People laughing and making fun but I remember my family being so poor as a child that there were times when we would eat burgers pretty similar to those. I don't hate them, they kept us fed.
Fuzzy Ewok people knock these things but they do a fair amount for people who are looking for both shelf stable and cheap food. It's not the healthiest food in the world but it's food nonetheless.
Fuzzy Ewok same here. My mom was a janitor so I stayed at her school until she got off at 11, and we stopped by Jack to get a $1 jumbo Jack for dinner.
When you’re poor these things are so heavenly, I grew up poor and would get sooooo excited to see these little dollar burgers in the freezer. Sometimes I’ll buy them for nostalgia and still enjoy them hahah
ikr??? my father always bought to me when i was a child, when you're poor things like this are like a mcdonalds heaven haha, i still eat sometimes as nostalgia
GhostPoison. Lol. Until recently, I used to get frozen White Castle jalapeño burgers at my local dollar store, but they stopped selling them and replaced them with these! I'm pissed, but I'm a subscriber to Emmy's channel and this review happen to pop up...then i saw your comment and the rest is history. 😂 I agree with both you and Nathan Barraza. 😂
Listen, there was a time when my kids we're little,my husband lost his job&things were tight! Items like this get you by. It'll taste like a gourmet meal when ur starving
Emmy, I love how polite you are with your reviews even if you don't like something. You comment on flavors rather than saying something is gross or bad. I like how you always try to find the good in a food even if it's awful. These little sandwiches are not just a Dollar Tree thing. I've seen them at grocery store chains as well. My son actually really likes the little sliders. He says they are better than the full size burger. I don't know. I'm not a fan of either one! The bbq rib sandwich is good though. Add a little pickle and chopped onion and it's exactly like a McRib. The veggie burger texture is likely because one of the main proteins in these burgers (along with beef) is TVP. A common veggie burger ingredient, which I'm sure you know. Thanks for your reviews. They are fun to watch and very informative!
i would love a series from you emmy where you take these less than stellar food items and make them good! i sure a lot of broke people (like myself) would really love that!
I think this is a great idea. I'm famous among my friends for my Cajun tuna ramen noodles, which I make from Indo Mie ramen noodles & a small can of tuna fried up with the spice & sauce packets. Dirt cheap, & very tasty.
Supermarket burgers are really not bad if you know how to prepare them. Toaster ovening the buns, microwaving the patty & cheese, adding some ketchup & tomato and maybe some pickle and it's really comparable to restaurant burgers!
You have to choose the right brands. I wouldnt say even the good ones are anything like restaurant quality but theyre decent. Something like rustlers is quite good especially if you put a little effort into them like you say.
I actually really like these sandwiches. When your very poor like my family and I then the sandwiches are a God send. I also just really like them I ate the last one we had yesterday :)
Although they are cheap and good, growing your own plants and herbs, couponing, hassling in farmer's markets, and buying fresh meat would be better in the long run budget wise and health wise. These burgers are okay but even if poor it'd be better to only eat these in emergencies. Also, if you're old enough, working at a grocery could grant you benefits, you could get discounts on stores and get free stuff and also earn money to help your family; basically working at any food place will grant you these benefits, I know that working at a Starbucks could get you a 2lb bag of coffee beans for free every week + health insurance. Also, by fresh meat, I mean at trustworthy places, Walmart and other chain stores sell very cheap "fresh" meat, the problem is that they're full of fillers and are bad for your health, so if you buy from them don't get that horrible meat and get the slightly more expensive meat, but buying at a butcher is definitely better.
I am 30 I know what your saying, but when I cant work health wise and 3 of us are living off of 750 a month. Food is a luxury bills come first. We do buy meats from a butcher as well. We cant have a garden were we live.
I go into fast food stops and order a cheap order every couple weeks, and when I am waiting on the order, I'll take about 10 of each packet and fill my cupboards up. I have never had to buy any condiments at the store, and never had any bottles mold in my fridge and go to waste either.
these are often dinner for me, i appreciate her explaining it with respect. for a dollar, it's not bad. people often describe dollar store food that i have to eat like its the worst food they've ever tasted, it's embarrassing for me.
bruceownsu you’re honestly so annoying. Just shut up. If they enjoy it, let them enjoy it. Just because they like microwaveable foods doesn’t mean they’re “lazy fucks.” You’re a RUDE FUCK
Eating most food from a dollar store is pretty brave, but meat from a dollar store is really going above and beyond. Although, it sounded like the cheeseburger was more likely a soy burger, like the ones that pass for hamburgers in a lot of school cafeterias.
John Maloney frozen food: I'm not that brave. Dollar Tree has some okay stuff like rice, dry beans, jam from Poland or Egypt, quarts of shelf-stable milk -- all reasonably priced at $1 and in my experience of good quality. Some canned goods are fine, some not worth eating, some scary.. Occasionally there are closeouts of past-season things (after-Halloween big boxes of Count Chocula cereal), or things with 6 weeks until expiration (48-ounce brand-name mayonnaise). Usually a boring place but always with a chance for good or bad surprises.
John Maloney sometimes the quality isn't the best, but sometimes they are just close to going out of date. These sandwiches for instance. They are sold in all kinds of places. I've purchased them from Walmart. Watch ingredients and expiration dates and there's no difference.
I usually love expensive food that are sold at cheap price due to its near expiration date. I don't really mind about the expiration date unless the food sold it sealed properly since it starts expiring when you open it.
As someone living outside of the US, I just find it fascinating that boxed burgers that only need microwaving and cost only a dollar is fascinating. The taste is to be expected, but it is quite convenient nonetheless
In my travelling daze, I ate many a gas station burger. Some were okay, some far less so. I never got food poisoning, but I had the proverbial "cast iron stomach". Not so much nowadays.
Here is a good tip for you when microwaving sandwiches like that in the microwave add a glass of water to put in the back of the microwave it will provide the moisture for the bread so yeah it'll turn out good
We've used these sandwiches in my family plenty of times. They do make for a quick and cheap meal if you're on a quick schedule and a tight budget. Of course, you do sacrifice health and flavor with anything like this, but I agree, they're not bad! I'm partial to chicken sandwiches, myself, so I always went for the breaded chicken sandwiches. To avoid the dryness after microwaving, I'd use a toaster oven instead. I know not everyone has access to one (as my family didn't for many years) but it definitely helps! The bun doesn't lose it's moisture and the chicken gains that crispness that it loses in the microwave. Although! I did have access to a deep fryer once so I tried deep frying the patty and of course that tasted a lot better! Obviously, that's not exactly an option for the burger patties. Haha!
I see these burgers at my dollar store all the time. I actually really like the rib sandwich one. I remove the patty from the bun, throw the bun in the toaster, and the patty in the microwave, then add a little pickle. Make no mistake, it's trash food, but the kind of satisfying trash you just crave sometimes. haha
Everyone is literally starting with “when you’re poor.....” I’ve seen ppl who have money eat this. You don’t have to be poor to eat it. It was a quick meal. Fast and easy. They even sell these at the grocery store I use to work at for only a dollar and a lot of ppl ate and bought these because it was convenient
Prince Mason it’s an easy lunch for a mom with kids. That’s why I’ve seen people buy it because they just let their kids eat it. Pop it in the microwave and it’s done
People with money will not touch these because they are vapid, superficial, and shallow as a person and they would not be seen dead buying cheap food, so they purposely buy $15-$20 slabs of 4-5 burgers constantly and cook those.
@@MrWolfSnackYou're making some pretty unfair assumptions. Sure there are people with a lot of money that are vapid, egotistical and stuck up, but definitely not _all_ of them. And there are definitely people with a lot of money that wouldn't have a problem buying something like this.
The burgers I see in corporate vending machines (IBM here) are definitely expensive, but of higher quality than this. There's a LOT of fat in these cheapies, more actual meat in the other kinds.
I remember buying sh like roast beef sandwiches through vending machines at a factory I used to work at. I actually saw the colors of the glistening chemicals in it. It looked rainbow ish. Never again.
MegUp86 uneducated backwoods moron i see, using "them" instead of "those".. i'll bet you hate college graduates and "foreigners" who don't speak "american english" too...
I love how she's not opposed to trying things like this. Some other RU-vidrs or people even I feel act like they're "too good" to try dollar store foods etc.
Your burger looked a whole lot better than mine did coming out of the microwave!!! You got it right, 'veggie' burger texture from the TVP! I tried their chicken biscuit and it had a surprisingly good 'flavor', but still that funky mushy texture!! Good review Emmy!
@@kevinpearson3820 everybody does. kevin. must of been real lonely and dark under that rock you've been living in. do u know that "bro" is a things as well? serious! Google it!
I've eaten those before (I've been very poor before) and the best way to heat them up is NOT the microwave. Personally I take it all apart and put the meat in a skillet and buns in the oven. When the patty is hot I put the cheese on it to melt it then get the buns out. I put pickles and mustard on mine.
@@aena5995 It's not so much that it's ACTUALLY cheaper. It's usually not. But these processed foods are cheap UPFRONT ($1-2 for a meal!) and are very convenient. When you're working 8h a day 5 days a week, MINIMUM, you don't want to come home and cook for 30m. You don't want to go to the grocery store for an 1h. You don't want to do these things, and some people CAN'T (kids, multiple jobs, going to school and working, etc.) And cooking meals has such a high upfront cost. You'd have to buy a pound of ground beef, a 8 pack of buns, and a pack of cheese. It'd cost about $7-$10. And while you won't use all of it to make one burger, that doesn't help if you're too poor to pay the upfront cost in the first place.
@@DearLilBunBun no eating healthy doesn't have to be expensive meat items are usually more expensive if u buy local vegetables and beans grains rice it will not be expensive at all especially since a a huge bag of rice or beans legumes will last a longggg time and if u buy local vegetables not from the grocery but from those weekend vegetable shops it's not that hard health is wealth bro
I've had the cheeseburger before and it's not terrible but it's also not very good. Reminds me a lot like the burgers they would serve for public school lunches in America. So if you enjoyed those burgers and wish you had a way to eat them any time you want, I have some really great news for you!
I ate the cheese burger one and it was SO GOOD but the bad part is the back of the burger is like hard and cooked(i couldn’t even chew it) but i warmed it up the exact time
They're sold in grocery stores too. i wouldn't write these sandwiches off that quick. good, fast, cheap, sometimes you don't get all three. the chicken and beef ones, dressed up with some BBQ sauce and bacon, if available, they're decent sandwiches for cheap. walmart sells a dolled up, better version (imo) of this for about $5 for two burgers, two patties each.
I agree. I really like the Great Value frozen bacon cheeseburgers. I actually tried name-branded frozen burgers because they left such a good impression, but the name-branded ones cooked less well, didn't taste as good, and had a squishier texture. So, I went right back to Great Value.
Being single I'll admit I've had a few of these Cheeseburgers before... OK.. Lots of them! But I really don't care for the chicken much and the fish was disgusting. Enough about the food... Lol, I really came for my daily dose of joy I get from seeing Emmy! 😋
these chicken sandwichs saved my life when i worked a joann fabric with no grocery store nearby and no car. the dollar store next door became my go to for lunch hour.
fred fuchs my parents actually knew a lady who was legitimately terrified of mayo. she couldn't be near it without having an anxiety attack or anything.
fred fuchs Well, I knew somebody who was terrified of hot sauce and mortified of it, which is understandable because some can't handle spicy food because of their DNA.
I love that you have an actual real take on these foods. Any other RU-vidr would make a dramatic over the top reaction for the sake of cheap comic relief and views. Thank you for being honest to the best of your ability.
It’s 7/1/2020 and I’ve JUST discovered this cheeseburger in Dollar General!! I actually love them with ketchup & mayo. Cheap, convenient and not humongous.
i ate the chicken sandwiches all the time when i lived in my dorm!! i kept a little honey on hand and would put it and a little mayo on the top bun and it made it taste so much better than the usual boring ole chicken
When I was homless struggling i bought 2 of them, one for lunch and one for dinner, most 7-11 have microwaves :) and condiments not to mention 1$ large drinks, I used to make all kinds of dinners like spaghetti with ramen and tomato paste with 1$ frozen meat balls, owning a large mug from the thrift store is always helpful ❤️ I'm doing way better in life now tho but I'll never forget the struggle and will be able to survive if need be 🙃
You know what's worse? Frozen White Castle burgers in the Walgreens snack freezer. White Castles are barely edible when fresh, though my friends and I used to have to be totally sloshed and need a road trip for munchies in order to eat the damned things. We'd have to drive almost an hour to Springfield to find a White Castle -- there was a 24 hour one there. We only had a Dairy Queen Brazier in the town where I went to college. Eventually they got a KFC, which helped for a while, but we'd get dressed up like we were going to a fancy restaurant and drive to the nearest town with a McDonald's just to make the people stare at us. When we finally got a McDonald's in the college town, it was like manna from heaven compared to the other fast food. The dining hall food was okay, but tiresome. The student center snack bar was edible, but you can only live for so long on microwave ham and cheese on rye and toaster-oven baked Pizza Boats. Though they eventually got a real pizza oven and a regular supply of Red Baron frozen pizzas, and I ate way too many of them because they were cheaper than going into town for a real pizza. But those 3AM drunken White Castles were the worst. It was just the craving for salt, grease, and those nasty grill onions that we wanted when we were six sheets to the wind on Mad Dog or something.
I'm frequently loquacious. If I wanted to be limited to short posts, I'd be on Twitter, not G+. I struggle to keep my _sentences_ fewer than 140 characters! Seriously, though, that was two reasonable paragraphs, a short paragraph, and a sentence. It would BARELY count as a typical three-paragraph essay suitable for a freshman-level composition class. I'm a writer and cartoonist, among other things, and if it weren't for the complications from a broken neck 10 years ago, I'd be writing FAR more than that piddly post.
The Cheese Burgers are pretty good. I keep some in the freezer for emergency lunch or dinner. Nuke, add a little salt and a lot of barbecue sauce. Tasty and filling. They don't have $1 burgers at any fast food in my area anymore. These make a great substitute.
I often think that I had a pretty poor upbringing, but then I see ppl in the comments saying that the stuff in Emmy's $1 videos was like a treat for them growing up and I really appreciate my childhood.
When I was a teen working in retail, the store I worked at sold these for $1.99 ( not a $1 store). The trick to not having a dry bun was to ignore the step that says to open the package before you put it in the microwave & have ketchup & mustard on hand!
I found your channel a few days ago and I’ve been binging ever since! My mom used to get me these for lunch when it’s all we could afford and sometimes I miss them from nostalgia 😫😂 this was sweet thank you
Some people have an aversion to mayo? I've only tried a smiliar product to these once in my life, it's glorified cardboard. For cheap and fast, I take instant korean ramyun any day ^^
The beef patty is actually made from beef. The tendons, cartridge, tongue, fat and mechanically separated meat from bone. Same as the chicken and fish. Fish bones can be cooked till soft in brine. Some cheap obscure canned tuna cans are mostly a blend of minced tuna including bone. These products can and usually contain textured soy protein.
