My expectations were already low based on the box’s physical size, but it still somehow managed to not even meet that
“Family Size” has no meaning anymore
Never did.
It means more calories than we can justify for a meal in a 2000 calorie day.
What are these, enchiladas for ants? Yes, it is. For a family of ants
Gnomes have families too
“Family size” simply means “can serve an entire family”. It doesn’t mean “Can stuff 4 American bellies full”. It’s hard to judge the size of the box in your photo, but I can see serving one of those enchiladas per family member, along with pasta and salad or something.
Enchilada and pasta. GTFO
Fair point, but here frozen family meals in the past would have at least satisfied everyone at the table without any sides and if you wanted to go from satisfied to “stuffed full” then you could whip up a quick side of Mac and cheese or something
I’m old and I don’t think that’s true. Frozen entrees have ways been on the light side. And frozen dinners for one would be 3 oz of meat, and a couple of spoonfuls of boiled peas or something.
Well okay, maybe I wasn’t clear. I agree with you that you certainly aren’t getting enough nourishment for an entire family - and in fact, even if you have enough food volume for an entire family, this crap wouldn’t count as nourishment anyway. And you’re probably paying this box of goopy shit dollars on the pennies it cost to make.
I was just pointing out that, like most things the agro industry puts on boxes, “family size” has no legal meaning and therefore is technically correct depending on how you interpret it.
Incidentally, another thing that means jack squat on your box of dubious food is “Now with more cheese”. If they started out with zero cheese (and no, the stuff with a cheesy taste used in ultra-processed food isn’t legally cheese) then adding a flake or two of real cheddar makes it technically possible to say “Now with more cheese”.
I wonder if it would be legal in America to print “No cyanide!” on the box to make people pick it over other stuff from the sea of frozen garbage.
I very much imagine it would be. It’s the same as when they put ‘gluten free’ on ridiculous stuff like raw meat, packaged raw vegetables, raw nuts, and the list goes on…
As someone with celiac disease, and how much stuff gluten is in (some French fries, soy sauce, tomato soup, etc), I don’t care how ridiculous it seems, I appreciate when manufacturers make it known their shit is gluten free.
We just had a case here (Denmark) where 2 companies were putting a “No PFOA” labels on their frying pans. But they’ve been told by authorities that that’s illegal, because it’s misleading advertising since PFOA is illegal in EU.
Thy got off with a warning, but in case of repeat offenses they will be fined.But USA is much different, and many “confuse the consumer” strategies do not seem to be generally illegal “over there”.
No anti-consumer anything would ever be illegal in the US. It’s a corporatocracy.
“No added sugars”
“No added salt”
“No added preservatives”
Yup, no cyanide would fit right in.
My favorite is:
“No added sugars”
“No added salt”
“No added preservatives”
It’s a bag of rice.
Mac and cheese with “cantina style”? Throw some Texas toast in there why don’t ya, and hit dairy queen after
Point being who looks at a random meal and says “let’s fill the gaps with Mac and cheese, that’s nutritionally sounds reasoning”
If one must emphasize that the cheso is indeed cheesy, I would be suspicious.
“Cheesy queso” is there for a very specific reason: they can’t legally put “cheese” on the box because that has a legal definition, and there must be a minimum percentage of cheese in the product for the box to legally bear the word “cheese”.
“Cheesy queso” has no legal definition. So even if the product only has 0.1% cheese in it - or no cheese at all - it’s not illegal to write “cheesy queso”.
It does say “now with more cheese” so maybe it’s 0.2% even!
“More cheese than what???”
More cheese than … not cheese.
IMHO, that orange liquid Kraftesque garbage doesn’t count as cheese anyway.
„Now with more cheese“ - so 0.1% instead of 0.09%?
Are you kidding. This is murica! Cheese is practically a waste product of our over subsidized dairy industry. Theres a reason that there’s 1.4 billion pounds of cheese in our strategic cheese reserves. Theres no reason those enchiladas couldn’t be 50% cheese product.
Yes there is: chemical cheese flavor is cheaper than cheese.
What is this? A family size for ants???
A family of 2
Presumably there would be other sides though?
“Latina Favorites” huh?
Cantina style
Could be Lantina
(Lantina isn’t a word, that was the joke)
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Was it any good? Never had and just wondering.
