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Heinz ketchup cannot be called “ketchup” in Israel due to low tomato content. Heinz ketchup was tested and it contained 21% tomato concentrate. Israel requires ketchup to have 41% tomato concentrate.
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Whether you have $5 in your pocket or $5,000, there are some meals that stick with you and that you still enjoy from when times were lean and you had to do everything in your life on the cheap.
I think my go-to cheap meal is just a plain cheese quesadilla. Cheese and flour tortillas, that’s all you need.
And they still taste great and I still make them to this day!
Let’s dig into some cheap meals with folks on AskReddit and see what they had to say.
“Grew up poor, but my mom sure knew how to stretch a dollar.
She would make steak fingers out of the cheapest cuts she could find. Tenderize, fry them up make gravy out of the drippings and serve with mashed potatoes.
The whole meal probably cost less than 5 bucks in ’70s dollars, and I’m telling you nothing tasted better. I made it for my kids when they were growing up and they still ask me for it sometimes.
She would be 94 today. Love you miss you mom.”
“Put some red skin potatoes, fresh green beans, chicken stock, and seasonings in a pot (or slow cooker) and simmer it for an hour or more.
Use a slotted spoon to put some in a bowl, then add a bit of stock and plenty of butter.
It’s heaven.”
“We used to eat squash and eggs growing up.
Grew the squash and eggs are cheap enough, or trade with the neighbors. You just cut the squash into thin round and cook in a pan with a little oil until they’re just soft. Scramble the eggs with the squash, add a bunch of pepper, some salt.
Sometimes we ate it over noodles or rice.”
“Oven-baked potatoes with salt and margarine. Cheap ingredients found in almost every home and easy to make.
Also, the starch in potatoes makes you feel full for pretty long.”
“Steamed white rice, crack a raw egg in it while it’s scorching hot, stir aggressively and dash with soy sauce. I
f I have some, put roasted seaweed in. Super cheap breakfast but oh man is it filling/delicious.”
“Grilled cheese is great pretending to be bougie food too.
My brother and I used to go to the store together and splurge on fancy-ish cheese (i.e. still the precut stuff in plastic in the dairy section, not the high end stuff in the deli section or the fancy cheese cooler) and see who could come up with the best combination of cheeses and bread from the bakery section.
I think we settled on sourdough, smoked gouda, havarti, and cream cheese.”
“I had a PB&J recently and felt like a fool!
Why did I stop eating these when I became an adult? Society lead me to believe this was the way.
It is not! Been having PB&J a couple nights a week since. I refuse to let societies unenlightened views dictate my dinner choices!
PB&J is a top tier dish for any occasion.”
“Make some pasta and add in whatever you can find in the fridge or cabinets.
Cheese, lunch meat, Spam, spices, etc.
No two meals were ever the same.”
“Peanut butter and sliced banana on toast.
Now that I’m better off financially, I’ll add real honey and ground cinnamon because I’m fancy now.”
“I still regularly eat my struggle nachos, tortilla chips with slices of American cheese on top and microwaved.
Now that I can afford it I’ll throw taco meat on top every now and again but still very much enjoy just the chips and cheese.”
“Quesadillas (with hot sauce if there is any)
I think a lot of people have different ideas of what a quesadilla is. My version is strictly a single tortilla with whatever cheese I have lying around (usually dollar packs of singles).
That means no meat, beans, lettuce, tomato, etc. And I definitely don’t use a Foreman to make mine”
“Toast with a fried egg for breakfast.
Been eating that for probably 6 years now and still look forward to it every morning.”
“Mexi-Mac:
Cook a pound of ground beef with a packet of taco seasoning. Make a box of Kraft Mac n’ Cheese. Mix together.
Also, that’s your salt quota for the week.”
Do you have some go-to cheap meals that you enjoy no matter where you’re at financially?
Tell us all about them in the comments!
We’d love to hear from you!
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Just when you think you’ve heard it all, something comes along and blows your mind a little bit.
Case in point: Cheetos has decided to expand its enterprise to macaroni and cheese. That’s right, everyone’s favorite childhood staple is about to get a lot more interesting.
Boxes of the new offering have been spotted in the wild at Walmart, with people sharing that there are three flavors available: Bold & Cheesy, Flamin’ Hot, and Cheddar Jalapeño.
To say people are excited is definitely an understatement. Snackgator writes on Instagram:
You aren’t dreaming, this is a real thing, and it’s glorious! These are on the Walmart website, so we know they’ll be in store there pretty soon. They come in three flavors: Bold & Cheesy, Cheesy Jalapeño, and Flamin’ Hot.
Even better, they suggest several #CheetosMacHack ideas to crumble different Cheetos products over these super cheesy meals.
Many people have also said that each box costs less than $1, which makes it even easier to get all three (or several boxes of all three).
The website Delish was able to get in touch with Walmart, who confirmed that yes: Cheetos mac & cheese is totally real. On top of that, they found out what it’s made up of:
It’s made with authentic Cheetos cheesiness and corkscrew pasta noodles and will be available in those three flavors in cup or box format.
Sounds like heaven to me!
Are you planning to try Cheetos macaroni and cheese? Which flavor do you want to try first?
Make sure you let us know all about in the comments!
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In case you haven’t heard, a “Karen” is an entitled, usually middle-aged woman who complains to authority figures about others’ behavior.
This particular Karen decided that her complaint to the manager would get her a free meal. She couldn’t have been more off-base in her assumption, specifically as it concerned the owner.
A friend of his begins the story:
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With help from his dad, the man was able to open the restaurant in the perfect location, and it was a smashing success right out of the gate. Everything was going well, until Karen showed up with her husband.
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Right away, the owner, who was also the server, knew she was going to be a problem—the complaints began as soon as she sat down. Initially, he played along .
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He knew he couldn’t keep his composure for long—so did she and, sensing a potential free meal, increased her demands.
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She asked for the manager, as Karens often do. He brought someone over to take on the role.
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She could have won an Academy Award for the story she told.
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The “owner” and the server couldn’t keep up the ruse for long. They broke character.
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The real owner came clean, and Karen was finally speechless.
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Redditors who work in restaurants loved how this story ended, and the person who told it also had a bit of an update.
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They deal with customers who try to scam free meals all the time and say restaurant owners are usually oblivious to this behavior because they’re not on the floor.
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Workers shared that this also occurs in fast food places. Even though they’re a lot cheaper, free is free to some people.
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Are you a resturant worker? Share your stories of terrible customers below!
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Break out the fire extinguisher—Totino’s is creating another late-afternoon snack legend in a collab with Takis to make Takis Fuego Mini Snack Bites.
Similar to the binge-worthy pizza rolls that you remember, these also bite-sized and are an ideal snack any time of day. However, these have added extra kick—they are coated in Takis Fuego seasoning with creamy mozzarella cheese on the inside, which oozes out once they’re cooked.
This is not a drill
Find Takis Mini Snack Bites at participating grocery stores. pic.twitter.com/EgwUdJCSEB
— Takis (@TakisUSA) August 3, 2020
Needless to say, people are excited.
this is the most american thing ive seen today
WHERE CAN I GET SOME
— local moronic vaporeon
(@ChunkyVaporeon) August 4, 2020
While these have more of a kick than the pizza rolls do, they are infused with lime, so you won’t completely scald your month to the point you can’t taste anything. If you can’t handle the spice, you can also dip the Bites in ranch or blue cheese as you would hot wings.
Takis Fuego Mini Snack Bites are a breeze to make. Just pop them in the microwave for a minute and a half or, if you want extra crunch, in a 425-degree oven.
If you already love Totino’s Pizza Bites and Takis Fuegos, then you’re in for a real treat. Not only will they satisfy your pizza cravings, but they’ve got you covered for all your spicy snack needs.
The crossover episode you never knew you needed. Introducing Totino’s x @TakisUSA Mini Snack Bites, available in stores now! pic.twitter.com/KJ9P4X2Lyh
— Pete Zaroll (@totinos) August 3, 2020
They are available at mainstream retailers everywhere and come in packs of 60 for about $5. That’s a lot of bites for a low price, and spicy snack lovers everywhere are rejoicing!
Im getting some later, these are about to be FIRE
— Bozozz (@pelles_kevin) August 7, 2020
Have you tried Takis Fuego Mini Bites yet? Let us know in the comments below!
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There’s no reasonable way to enter into this topic, so I’ll just say it: Twitter is being overrun by cakes in disguise and nobody is OK.
Why did this happen? How? That’s for future historians to unravel.
All we can do right now is sit back and marvel at all the cakery fakery overtaking our bakeries. The skill is takes to create such horrifyingly detailed edible facsimiles is far beyond my mortal comprehension, but it sure is fun to watch, and there are no shortage of jokes.
Beware ye who scroll past here, you’re about to question everything.
Witness the absolute peak of man’s hubris.
These Are All Cakes pic.twitter.com/ejArkJHaid
— Tasty (@tasty) July 8, 2020
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Shoes made of sweets. I watched toilet paper split to reveal its sumptuous core. All those moments will be lost in time, like cake in rain.”
Do you like our owl?
It’s cake?
Of course it is.
Must be expensive.
Very. pic.twitter.com/Jj88v3H5NW
— Mike “mostly not posting” Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) July 12, 2020
Soon we will all be cake.
Normal heart rate:
⠀ /⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ /
__ / __/__ / _
/⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ /My heart rate when I’m a cake:
⠀
_________________________
⠀— Carson (@CallMeCarsonYT) July 12, 2020
If I cannot have the chocolate, I must become the chocolate.
Amazing, but nothing will ever beat this one pic.twitter.com/BRE2T0r2kD
— arlo (@ArloNC) July 8, 2020
It’s all cake all the time.
If you get this joke it’s time to take a break from Twitter. pic.twitter.com/iiSup36Nem
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) July 12, 2020
This is the series that just keeps on giving.
HANNIBAL SEASON 4 PLOT TWIST pic.twitter.com/MSkgM9Yovv
— b (@cannibawl) July 11, 2020
These are the signs that precede the fall of an empire.
E tu, buttercreme?
— Alex Eiden (@thesportswizard) July 12, 2020
A rallying cry for our moment in history.
let them tweet cake
— Tony Tulamithittumuthimuitthiumitimutthe (@tonytula) July 12, 2020
Will the witness for the prosecution please cake the stand.
prosecutor: why did you murder that man
me: i thought he was cake
prosecutor: you “thought” he was cake?
me:
prosecutor:
me: i hoped he was cake
— Taming Fred Savage (@FredTaming) July 11, 2020
This is the kind of retconning that I can get behind.
Saw was just filled with a dude testing out a bunch of people and trying to figure out whether or not they were snaccs
— gee kay
| semi ia
(@eurydiceyaki) July 11, 2020
It’s been a confusing year, but at least this is the kind of confusion that’s delightful and funny and not just straight up horrifying. We need more of that.
What do YOU suspect may actually be cake?
Tell us in the comments.
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When you’ve got a lot of people to feed and you’re ordering pies, do you go for two 12-inch mediums instead of one 18-inch large, since 24 inches is bigger and therefore more? If so, you’re not alone.
I totally do this, and I’m guessing that’s exactly what pizza places want you to do (hello, more cash), but thanks to one intrepid Twitter user willing to do the math, we can all make the correct choice and go back to ordering one big pizza, saving ourselves some dough in the process.
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I mean, assuming everyone can agree on toppings. Pepperoni ftw.
If you’re math-challenged like me, you never would have figured this out for yourself, so I’m going to include a little math-splanation below the tweet.
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And this guy, who’s finally getting his money’s worth out of that degree:
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The diameter of the large pizza is smaller than the combined diameters of the two medium ones, but the large has the bigger total area. In case you slept through geometry, you calculate the area of a circle by squaring the radius (which is half the diameter) and multiplying by pi (3.1415 etc.).
The area of the 18-inch pizza is 254 square inches – a full 28 square inches larger than the area of two 12-inchers, which is 226.
But but but but! If the crust is your favorite part, you might want to take this into consideration – you do get 33.3% more crusty goodness with the two mediums.
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Even though the math is technically not that complicated here, the internet’s mind was still collectively blown.
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I mean, how could you not be?
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It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for the pizza joint!
But it definitely makes me want to go order a pizza.
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By now we’ve all seen the spooky deep fakes. You know what I mean?
Faces replaced with other faces; eerie video transformations that are becoming more and more commonplace.
But there is perhaps an even more pressing issue at hand. Beyond simply knowing who really appears in what video, how can any of us be sure what is and isn’t cake?
See, there’s been a rash of videos on twitter of what appear to be everyday objects which are then sliced through to reveal that they are made entirely of cake. Suffice it to say, nobody trusts anyone or anything anymore.
Look at this parade of fakery and tell me you’ll ever believe your eyes again.
These Are All Cakes pic.twitter.com/ejArkJHaid
— Tasty (@tasty) July 8, 2020
Sweets for the sweet.
Now I know why "looking like a snack" is a compliment.
We're all cakes.
— Tolu (@TeeIjiti) July 12, 2020
My god, this goes back further than we could have ever anticipated.
the french beheading marie antoinette was their way of finding out if she was made of cake or not
— ً (@filmcal) July 11, 2020
Bring back the pyres, there’s witches to burn.
Witchcraft
https://t.co/m1w3ELaomz
— shortay
(@_sylvi_shortay_) July 12, 2020
Got yourself a winning dating profile there.
i’m not like other girls i’m actually cake
— effy nephrine
(@BUKOJUlCE) July 11, 2020
We must all face the facts someday.
got a paper cut and found out i’m a cake wtf
— 333 (@ih8threat) July 11, 2020
Cake is in the eye of the beholder.
Everything is a cake if you’re hungry enough
— FE40536 (@Blood_Peace) July 11, 2020
This is fine.
everything's cake nowadays pic.twitter.com/s0ydQTka8p
— Duke of Ash (@DUKE_of_ASH) July 12, 2020
Join us! Join us! Join us!
2020 And here I am with my cake husband Jimin pic.twitter.com/7ptFIhMgSm
— Natalie Sideserf (@NatalieSideserf) July 10, 2020
Can you appreciate it?
This too, is unbelievable cake… pic.twitter.com/gA2XDQdD4b
— Eclectic Eel (@zang808) July 9, 2020
This has officially gone too far.
— sef (@dekunokun) July 12, 2020
Big if true.
unbelievable cake pic.twitter.com/R2IkHmcYmA
— maureen monahan (@momonahan) July 9, 2020
We must arm ourselves now with the tools we need to tell cake from thing as best we can. Our future is at stake. Or should I say…at cake?
What do you suspect may actually be cake?
Prove you’re not a cake by telling us in the comments.
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How much time do most of us really have to spend researching on what’s good for them and what’s bad? What’s healthy and what’s unhealthy?
Sometimes, it can feel like a full-time job reading reviews and checking out other peoples’ opinions about that kind of stuff.
And there are a lot of things out there that people THINK are healthy, but they really aren’t.
What’s a lot unhealthier than people think?
AskReddit users weighed in with their opinions.
“I once saw a chart showing the disparity of what average people thought about the healthiness of an item versus a group of nutritionists.
The biggest disparity by far was granola bars. Which made sense…”
“Sitting. The desk job kind.
Just a couple of years on a slightly off center cushion on an office chair can give you chronic lower back pain.
It’s a b*tch going through the process of strengthening your lower back again.”
“Fruit juice.
Big Sugar: Let me introduce myself.”
“Anxiety: the effects are physical as well.
As someone who comes from a family prone to high blood pressure anyway, it is a constant concern.
I thought my anxiety wasn’t that bad until I was asked to give an impromptu lecture/explanation in college to the students. My hands, voice and entire lower body (from the toes to the hips) started shaking.
Though the professor commended my efforts, I needed some time to relax back to normal.”
“Non-fat packaged foods.
You’d be much better off eating the fat that was already there rather than eating all the sugar that replaced it.”
“Starbucks….some Frappuccinos have 70 GRAMS of sugar.”
“Staying up late.
People tend to downplay the risks of not getting enough sleep because they’re not immediately evident.”
“Bottling up your emotions because you’re afraid to open up.
I suffer from this.
I opened up sometimes but it bored people or worse, angered them to see me reach out in the worst stages of depression. I’ve been broken up with, ghosted and bullied because of it. I’m now terrified to speak up.
Because of this my condition has worsened and I live terrified every day that one slip is all that it will take for me to lose the few people I have left in my life.
Fun stuff.”
“Fat free food.
Usually has a bunch of added sugar instead.”
“Mommy wine culture.
Stop drinking away your problems and glorifying alcoholism.”
“I feel like people don’t know how important their diet actually is.
Simply reducing sugar a little seems to be a huge deal for some people and I think that really shows how unhealthy sugar actually is if you’re having withdrawal symptoms like tiredness and headaches from it.
They’ll just treat it like a normal thing to give kids loads of sugar at all times, give them fruit for once. And sugar alternatives and sweets ‘without sugar’ are even worse as the alternative works as a d*mn laxative.
People should know what’s in their food.”
“Being underweight or overweight.
At a certain point you are too skinny or too overweight and you need to talk to a doctor and dietician.
Some natural variation from person to person is normal, but you shouldn’t be super skinny or super overweight.
It will never be healthy.”
“Weed.
Smoking any plant matter releases carcinogens and messes with your lungs.
Also has been linked to decreased brain development in frequent users under 25.”
“Looking at screens for hours on end. Especially harmful when its only a few inches from your face.
Put it down and go to bed.”
“Obsession.
Whether it’s food, drugs, or a huge crush, obsessions are really dangerous and can warp your mind so you don’t correctly value real-life stuff.”
What do you think is much more unhealthy than people realize?
Tell us what you think in the comments.
Please and thank you!
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Let me know if this sounds familiar to you: you step into the kitchen ready to work your magic, you have all the confidence in the world and then BAM!…something goes awry and your day is ruined.
It really stinks, ya know?
But, if it’s not happening to you, it can be pretty hilarious!
And we’re about to show you why!
We’re here to present to you some major microwave fails that you hopefully will not see in your own kitchen anytime soon.
Let’s see what happened to those poor people…
Come on, people!
A friend’s client paid him in cash. He put the cash in the microwave to kill traces of coronavirus from cringepics
Way to go!
A guest put it in the hotel microwave to give it "a quick charge." Fire alarm followed. from facepalm
She probably won’t try that again.
My housemate's attempt at drying her bra in the microwave… #fail pic.twitter.com/mUroYhNp
— Annie Morton (@nopantsmorton) March 18, 2012
You still might be able to eat it after it cools off, FYI.
So don’t even try it!
If you were wondering what happens when you put foil in the microwave. from funny
You’ll pay the price. Trust me.
Life Pro Tip: even if your boiled egg is a bit underdone, don’t put it in the microwave from CasualUK
They sure are adorable!
My friends kids decided to microwave Crayola markers… from funny
Seems a bit excessive.
My mom set the microwave for 75 mins. and not 75 secs. from WTF
A loss for words.
My mom tried to microwave some tomato soup and it somehow exploded.. I am at a loss for words. How does this even happen?
pic.twitter.com/WEyB165kRI
— Amelia (@AmeliaAngelea) June 27, 2018
I guess they weren’t hot enough.
when your sister puts cheetos in the microwave and starts a fire…
— lil (@lilliegrace12) July 30, 2015
That’s not good…not good at all…
Cooking everyone breakfast when the glass from the microwave door unexpectedly fell out… from Wellthatsucks
We’ve been over this a million times!
Forgot to add water to my Microwave Mac N Cheese from Wellthatsucks
Okay, now we want to hear about your various kitchen disasters.
We know all of you have biffed it in the kitchen at one point or another, so don’t try to hide from us.
In the comments, tell us about the times when you’ve had some major failures in the kitchen.
We look forward to hearing your stories!
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You aren't dreaming, this is a real thing, and it's glorious! These are on the Walmart website, so we know they'll be in store there pretty soon. They come in three flavors: Bold & Cheesy, Cheesy Jalapeño, and Flamin' Hot. Even better, they suggest several #CheetosMacHack ideas to crumble different Cheetos products over these super cheesy meals. UHHHHH – YUM! Which one are you trying first? 
