I hereby admit that I’m a huge Hamburger Helper fan. Any Hamburger Helper dish works.
But unlike Cousin Eddie, I prefer it with the hamburger.
Sometimes I get a craving for Swanson’s Mexican TV dinner, with the flavorless rice, the overdone beans, and the mystery meat in whatever that tortilla shell is made of.
About once a year, I really need one or two chili cheese dogs.
What in the name of non existent deitys is ‘hamburger helper’??
Anyway, I could eat seaseme prawn toast until, well, some point where it would no longer be possible to eat seaseme prawn toast.
Donuts. In popular culture, about the brightest person to ever eat a donut is Homer Simpson, but I LOOOVE the damn things. Even a bad one is pretty enjoyable, and a fresh one is…mmmm, donuts.
From Wikipedia:
What’s sesame prawn toast? I doubt that even exists in America.
The crappiest food I will binge on is candy corn. It’s sweet wax with absolutely no redeeming values nutritionally, culturally, or socially, and I love it.
ETA: Sesame prawn toast recipe. Sounds good.
sesame prawn toast is a staple of cheap chinese takeaway. To describe it in as simple a way as I can, it is basically fried bread coated in a prawn mush, topped with sesame seeds. As snacks go it is devine.
edit: There’s nothing on wiki for it (I am astonished, first time I’ve been unable to find a wiki article about something)
but there is a recipe for it…
edit2: there is a wiki article for ‘shrimp toast’ which it is NEVER CALLED EVER EVER in any part of britain.
Taco Bell. Seriously. I’m a huge lover of Mexican food, from Oaxaca to border grub, and I do most of my grocery shopping in a Mexican grocery. But sometimes I just have to have Taco Bell, with their vinegary, weak ass “Fire” sauce, plastic beans, fake cheese, and dried out tortillas.
Hamburger Helper is a packaged mix of pasta (or sometimes rice) and sauce/seasoning that is intended to combine with ground beef to make a quick and easy casserole. I used to seriously crave that stuff. I think it is the MSG in the seasoning that makes it cravable. More than you need to know … Products - BettyCrocker.com
I’m over my Hamburger Helper days, but still not quite over the bright orange boxed macaroni and cheese or ramen noodles.
Tater Tots
Rice-A-Roni
Slim Jims
Deviled ham in the little can
Top Ramen (not that Maruchan crap)
From the hubby- circus peanuts & Peeps… :eek:
That doesn’t sound very “low end” to me! Especially if it’s anything like the shrimp toast (sorry!) that is a staple of dim sum lunches. Is that redundant? Dim sum lunch? I dunno. All I know is that I miss it.
Spam!
(I think I win.)
I only consider it qualifies as ‘low-end’ because it is far from gourmet, and it is part of just about every chinese take-away menu in mainland and island UK (and take-away is by definition low-end)
Pepperoni pizza rolls. Little doughy pockets filled with vaguely pizza-flavored mush. Yummy.
White Castle.
Mmmmmmmmmm…belly-bombers…
I love McDonald’s. Hmmm…McNuggets.
Slurpees
Lipton noodles
Hot dogs
Ramen.
Whenever I’m asked to bring a dish to a party or picnic, I bring “dump cake.” Lovely name, no? There is generally not a single molecule remaining at the end of the evening.
Dump cake is so named because you just dump the ingredients into a pan and bake it. A can of crushed pineapple, a can of cherry pie filling, a box of yellow cake mix, chopped pecans, and a stick of butter (melted and dumped in the pan or cut in chunks and placed on top before baking). Serve with Cool Whip.
NOM NOM NOM!
-Taquitos (but only from 7-11. Many of you can buy something called “taquitos” in your local grocer’s freezer, but they are NOT AT ALL the same thing).
-White Castle’s tiny, tiny, “I’ll take an order of 20, please” burgers.
-Marshmallow fluff (if you can’t appreciate the goodness of a peanut butter n’ fluff sandwhich, don’t even talk to me).
-Eggo waffles (the classic style. Don’t be trying to pawn off that blueberry nonsense on me. We also need syrup - not real maple syrup, not even Aunt Jemimah, I’m talking about the most generic-with-artificial-yet-vaguely-resembling-maple syrup you can find. And peanut butter. Lots of peanut butter).
I’ll probably come up with more selections later, but in the meantime, a quick word on Circus Peanuts (since someone else mentioned them). They continually amaze me as a food item that I despise, yet periodically yearn to consume. It happens about once every 3 years or so - I randomly come across the Circus Peanuts and experience an overwhelming urge to buy them. Without fail, I do so. The first Circus Peanut is spectacular, but by the third or fourth, I am vaguely nauseated. So I end up throwing them out, and make myself a completely futile promise to never buy them again. This promise has, to date, never been kept. I hate you, stupid Circus Peanuts… but I’ll see you in three years…
Krispy Kreme glazed donuts, but ONLY if the “hot light” is currently on. Their fantastic nature only lasts a maximum of 10 minutes from the completion of their baking/glazing/etc.
As a side note, I have been saying for quite some time that Krispy Kreme should start up a list that one could sign up for (obviously, on a completely opt-in basis) that would send a text message when a nearby store has their “hot light” on…
What, you’ve never microwaved a KK? Only way to get hot non-plain-glazed-raised.