Chances are the second meal somehow got defrosted and then frozen again...for example when someone takes a hungry man, decided they didn't want it and ditch it in a random isle...a employee at the end of the shift might find it and place it back in the frozen section....happens all the time, especially with ice cream
I'm not sure who annoys me most, the person who puts a frozen/refrigerated item back in the wrong place or the idiot who works there and puts it back. I've worked in retail and dealt with customers doing that but we would trash the item. We are able to write it off so there's no reason for a store not to when there's no loss.
Resurrecting an old comment but I work at a giant Green grocery store in Florida and we don't put stuff back on the shelves. Food waste is insane and offensive even. If we find something on a shelf it goes to the good 'ol "dispo" bin. Get scanned out and tossed into a giant trash compacter. At least at this behemoth of a chain you won't see that. I like to think that this is common around the States but I have no idea. While I like to hope it it I am still disgusted by the casual trashing of food. Edited: I ran frozen dept at my location for a long time. Ice cream doesn't get thawed and put back on shelves at our stores. I'm fairly certain the companies pay insurance of some sort to the vendors and providers so they don't have to swallow (heh, pun) the cost. The store doesn't lose shit. Just the rest of the planet.
Even tho I very rarely eat this kind of food you review, I really like your channel and your community is great, genuine people! Keep up the good work man.
tbh you can do a lot worse than hungry man as far as TV dinners go man, its a lot of protein for the money when its only 1$ and poor people gotta eat too lmao
Swanson/Hungry-Man is under-rated IMO. The only real complaint I have about them is that the mashed potatoes definitely vary in quality from one dinner to the other. The mashed potatoes can either taste good or at least decent. Or they can taste nasty. I mostly stick to the Salisbury Steak Swanson dinners and the mashed potatoes in those are almost always good. But some of those Swanson/Hungry-Man dinners have absolutely nasty mashed potatoes. And there is a variance in quality even if you stick to the exact same type of dinner. There are definitely bad batches that they produce in the factory. Or maybe some of these dinners get spoiled in the store freezer. But yeah the Salisbury Steak Swanson, I rarely ever have a problem with these. The meat tastes good, the gravy tastes good, the corn is good, the cranberry sauce is good, the mashed potatoes are usually good. Unless you happen to get a bad batch. The Hungry-Man Salisbury Steak has the brownie instead of the cranberry sauce. And green beans instead of corn (and the green beans are fine. Obviously I prefer corn to green beans because corn is sweeter and has more calories). The Hungry-Man/Swanson brownies are not the best obviously, it's no Starbucks brownie, but good for something that comes out of a TV dinner.
+VlAlexx Yeah meat is expensive up here in Canada and for me personally soy protein and whey protein is not as satisfying for me as meat protein. Swanson dinners (including Hungry-Man) are basically one of the cheaper sources of meat protein that you can come across here. If you ever tried buying a steak here in Toronto, it's very expensive. So the fake composite steak (beef mixed in with some other bullshit) that you find in Swanson dinners is pretty inexpensive and tastes surprisingly good for the price. Burgers are another relatively cheap source of meat protein. But I don't like going through the hassle of having to buy hamburger buns, cheese slices, pickles, onions, ketchup, mustard, etc. and storing all of that in the fridge/pantry. And keeping track of the expiry dates to make sure the food doesn't go bad. When I can just buy self-contained individual meals that I can store in the freezer.
I think the 2nd meal was thawed at the store for a period of time and then put back in the freezer and refrozen. I ve come across a couple like that over the years, something off and wrong with the whole thing, no sign of freezer burn and date is still good though. Only explanation I have for it is the store mishandled it. Maybe someone took it in their cart, put it on a shelf somewhere and they found it hours later and put it back in the freezer instead of throwing it out.
I'd bet good money your second dinner defrosted on a shelf somewhere in the store and some employee put it back in the freezer instead of throwing it out. Whenever I go grocery shopping for frozen/cold items.....I always reach in the back.....never grab what's in front.....
I've seen it happen before. Someone takes one to register but doesn't have enough for everything they picked out and the one they leave behind sits near register until minimum wage employee decides to bring it back to cooler. End result, spoiled or near spoiled food in cooler waiting for next poor schmuck to pick it out.
I have had WAY too many of those instances in the last 10 years of courtesy work I've done in my grocery store. Hoo boy these people are cunts doing this to us. I ALWAYS take the stuff that's been sitting on the shelves and needs to be in the cooler/freezer to the back as damaged product.
kemix1006 that's what you are supposed to do. It's a write off for the store. I liked the job OK. I hated the people. Customers and CoWorkers. A bunch of morons and assholes. I walked out on that job after 9 months of constant bullshit.
RealmanPwns i saw that the other day with a pack of italian sausage put where the chips were by the cash register. Fucking nasty man. I hope employees are told to not put items like that back after its been sat out.
Fuckitol i had a friend that was kind of an asshole, we went and ate at free birds and he got their biggest burrito and absolutely could not finish it, he ate about half and carried it with him when we went to target next door and he left it inside of a suit case in their store, i can only imagine how long it took them to find it lmao
I like mixing the corn in with the potatoes, especially since they don't seem to use buttery potatoes anymore. Great video, it sounds like that was freezer burnt or on the end of its expiration maybe.
Oceansideca1987 - Good for you. Doesn't mean we need to hear this constant, "Yeah, I just got done pumpin 500 reps at 200 man because I'm an alpha male and go to the gym! You know, like this makes me special (well hell if you could do that I suppose you would be but I doubt it)" in every video.
like others have said, you may have got an expired one. it's happened to me before, the store is supposed to check that but i've had one slip through before and from how you described it tasting it kinda sounds similar
Jason Halverson like I and many other have said before. Hungry man was far better before it was bought out. No hungry man you buy whether it's old and expired or freshly made right out of the factory.
expired is just a date, manufactures just set a date on a product. i've had 10 year old oscar mayer weiners that sat at the back of my fridge and they were fine, they were vacuum sealed. as long as they are stored at the proper temp, they will probably last forever. once they are unsealed and exposed to air is when the "magic" happens and they rot, mold and deteriorate. i worked in biotech for years, they set a date of usually 6 months to a year for the expiration date. i have a 6 year old bottle of broth, sealed, shows no sign of growth or contamination. i was a QC inspector, and if the broth was contaminated, it would show growth in days!
pyrobison2002 never heard of them. I assume you're referring to who made the music. I just remember watching How It's Made 10 or 15 years ago and that's the song that was played in the background for most of the episodes.
I believe he has an episode on his channel where he makes one. Or atleast a video on how to make the gravy for it. It’s been a while since I last watched anything on this channel.
twocvbloke just make sure the quality of your meat is good and well tenderized because sometimes, mostly in crappy restaurants, they can wind up chewy and really turn people off
I eat hardly any processed food but love your channel. Almost all the items you taste test aren't available in the UK so I find the convenience items your eating fascinating. If I ever visit the US, out of curiosity, I'd end up trying as many as possible because I'm a foodie not a food snob!
Using a picture of George The Animal Steele after that line about the animal line was brilliant work! Unfortunately, some won't be able to appreciate it. But I'm glad at least I did.
You'd inspired me to finally make sausage-milk gravy with biscuits at home for the first time, and I wanted to thank you for that. Next up is gonna be country-fried steak, and I hope my boys love that one too. Prost~*
I buy the "On Cor" country fried steak. But I leave the box out to thaw, and pull the steaks out while the gravy stays in the tray. This way the steaks aren't soggy and the gravy can be thawed and poured out later. Those steaks are great if they aren't soggy. I fry a steak, make some mashed potatoes, warm some gravy and, heaven on earth. Thanks Wolf Pit, I learn so much from You and You've made my day many times. Bows deeply and respectfully to THE MAN, AND MISSUS WOLF PIT.
I've been eating a lot of these lately as they're on sale for 2 bucks at the grocery outlet. I think they're delicious. I heat them up in the microwave for 5 minutes, and then cook it in the toaster oven at 350 for 20 minutes and it comes out fantastic!
I was thinking about buying one of these but when you said "These mash potatoes would make a turd taste great" I decided to save myself a few bucks and just buy potatoes and do just that. Thanks.
Cool that you cooked it both ways. I always put these things in the oven, because I’ve always thought that was the better method if you had the time. Boy was I wrong. The oven one didn’t even look as good as the microwaved one. The expired one theory is interesting, although I assume the boxes were thrown out before you had a chance to check. I guess we’ll never know
I've never been a huge fan of Hungryman Dinners, but when I worked 2 jobs, and would come home late, and my girlfriend at the time got them on sale they were better than nothing for late dinner, but now I won't touch them with a 10 foot pole.
1701spacecadet I'll say this there are many reasons she is no longer my girlfriend lol! Thankfully I have no issues when it comes to cooking with my current girlfriend, hell she is one to go deer hunting, bring back the buck, clean it, process it, and put it in the freezer all without asking, or even wanting help lol!
Hey WolfePit I recently made something I thought youd really like, and it's relatively cheap too, I bought what are called "Cross Rib Steaks" which came in a pack of 3 big steaks for about 9 bucks. I looked up online and saw they should be braised. I went about seasoning then searing them for a good crust, after I melted about a stick maybe a sticks and half of butter with thyme and laid the steaks into a glass dish pan adding the butter all over them. Lastly you let them cook in the oven at about 350 for roughly 2-2:30 hours flipping them every hour, less time between flips will get rid of the good sear and braised crust on it, then I pulled it out and at first tried eating it like a steak but I fell apart so easily I wound up shredding them and basically having a delicious pot roast not even attempting to make one. It went super well with my mashed potatoes and asparagus, plus I have a bunch of meat left over to play around and make other stuff with!
LS flour, salt and pepper. Fry in olive oil for 5 minutes on each side. Put in pan with some left over flour wisked with a cup of beef broth. Cover with foil and put in oven at 400 for an hour and 45 minutes. Yum yum yum!!
What is wrong with cube steak? Growing up I enjoyed many meals with pan fried cube steak. :-) Much easier to eat cheaper cut of beef and meats on a regular basis then it would be to try and eat the top end cut of beef on a daily basis. Hamburgers,Meatloaf,Stew,Salisbury steak,Pork chops,pan fried cube steak,Chicken every way.Salmon croquettes.Fried Catfish,Baked fish,Sloppy joes,Spaghetti and meatballs,many kind of dishes with beef/chicken with pasta All above using cheap meats. All above I am willing to bet the majority of American Citizens grew up on. :-)
the problem with cube steak, similarly to skirt steak, is when people popularize it for one recipe and it becomes popular, a usually cheap cut of meat skyrockets in price, i have seen skirt steak for twice the price of ribeye in the past and scratched my head as to why people still used skirt steak for it
Check the lot numbers and expiration dates. Even if same maybe someone pulled it out of the freezer and let it get defrosted and spoil and an employee just put it back.
I can remember eating these as a kid. I think mom used to hold up a Hungry Man delivery truck or something for it because we always had about 90 of the things around. The fried chicken was handy for repelling mice and the Salisbury steak was great for cleaning up oil spills in the driveway. I'm happy to see they've come on so well since then. lol
Not gonna lie: I've loved TV dinners since i was a kid. Those turkey and roast beef slices that are hardly recognizable as meat were - and still are - a treat. I wish they sold this variety up here in America's Hat, 'cause it looks delicious!
I have never seen steak fingers before. The concept was so mind-blowing to me I actually went back to the part where you showed them and stared agape at them momentarily.
I love chicken-fried steak. When my husband and I divorced I had him marinated for 48 hours and then breaded and deep-fried; it was at dinner that day when my family, his family, our children, and all our friends came to the stark realization that he really was a tasty dish: Git into mah belly!
You can make a whole dinner just out of mashed potatoes and corn mixed together with butter and salt. Mashed potatoes and cabbage made the same way taste good too.
I've been watching your videos over 2 years...I never had the guts to say how awesome and funny you are! Thank you for your videos, time and effort. You're awesome! Thank you again :)
My wife & I both work long hours so we rarely have the energy to cook. I actually like the Fried Chicken dinners the best. The Country Fried Steak was like eating a phone case.
Looks like the second meal was left unthawed, and partially spoiled before being refrozen. This could have happened anywhere from the factory to your freezer. It has happened to me as well, and there's no describing how terrible that corn tastes. You just have to experience it to understand.
Funny how videos like this just slide into my suggesteds. I'm not complaining, these videos are great, one of the best food reviewers on CZcams right next to Report of the Week
I used to eat this all the time as a kid and teenager. This and the turkey hungryman. Luckily ive never got a spoiled one. They are both actually pretty good
For anyone who is curious, there is a difference between the "country" fried steak described here and "chicken" fried steak, which I personally prefer. Basically, country fried steak has brown gravy with plain breading, and chicken fried steak has white gravy, and the breading contains egg.
You should give the oven version another shot... I can't imagine cooking it in the oven is the reason it turned out so much worse, you might have just got one that had been improperly stored or something.
If you can find a package of it, you should try Contessa's frozen Shrimp Scampi. Btw, Love your videos! They're fun and I learn a lot about what I'm eating ;)
The one you cooked in the oven may have been spoiled. Sometimes frozen food sits on the floor for hours at a grocery store until it's stocked in freezers.
Having an oven version suggests a higher quality meal so they slapped that on to make the meal look better when in reality it was designed for the microwave.
Country Fried Steak is one of my favorite meals. I haven't tried making a Homemade TV Dinner using Country Fried Steak, but I will soon. Haven't had any luck freezing Mashed Potatoes, but Roasted Potatoes or a Rice side freezes good. I think the Country Gravy will hold up, because I have had good results freezing Sausage Gravy. Not sure how the breading is going to hold up, I will to do a little research before trying.
@The Wolfe Pit The meat was kinda grayish if beef is grayish then it’s spoiled. If corn is sour like you described then it’s spoiled What Hungry Man should do is vacuum pack their meats and potatoes(vacuum potatoes are the next best to fresh packed) and dehydrate their corn and apple crumble for the buyer to fill water or milk to the line then heat from now on(^~^)
Wolfe you should try So Good BBQ made up here in northern IL. It’s bbq you put on an sandwich but it’s delicious. Comes in a jar and it’s just a heat and serve product and you’re done!
The country fried steak comes out a lot better when you bake it. Either way it is a good cheap alternative to those single guys out there living the bachelor life lol
I never make those meals in the oven. It pretty much defeats the purpose. Corn is usually good in these type of meals, but the very best Corn out there you can buy in a store, is the Mexicorn hands down.
The nutritional facts are also my favorite part of these videos. They remind me of why I don't eat these types of foods. Thank you for doing it so I don't have to
The second dinner you ate DEFINITELY had become unfrozen, probably fully thawed and left out somewhere before being put back in the freezer section. Everything tasting "off" like that is exactly what happens when the dinners thaw out, sit, and are refrozen.
I bought and cooked this in the oven without noticing a hole in the botttom of the tray. All the gravy leaked out and the meat was dried out and basically inedible. I haven't bought it since. Hungry Man can be inconsistent except their Mexican meal which I think is pretty good.
Dimeand Biggie I think the cf steak is better in the Marie Callenders ones. And i dont like that apple dessert stuff, it has propylene glycol and ethanol in it.
I fuck with their turkey mashed potato.gravy and stuffing dinners. Always cook them in the oven, they are actually pretty good. If they aren't good, you just dump shredded cheese and hot sauce on it.
Chances are the second meal somehow got defrosted and then frozen again...for example when someone takes a hungry man, decided they didn't want it and ditch it in a random isle...a employee at the end of the shift might find it and place it back in the frozen section....happens all the time, especially with ice cream
I'm not sure who annoys me most, the person who puts a frozen/refrigerated item back in the wrong place or the idiot who works there and puts it back. I've worked in retail and dealt with customers doing that but we would trash the item. We are able to write it off so there's no reason for a store not to when there's no loss.
don't discriminate hate everyone equally We don't throw it away, we write it off and can take it home so it isn't wasted
It's sooo annoying when that happens I've been ill from eating breaded fish fingers that were refrozen in the store 🤮 put me off them for life!
Resurrecting an old comment but I work at a giant Green grocery store in Florida and we don't put stuff back on the shelves. Food waste is insane and offensive even. If we find something on a shelf it goes to the good 'ol "dispo" bin. Get scanned out and tossed into a giant trash compacter. At least at this behemoth of a chain you won't see that. I like to think that this is common around the States but I have no idea. While I like to hope it it I am still disgusted by the casual trashing of food.
Edited: I ran frozen dept at my location for a long time. Ice cream doesn't get thawed and put back on shelves at our stores. I'm fairly certain the companies pay insurance of some sort to the vendors and providers so they don't have to swallow (heh, pun) the cost. The store doesn't lose shit. Just the rest of the planet.
It was expired
Even tho I very rarely eat this kind of food you review, I really like your channel and your community is great, genuine people! Keep up the good work man.
Shinzu Music you watch this too???
P diddy joke was a bit racists though
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Eat your ham Tina.
I try not to... but as a single person with no kids at home, or a college student with a limited budget and time.... VERY educational.
The microwaved meal: ooh yeah...
The oven meal: *DISGUSTING*
After binging your vids, I’m genuinely worried for your health
I highly doubt he eats this stuff. He even says he takes bites than spits it out.
I don't know how you manage to make disgusting TV dinners entertaining but you do it😂
tbh you can do a lot worse than hungry man as far as TV dinners go man, its a lot of protein for the money when its only 1$ and poor people gotta eat too lmao
Swanson/Hungry-Man is under-rated IMO. The only real complaint I have about them is that the mashed potatoes definitely vary in quality from one dinner to the other. The mashed potatoes can either taste good or at least decent. Or they can taste nasty. I mostly stick to the Salisbury Steak Swanson dinners and the mashed potatoes in those are almost always good. But some of those Swanson/Hungry-Man dinners have absolutely nasty mashed potatoes. And there is a variance in quality even if you stick to the exact same type of dinner. There are definitely bad batches that they produce in the factory. Or maybe some of these dinners get spoiled in the store freezer.
But yeah the Salisbury Steak Swanson, I rarely ever have a problem with these. The meat tastes good, the gravy tastes good, the corn is good, the cranberry sauce is good, the mashed potatoes are usually good. Unless you happen to get a bad batch. The Hungry-Man Salisbury Steak has the brownie instead of the cranberry sauce. And green beans instead of corn (and the green beans are fine. Obviously I prefer corn to green beans because corn is sweeter and has more calories). The Hungry-Man/Swanson brownies are not the best obviously, it's no Starbucks brownie, but good for something that comes out of a TV dinner.
+VlAlexx Yeah meat is expensive up here in Canada and for me personally soy protein and whey protein is not as satisfying for me as meat protein. Swanson dinners (including Hungry-Man) are basically one of the cheaper sources of meat protein that you can come across here. If you ever tried buying a steak here in Toronto, it's very expensive. So the fake composite steak (beef mixed in with some other bullshit) that you find in Swanson dinners is pretty inexpensive and tastes surprisingly good for the price.
Burgers are another relatively cheap source of meat protein. But I don't like going through the hassle of having to buy hamburger buns, cheese slices, pickles, onions, ketchup, mustard, etc. and storing all of that in the fridge/pantry. And keeping track of the expiry dates to make sure the food doesn't go bad. When I can just buy self-contained individual meals that I can store in the freezer.
Disgusting? Lmfaoo your joking right..
I think the 2nd meal was thawed at the store for a period of time and then put back in the freezer and refrozen. I ve come across a couple like that over the years, something off and wrong with the whole thing, no sign of freezer burn and date is still good though.
Only explanation I have for it is the store mishandled it. Maybe someone took it in their cart, put it on a shelf somewhere and they found it hours later and put it back in the freezer instead of throwing it out.
It could be expired too
I'd bet good money your second dinner defrosted on a shelf somewhere in the store and some employee put it back in the freezer instead of throwing it out. Whenever I go grocery shopping for frozen/cold items.....I always reach in the back.....never grab what's in front.....
This makes me happy lol. Just hearing him so positive about this kind of meal just puts a goofy smile on my face
I've seen it happen before. Someone takes one to register but doesn't have enough for everything they picked out and the one they leave behind sits near register until minimum wage employee decides to bring it back to cooler. End result, spoiled or near spoiled food in cooler waiting for next poor schmuck to pick it out.
RealmanPwns what's worse in when the customer hides perishables in the back of store shelves. Next thing ya know as a stocker ya gotta find the smell.
I have had WAY too many of those instances in the last 10 years of courtesy work I've done in my grocery store. Hoo boy these people are cunts doing this to us. I ALWAYS take the stuff that's been sitting on the shelves and needs to be in the cooler/freezer to the back as damaged product.
kemix1006 that's what you are supposed to do. It's a write off for the store. I liked the job OK. I hated the people. Customers and CoWorkers. A bunch of morons and assholes. I walked out on that job after 9 months of constant bullshit.
RealmanPwns i saw that the other day with a pack of italian sausage put where the chips were by the cash register. Fucking nasty man.
I hope employees are told to not put items like that back after its been sat out.
Fuckitol i had a friend that was kind of an asshole, we went and ate at free birds and he got their biggest burrito and absolutely could not finish it, he ate about half and carried it with him when we went to target next door and he left it inside of a suit case in their store, i can only imagine how long it took them to find it lmao
I like mixing the corn in with the potatoes, especially since they don't seem to use buttery potatoes anymore. Great video, it sounds like that was freezer burnt or on the end of its expiration maybe.
All I know is today I’m eating healthy and getting jacked at the gym . This man is taking one for the team .
Oceansideca1987 because he does it FOR YOU THE PEOPLE!
Fun fact, you're still going to die alone like the rest of us. *Rainbow* The more you know!
Goldenkitten1 ya no shit , but I would like to feel good and live a healthy life idiot
Oceansideca1987 - Good for you. Doesn't mean we need to hear this constant, "Yeah, I just got done pumpin 500 reps at 200 man because I'm an alpha male and go to the gym! You know, like this makes me special (well hell if you could do that I suppose you would be but I doubt it)" in every video.
Goldenkitten1 yo you stupid fuck I’m starting my gains today because I made that life decision. So shut your flabby ass up
what are those metal abominations
The real ones are in the shop :P
like others have said, you may have got an expired one. it's happened to me before, the store is supposed to check that but i've had one slip through before and from how you described it tasting it kinda sounds similar
Jason Halverson like I and many other have said before. Hungry man was far better before it was bought out. No hungry man you buy whether it's old and expired or freshly made right out of the factory.
expired is just a date, manufactures just set a date on a product. i've had 10 year old oscar mayer weiners that sat at the back of my fridge and they were fine, they were vacuum sealed. as long as they are stored at the proper temp, they will probably last forever. once they are unsealed and exposed to air is when the "magic" happens and they rot, mold and deteriorate. i worked in biotech for years, they set a date of usually 6 months to a year for the expiration date. i have a 6 year old bottle of broth, sealed, shows no sign of growth or contamination. i was a QC inspector, and if the broth was contaminated, it would show growth in days!
Or someone decided they didn't want the meal and it sat out before a grocery clerk stuck it back in the freezer.
mr bad example, they were refrigerated in the store mostly (barely freezing) so conditions arent exactly great
Elvy Foster very likely. I see that happening to frozen products like ice cream and yogurts.
You do this for us - The People!
Gotta love the old school "how it's made" background music
Ryan Pasley that is god tier kevin macleod muzaq
pyrobison2002 never heard of them. I assume you're referring to who made the music. I just remember watching How It's Made 10 or 15 years ago and that's the song that was played in the background for most of the episodes.
That's something that appeals to me. It gives the video a more informational presentation, at least to those who've seen "How it's Made".
George"The Animal" Steele! Great nod to a classic wrestler.:)
Right? RIP, George!
I really should try making country fried steak, it's one of them things that isn't common over here in the UK...
You should. It's super easy to make and it's delicious.
I believe he has an episode on his channel where he makes one.
Or atleast a video on how to make the gravy for it. It’s been a while since I last watched anything on this channel.
You should make Southern fried pork chops.
twocvbloke just make sure the quality of your meat is good and well tenderized because sometimes, mostly in crappy restaurants, they can wind up chewy and really turn people off
If it's done right, it's actually delicious
All hail TheWolfePit
... I know the feeling of wanting to mix meat with potatoes and corn lol
I eat the corn over the meat and potatoes so it drops down into them lol
Sig Shooter I swear kcf stole it from us the people lol
Gross
I eat hardly any processed food but love your channel. Almost all the items you taste test aren't available in the UK so I find the convenience items your eating fascinating. If I ever visit the US, out of curiosity, I'd end up trying as many as possible because I'm a foodie not a food snob!
It’s 11:23pm, I have school tomorrow, yet I’m here on youtube watching wolfie eat frozen food
Using a picture of George The Animal Steele after that line about the animal line was brilliant work! Unfortunately, some won't be able to appreciate it.
But I'm glad at least I did.
You'd inspired me to finally make sausage-milk gravy with biscuits at home for the first time, and I wanted to thank you for that. Next up is gonna be country-fried steak, and I hope my boys love that one too. Prost~*
I buy the "On Cor" country fried steak. But I leave the box out to thaw, and pull the steaks out while the gravy stays in the tray. This way the steaks aren't soggy and the gravy can be thawed and poured out later. Those steaks are great if they aren't soggy. I fry a steak, make some mashed potatoes, warm some gravy and, heaven on earth.
Thanks Wolf Pit, I learn so much from You and You've made my day many times.
Bows deeply and respectfully to THE MAN, AND MISSUS WOLF PIT.
You're a brave, brave man Larry to do this for US THE PEOPLE, SO WE DON'T HAVE TO (get sick)...
I've been eating a lot of these lately as they're on sale for 2 bucks at the grocery outlet. I think they're delicious. I heat them up in the microwave for 5 minutes, and then cook it in the toaster oven at 350 for 20 minutes and it comes out fantastic!
I was thinking about buying one of these but when you said "These mash potatoes would make a turd taste great" I decided to save myself a few bucks and just buy potatoes and do just that. Thanks.
Cool that you cooked it both ways. I always put these things in the oven, because I’ve always thought that was the better method if you had the time. Boy was I wrong. The oven one didn’t even look as good as the microwaved one. The expired one theory is interesting, although I assume the boxes were thrown out before you had a chance to check. I guess we’ll never know
I love hearing someone real speaking real, despite what snob would tell you, you can get some downright delish frozen potatoes
I've never been a huge fan of Hungryman Dinners, but when I worked 2 jobs, and would come home late, and my girlfriend at the time got them on sale they were better than nothing for late dinner, but now I won't touch them with a 10 foot pole.
Commodorefan64 Shoulda trained her to cook for you rather than feeding you this rubbish.
1701spacecadet I'll say this there are many reasons she is no longer my girlfriend lol! Thankfully I have no issues when it comes to cooking with my current girlfriend, hell she is one to go deer hunting, bring back the buck, clean it, process it, and put it in the freezer all without asking, or even wanting help lol!
Commodorefan64 You landed on your feet there, my friend! Definitely a keeper!
Commodorefan64 would you touch it with a 10.1 foot pole
1701spacecadet thanks
This is my favorite Hungry Man Meal by far, followed by the spicy fried chicken.
Hey WolfePit I recently made something I thought youd really like, and it's relatively cheap too, I bought what are called "Cross Rib Steaks" which came in a pack of 3 big steaks for about 9 bucks. I looked up online and saw they should be braised. I went about seasoning then searing them for a good crust, after I melted about a stick maybe a sticks and half of butter with thyme and laid the steaks into a glass dish pan adding the butter all over them. Lastly you let them cook in the oven at about 350 for roughly 2-2:30 hours flipping them every hour, less time between flips will get rid of the good sear and braised crust on it, then I pulled it out and at first tried eating it like a steak but I fell apart so easily I wound up shredding them and basically having a delicious pot roast not even attempting to make one. It went super well with my mashed potatoes and asparagus, plus I have a bunch of meat left over to play around and make other stuff with!
" those mashed potatoes would make a turd taste great "
I haven’t had a TV dinner since I was a kid. (my mum could burn water and really can’t cook)
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My ex girlfriend's family calls it "cheap steak" instead of cube steak. Yeah this was only one of many issues.
LS flour, salt and pepper. Fry in olive oil for 5 minutes on each side. Put in pan with some left over flour wisked with a cup of beef broth. Cover with foil and put in oven at 400 for an hour and 45 minutes. Yum yum yum!!
What is wrong with cube steak? Growing up I enjoyed many meals with pan fried cube steak. :-)
Much easier to eat cheaper cut of beef and meats on a regular basis then it would be to try and eat the top end cut of beef on a daily basis.
Hamburgers,Meatloaf,Stew,Salisbury steak,Pork chops,pan fried cube steak,Chicken every way.Salmon croquettes.Fried Catfish,Baked fish,Sloppy joes,Spaghetti and meatballs,many kind of dishes with beef/chicken with pasta
All above using cheap meats. All above I am willing to bet the majority of American Citizens grew up on. :-)
the problem with cube steak, similarly to skirt steak, is when people popularize it for one recipe and it becomes popular, a usually cheap cut of meat skyrockets in price, i have seen skirt steak for twice the price of ribeye in the past and scratched my head as to why people still used skirt steak for it
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It’s called cube steak because of indents left from the meat tenderizer is in a shape of a cube
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Check the lot numbers and expiration dates. Even if same maybe someone pulled it out of the freezer and let it get defrosted and spoil and an employee just put it back.
check the expiration dates on the boxes, and maybe the bad one had accidentlly thawed at some point in shipping and got refrozen?
I can remember eating these as a kid. I think mom used to hold up a Hungry Man delivery truck or something for it because we always had about 90 of the things around. The fried chicken was handy for repelling mice and the Salisbury steak was great for cleaning up oil spills in the driveway. I'm happy to see they've come on so well since then. lol
I love these frozen dinners...The meatloaf is amazing.
Not gonna lie: I've loved TV dinners since i was a kid. Those turkey and roast beef slices that are hardly recognizable as meat were - and still are - a treat. I wish they sold this variety up here in America's Hat, 'cause it looks delicious!
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I have never seen steak fingers before. The concept was so mind-blowing to me I actually went back to the part where you showed them and stared agape at them momentarily.
I love chicken-fried steak. When my husband and I divorced I had him marinated for 48 hours and then breaded and deep-fried; it was at dinner that day when my family, his family, our children, and all our friends came to the stark realization that he really was a tasty dish: Git into mah belly!
"WAHHH!!!!! BOGEYMAN!!!!" . . . I was practically on the floor with that. :-D
Based on the ingredients, the steak is beef (doesn't specify what) with a breading that includes the classic assortment of preservatives and such.
Literally my favorite series I can watch these alllllll day long
I don't eat any meat, fish, chicken, eggs or drink milk but I love your channel! It's entertaining!
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The only food show I watch on CZcams -aside from BrutalFoods-
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You can make a whole dinner just out of mashed potatoes and corn mixed together with butter and salt.
Mashed potatoes and cabbage made the same way taste good too.
At this point you're going to get a heart attack from all this cheap food you are eating
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I love chicken fried steak!
wtf is chicken fried steak? haha
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My wife & I both work long hours so we rarely have the energy to cook. I actually like the Fried Chicken dinners the best. The Country Fried Steak was like eating a phone case.
I find some weird comfort in watching your videos
Looks like the second meal was left unthawed, and partially spoiled before being refrozen. This could have happened anywhere from the factory to your freezer. It has happened to me as well, and there's no describing how terrible that corn tastes. You just have to experience it to understand.
Funny how videos like this just slide into my suggesteds. I'm not complaining, these videos are great, one of the best food reviewers on CZcams right next to Report of the Week
The amount of sodium in meals like these is insane
Welcome to American junk food.
I call this palate "how to get high cholesterol in a single day."
The best part of these hungry man meals are the mash hands down.
..... oh boy
I'm glad I've only ate this once, when on sale. Never thought they'd be that bad. Glad I steered clear
I used to eat this all the time as a kid and teenager. This and the turkey hungryman. Luckily ive never got a spoiled one. They are both actually pretty good
Man that reminds of this deli I used to work near, the mash their was amazing
For anyone who is curious, there is a difference between the "country" fried steak described here and "chicken" fried steak, which I personally prefer. Basically, country fried steak has brown gravy with plain breading, and chicken fried steak has white gravy, and the breading contains egg.
You should give the oven version another shot... I can't imagine cooking it in the oven is the reason it turned out so much worse, you might have just got one that had been improperly stored or something.
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If you can find a package of it, you should try Contessa's frozen Shrimp Scampi. Btw, Love your videos! They're fun and I learn a lot about what I'm eating ;)
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Why in the hell is this enjoyable to watch.
The one you cooked in the oven may have been spoiled. Sometimes frozen food sits on the floor for hours at a grocery store until it's stocked in freezers.
Every single Hungry Man dinner comes with mashed potatoes, corn, and that same Apple dessert. It's crazy lol.
I always add butter to my taters and corn when I stir it.Peace Sweetie have a great weekend. 🇺🇸✌
Same lol
If it had a different dessert (or more corn/potatoes instead of a dessert) it'd possibly be the perfect TV dinner for me.
Having an oven version suggests a higher quality meal so they slapped that on to make the meal look better when in reality it was designed for the microwave.
Recently stumbled upon your content and i must say, Mr. Pit, you've reignited my lust CZcams. Classic, your videos are classic.
Lol! 😂"Those mashed potatoes would make a turd taste great."
Country Fried Steak is one of my favorite meals. I haven't tried making a Homemade TV Dinner using Country Fried Steak, but I will soon. Haven't had any luck freezing Mashed Potatoes, but Roasted Potatoes or a Rice side freezes good. I think the Country Gravy will hold up, because I have had good results freezing Sausage Gravy. Not sure how the breading is going to hold up, I will to do a little research before trying.
Featureman loves Hungry-Man dinners
@The Wolfe Pit The meat was kinda grayish if beef is grayish then it’s spoiled.
If corn is sour like you described then it’s spoiled
What Hungry Man should do is vacuum pack their meats and potatoes(vacuum potatoes are the next best to fresh packed) and dehydrate their corn and apple crumble for the buyer to fill water or milk to the line then heat from now on(^~^)
I love watching these videos this guy and his since of humor is hilarious.😂
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Chemical facsimile foods like this is why we have heart disease,obesity, cancer. Your a brave man Larry.
I make my own, I'm not too good at sausage gravy though ,so I get that from Gordon's food service, DELICIOUS!!!!!!
Wolfe you should try So Good BBQ made up here in northern IL. It’s bbq you put on an sandwich but it’s delicious. Comes in a jar and it’s just a heat and serve product and you’re done!
The country fried steak comes out a lot better when you bake it. Either way it is a good cheap alternative to those single guys out there living the bachelor life lol
Hey Wolfe,swissing is another term in tenderizing.I prefer using the jaccardi method.Especially if you like to get a flavorful marinade in the meat.
I never make those meals in the oven. It pretty much defeats the purpose. Corn is usually good in these type of meals, but the very best Corn out there you can buy in a store, is the Mexicorn hands down.
The nutritional facts are also my favorite part of these videos. They remind me of why I don't eat these types of foods. Thank you for doing it so I don't have to
The second dinner you ate DEFINITELY had become unfrozen, probably fully thawed and left out somewhere before being put back in the freezer section. Everything tasting "off" like that is exactly what happens when the dinners thaw out, sit, and are refrozen.
I bought and cooked this in the oven without noticing a hole in the botttom of the tray. All the gravy leaked out and the meat was dried out and basically inedible. I haven't bought it since. Hungry Man can be inconsistent except their Mexican meal which I think is pretty good.
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I'm still thinking about those thick ribs you made a few vids back.
I used to eat these when I was an intern and sharing an apartment with a roommate. They were pretty darn good.
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I have said this a lot but I just LOVE these videos, keep it up Larry!
You should try the Marie Callenders chicken fried steak dinner, it's way better than Hungry Man.
I disagree. They taste about the same. But Marie calendars has more real products so it is better
Dimeand Biggie I think the cf steak is better in the Marie Callenders ones. And i dont like that apple dessert stuff, it has propylene glycol and ethanol in it.
I fuck with their turkey mashed potato.gravy and stuffing dinners. Always cook them in the oven, they are actually pretty good. If they aren't good, you just dump shredded cheese and hot sauce on it.
Mmmmm ethanol.
Hungry-Man's Spicy Boneless Fried Chicken Patties is the best one yet, in my opinion.
Dinners like this are becoming more popular in Ireland but there usually “fresh” not frozen.. some are decent but I do be fairly cautious of them
Next try Boston Market Chicken Fried Steak, also Stouffers is really good also