You see… the problem with food (and all other inflation) is those damn regulations! Imagine how much bigger piece of chicken you could buy if it was infested with avian flu, and our great American farmers could just make you buy it! If all of the anti-business commies stopping American from being great again, we could should empower (taxpayer giveaways to largest political donors) innovation that provides far cheaper food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP_nNemsNT8
Just remember folks. If you see someone stealing food, No you fucking didn’t.
The food situation has revealed to me the exact same thing that the streaming service situation has, I forgot just how absurdly easy it is to steal shit.
Broccoli is more than $3 a piece.
Are we at the “let them eat boiled chicken parts” stage? Probably better than most of their supporters get from Dollar General, so in reality, a step up?..right?
Mmmm-mmm chlorinated chicken, seasoned to insipidity
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.
cajun red beans and rice (~1hr with prep):
- two cans small red beans
- holy trinity (diced onion, dice celery, and a doced bell paper any color). The better the dicing, the nicer the effect of the sautee.
- meat protein (sausage usually, smoked sausage is easier to get, anandouillie is better, if you can avoid the pre cooked
hotdogshillshire farm stuff go for it). Sliced after cooking, not in huge chunks. - water/stock (optional, but kinda necessary imo)
- a pot
- rice (im filipino, I use what I have, which is jasmine)
- spices
- black pepper
- garlic powder
- cajun seasoning
- I add on top of cajun seasoning, more smoked paprika, and cayenne
cook the rice separately if you have a rice cooker or equivalent. im filipino, a rice cooker is more important than a microwave lol so I assume people got em but its fine if you dont, but then youll need another pot if you are looking for speed
in your stove, just use a single pot. cook your meat first if not cooked then slice it. then add the holy trinity and sautee. Then add black pepper to taste (1 tbsp for starters). Then beans (dont let em stick) then your water/stock, and start throwin in that cajun spice, like 2tbsp. it should start smellin amazing. let the beans soften and I like mushin a few to thicken it up. then add those additional spices to taste. No one is gonna say “too much smoked paprika”. The stock should be salty already, but if you used plain water or if you want more nows the time as well.
let it do its thing for like 30 minutes, dont let the beans stick to the bottom. squish beans as they soften if you want it thicker (I like it that way).
taste your food as you cook it. Its okay to be imprecise with measuring as long as you are tasting while cooking. Dont overdo the cayenne or people will not like you. Smart with like a teaspoon and taste from there
bone apple tea. This lasts me for a long while, I cook this and another long lasting dish like my grandmas cinci style chili, or a filipino rice dish like adobo/sinigang) and I am a full man for a long time haha. Once you ‘invest’ in the spices the most expensive ingredient is the meat, so how much you wanna spend on that is up to you, but meat is always going to be expensive because you have to grow an entire animal, feed it, and then harvest it.
Damn. My main weekly lunches are Red beans and Rice or Cincy chili. Weird finding my Filipino doppelganger on here. Def hit me up with that Adobo recipe.
my grandmas cinci style chili
You wanna hook us up with the recipe, or is that one a tightly guarded secret?
“But brown people eat those things!” – some Trump staffer, probably
Confused tortilla noises.
We call them freedom wraps now.
Americans are so shit, I wouldn’t be surprised if a good majority of them thought Mexican food (i.e Taco Bell) was actually American.
Insinuating that taco bell is Mexican food is fucking insulting to Mexican food and Mexico’s rich food history.
Taco bell is Mexican adjacent at best
Yeah, it’s a bad example. But you get the point I’m trying to make.
I think your point was only made stronger by how wrong you were. So good job i guess?
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.
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.
They don’t have that much money for school lunches. They have to make due with less.
Realistically the US food prices are only possible with cheap undocumented labor. The whole ICE debacle probably doesn’t help the domestic food production.
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.
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
But ironically heart and horse meat are normal in a bunch of places too
Is the ‘one other thing’ despair?
The way US is treating it’s allies it is soon to be debt to get all those aforementioned things.
Did Brooke post this while dining in a 3 Michelin star restaurant?
I feel dejavu about this pic. Like I can almost place my finger on it.
Is that the buying power of $3usd? Cool, the economy is probably fine, happy eating
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.
They gotta save that extra money to send emails begging for donations, clearly.
Squad Victory Fund.
You can send money directly to the best members of Congress, even if you don’t live in their districts.
Fucker doing work for Putin.
"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
