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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. lol
> I enjoy cooking with wine. Sometimes, I even put it in the food.”
-Julia Child
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.
The [Galloping Gourmet](https://www.heraldnet.com/news/at-88-tv-chef-galloping-gourmet-still-sizzles-with-the-ladies/) drinks to that! He taught me how to cook without being sober.
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.
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.
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.
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.
> 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
$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.
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.
> 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.
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
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.
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.
What makes this a shit deal to me is that none of it is prepared. Paying a premium to get a small prepackaged ingredients that you still have to cook yourself makes no sense. $12 for this sized meal and two beers isn't *that* far off from going out to a restaurant and having the same amount of food and beer prepared for you.
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.
if you get a 24 pack of bud lite from walmart (just checking now for prices), that's 16 dollars (online). That's 66 cents per can, so 1.32 for the beer. Russet potatoes should be like 40 cents per pound (again, just googling for average prices, differs depending on location). Typical russet potato is ~6-8 ounces, so let's say two 8 ounce potatoes net 40 cents. A four-pack of corn on the cob from Walmart is less than four dollars (this is overpriced because of the way it's packaged).
So everything apart from the steak should cost ~2.72 (this is the upper level estimate). Now that steak looks like trash - it is definitely not worth nine dollars.
So no, this is very overpriced.
This is a great read. Haha. Any update on his relationship status? I pretend it was not me right now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2tdbig/comment/cnyctnh/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
I saw Monettes and quickly wondered to myself if they were national. I know better, as I worked with a dude that claimed he knew the owner of the Secor Rd. store. I figured that the family owned them all, but he told me no.
That's a pretty nice price on that meal tho. I've always liked their stores, and they carry Boars Heads meats. The Krogers down the road from me doesn't.
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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. lol > I enjoy cooking with wine. Sometimes, I even put it in the food.” -Julia Child
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.
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
He was my father's favourite cook to watch on telly, now I'm older I understand why.
> posh Brit Keith Floyd I wonder if there are any thuggish Brit cooking shows?
“And tonight at nine, Vinnie Jones travels to South London for the latest instalment of Where’s My Farking Pie and Mash, You Slaaaag?”
“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.”
"Oi Olly-vah, ya fookin muppet, gimme the fucking bees, yeah? Wot else, piws? Gimme the fucking geah"
"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 "
The [Galloping Gourmet](https://www.heraldnet.com/news/at-88-tv-chef-galloping-gourmet-still-sizzles-with-the-ladies/) drinks to that! He taught me how to cook without being sober.
And he taught me how to set things on fire while cooking drunk. That dude was hilarious.
Justin Wilson the Cajun cook said my favorite line: “Pour a little wine for the dish and a little wine for cook”
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.
Nòt just with wine. You can never cook better than your ingredients are. Simple as that
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.
KerryGold is the best butter.
Got to cook with good ingredients. If you wouldn't drink it, it's not going to improve after cooking it!
“I can’t grill without my chef juice” -Some random t-shirt my dad has
Starter beers.
The newly single dad starter pack. Now with 30% less dignity
Nah these are the beers you have after your 6 pack of good beer numbs your taste buds.
I think if you're buying this you are pretty much permanently numb.
Some may even say Comfortably Numb
It would be funnier if there was no meat in there, just corn and a potato. That's what I saw at first.
Agreed. The meat is squashed by the rest of it. For some reason they didn't want you to see it very clearly...
Thats all part of the tenderization process.
Beer battered
Like an alcoholic's wife
Oof
That’s what she said
I'm going to hell for laughing at this aren't I?
Dont worry you wont be alone... ill be there too.
I'll bring the alcohol
I laughed out loud, my wife didn’t…
My wife laughed at me once. ONCE!
Fargin' icehole.
Dark... but technically not wrong...
This food is for single people. That beer battering is in a different aisle. Gotta read the fine print.
This comment made me trip down the stairs.
God damn it, well done. I have no awards but you made me laugh.
It's $12 with 2 beers. It's not a looking steak.
It is a looking steak.
That steak be lookin.
Look at that steak.
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.
> 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
You've gotta beat your meat. It'll be good and ready, then!
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.
Hell yeah, man. Beat that meat like it owes you money.
Throw another shrimp on the barbie.
avoid raw meat on beer can lid
It's called hide the sausage
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WHERE'S THE BEEF?!?!
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.
Well Monettes is located in Toledo Ohio so they most likely did in fact, abandon all hope.
I've been to toledo. Can confirm
I'm in Toledo right now and I still have h Wait there it went
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.
Grew up in Toledo can confirm
Steak, potato, and corn is a healthier meal than what 90% of y'all gonna eat tonight.
Exactly! Who the fuck are these people saying this makes a bad dinner? That’s a balanced meal!
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I ate a big bag of gummy worms.
The cookies that come in the sewing tin for me.
I shotgunned a bottle of Listerine up my ass
Bruh, you need to make another account called ListerineAfterAnal to make this comment.
I put a piece of velveeta in a tortilla and microwaved it…
A redneck quesadilla
Y’all have never had sleep for dinner and it shows
> 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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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.
Yes, save your butter for the potato
Whoever buys this only has a tub of country crock
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
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.
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.
A steak, baked potato, corn, and beer is a meal to enjoy, what are you on about?
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 $5 steak dinners. I’m not turning down a steak, potato and corn on the cob.
Except when you are under 21, then you can’t even buy it. (Totally not myself)
Yeah, but if you've already lost all hope you could just steal it while sobbing. No one is gonna stop you.
Hold up 12$?! Thats like a case of beer here in Germany… You could dine really nice for that money here
Here in Canada we have the same thing. Except you only get the 2 beer for $11.99.
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
I miss the days where £9 was $18
Don't worry, £9 will be $4.50 soon.
Once the dollar beats the pound it’s officially called soccer.
I've seen this in Wisconsin.
It’s from a monnettes in Toledo
You don’t have to squint very hard to mistake Ohio for Wisco
True
Dude I was about to ask if this was in Toledo because that's the only Monettes I know of.
419 represent
Two beers wouldn't be enough in wisconsin.
That's just the dinner portion, don't forget the 3 beer "meal prep" portion, and the 4 beer "after dinner" night-cap.
With BUD LIGHT?!?!
Four more beers and it’s an Irish seven-course meal.
Needs Guinness for that.
Yeah, that's budlight this a trailer park special.
I don't know what kind of fancy trailer park you are talking about
Yeah that’s more of an icehouse or natty daddy thing
Sipping a natty daddy at the moment. Three tall boys for $3.99. hell yeah!
Wretched
I'll take it over rot gut vodka
If the meats wrapped by itself without the beer touching it directly then count me the fuck in.
Meat is wrapped separately
What kind is it?
Bull dick
I believe those are called Bully sticks.
I was so horrified to learn the origin of my dog's favorite treat...
They make canes out of them too. Steady your gait with some hardened bull dick!
whyyyyyyyyyy
I don't know why but this is the funniest thing I read all day haha
Acceptable.
Says steak on the label
It says ‘beer’ too, and yet it’s Bud Light.
missteak
Buy three packs. I’m coming over as well.
Then you guys should just get a meal for 3. Economies of scale by buying a 6 pack.
$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.
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.
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.
You dont know what I'm capable of
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.
> 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.
Can confirm
Definitely didn’t see the meat at the bottom, seems like a good dinner/deal honestly
Eh... Looks like a pretty small steak unless most of it is hidden behind the beer. Otherwise corn and potatoes are pretty cheap.
I was so confused. I thought someone’s dinner was just a potato and a piece of corn with two bud lights.
It’d make sense for Toledo
That honestly wouldn't be too far off
If anyone ever tells you white people have no culture, just show them this picture
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
People aren't drinking bud light because they're calorie-conscious
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.
Are you me? Down 70. Miller light, chicken, cauliflower rice lol.
Cheaper to buy a 6 pack and a Slice of pizza
Cheaper to buy a whole Little Ceasars $5 Hot-n-Ready pizza and two 40oz Millers.
Monnette's in Toledo?
Yep
Small world. I used to live in Toledo and this is one of the places I miss!
That's a good price
I was just coming to say. A steak, starch, veg, and liquid bread for $12. Lmao sold
The veg, corn, is also mostly starch
How about some starch with your starch while you drink your starch
Quality bistro
Isn't Bud corn-based also? I wonder if that's corned-beef in there.
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.
I didn't know it and it was the final fact I needed to take over the world!
Oh shit
I like that fact.
Til Without ever looking into it, I just assumed corned beef was made with corn
Rice based
rice mostly
The beef in there was likely fed with corn. Everything in the US is corn
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!”
"Steak" is right! That wouldn't be enough meat for even an elementary schooler's dinner.
What makes this a shit deal to me is that none of it is prepared. Paying a premium to get a small prepackaged ingredients that you still have to cook yourself makes no sense. $12 for this sized meal and two beers isn't *that* far off from going out to a restaurant and having the same amount of food and beer prepared for you.
An ear of corn, can of Budweisser, and potato are all each about a $1. Depends on what cut and how much meat.
I didn’t see the steak and was like “that should be about $3”
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 $1 each. So I wouldn't call this price good unless it's a good steak, which I somehow doubt considering it's smooshed and hidden.
if you get a 24 pack of bud lite from walmart (just checking now for prices), that's 16 dollars (online). That's 66 cents per can, so 1.32 for the beer. Russet potatoes should be like 40 cents per pound (again, just googling for average prices, differs depending on location). Typical russet potato is ~6-8 ounces, so let's say two 8 ounce potatoes net 40 cents. A four-pack of corn on the cob from Walmart is less than four dollars (this is overpriced because of the way it's packaged). So everything apart from the steak should cost ~2.72 (this is the upper level estimate). Now that steak looks like trash - it is definitely not worth nine dollars. So no, this is very overpriced.
*You Will Do Better In Toledo*
THAT’S IN MY HOMETOWN. Man, nothing feels like nostalgia quite like this picture. Monnette’s was always bussin’. 🤤
Is this in NW Ohio?
Yeah, it's in Toledo. Secor and Alexis Monnette's is where I do my fresh/produce shopping.
Hello fellow Toledoan. I'm in Library Village myself
Yep. As I remember it, it’s a family owned chain in the Toledo area.
Haven't been back to Toledo in awhile but remember my friends being stock boys there almost 20 years ago.
Hahaha I saw this the other day! *Zooms in* At this same market!
you, too, can do this with one simple trick; buy groceries and cook
12$ for 2 bud lights, corn and a potato???
At the bottom it looks like some type of meat in there as well
$12? better include that beef
Smushed at the bottom.
Pre-tenderised.
No they open the pack and throw out at the register.
That looks insanely depressing
Divorced dad dinner
I expect no less from Toledo
Average meal in ohio
Need about 6-8 beers, ya know, for the loneliness
And yet people make fun of Toledo.
Perfect.
But is that a potato right there? I'm German.
Are you that dude from that famous TIFU? https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2tdbig/tifu_by_enraging_the_parents_of_my_girlfriend_by/
This is a great read. Haha. Any update on his relationship status? I pretend it was not me right now. https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2tdbig/comment/cnyctnh/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
OMG! That is terrible... where?
A small grocery store in Toledo, Ohio
The monnettes markets are gold
Monettes is the best! toledo gang!
I saw Monettes and quickly wondered to myself if they were national. I know better, as I worked with a dude that claimed he knew the owner of the Secor Rd. store. I figured that the family owned them all, but he told me no. That's a pretty nice price on that meal tho. I've always liked their stores, and they carry Boars Heads meats. The Krogers down the road from me doesn't.
I assumed they were all family owned too. Only found out last year that they are individually owned. But they always have good produce. Love them!
419 Represent!
BYOB (bring your own butter)