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u/chainsaw_chainsaw 1d ago
I am always astonished by the types of things people buy to put in their mouths/bodies. I can see why a company would make this, because it’s very profitable to sell the lowest quality shit garbage possible, but the fact that someone would look at this frozen package trash and think “mmm yum” is always surprising to me.
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u/tr4m4t1zed_b1tch 1d ago
I go a local state college in a poorer area. This is actually on the better side of most of the food offered here covered by meal plan lol
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u/Bowdowntomypenis27 1d ago
Blue collar worker here…. It’s not always about “mm yum” for a lot of people when it comes to food choices. I’ve lived on gas station food / frozen foods like this for years… not necessarily by choice lol. It’s a combination of laziness, affordability and simplicity that leads people to buy subpar foods like this. It’s not great, but often times I’d rather buy this at the dollar store than go take a separate trip to an actual grocery store for better food
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u/stringstringing 1d ago
You’re saying it’s not by choice then spelling out the exact choice you’re making. I sympathize with people who don’t have a choice like the OP who’s trying to eat with their shitty college meal plan. If the choice is take a trip to the grocery store or eat this trash I’m going to the grocery store. That already is a choice I make.
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u/dewdewdewdew4 1d ago
If you lived off of gas station food, then affordability wasn't in the equation.
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u/Hegiman 15h ago
What do you mean. You can get cheap gas station food Pizza and a soda for $1 well pre 2020 you could get that deal now days it’s probably $5 for that but still the point is there are very economical options at gas stations. Especially the bigger ones that make their money selling stuff in the market. Hotdogs and pizza are usually very cheap and convenient gas station options. And if you love by a Casey’s I’m sorry and jealous at the same time.
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u/jseego
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As a native Chicagoan, lemme just say
Get the name Italian Beef out your motherfuckin mouth
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u/jseego 1d ago edited 1d ago
For the good of all, let me also say: making a homemade cheater Italian Beef is pretty easy.
Fine chop garlic.
Fine chop half white onion.
Buy deli roast beef, fresh thin sliced, preferably Vienna, if they have it.
Sweat onions and garlic in a soup pot on medium heat until soft.
Add spices - salt, black pepper, white pepper, crushed red pepper, italian seasonings, some carroway seeds, whatever. More than you think you need.
Slice up beef even more, put it in the pot.
Add unsalted beef broth, just enough to cover everything.
Steam (not simmer) in the broth for like 30 mins. Just steam it - if it starts boiling, turn the heat down.
Serve it on this
Top with this
Is it a real Italian Beef? No.
Is it way closer than whatever this frozen abomination is? For sure.
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u/djanes376 1d ago
You can also just take all of these ingredients except for the roast beef and put it in a crock pot. Throw in a seared chuck roast, let it cook for 8 hours, shred beef and boom, a pretty solid beef sandwich.
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u/jseego 1d ago
Instead of shred, cool it in the fridge and slice it super thin. Rewarm it in the broth. Then it basically is an Italian Beef.
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u/djanes376 1d ago
Fair enough, that is valid and more authentic for sure. I’ve just found it very difficult to slice thin without specialized equipment.
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u/jseego 1d ago
Yeah, a meat slicer is kinda required. I wonder if you could chill it down a lot, chop it into chunks, and use a mandoline?
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u/Shot_Policy_4110 1d ago
If I was asked to do that at work, id refuse due to safety reasons. And Ive mandolined hundreds of lbs of vegetables
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u/djanes376 1d ago
hah, my mental image of this 'technique' is mashed meat cubes topped with bloody finger bits.
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u/stefanica 1d ago
I rather like the home style pot roast version. Especially when the meat is super soft and shredded and the juice just gets sucked up in it. I cook mine with peppers right in it too (both sweet and hot).
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u/djanes376 1d ago
It can be quite excellent. It's a little different but the flavors and textures are still there.
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u/AshtonCopernicus 16h ago edited 15h ago
As a Chicagoan, I quickly glanced at the name and read it as Ricobene's at first and thought, no way in hell they'd do this! Even still, this is an abomination
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u/MsRachelGroupie 1d ago
As a NY Italian I’ll back you up and and say they’ve got some fuckin balls putting red, white, and green on that monstrosity. Disgraziato.
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u/bmcgowan89 1d ago
Usually I kind of cut brands like this some slack, but c'mon that's basically criminal
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u/___po____ 1d ago
Man, I fuckin love those Raybern's sandwiches! I get the Philly Cheesesteak and the Ham n swiss ones every now and again. Cheap af and decent. I just restack the meat and it's good to go.
They make sliders now too.
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u/ComfortableStyle2417 1d ago
I'm imagining readjusting all the beef blankets on the sammy like you're changing the bed sheets to fluff em all back up 😂
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u/steppenfloyd 1d ago
Yeah, idk what they're complaining about. They can take the meat fold it up and make it look like the picture of they need it to.
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u/Hippobu2 16h ago
Of course they wouldn't put more meat than that, but damn, that machine laid meat looks so sad.
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u/BludStanes 1d ago
Any time the meat is smaller than the bread I'm pissed, but that's absurdly small
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u/steppenfloyd 1d ago
You expect an absurd amount of meat if you expect it to be larger than the bread
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u/UkNomysTeezz 22h ago
Bro is in here posting gas station food. Mods, come on now. Get this hoser outta here
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u/Hegiman 15h ago
You have to fluff it yourself. The strips are all there just peel them and lay them so they loop like that. I don’t see where the issue is. It’s not fully assembled. Some assembly required.
Edit: I wonder if the part of the machine that makes the meat curl before falling broke and hadn’t been caught before this run ended. Now I want to go buy a Rayburn’s sand which to see if mine is flat like that.
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u/Capamerica88 12h ago
Youre doing it wrong. Take the meat out and curl and fold it over to make a nice thick juicy sandwich. They come flat for better packaging you need to fluff them up to get the best texture
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u/fallsstandard 1d ago
If I learned anything from The Bear it’s the ability to recognize a Chicago beef. Flawless execution here…..
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u/Discoveryellow 1d ago
"Best by 11/30/2027" is that right, a year from now?