Hamburger Helper
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Sep 24, 2026
Meherwan IraniGUEST
It's what we make slop- the sloppy joe out of.
Meherwan IraniGUEST
It's basically Hamburger Helper ground beef style, but done with a lot of ginger, a lot of garlic, and, and onions first cooked down, and then the ground beef is added and mixed with that, and you can certainly throw in some spices.
Meherwan IraniGUEST
But here's a cool trick.
Meherwan IraniGUEST
I don't think the coconut yogurt would work, but if you did have plain yogurt, a dollop of plain yogurt in cooking ground beef just adds this wonderful unctuousness to the meat.
Rich HarshawHOST
Not the book, but the story represents how stupid people are.
Rich HarshawHOST
It was talking about the consumer company, I think it's owned by General Foods or something, called Hamburger Helper.
Rich HarshawHOST
I'm sure everybody's familiar with it.
Rich HarshawHOST
Hamburger Helper, well you need a helping hand, right? And they were talking about how in the mid-2000s, I think it was 2004, the brand was really struggling.
Rich HarshawHOST
It was kind of going through a slump and sales were down.
Rich HarshawHOST
And the CEO said, hey, you know what? We're going to really focus on this this year and make this strong.
Rich HarshawHOST
And the funny thing is that they had they had all this data that they had compiled, and they gave it to this brand manager, this girl that started working there, she's brand new, she was out of college, everyone thought she was stupid, but she ended up being the hero in the story, because she said, well, I want to go out, I want to see the people that use this stuff.
Rich HarshawHOST
And she went out there and they found people that were willing to let them come in and see their homes and watch them cooking dinner.
Amy KayeHOST
I don't think it would sound bad.
Amy KayeHOST
Someone else said, growing up, we had lots of Hamburger Helper.
Amy KayeHOST
My mom would always throw in an extra box of noodles to make it stretch for everyone.
Amy KayeHOST
To this day, the smell of Hamburger Helper takes me back to my childhood.
ZeroHOST
Oh, I'd like me some Hamburger Helper.
ZeroHOST
So do I.
Amy KayeHOST
We just had some over the weekend.
Jason PageHOST
Everybody loves leftovers.
Jason PageHOST
I got some leftover Hamburger Helper from this weekend sitting in the fridge.
Jason PageHOST
I'm gonna go take that on later today.
Jason PageHOST
I'm like a college student.
Jason PageHOST
Got the leftover Hamburger Helper in the...
Jason PageHOST
Sam, were you a Hamburger Helper guy by any chance? Nah.
Jason PageHOST
Not a Hamburger, not a Hamburger Helper guy? Too good.
Jason PageHOST
You're, you're too good for that, is that what you're saying? All right.
Jesse KellyHOST
At, tonight, you know what? Pointing fingers at myself.
Jesse KellyHOST
Ob already said before I left the house, I can't get the smile off my face, she's making Hamburger Helper tonight.
Jesse KellyHOST
Now it, it's Ob, so it's homemade.
Jesse KellyHOST
She won't use the boxed kind, but homemade Hamburger Helper, and there's always extra.
Jesse KellyHOST
Always, 'cause you have to make so much now with the boys.
Jesse KellyHOST
You know what I should be doing? I should pick a friend, pick a neighbor and say, "Hey, you guys got dinner? You got...
Ray LatifHOST
I love this a lot because these are shelf-stable meal kits where apparently all you need to do is mix a few things together and you have a better-for-you, delicious meal within 30 minutes.
Ray LatifHOST
According to the article, Riff aims to compete with conventional brands like Hamburger Helper or Rice-A-Roni and capture white space via consumers seeking an easy, elevated meal to keep on hand in your pantry.
Ray LatifHOST
We've talked about this concept many times on Taste Radio, which is that consumers are looking for elevated versions of products and brands that they're already familiar with, a la a hamburger helper or a ristorante.
Ray LatifHOST
But where is the innovation coming from? It's coming from entrepreneurs like a Mark Ramadan, like a Daniel Hum.
Ray LatifHOST
The key question, of course, in all this is...
JakeHOST
Uh, and then at school you're gonna eat, like, shit that they served to a guy before they put him in the gas chamber 'cause you live in America or whatever.
JakeHOST
Like, and it wasn't until I got older that I was like, yeah, I mean, it wasn't really my mom's fault 'cause we also ate a fuck ton of Hamburger Helper, which I wanna put, I wanna put on the record, there are two things that from my life when I was, when I was much poorer as a boy and then as a young man that I will never ever ever ever, ever talk shit on, and I will never ever forget where I came from when it comes to these two things.
JakeHOST
I will and have to some degree forgot where I came from with certain things, and that's fine.
JakeHOST
You should do that.
JakeHOST
But I will never turn my back on Hamburger Helper, the cheeseburger specifically, and I'll never turn my back on Little Caesars.
JakeHOST
I will never ever, ever.
JakeHOST
Ever, ever.
JakeHOST
I don't care because, man, there were many times in my life When all I could afford was, was one, one of those two things, and they'll hold you down, dude.
Maggie Rieth AustinHOST
Like I could come at you with all kinds of beef about you.
Amanda AustinHOST
And I'm trying to give you some hamburger helper and let you agree with me before I pull out that Salisbury steak.
Amanda AustinHOST
But I'm about to slap you with a big beefy steak.
Maggie Rieth AustinHOST
Mmm.
Maggie Rieth AustinHOST
You're so funny.
Amanda AustinHOST
Oh, you're so funny.
Maggie Rieth AustinHOST
Look, I don't want to take up any more time on the podcast so we can do a bonus episode on this, but I would happily do an episode about Hamburger Helper.
Amanda AustinHOST
I love Hamburger Helper.
Jenn de la VegaHOST
I will eat it any time.
Jenn de la VegaHOST
That and Hamburger Helper.
Jenn de la VegaHOST
Beef stroganoff, specifically.
Jenn de la VegaHOST
[laughs] Those are my favorite meals growing up.
Jeremy ClarkPANELIST
away.
Jeremy ClarkPANELIST
It looked like the Hamburger Helper glove when he was wearing them both.
Jeremy ClarkPANELIST
I have the need to go home and eat some hamburger lasagna tonight.
Jeremy ClarkPANELIST
Because you
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