stovetop stuffing

Robin Angelini

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Jul 15, 1993, 12:02:00 AM7/15/93

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Stovetop stuffing isn't dreadful, it's actually the first food of bachelor
cuisine, a comfort food, sort of like Campbell's Cream of Tomato Soup, the
kind of stuff you only eat when you're really depressed.

Peggy Shambo

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Jul 15, 1993, 6:04:02 PM7/15/93

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>From: Robin_A...@mindlink.bc.ca (Robin Angelini)

>Stovetop stuffing isn't dreadful, it's actually the first food of bachelor
>cuisine, a comfort food, sort of like Campbell's Cream of Tomato Soup, the
>kind of stuff you only eat when you're really depressed.

Didn't Hamburger Helper pre-date Stovetop?

Peg
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Andrew Rogers

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Jul 16, 1993, 1:16:45 PM7/16/93

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In article <memo....@cix.compulink.co.uk> jaz...@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>>Stovetop stuffing isn't dreadful, it's actually the first food of bachelor
>>cuisine, a comfort food, sort of like Campbell's Cream of Tomato Soup, the
>>kind of stuff you only eat when you're really depressed.
>
>Didn't Hamburger Helper pre-date Stovetop?

Yes, by a couple years... HH came out around 1970, STS around 1972.

For our non-N.A. readers, Hamburger Helper is a prepackaged one-skillet meal
based on starch (usually pasta, although I think some flavors used rice) and
powdered sauce mix to which you add your own hamburger plus an appropriate
amount of water (which rehydrates the pasta/rice as the meal cooks,
eliminating the extra step of pre-cooking it).

The classic one is elbow macaroni with hamburger in a tomato sauce - known
to a generation of grade-school kids as "American Chop Suey" or "Chili-Mac"
long before Hamburger Helper's debut - although many other flavors
(even Chicken and Tuna Helpers) have appeared over the years.

The latest I've seen is a Mexican-style Hamburger Helper which looked so weird
I almost bought it... it includes pasta shaped like triangular tortilla chips!
I mean, are we getting surrealistic here or what? They once had a Taco Bake
variety which was based on the old Tamale Pie recipe (the filling was baked in
a cornmeal crust), but apparently that was too much work and it vanished from
the market.

Andrew

Jim Heath

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Jul 18, 1993, 5:39:25 AM7/18/93

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From article <2275rt...@calamari.hi.com>, by rog...@calamari.hi.com (Andrew Rogers):

> The latest I've seen is a Mexican-style Hamburger Helper which looked so weird
> I almost bought it... it includes pasta shaped like triangular tortilla chips!
> I mean, are we getting surrealistic here or what? They once had a Taco Bake
> variety which was based on the old Tamale Pie recipe (the filling was baked in
> a cornmeal crust), but apparently that was too much work and it vanished from
> the market.
>

Yeah, we miss that one and the Tuna Helper "pie" (?). There was also, I
think, a Southern Dinner similar to the Taco Bake. Anyone have recipes
for these things?
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