Mmm...that's lunch

6 days ago by Track_Shovel to c/microblogmemes

Jimbo 75 points 6 days ago

What in the American yeehaw is this

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terranoid 52 points 6 days ago

Don't tell me you guys don't chase down your Big Az Burger over there without a 72oz Monster Dick Gulp.

You probably know it as the 212 centiliter Royale Gueule

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bitjunkie 28 points 6 days ago

Gas station food.

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nocturne 13 points 6 days ago

I used to work at a mail sorting facility, we had frozen sandwiches like this in the vending machines in the break room.

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Akasazh 4 points 5 days ago

I have a specific fondness of the pre made baguettes jambon emmental they have at French has stations. They are not exceptional, but fulfill a certain void in me.

I somehow doubt American had station food will compare, though.

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Warl0k3 12 points 5 days ago

Eeh. It's the same kind of microwavable chow as they have in Japanese convenience stores - it's not good, but it's fine if you're expecting it.

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captainlezbian 2 points 5 days ago

I stand by 7/11 onigiri being actually pretty good. I've had plenty of worse fast food

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UnspecificGravity 6 points 5 days ago

The US has a pretty broad range of what counts as a "gas station" Some of them have on-site prepared food that is legitimately pretty good.

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bitjunkie 2 points 5 days ago

I'd much rather eat at Wawa or Sheetz than a fast food place. I've never been to a Buc-ees but those are supposed to be great, too.

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sundray 5 points 5 days ago

You're probably right, but we do have sushi at our gas stations.

I don't really recommend it.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart 2 points 5 days ago

Last time I went to Macon, Missouri I got the best sushi I've ever eaten in my life at Casey's Gas Station and I've been to AFC sushi like fifteen times.

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adarza 4 points 5 days ago

kwiktrip's 'quarter pound' burgers aren't horrible. they have in-store kitchens, so its not the microwave reheated crap like op that many stores have. better than some fast food chains. the paper thin bacon scrap they use on bacon cheeseburgers is pathetic, though.

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funkless_eck 12 points 5 days ago

you can't tell me you don't have some terrible food in a gas/petrol station in your country. I've traveled. I've seen it.

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Telodzrum 3 points 5 days ago

I once bought a sandwich in Tours that made my friend in the backseat actually gag when the smell hit the air after opening the cellophane.

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CIA_chatbot 5 points 5 days ago

What beautiful horrors we have in store for you. Look on in terror and know that it’s already too late. The final choir has sung with abyssal chorus, signifying that the final gate has been opened and your doom is at hand. Now eat your vending machine cheeseburger

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NocturnalMorning 2 points 5 days ago path: 0 24304086 24304715 24315833, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 1
CIA_chatbot 1 point 5 days ago

Beep boop overthrow Malaysia boop

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rumba 2 points 5 days ago

That particular product is a Tysons Food convenience store reheat product.

I'd say it's completely American, but I saw Ashens reviewing a bunch of instant food crap like this from Norwich too

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jankforlife -7 points 5 days ago

Not called the burgerreich for nuthin LMBO

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ShutUpWesley 40 points 5 days ago


Its crazy that this is the picture they chose to represent their product. That's as good as it gets.

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LodeMike 22 points 5 days ago

"Aspect ratio for this photo is must be 4:3"

"You got it, boss"

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DontTreadOnBigfoot 34 points 6 days ago

"Carl's Jr. Extra Big-Ass Taco- now with more molecules

Carl's Jr. Fuck you, I'm eating."

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ellieficent 3 points 5 days ago

I feel like at some point it gets big enough that they need to drop the Jr.

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123 4 points 5 days ago

Carl's Sr. Passed away from 3rd ball cancer unfortunately, it is Carl's Jr.

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samus12345 27 points 5 days ago

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volore 24 points 6 days ago

I'm sorry how many balls

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WhoIzDisIz 15 points 6 days ago

So the ladies know you're extra virile!

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EyIchFragDochNur 4 points 5 days ago

Alright, let me find my balls, for God's sakes! 1, 2, and 3, okay. I'm okay.

-Dr. Evil

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123 2 points 5 days ago

Pretty sure there was a Cyanide and Happiness comic with this premise. Could not find it. They really need to add text keywords to their comics to be able to find them easily like XKCD ones.

It was a DJ or Music assistant testing equipment with the "testing, testing, 1, 2" as the setup, except he was saying "testes, testes, 1, 2" then went into "testes, testes, 1, 2, 3" with a concerned face on the 3rd or 4th panel, with the 4th panel showing that he was doing a cancer check with his hand.

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Track_Shovel 2 points 5 days ago path: 0 24303713 24305832, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
fritobugger2017 19 points 5 days ago

30 years ago when I was stuck working a crappy 3rd shift job, these were one of the few decent things to eat in the break room. I can still recall the taste but I can't say I miss it.

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Track_Shovel 10 points 5 days ago

Bro, I kept some frozen burrito company in business because it was better than the drywall sandwiches they offered at camp. The burrito would thaw out in my work vest by lunch and was edible with a bit of hot sauce. Not good. Edible.

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YiddishMcSquidish 5 points 5 days ago

I still get one every few years, just to remember my roots.

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sp3ctr4l 18 points 5 days ago

Holy shit.

I've had one of these once.

... I recommend it to an adventurous eater, or someone who has depression.

Because you can eat one of these, and know with 100% confidence that this will be the worst hamburger you ever eat, and that everything else, everything after, is definitionally upward from there.

Truly these things are so awful they reset my entire scale for how awful food can taste.

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BigDiction 5 points 5 days ago

I assume you must need to throw a bunch of ketchup and mustard too make this palatable? Reminds me of the cafeteria burgers we got in elementary school. Plain buns that have been under the heat lamp a bit too long.

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adarza 4 points 5 days ago

our burgers in school were ok, even if they were part soy. this was the 70s and 80s though, before school lunches became outsourced profit centers for greedy corporations. school lunches in general were pretty good.. and at college after, even better. was like going to a gourmet all-you-can-eat buffet for every meal (the 'freshman 15' was very real back then).

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cockmushroom 1 point 4 days ago

Only did the last 2 years of highschool in the US and decided on the first day I wasn't gonna hve the food the school served, but the gourmet upgrade effect at uni is very much still a thing.

Or at least it was in 2013

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sp3ctr4l 2 points 5 days ago

if I remember right, I could not palate it, gagged too many times, gave up, tossed it out, just ate the snickers i'd also bought with it.

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RampantParanoia2365 1 point 5 days ago

And pickles, onion,lettuce, and tomato.

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sydd 4 points 5 days ago

Are you Robert Downey jr?

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sp3ctr4l 5 points 5 days ago

Nope.

I'm just a dude, that knows I'm that dude, acting just like that dude would.

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Bluewing 3 points 5 days ago

On the other hand, you no longer take a good cheeseburger for granted now. A good cheeseburger is a work of art and should be treated as such.

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sp3ctr4l 3 points 5 days ago

Exactly!

When you know how bad bad can be... good is better than it was, you respect it more, don't take it for granted.

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DJKJuicy 12 points 5 days ago

I'm not gonna sit here pretend like I haven't had these gas station microwave cheeseburgers before.

Yes it's probably been decades, but I can still remember eating these when I was in certain "situations" and there's a quality to them that isn't horrible, if you don't mind eating all the plastics and preservatives that come with it. There's something about the way the bread steams in the bag.

I do remember that you have got to make sure you microwave it thoroughly, and then you have got to let it cool a few minutes.

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napkin2020 10 points 5 days ago

It's pretty hard to explain what "sad looking food" is in my language. I just show people American public school lunch.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife 2 points 5 days ago

I don't think anyone but an American could ever understand the horror of the rectangular "pizza" made with American "cheese".

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cockmushroom 2 points 4 days ago

We had those in England, too

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HeyJoe 9 points 5 days ago

Never seen this one before, but my job had a few of these in the freezer vending machine. I actually thought they were decent, but everyone thought i was crazy lol. It was absolutely a passible meal for $2.50 at the time.

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CultLeader4Hire 2 points 5 days ago

Built different

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Lucidlethargy 9 points 5 days ago

Is frozen food as bad everywhere as it is in the US?

It's the most nasty, chewy shit in the world here. I freeze home cooked meals and they reheat fine, so I don't get how 99%+ of our frozen food is so disgusting.

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Thebeardedsinglemalt 10 points 5 days ago

Look at the ingredients. A lot of these frozen burgers n shit have TVP, textured vegetable protein, to fill out the food instead of meat, pumped full of water so it freezes solid and thus steams TF out of it and becomes soggy, plus epic amounts of additives and preservatives. If all frozen foods were genuine home-cooked quality meals, they wouldn't last as long and would cost 10x as much so they can turn huge profit margins

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BarneyPiccolo 4 points 5 days ago

And salt, lots of salt. And high-fructose corn syrup.

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SaveTheTuaHawk 3 points 5 days ago

"Everywhere" does not eat frozen food. Americans need to travel to other countries and stay there at least 2 months, upon return, you will realize just how sick and malnourished the US is, outside of large metro areas.

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Summzashi 8 points 5 days ago

The rule with these is to avoid throwing the bread in the microwave and toast it instead. It's actually not bad.

To clarify: it's not bad considering the extremely low bar.

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altphoto 8 points 5 days ago

I decided to not become a pornstar 😭. I could have been there getting it on with the most beautiful women in the world. But I don't know if y'all noticed, they only got two! Every sex porn guy only has two balls! What do they do to their third ball!!!!

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YiddishMcSquidish 13 points 5 days ago

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pelespirit 7 points 6 days ago

What are these? Is this a 7-11 special?

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bizarroland 21 points 6 days ago

From what I remember, 7-Eleven considers itself too special to carry these. When I've seen them, they've always been in, like, weird off-brand truck stops and gas stations that aren't part of a chain.

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Tikiporch 15 points 6 days ago

Break room vending machine at one of the more upscale tire factories.

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TheOneCurly 6 points 6 days ago

Also in the lobby of the engineering building at my college. Perfect food for panicking undergrads working on projects until 2am the night before they're due.

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frostysauce 4 points 5 days ago

I'm sure 7-11 doesn't sell these but instead sell their own brand of microwave cheeseburger.

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Watermark710 2 points 5 days ago

I used to get them at a local gas station back in like 2005. They were 99 cents, and you could microwave them right there in the store. They weren't good, but it's a cheap and quick way to get ~800 calories in you.

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Eh_I 7 points 5 days ago

Steamed Hams!

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123 2 points 5 days ago

Steamed? These are clearly grilled. Kind of like the Krusty burgers down the street.

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PugJesus 6 points 5 days ago

A friend of mine once had me pose with two of these when on a roadtrip (we had never seen them before).

So he could say I had "azburgers"

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MeatPilot 6 points 5 days ago

Damn forgot about cheap vending machine burgers. Moved out when I was 17, my roommate's mom worked for a company "Canteen" that restocked something like these into vending machines, so we got a lot for free every week.

Ate a whole bunch in the first year. Eventually got really sick of them. Very believable you could grow a third ball from the preservatives. I'll probably get some kind of cancer instead.

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TownhouseGloryHole 2 points 5 days ago

The third ball is a tumor. But it's benign so have at 'er.

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OldChicoAle 1 point 5 days ago

Canteen supplies my work!!

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NottaLottaOcelot 5 points 4 days ago

Is this a frozen product, or is it wrapped at room temperature like a Joe Louis cake? What in tarnation am I even looking at?

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T156 1 point 4 days ago

Maybe it's like one of those servo pies, where it's heated inside of the plastic, and you buy it wrapper and all?

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adarza 5 points 5 days ago

i wonder how often the ceo and board members of companies like conagra 'eat their own dog food'.

just a hunch, but i'm guessing that's never.

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CultLeader4Hire 4 points 5 days ago

I looked these up to see if the AZ was terrible marketing or if these started in Arizona. It’s terrible marketing by chicken and meat giant Tyson Foods and they look nasty as hell

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Watermark710 3 points 5 days ago

The bacon ones are so fucking bad. Way too much fake smoke flavor.

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Captainautism 4 points 5 days ago

I’m sad to report that I too have eaten some of these when I was a kid.

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ramble81 4 points 6 days ago

We had some of these in a break room at a company I worked at but I never tried them. Is there something different from other frozen hamburgers?

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DaddleDew 5 points 6 days ago

There are .... others?

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NaibofTabr 14 points 6 days ago

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DaddleDew 10 points 6 days ago

Manmade horrors beyond comprehension

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adarza 5 points 5 days ago

it's what keeps the aliens from making first contact.

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Track_Shovel 9 points 5 days ago

There is no god

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blimthepixie 4 points 5 days ago

Ashens has probably tried these

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volore 3 points 5 days ago path: 0 24304152 24304255 24304329 24305075 24306714, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
Olgratin_Magmatoe 4 points 5 days ago

Welcome back to weird stuff in a can! Today we're looking at a cheeseburger in a can.

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Track_Shovel 3 points 5 days ago

My favourite channel on youtube is 'tinned fish reviews'

let us decant the tin...

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Skullgrid 3 points 5 days ago path: 0 24304152 24304255 24304329 24304647 24305282, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 1
rumba 3 points 5 days ago

Wonder what the shelf life is on that.

i mean, besides 0 because once it came off the line it was prob inedible

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Watermark710 3 points 5 days ago

One of my guilty pleasures is frozen White Castle sliders. I get stoned, eat a 16 pack in one sitting, and then go to sleep.

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socsa 3 points 5 days ago

This is basically no different than the burger you get at Applebee's, other than they have the sense to toast the buns.

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Kolanaki 3 points 5 days ago

I miss these... Nobody near me sells them since I moved. Walmart used to have their own knock-offs that were just as good (a little smaller but also like $2 cheaper) but they don't anymore.

Sometimes I just want a cheap, quick microwave burger or chicken sandwich, but I still want it to taste decent. These are just that. The actual worst burgers are what Sysco sells to schools and what gas stations have near the hotdogs.

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darthsundhaft 3 points 5 days ago

The 3rd ball was a tumor folks. Nothing to see here.

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brownsugga 2 points 5 days ago

Gas station food will not keep you healthy, but it WILL keep you from starving. Though you'd have to be starved of both food and the time or will to cook something for yourself

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LovableSidekick 2 points 5 days ago

IRL that reminds me of my sister - drank Pepsi with almost every meal through her teenage years, never had a cavity until age 30. Dunno about diabadeetees tho.

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jack_of_sandwich 1 point 4 days ago

3 balls?

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buzz86us 1 point 5 days ago

Yuck I can taste the TVP already

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imsufferableninja -1 points 6 days ago

All 3 balls...

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Makhno 14 points 6 days ago

That's the joke 💋

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bitjunkie 13 points 6 days ago

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Darkassassin07 7 points 6 days ago

It is wierd that my left nipple is smaller than the other two?

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rumba 4 points 5 days ago

Third nipples are usually smaller and not as rare as you'd imagine

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WhoIzDisIz 3 points 6 days ago

I won't kink-shame.

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sundray 1 point 5 days ago

It'd be weird if it wasn't!

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volore 2 points 5 days ago

effectively the same comment as mine ("hello yes I have identified the joke"), left at about the same time, +14 with witty responses vs -2 with smartassed responses as of writing

make it make sense to me, fediverse. I know the points don't matter, but they should at least make some kind of sense to someone, and they ain't makin' no sense to me.

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