My expectations were already low based on the box's physical size, but it still somehow managed to not even meet that
Are you trying to feed your family on just enchiladas?
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Family sized, if your a single parent with no kids π
Any phrasing that isn't regulated is subject to abuse by marketing.
The real term here is : Family size but you're divorced and it's not the week the kids are with you
Why call me out like this
"Family size" simply means "can serve an entire family". It doesn't mean "Can stuff 4 American bellies full". It's hard to judge the size of the box in your photo, but I can see serving one of those enchiladas per family member, along with pasta and salad or something.
Enchilada and pasta. GTFO
Then OP goes and suggests mac and cheese as a side for it, that's many levels worse.
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Fair point, but here frozen family meals in the past would have at least satisfied everyone at the table without any sides and if you wanted to go from satisfied to "stuffed full" then you could whip up a quick side of Mac and cheese or something
Itβs 300 calories per serving (4 servings per box). If youβre on a 2000 calorie diet, a meal is 500 - 700 calories, so this would be a snack or a dish that requires a side. Or eat the whole box yourself and itβs about the same as a Big Mac combo.
Well okay, maybe I wasn't clear. I agree with you that you certainly aren't getting enough nourishment for an entire family - and in fact, even if you have enough food volume for an entire family, this crap wouldn't count as nourishment anyway. And you're probably paying this box of goopy shit dollars on the pennies it cost to make.
I was just pointing out that, like most things the agro industry puts on boxes, "family size" has no legal meaning and therefore is technically correct depending on how you interpret it.
Incidentally, another thing that means jack squat on your box of dubious food is "Now with more cheese". If they started out with zero cheese (and no, the stuff with a cheesy taste used in ultra-processed food isn't legally cheese) then adding a flake or two of real cheddar makes it technically possible to say "Now with more cheese".
I wonder if it would be legal in America to print "No cyanide!" on the box to make people pick it over other stuff from the sea of frozen garbage.
I very much imagine it would be. It's the same as when they put 'gluten free' on ridiculous stuff like raw meat, packaged raw vegetables, raw nuts, and the list goes on.....
One of my personal favorites is seeing salt advertised as being non-GMO.
We just had a case here (Denmark) where 2 companies were putting a "No PFOA" labels on their frying pans. But they've been told by authorities that that's illegal, because it's misleading advertising since PFOA is illegal in EU.
Thy got off with a warning, but in case of repeat offenses they will be fined.
But USA is much different, and many "confuse the consumer" strategies do not seem to be generally illegal "over there".
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here frozen family meals in the past would have at least satisfied everyone at the table without any sides
American in his fifties here. No idea what youβre talking about. Family size has only ever meant βlarger pack.β It has never meant βcomplete on its own with nothing accompanying it.β
A family size meal should have enough to at least be the entree for four people. With enchiladas that means two per person, not one. It's a corn tortilla with stuff rolled in it, barely larger than a taquito, you need two for it to not look like a depression meal (we're already cooking frozen enchiladas, we're there already, it doesn't need to be rubbed in).
I've noticed that sizes are shifting. Party size is now what used to be family size and can actually feed four, sometimes it's called mega family size or some bullshit. Family size now means two adults and maybe a child <10 yrs. I remember a family size lasagna had leftovers when I was a kid.
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How do you translate "cheesy queso"? ...queso quesoso?
I guess they write it like that because queso means nothing legally, and cheesy means "almost like cheese" to confuse customers while selling fake cheese.
Queso caseoso I think
It looks like each enchilada +cheese sauce is like 500+ calories (I would bet closer to 700). All it needs is a small side to make a meal.
"Family Size" has no meaning anymore
Never did.
It means more calories than we can justify for a meal in a 2000 calorie day.
Family of one
There's 4 items in that package...wtf are u all talking about.
Somebody get this guy 4 grains of rice so he can feed his family!
But it has more cheese
I'm afraid to ask how little it had before, because the amount i see are rookie numbers.
It's got what families crave.
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For my family of three, Iβve had to start buying βparty sizeβ of too many things.
Family size cereal is ok though, since Iβm the only one who eats it
My expections would be extremely low based on the brand. The less in the box might be a good thing.
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If one must emphasize that the cheso is indeed cheesy, I would be suspicious.
"Cheesy queso" is there for a very specific reason: they can't legally put "cheese" on the box because that has a legal definition, and there must be a minimum percentage of cheese in the product for the box to legally bear the word "cheese".
"Cheesy queso" has no legal definition. So even if the product only has 0.1% cheese in it - or no cheese at all - it's not illegal to write "cheesy queso".
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Family size - probably as an intermediate course between the soup and the main course.
Out of curiosity: how much does it weight?
Family of mice
Well, you are supposed to eat them with rice or some other side
Gnomes have families too
What is this? A family size for ants???
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