# Foods considered "low end" that you love. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887 "2008-07-27T00:53:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/1 "2008-07-27T00:53:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/2 "2008-07-27T01:05:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/3 "2008-07-27T01:10:54Z")
About once a year, I really **need** one or two chili cheese dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/4 "2008-07-27T01:14:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/5 "2008-07-27T01:17:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/6 "2008-07-27T01:20:30Z")
From Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > Hamburger Helper is a brand of boxed meal product produced by General Mills and sold under its Betty Crocker brand. It consists of a starch (most often pasta, but also rice or potatoes) and specially measured dried sauce packets separated in a single box. The remaining ingredients must be provided by the consumer. The consumer browns the hamburger meat in a skillet and then adds water, noodles, milk and the seasoning packet(s) to create the complete dish. What’s sesame prawn toast? I doubt that even exists in America. The crappiest food I will binge on is [candy corn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_corn). It’s sweet wax with absolutely no redeeming values nutritionally, culturally, or socially, and I love it. ETA: [Sesame prawn toast recipe](http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/517018). Sounds good. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/7 "2008-07-27T01:22:56Z")
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… > **[Homepage | UKTV](https://network.uktv.co.uk)** > > Multi-award winning media company with 7 channels: Dave, Gold, W, Drama, Alibi, Eden and Yesterday and on demand service UKTV Play edit2: there is a wiki article for ‘shrimp toast’ which it is NEVER CALLED EVER EVER in any part of britain. > **[Shrimp toast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp_toast)** > > Shrimp toast or prawn toast is a Cantonese dim sum dish from Hong Kong. It is made from small triangles of bread, coated with a paste made from minced shrimp and cooked by baking or deep frying. It is a common appetizer in Western Chinese cuisine. A common variant in the United Kingdom, Australia and Ireland is sesame prawn toast. This involves sprinkling sesame seeds before the baking or deep frying process. > Shrimp toasts in Hong Kong > Deep-fried shrimp mince toast > Sesame prawn toast ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/8 "2008-07-27T01:23:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/9 "2008-07-27T01:24:41Z")
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](http://www.bettycrocker.com/products/hamburger-helper) I’m over my Hamburger Helper days, but still not quite over the bright orange boxed macaroni and cheese or ramen noodles. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/10 "2008-07-27T01:24:57Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/11 "2008-07-27T01:47:31Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] Anyway, I could eat seaseme prawn toast until, well, some point where it would no longer be possible to eat seaseme prawn toast. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/12 "2008-07-27T01:51:03Z")
Spam! (I think I win.) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/13 "2008-07-27T02:06:09Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] 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. [/QUOTE] 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) ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/14 "2008-07-27T02:11:55Z")
Pepperoni pizza rolls. Little doughy pockets filled with vaguely pizza-flavored mush. Yummy. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/15 "2008-07-27T02:19:07Z")
White Castle. Mmmmmmmmmm…belly-bombers… ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/16 "2008-07-27T02:23:11Z")
I love McDonald’s. Hmmm…McNuggets. Slurpees Lipton noodles Hot dogs Ramen. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/17 "2008-07-27T02:26:20Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![unstrung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a698b9/32.png) [@unstrung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unstrung)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/18 "2008-07-27T02:29:37Z")
-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… ---
**Author:** ![unstrung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a698b9/32.png) [@unstrung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unstrung)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/19 "2008-07-27T02:37:17Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/20 "2008-07-27T02:38:24Z")
What, you’ve never microwaved a KK? Only way to get hot non-plain-glazed-raised. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887.md?page=2)