The Trump Administration's $3 Meal: 'A Piece of Chicken, a Piece of Broccoli, Corn Tortilla, and One Other Thing'
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
"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?
cajun red beans and rice (~1hr with prep):
hotdogshillshire farm stuff go for it). Sliced after cooking, not in huge chunks.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.
You wanna hook us up with the recipe, or is that one a tightly guarded secret?
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.
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Just remember folks. If you see someone stealing food, No you fucking didn't.
I know that a lot of Americans could lose some weight but there is a difference between dieting and not being able to afford food.
Also unhealthy food is usually cheaper
Not really if you know how to cook.
It's more expensive in time and energy, though.
Same answer as to CXORA above. From my experience quality food is usually more expensive. You can also compare something healthy you cook vs something unhealthy you throw into microwave.
It's still going to be cheaper to cook whatever it is from scratch than buying it pre-made. Unless you're intentionally buying expensive versions of every ingredient.
I don't think that's true. But poorer people tend to have less time available to cook.
Check the prices for unprocessed, bio, eco etc. food. Also fast food vs decent meal.
Are you saying vegetables, meat and rice are more expensive per serving than pre-packaged food where you live?
I've gone to frozen and canned veggies over fresh. Fresh costs nearly .75 more per item, and seems to spoil faster now (I'm assuming due to labor shortages). Taste is a bit off, but I need to save. Come Spring I'll grow some of my own, and hit the Farmer's Market from time to time. But so many growers in my area are now selling at "bespoke" prices. $10 for a small brown bag of apples as an example. Due to them being rarer found varieties.
Yeah, i love using canned and frozen veggies. Way easier to stock up when theres a sale, and its still plenty healthy.
You are being overly dramatic here with your statement!
The only difference between eating 50grs of chicken a day because you are on a diet and eating 50grs of chicken a day because that's what you can afford is merely conceptual!
You are taking this with the wrong attitude! The Great Leader is making the prices go up so your weak will doesn't have any problems to stick to a diet that will make you thinner!
If they want to make me to eat that little they should at least make insurance cover GLP-1s ffs.
This is healthier and cheaper: you don't take a drug that has side effects and they don't have to spend tax money to pay for the drug.
See? They really are thinking of everything! You'll eat less and you won't have a tax increase because you won't need a subsidized drug to achieve it!
See why The Great Leader is president and you're not? He devised this masterful plan and you are unable to see "the bigger picture"! I bet you couldn't ace the many cognitive tests The Great Leader takes monthly as he does.
Add the "/s" because you know someone believes that
Nah, they can believe what they want of my comment about these National Socialist ameriKKKans.
With the amount of white people I've seen eat a corn tortilla and complain, you'd almost think this is satirically produced
Corn tortillas are superior to flour in every way
Can't make a burrito with a corn tortilla. Otherwise, solid insight.
Damn it how could I forget about the burrito
wouldn’t it be easier to deny burritos are food, block everyone who disagrees with you, change your name to “BurritosDontExist” and make this an intrinsic part of your personality than to admit you… forgot about something on the internet?
Still sounds more sane then the thorne guy... Lol
Well fuck I wasn't gonna but I guess you're the boss Mr Internet Lady
I just don't eat them. Tacos only!
Why not? Genuine question, I've never made burritos.
You have to fold the ends of a burrito tortilla in to seal the filling. It's a sharp fold that corn tortillas just can't do. Burrito tortillas are often 12"/30cm or more, and I feel like corn tortillas aren't strong enough for that (never tried, but also never seen them for sale).
Ah okay, that makes sense. Personally when I do something with tortillas, I just fold one end and keep one open. Idk if the exact shape has a name, it's easy and I mostly care about the stuff inside rather than the (admittedly clumsy) shape.
I should start doing burritos though. Seems like I'd spill less stuff out while eating.
My favorite intro to burritos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpyIOhuP1FI
As a half Mexican who grew up with my Mexican family, spent a lot of time in Mexico, and has celiac disease (meaning I cant eat flour), I actually disagree. It makes me sad that I cant eat flour tortillas anymore - especially because my grandma's home made flour tortillas were the fucking bomb.
That being said, street tacos only belong on corn.
Only if you know how to use them, like a straight razor
Hopefully the people that supported this see it as the true grift as it is, feel insulted by being deceived by their worshipped one, and turn on him with all the powers of their wallets supporting them. Then they eat each other.
Only 9 meals away...
$3 used to go a lot further before the Annoying Orange Pedophile fucked shit up. $3 was enough for a whopper at BK, which means $3 was a lot more groceries.
I'm old enough to remember when a Big Mac Value Meal was $2.99 a McDonald's
whopper wednesday still has $3 whoppers in the app
Give us your personal data and we'll sell it to offset the discount on this item that used to always e cheaper.
and everyone who doesn't eat that trash, still gets to subsidize it with tax dollars, what a deal!!
This is probably the diet they recommended for the orange fatso who barely moves. A construction worker or lumberjack cannot possibly function on 'A Piece of Chicken, a Piece of Broccoli, Corn Tortilla, and One Other Thing'.
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
Secretary of Famine. I would like to stop collecting horsemen.
Ah good news, you can stop now, that was the fourth one.
I think that's the secretary of eating the horse you rode in on
Can't even throw in a ketchup packet and call it a vegetable? It's like they aren't even trying.
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.
What's new with the Epstein files? Or the Epstein ballroom?
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
Is that the buying power of $3usd? Cool, the economy is probably fine, happy eating
As someone living on a tight food budget, it's still possible to stretch 3$ WAYYYY further. Prices are bad, don't get me wrong but this kinda seems like performative bs
It's starting to get really area dependent. At this point even rice from the Asian market and beans is pretty firmly out side of the 3 buck range for a proper portion for each meal in my area unless your actively starving yourself.
A floor on rice and beans should be drawn by online retailers (Amazon) which have the same price nation wide for bulk goods like rice and beans. Amazon currently retails bulk rice for ~0.06$ an ounce and pinto beans for ~0.07$ an ounce. 4 ounces of each is enough to get to an ~800kcal meal for ~0.50$
Seth Meyers did a great segment on this
Article FILLED by AI bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upD6cB9Rzvk
"Please sir, I want some more."
I think the common dreams imagery is almost comical but fuck these Trump folks are incompetent. They basically asked for it.
You can easily feed a person well and varied for $3-4 a head. Why, for fucks sake, would you phrase it as a 'piece of chicken'?
85% of the country has access to 6 or so ounces of chicken or pork, some carbs, and veggie side. You know a well balanced meal. It's going up, Address the negative news, but fuck why would you phrase it this way? Just morons. We'd be fully nazified by now with any compliance beyond grifting.
We're all probably lucky that the only thing they are good at is hate.
Trump's presidencies have been great for killing people. A shame he can't keel over right fucking now.
With RFK's new dietary guidelines, you're not supposed to eat carbs, which would normally be the main source of low-budget calories. 6 ounces of pork is only around 350 calories, so RFK's going to want you to get 3 times that, which is going to blow your $3 budget right there.
I get it, they are morons, but it's not really the food costs that are the issue, non processed food is still relatively cheap. This all a symptom of childcare and housing eating a bigger proportion of the budget.
You can still feed a family pretty cheap. You are probably more worse off of you're a dollar tree person but it's still a symptom of the big 2.
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?
How many dolls does this cost?
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.
Did Brooke post this while dining in a 3 Michelin star restaurant?
Broccoli is more than $3 a piece.
Mmmm-mmm chlorinated chicken, seasoned to insipidity
I feel dejavu about this pic. Like I can almost place my finger on it.