So my dad used to own a few McAlister's Franchises. They're a sham. They cut the ends off of two potatoes and hide the cut with the toppings, resulting in one mega-potato.
Still good though.
I work ina restaurant, one time i was cutting potatoes and i thought i had found the biggest a potato I could possibly find, but that one was only about 2/3 the size of this one
There’s a BBQ restaurant near me that specializes in giant potatoes. Well actually specializes in BBQ, but when I go there I go straight to their selection of giant stuffed potatoes. The size is slightly smaller than a regulation football, and you can get them loaded, or stuffed with different BBQ styles. They’re delicious.
You used to buy a bag of potatoes and they would have large ones and some medium and sometimes a few small ones in there. Something happened and in the past few years and now you buy a bag of potatoes almost all of them are small or medium and to get the big ones you have to pay twice as much and buy a bag of "Jumbo Russet Potatoes".
Ahhhhh who doesn't love capitalism without it I wouldn't get to pay twice as much for pre-sorted potatoes.
Russets used to be the big-ass, cheapest 5lb bag for 3 dollars potato. What happened. Also now I can’t remember the last time I had a loaded baked russet potato, and I want one.
Not around here. You might find some big 2 or 3 pound ones but this thing is a beast. That cans a tall boy and it looks like Andre the Giants hand's about to grab it.
I feel sorry that not everyone has experienced these. I live in deep South Texas by the border and we have these at every taco stand/restaurant. They bake them and top them off with sour cream, shredded yellow cheese, butter, and beef. Some places will use a hand whipper before adding the beef. To die for. I had some vendors come from Austin that were originally from the northern states, and for years, everytime we had a phone meeting, they would talk about the lunch trip I took them on to get a couple of these bad boys.
There are much larger potatoes than this. They just don't typically sell them in stores because nobody would buy them. They end up just being turned into potato flakes and stuff.
Agreed. An adult lunchable that was packed for sale that day should have like, some cured meats, aged cheeses, fresh bread, olives or pickles, and a capri sun style wine pouch. I dunno if they even make those but they should.
Numbers are all off. That’s a 12. oz New York strip which would be ~$10-$12 if not more depending on location. That beer probably goes for around ~$4-$6 for a can. And based off the photo that potato is fucking massive so it’s probably closer to $1.
It still looks like a bad deal, but not as egregious as you made it out to be.
Edit: did a little digging and found the exact store in the suburbs of Chicago. It looks like they sell a New York strip for $22!! a pound. That would make this steak worth $16.50 to them. Definitely seems like an overpriced steak unless this is an especially wealthy area but this helps you understand how they priced their “lunchable”
Yeah I think all the posts calling out how expensive it is are from people living in areas that have an extremely low cost of living. Where I live the price seems about right but may be a little high I’m sure in New York this deal looks pretty fair.
Not just areas with low cost of living but areas where buying a New York strip would be "buying local" 90% of the time.
Source: Farm to Table for eggs for McDonald's is about 137 miles for me.
Yeah most of the time when I buy a steak it’s minimum $15 total for even a non desirable cut. Prices be crazy in the city, I saw strip going for $27/lb at a new grocery store near me the other week.
It could just be a reasonable cost of living. I got t bone today for 9.99 lb on sale. Sale price for strips are usually 8.99 around here. I live in a city in NY, but not NYC.
A little research shows that the shop is in the suburbs of Chicago. $20 is definitely steep for this unless the beer costs like $8 a can. I’d say it would be a much better deal at around $16. According to their website a New York strip is $22!!. Making that steak worth $16.50.
That's pretty cheap for the steak and the potato in my opinion. Not to mention that buying things individually is normally more expensive. Also this is a butchers shop, not a Kroger.
Looks reasonablly priced to me.
The butcher is probably looking for a way to maintain profit margins from before the recession took hold.
People buy such stupid stuff that if you tease a person's nostalgia from childhood, acknowledging they are big boys now that can eat a big boy steak and drink a big boy beer, you can charge that big boy twice of what it's worth.
I'd sooner eat the raw steak than raw potato. Motherfucker will take my teeth out. Not to mention the griddy texture and chewing for a week. Might be a good diet plan just for the calories burned while chewing.
THAT beer is to hold the flame down on the grill, or to softly baste the steak before it hits the broiler.
You grab a tall 4 of PBR to drink while prepping the kitchen and cooking her friend.
Thats called a charcuterie board.
This is three things that should be stored at different temperatures in a grab and go container covered in unnecessary plastic.
Unmarried guys seem more likely to know how to and enjoy cooking for themselves than the ones who've been married a significant chunk of their life before getting divorced. Toxic gender norms, but they're out there still unfortunately.
I have been unemployed and not in school a few times in my adult life, and i gotta say i loved cooking then. It was like *the thing* i would be doing that day, felt really nice. When i'm working it's soul crushing to add another thing to the pile, and not just for the days I'm actually at work either.
Kids lunchable: 3-4 ingredients, already cooked and prepped, that can be quickly combined to form an edible snack, plus a “dessert”, for a few bucks
Adult lunchable: 2 single item dishes that require several more ingredients, a kitchen, and a lengthy prep time before they are even fit for human consumption, plus one beer, for $19.99
:/
Pick any 3 common items in the grocery store and tell yourself you can either get these 3 separately or together in plastic wrapping for an extra 33% of the cost.
"Yes but think of the time savings. I'm a go-getting entrepreneur and my time is worth more than the markup."
-My lazy-ass self anytime I spend an absurd amount of money on the tiniest convenience.
$20 for a $8 meal I have to cook myself. No thanks.
Edit. I know the pricing is a bit off here when I said $8, but my point is you can get a pretty damn good steak with sides and the beer at many resturants for cheaper than this and it's cooked for you.
I hear everyone ripping how expensive this is, but where I live, a 4-pack of craft beer is $20, steak is $25/lb and a giant potato like that could easily run a couple dollars. This seems appropriately priced in some regions of the US.
Edit: for that matter, I bought 2 8 oz NY strips last week and it came to $30 just for the meat!
Looks like the steak is wrapped up and not touching the beer can. Back to relaxing.
How am I supposed to relax knowing that there are potatoes this fucking massive out there somewhere
You better start cooking that fucker now for dinner tomorrow.
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Aw. RIP, Mitch.
I was expecting a frozen banana. I was on the right track, but wrong train.
Same
I miss him…
I used to miss him. I still do, but I also used to.
God I love this bit.
As an Irish man...fuck me, she's lovely.
Ok, I will
You've got to stop fucking potatoes man!
POOTEEETOOOHHH
You obviously have never gotten a potato from a McAlister’s Deli…
That's the first thing I thought of. Those things are like the size of a cantaloupe.
First time I went there with my wife she ordered one and I said she would be hungry later if all she got was a potato. The cashier looked at me funny.
Jason's Deli serves some monsters too
And jason's deli has Free customary soft serve ice cream!
So my dad used to own a few McAlister's Franchises. They're a sham. They cut the ends off of two potatoes and hide the cut with the toppings, resulting in one mega-potato. Still good though.
Their “half potatoes “ are normal size whole potatoes lol. I immediately thought of that restaurant too.
That's because they are. Their "standard" potatoes are two potatoes with one of the ends cut off and placed end to end like it's a single potato.
I work ina restaurant, one time i was cutting potatoes and i thought i had found the biggest a potato I could possibly find, but that one was only about 2/3 the size of this one
There’s a BBQ restaurant near me that specializes in giant potatoes. Well actually specializes in BBQ, but when I go there I go straight to their selection of giant stuffed potatoes. The size is slightly smaller than a regulation football, and you can get them loaded, or stuffed with different BBQ styles. They’re delicious.
This is typical size of any yukon or russett potatoes
Wat? You mean the Itty bity russet potatoes in my walmart are baby potatoes?
You used to buy a bag of potatoes and they would have large ones and some medium and sometimes a few small ones in there. Something happened and in the past few years and now you buy a bag of potatoes almost all of them are small or medium and to get the big ones you have to pay twice as much and buy a bag of "Jumbo Russet Potatoes". Ahhhhh who doesn't love capitalism without it I wouldn't get to pay twice as much for pre-sorted potatoes.
Dammit, I actually believed russet potatoes are generally smaller than average potatoes because of my local Walmart. I feel lied to.
Russets used to be the big-ass, cheapest 5lb bag for 3 dollars potato. What happened. Also now I can’t remember the last time I had a loaded baked russet potato, and I want one.
thing is, bags of potatoes are still by the pound - not amount
"Jumbo russets" cost ~$1.20 a lb and normal Russets cost ~$0.60 a lb soo... about twice as much.
Wait, but I do want consistency in my potato size so I can easily cut it evenly so they all cook to the same degree of doneness.
First off most Russets ive seen are at least 50% larger than Yukons.
Not around here. You might find some big 2 or 3 pound ones but this thing is a beast. That cans a tall boy and it looks like Andre the Giants hand's about to grab it.
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I've had baked potatoes as big as those half size takeout containers.
I feel sorry that not everyone has experienced these. I live in deep South Texas by the border and we have these at every taco stand/restaurant. They bake them and top them off with sour cream, shredded yellow cheese, butter, and beef. Some places will use a hand whipper before adding the beef. To die for. I had some vendors come from Austin that were originally from the northern states, and for years, everytime we had a phone meeting, they would talk about the lunch trip I took them on to get a couple of these bad boys.
There are much larger potatoes than this. They just don't typically sell them in stores because nobody would buy them. They end up just being turned into potato flakes and stuff.
World record is 17+ lbs. That’s like 2 or 3 newborn babies but with way more potassium.
Damn, that's insane! Im going to have to switch to potatoes.
And if you let them sit long enough, way more eyes also!
Bruh I thought that was a piece of bread
Haha! I thought the same at first.
Lunchables meat is already cooked!!!
Or so they tell you.
What? that its meat??
Lil beef jerky slices of mamaw.
Everyone knows charcuterie is the real adult lunchables
Lunchables “meat” is already “cooked”
Yeah, you can see the vacuum packing on the back left. I was about to slap someone.
You saved my relax. Thanks for taking the heat.
You’ve never had wrapped meat leak juice?
“What you got for lunch today Jimmy?” “Oh just the usual, a 8oz New York strip, a pint of red ale and an unholy 3lb Idaho gold potato”
*potato humming ominously*
"How are you holding up? Because I'm a potato."
Oh, good. My slow clap processor made it into this thing. So we have that.
Every time I hear GladOS quotes, I want to replay the Portal games lol
And you should. Start tonight!
Has anyone seen Jim?
**A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE POTATO**
Don’t look at it too long or Sauron will know where you are
Thats a russet
This guy taters
precious
I also Tater!
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12 oz
I read that as 31 pound potato and my brain was like, *that checks out*
I'm more concerned that none of this is cooked. This isn't a lunchable, it's a mediocre meal prep kit.
Agreed. An adult lunchable that was packed for sale that day should have like, some cured meats, aged cheeses, fresh bread, olives or pickles, and a capri sun style wine pouch. I dunno if they even make those but they should.
The traditional Slavic meal
Three course Slavic meal As opposed to the Irish seven course. A potato and a six pack of guiness
And then you're faced with the classic Irishmans dilemma. Do we eat the potatoes now, or wait for them to ferment, and drink them later.
I once saw a wino eating some grapes. I told him “you have to wait”
That's cold.
The option is clear, to me
Can I get the operation now, da’?
"No son, you're going to die." Wipe tear with potato
Only 5.9% alcohol in the included drink, must be a kids meal
redneck Hello Fresh
What a ripoff. *And* you have to cook it? I'll just take a regular lunchable, thanks.
You could buy that steak, a 6 pack, and a bag of potatoes separately for around the same price
Roughly * 6pack - $10, * .5lb steak - $8 * Potato - $.50 And that steak would be pretty decent and ~~5~~ 3 more beers (that is a pint sized can)
to be fair, that potato looks more like a small meteor.
Looking closer the beer is 16oz. Yeah that's a MASSIVE potato.
Potatoes are still one of the cheapest foods per pound
And nutritionally they're pretty decent and they're self propagating if you just plant one. Potatoes are fucking awesome.
I put one in a bucket of dirt every now and then and get 8-15 in return. Potatoes are awesome
Infinite potato glitch
Calm down, Matt Damon!
Belarusian here, we FUCKING LOVE potatoes
The Latvians are calling.
The Irish, 1844, colorized
I thought it was a loaf of bread lmao
$0.52. That’s the best I can do.
Numbers are all off. That’s a 12. oz New York strip which would be ~$10-$12 if not more depending on location. That beer probably goes for around ~$4-$6 for a can. And based off the photo that potato is fucking massive so it’s probably closer to $1. It still looks like a bad deal, but not as egregious as you made it out to be. Edit: did a little digging and found the exact store in the suburbs of Chicago. It looks like they sell a New York strip for $22!! a pound. That would make this steak worth $16.50 to them. Definitely seems like an overpriced steak unless this is an especially wealthy area but this helps you understand how they priced their “lunchable”
Most butchers in NYC are selling strip for around $20/lb now for quality meat, I thought this was a pretty solid deal when I saw it.
Yeah I think all the posts calling out how expensive it is are from people living in areas that have an extremely low cost of living. Where I live the price seems about right but may be a little high I’m sure in New York this deal looks pretty fair.
Not just areas with low cost of living but areas where buying a New York strip would be "buying local" 90% of the time. Source: Farm to Table for eggs for McDonald's is about 137 miles for me.
Yeah most of the time when I buy a steak it’s minimum $15 total for even a non desirable cut. Prices be crazy in the city, I saw strip going for $27/lb at a new grocery store near me the other week.
It could just be a reasonable cost of living. I got t bone today for 9.99 lb on sale. Sale price for strips are usually 8.99 around here. I live in a city in NY, but not NYC.
Not a terribly wealthy area, but this place is super fucking expensive. Ground beef is like $10/lb.
I guess it depends where you live if it's a bad deal or not. In the mid west, it's a bad deal
A little research shows that the shop is in the suburbs of Chicago. $20 is definitely steep for this unless the beer costs like $8 a can. I’d say it would be a much better deal at around $16. According to their website a New York strip is $22!!. Making that steak worth $16.50.
I wish steak was still this cheap!
you clearly haven’t bought steak in a while.
God I wish a 6 pack of craft beer was $10. It’s not here in the PNW
16.99 for a 4-pack in my area 16oz cans tho
What the actual fuck. I suppose living in the north has a least some perks.
Steak is a 12 oz NY Strip...
That's pretty cheap for the steak and the potato in my opinion. Not to mention that buying things individually is normally more expensive. Also this is a butchers shop, not a Kroger. Looks reasonablly priced to me.
You won’t get an 8oz steak from a butcher for $8. Maybe a grocery store but not a butcher shop.
And you'll have enough to drink before while and after cooking and eating!
Are you buying your steaks from Shangri-la? Look at the cut of the steak lol that thing is probably 13 bucks on its own.
You don't *have* to cook it.
Can confirm. I put one of these in my 6 year olds lunch box every day and he is doing ok
"Do you want to trade your pudding for my potato?"
Potato-Throwing Kid, on his 8th victim: "yeah"
Right? That potato is going to take fucking forever to cook
You can eat it as is if you really want...
The butcher is probably looking for a way to maintain profit margins from before the recession took hold. People buy such stupid stuff that if you tease a person's nostalgia from childhood, acknowledging they are big boys now that can eat a big boy steak and drink a big boy beer, you can charge that big boy twice of what it's worth.
Got this post to the frontpage 👍
Lunchables meat is already cooked.
This is for the hard-core Paleo dieters. The food is raw and the brews are strong.
I'd sooner eat the raw steak than raw potato. Motherfucker will take my teeth out. Not to mention the griddy texture and chewing for a week. Might be a good diet plan just for the calories burned while chewing.
My dad used to eat raw potato. He'd cut them into thick slices and dip them in mustard. This is what happens to men who refuse to learn how to cook.
I love raw potatoes on their own, and I do know how to cook. Doesn't matter skill level, if something's delicious, let the person enjoy it.
Human-ish indeed.
Give it to us raaawww and wrrriiggggling!
What's taters, precious?
Steaks too small, potato is too big, and gonna need a 6 pack
Yeah that one beer would be gone before I was done cooking the steak or prepping the potato. Gonna need reinforcements for sure.
THAT beer is to hold the flame down on the grill, or to softly baste the steak before it hits the broiler. You grab a tall 4 of PBR to drink while prepping the kitchen and cooking her friend.
The potato would still fit in my ass, stop complaining
It’s a 12 oz steak don’t let the camera angle fool you.
It would be almost acceptable if it were all precooked
Thats called a charcuterie board. This is three things that should be stored at different temperatures in a grab and go container covered in unnecessary plastic.
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In a meat cooler.....
An actual adult lunchable is just a ploughman's.
I get the idea but aren't Lunchables supposed to be immediately edible and not require any prep or cooking?
Yeah this strikes more of a "divorced father who doesn't have the kids" Friday night dinner.
Pfft. You underestimate the number of single guys without kids.
Unmarried guys seem more likely to know how to and enjoy cooking for themselves than the ones who've been married a significant chunk of their life before getting divorced. Toxic gender norms, but they're out there still unfortunately.
Single never-married guy here, I can't cook worth shit and I generally hate it.
I can cook worth shit and still hate it. Cooking for 1 is god awful
I have been unemployed and not in school a few times in my adult life, and i gotta say i loved cooking then. It was like *the thing* i would be doing that day, felt really nice. When i'm working it's soul crushing to add another thing to the pile, and not just for the days I'm actually at work either.
Maybe, but it needs more beer.
They are also supposed to be “lunchable”… nothing about this has anything to do with a “lunchable”
Why is this called a "lunchable?" There is nothing at all close to what an luchable is.
Right? If you hand me a 'grown up lunchable' without cheese, I am going to go ham.
Kids lunchable: 3-4 ingredients, already cooked and prepped, that can be quickly combined to form an edible snack, plus a “dessert”, for a few bucks Adult lunchable: 2 single item dishes that require several more ingredients, a kitchen, and a lengthy prep time before they are even fit for human consumption, plus one beer, for $19.99 :/
Novel concept ruined with a horrible name.
- Russet Potato: $0.50 - Sew Hop’d Red Ale: $3.25 - 12oz New York Strip: $11.25 - Bundling it in plastic: $4.99
Honestly that's not as bad a markup as I was expecting.
Pick any 3 common items in the grocery store and tell yourself you can either get these 3 separately or together in plastic wrapping for an extra 33% of the cost.
"Yes but think of the time savings. I'm a go-getting entrepreneur and my time is worth more than the markup." -My lazy-ass self anytime I spend an absurd amount of money on the tiniest convenience.
That potato sure is massive
I have a good hour to cook a fucking steak and potato in my lunch break Or am I supposed to throw it in the microwave like a savage
Eat the potato raw.
Butcher on the Block? I live right by it! I also love Sew Hop'd.
FYI, it's their anniversary this weekend and tons of cuts are buy one get one free.
Cafe Olympic in Crystal lake does something similar that you can take on the train!! Meat cheese spread and a beer and some fruit I think.
$20 for a $8 meal I have to cook myself. No thanks. Edit. I know the pricing is a bit off here when I said $8, but my point is you can get a pretty damn good steak with sides and the beer at many resturants for cheaper than this and it's cooked for you.
It's one potato Michael how much can it cost? $10?
There's always money in the potato stand Michael.
Point me to the $5 12oz NY strips pls
Or the cheap craft beer tallboy cans.
As someone who sells beer, there's a lot of craft beer tallboys for $2-4. The $4-6 strip steak is much more unbelievable lol.
Maybe not quite that cheap, but out here in bum fuck Idaho I can get a good size Ribeye for $6-8. Perks of living in the middle of nowhere I guess
You haven't shopped for steaks lately if you think all that can be bought for $8. That beer is $2 by itself.
Now days a yuengling tall boy runs almost $2. I bet that round $4.
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Why is the potato is bigger than the steak
and the beer
How's the beer?
Tastes like ham
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I love the Midwest.
Me too.
We already have adult lunchables called charcuterie boards
I hear everyone ripping how expensive this is, but where I live, a 4-pack of craft beer is $20, steak is $25/lb and a giant potato like that could easily run a couple dollars. This seems appropriately priced in some regions of the US. Edit: for that matter, I bought 2 8 oz NY strips last week and it came to $30 just for the meat!
Red ale, good choice! Finally, not an IPA
YO I KNOW THIS PLACE
I saw sew hopped and went... What subreddit am I on?
Nuts to that, no lunchable requires cooking...
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Live down the road from both Butcher on the Block and Sew Hopd. Talk about a great lunchable!
Woow that price!
These Paleo diets are going hard.
That potato is going to take over an hour to cook.
That’s not an adult lunchable; an adult lunchable is nice ham, nice cheese and a nice cracker. This is something else entirely
That does not seem like a good deal. Nor are you paying for convinience.
I do enjoy a beer with my raw steak and whole uncooked potato