• CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    I looked these up to see if the AZ was terrible marketing or if these started in Arizona. It’s terrible marketing by chicken and meat giant Tyson Foods and they look nasty as hell

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    26 days ago

    Holy shit.

    I’ve had one of these once.

    … I recommend it to an adventurous eater, or someone who has depression.

    Because you can eat one of these, and know with 100% confidence that this will be the worst hamburger you ever eat, and that everything else, everything after, is definitionally upward from there.

    Truly these things are so awful they reset my entire scale for how awful food can taste.

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      25 days ago

      On the other hand, you no longer take a good cheeseburger for granted now. A good cheeseburger is a work of art and should be treated as such.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        25 days ago

        Exactly!

        When you know how bad bad can be… good is better than it was, you respect it more, don’t take it for granted.

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      26 days ago

      I assume you must need to throw a bunch of ketchup and mustard too make this palatable? Reminds me of the cafeteria burgers we got in elementary school. Plain buns that have been under the heat lamp a bit too long.

      • adarza@piefed.ca
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        26 days ago

        our burgers in school were ok, even if they were part soy. this was the 70s and 80s though, before school lunches became outsourced profit centers for greedy corporations. school lunches in general were pretty good… and at college after, even better. was like going to a gourmet all-you-can-eat buffet for every meal (the ‘freshman 15’ was very real back then).

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        26 days ago

        if I remember right, I could not palate it, gagged too many times, gave up, tossed it out, just ate the snickers i’d also bought with it.

  • I miss these… Nobody near me sells them since I moved. Walmart used to have their own knock-offs that were just as good (a little smaller but also like $2 cheaper) but they don’t anymore.

    Sometimes I just want a cheap, quick microwave burger or chicken sandwich, but I still want it to taste decent. These are just that. The actual worst burgers are what Sysco sells to schools and what gas stations have near the hotdogs.

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    26 days ago


    Its crazy that this is the picture they chose to represent their product. That’s as good as it gets.

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    26 days ago

    A friend of mine once had me pose with two of these when on a roadtrip (we had never seen them before).

    So he could say I had “azburgers”

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    26 days ago

    IRL that reminds me of my sister - drank Pepsi with almost every meal through her teenage years, never had a cavity until age 30. Dunno about diabadeetees tho.

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    26 days ago

    This is basically no different than the burger you get at Applebee’s, other than they have the sense to toast the buns.

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    26 days ago

    i wonder how often the ceo and board members of companies like conagra ‘eat their own dog food’.

    just a hunch, but i’m guessing that’s never.

    • 123@programming.dev
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      25 days ago

      Steamed? These are clearly grilled. Kind of like the Krusty burgers down the street.

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    26 days ago

    Never seen this one before, but my job had a few of these in the freezer vending machine. I actually thought they were decent, but everyone thought i was crazy lol. It was absolutely a passible meal for $2.50 at the time.

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      26 days ago

      I used to get them at a local gas station back in like 2005. They were 99 cents, and you could microwave them right there in the store. They weren’t good, but it’s a cheap and quick way to get ~800 calories in you.

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      26 days ago

      From what I remember, 7-Eleven considers itself too special to carry these. When I’ve seen them, they’ve always been in, like, weird off-brand truck stops and gas stations that aren’t part of a chain.

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        26 days ago

        Also in the lobby of the engineering building at my college. Perfect food for panicking undergrads working on projects until 2am the night before they’re due.

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        25 days ago

        Pretty sure there was a Cyanide and Happiness comic with this premise. Could not find it. They really need to add text keywords to their comics to be able to find them easily like XKCD ones.

        It was a DJ or Music assistant testing equipment with the “testing, testing, 1, 2” as the setup, except he was saying “testes, testes, 1, 2” then went into “testes, testes, 1, 2, 3” with a concerned face on the 3rd or 4th panel, with the 4th panel showing that he was doing a cancer check with his hand.