23 Horrifying Foods From The Dollar Store
Mmm, “potted meat!”
1. “Beer Bread” - just add beer and butter!
Larry The Cable Guy is ALWAYS a trustworthy food endorsement.
2. Entire breakfasts
What better way to start your day than with $1 scrambled eggs with hash browns and pork sausage links? Major DEAL.
3. Chunk Ham
4. Fish and cheese sandwich
Would definitely try the controversial fish ‘n’ cheese pairing in frozen sandwich form.
5. Cocktail Smoked Oysters
Solid seafood is hard to come by in suburban Utah, where this dollar store is located. Would try this in times of seafood need.
6. Lobster spread with cognac
Recession special fine dining. Would try this in times of major self-loathing.
7. …and shrimp spread, from the same illustrious folks
8. Wyler’s Authentic Italian Ices
Wyler: definitely an authentic Italian name. Would try because Otter Pops are awesome.
9. Nacho cheese
Big tub of bright orange, questionable cheese - I’m actually pretty sure I’d enjoy this.
10. Potted Meat
I actually did try this one. Didn’t get through the entire can without feeling violently ill, but willing to give it another shot.
11. Chicken-flavored snack crackers
Try with nacho cheese or lobster cognac spread.
12. All natural french fried onions
I don’t know what this means. This product confuses me.
14. Sugar free parfaits
15. Luncheon Loaf
For a ‘fitting lifestyle,’ of course. Would try because BACON GRILL.
16. Beef flavored rice/vermicelli mix
Vermicelli does not appear to be pictured. Would try this to figure out where the vermicelli is.
17. Frozen packs of chicken drumsticks
18. Frozen pork filets, right next door
19. Vienna Sausage, from the people who brought you “Potted Meat”
20. Brown gravy mix, by “Chef Swagger’s Kitchen”
This looks very promising - who could resist the charms of Chef Swagger?
21. Canned German potato salad
23. Pre-packaged cheeseburgers
Seems like a better bet than cheeseburger in a can, which also exists. Would try.
And conveniently right next to the food aisles, you can pick up industrial cleaners for your engine!
Appetizing.
All photos taken in an Orem, UT Dollar Tree.
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toastytit 4 months agoI wouldn’t call this elitist, but more misinformed… or naive? At least that’s my view point as someone who grew up in a poorer household. I mean, I remember kids trying to steal the Vienna Sausages moms packed in my lunchbox! I still make bi-monthly trips to the local dollar tree here for whole grain bread, pumpkin seeds, dried veggie chips and other actually healthy snacks. All of which are three to four times more expensive at other stores. But I’m guessing Angela skipped over these things as her goal was to photograph only the most ickiest? Also I have to agree with an earlier poster, if you haven’t had green bean casserole your life is severely lacking.
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jenomalleyd 4 months agoOur general rule for dollar store food is that if the picture on the box can’t even make it look good, then we leave it on the shelf. That being said, the canned German potato salad isn’t half bad.
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rawr 4 months agoHow are these “horrifying”? You can actually find a lot of these foods in grocery stores, they’re just slightly more expensive. I’ve seen those frozen burgers at Walgreens for at least $3. Just because it’s discounted doesn’t mean it’s bad–I’d actually like to try beer bread. What is the point of this post? How about renaming it to “Cool cheap stuff from the dollar store”? Ugh. Get over yourself.
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polkashow 4 months ago
Yes, laugh at the “poor folks foods!” OMG! If only they would embrace lentils, lentils, lentils, and eggs! (preferably cage free and Omega-3 enriched, locally sourced and bartered for a little freelance Mason Jar sorting or some other completely worthwhile skill), and lentils, and you know, for goodness sake, take a trip to the farmer’s market, poors! FYI, elitist, not everyone has “food cooperatives” and even if they do, PERHAPS THEY ENJOY ARMOUR POTTED MEATS. I would eat boxed beer bread every day until I died if it saved me from a fate such as, oh, I don’t know, being reincarnated as an insufferable-cunt-cum-Buzzfeed-editor.
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Kyle Hayward 4 months agoHmm, seems like a lot of us are getting our comments deleted for calling out Angela Wang for being insensitive and elitist.
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zcesb11 4 months agoHalf this stuff looks ok (the beer batter is something you could do MUCH cheaper if you just made your own batter and added beer- it’s actually the hallmark of ‘posh’ fried fish in the UK!) but some of it looks GRIM. Mostly the premade burgers etc, which I know you can get from the supermarket but its a false economy and it won’t be fresh! To those saying this is elitist as poor people shop there- WOW that’s prejudiced. Most everyone I know shops at the pound shop including those on higher incomes- everyone loves a bargain! Also the idea that this food is for people who can’t afford the name brand stuff- it would work out FAR cheaper to buy and freeze the raw ingredients for a lot of the meat things and make from scratch, a lot of the stuff in these places is as I said a false economy (over here the name brand goods tend to come in smaller packets which mean you pay more per 100g). And the tinned shellfish upsets me! I think cause it looks like cat food?!
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kimberlyp3 4 months agoThe vermicelli is in that, its basically ricearoni the longer skinny bits are pasta, also if you have never had fried onions on a green bean or tuna casserole your childhood was sad, and your parents, rich snobs. A lot of these are questionable but to be fair dollar stores have a lot of name brand items that are simply past their shelf code at major food stores, then the major food companies sell them to dollar stores so they do not loose out on $, I worked at one of the largest food pantries in the country and I would recommended a lot of dollar store products to those in low income situations.
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corbyk 4 months agoThe only thing remotely horrifying was the Larry the Cable Guy stuff. Everything else is relatively run of the mill and located in pretty much any grocery store (I actually saw the Larry the Cable Guy products in Walmart the other day. I don’t think any explanation is necessary there.) I’m just curious what rock the author’s been living under that has kept them from fried onions (have they never had green bean casserole?) and chicken and dumplings. Is that just a southern thing?
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newwavetiff 4 months agoI’m confused by how you think these things are ‘horrifying’. Growing up in a house of 6 people, most of the stuff is all we had to eat.
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Emily G. 4 months agoThis is where a lot of people get half their groceries. Think about that. All those icky foods…go to people who can’t afford anything quality or nutritious. It sucks when you have to eat Ramen, Bar S hotdogs, and off brand hamburger helper because you’re too poor to afford the real thing
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stephaniee4 4 months agoOh. You must be the “1%” who only eats name brand food from overpriced grocery stores, huh.
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hangarcat 4 months agoJust because you’re poor it doesn’t mean you can find some of this crap disgusting… Disappointed I didn’t see Simply Beef, which is precooked ground beef (yum!) or that mexican staple, hominy.. my po’ folk food store had an entire section dedicated to spanish people food, and there ain’t that many of us up here in Canada. But seriously, rice is cheap, beans are cheap and fresh veggies are cheap, no need to buy tubs of plastic cheese to save money. There’s being poor and then there’s eating poorly.
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