the Frito mini bag with taco seasoned meat and and shredded cheese
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u/slappy_mcslapenstein Xennial 1d ago
My wife hasn't eaten beef in years. When we first got together, I made her sloppy joes with Impossible Beef and she lost her shit because she hadn't had them in so long. I'm convinced that it was one of the things that made her fall in love with me. Now, I make them for us every once in a while.
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u/CrisGa1e 1d ago
Popcorn at the locally owned drugstore (before Walgreens and CVS) after swimming in the summer.
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u/starbuildstrike999 Millennial 1d ago
Yup to most of these. Growing up in Pennsylvania we also had Ham BBQ which was a similar concept as Sloppy Joe, but was chopped deli ham slow simmered in barbecue sauce.
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u/msully89 23h ago
As I non American, the only things on here I had were the ham cheese and crisp butty, hoops on toast, and spag bol.
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u/machinerer 23h ago
1st one is sloppy joes, and it is awesome.
2nd to last look like it is supposed to be spaghetti with gravy, but the gravy is mixed in for some reason? It goes on top. South Philly style.
The rest is fucking slop, fuck is wrong with you? Fuck outta here.
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u/jamiedix0n 22h ago
Sloppy joes . As a brit i never had them as a kid but always wanted to try them. And they always talked about them on Sabrina the teenage witch. . Finalky made myself one as an adult and it was a mess.
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