I'm talking overall, including things like their crackers, and relative to weight, in terms of if you were to eat a similar amount of food off a charcuterie board.
Regardless, lunchables tend to have highly processed cheese and meat that has a lot of saturated fat, added sugars, and yes, a lot of added sodium. About 33% of your daily sodium in a tiny pack with 3 few millimeter thick slices of meat, 3 of the same of cheese, and 3 (small) crackers.
That same pack also contains 35% of your max total daily intake of saturated fat, in just 250 calories, which is over two and a half times the daily max recommended rate of saturated fat compared to calories.
I do think that lunchables tends to have lower fat content relative to other meats, like hard sausages, salami, or prosciutto, but a higher sodium content relative to them. The overall lunchables sets tend to have more calories than their respective weights in other foods often found on charcuterie boards.
Those sausages look Spanish, not French; they're Castilian chorizo and Serrano ham.
In some restaurants in Spain, for €60 you'd get something slightly larger, but not much more. You can find cheaper places, but the products are expensive, and if they're good quality, they don't give them away.
Sorry, but nobody calls it Chorizo de Castilla, because there are two regions in Spain that start with Castilla (Castilla-la Mancha and Castilla Y León). Hence, queso manchego or Cecina de León. I would say that, by the looks of the pink color, the ham is probably a type of prosciutto crudo from Italy. The pepperoncini next it would not be served anywhere in Spain, but they are a staple in Italy, so I'm leaning towards an Italian influence, although the cheese on the right looks more French, but I can't say for certain.
Typically in Spain you'd get a ración, which is a single item on a plate (like jamón or chorizo ibérico). That way you only get what you ordered, and not extra filler items.
Also, I googled the image, and seems to be from a restaurant in Florida, so each item could be from a different country, and my whole argument is pointless.
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 108 pts · 324d
Pretty sure the ingredients of a $60 charcuterie board are way higher quality than the content of a pack of lunchables, though.
rafoix@lemmy.zip · 44 pts · 324d
This just proves that highly processed food addiction turns the brain and taste receptors to useless trash.
I know people that are literally addicted to processed trash. They literally hate the taste of everything that is remotely natural.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 323d
don't do that chorizo like that it looks great
Donjuanme@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 324d
Original poster doesn't know a good deal on iberico ham when it slaps him in the face.
Venator@piefed.social · 7 pts · 324d
to get a good deal you have to buy a whole leg, so it's more of a bludgeoning than a slap.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 323d
wait you know where to get a leg? i want a leg.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 323d
Costco...
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 323d
well i know what i want to eat for Yule
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 323d
I think it was like ~$500 before tariffs went to 20%
Venator@piefed.social · 1 pts · 323d
I go to eurodell.co.nz , that probably won't help you though 😅
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 324d
Only the finest bologna is served here at ché lunchablés
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 324d
"Lunchables" made in France
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social · 61 pts · 324d
...but with more variety and less processed ingredients and better taste and less calories and less sodium and less lead and-
clockworkrat@slrpnk.net · 22 pts · 324d
Better taste maybe, but fewer calories and salt than ... cheese and sausage?
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social · 4 pts · 323d
I'm talking overall, including things like their crackers, and relative to weight, in terms of if you were to eat a similar amount of food off a charcuterie board.
Regardless, lunchables tend to have highly processed cheese and meat that has a lot of saturated fat, added sugars, and yes, a lot of added sodium. About 33% of your daily sodium in a tiny pack with 3 few millimeter thick slices of meat, 3 of the same of cheese, and 3 (small) crackers.
That same pack also contains 35% of your max total daily intake of saturated fat, in just 250 calories, which is over two and a half times the daily max recommended rate of saturated fat compared to calories.
I do think that lunchables tends to have lower fat content relative to other meats, like hard sausages, salami, or prosciutto, but a higher sodium content relative to them. The overall lunchables sets tend to have more calories than their respective weights in other foods often found on charcuterie boards.
RBWells@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 323d
And less plastic
xyro@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 324d
Only one country could think there is a similarity between lunchable and a charcuterie/cheese plate 😆
FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 4 pts · 324d
thats not much of a plate though, i'd expect something more like this
https://savesliveswilltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/img_2668.jpg
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 322d
Meat slices marbled with chunks of lard make me wanna puke in my mouth.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 1 pts · 322d
you do you
Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 324d
Even the cheapest Prosciutto is light-years ahead of whatever the fuck that Lunchables meat is made out of.
Foni@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 324d
Those sausages look Spanish, not French; they're Castilian chorizo and Serrano ham.
In some restaurants in Spain, for €60 you'd get something slightly larger, but not much more. You can find cheaper places, but the products are expensive, and if they're good quality, they don't give them away.
Unimperfect@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 324d
Sorry, but nobody calls it Chorizo de Castilla, because there are two regions in Spain that start with Castilla (Castilla-la Mancha and Castilla Y León). Hence, queso manchego or Cecina de León. I would say that, by the looks of the pink color, the ham is probably a type of prosciutto crudo from Italy. The pepperoncini next it would not be served anywhere in Spain, but they are a staple in Italy, so I'm leaning towards an Italian influence, although the cheese on the right looks more French, but I can't say for certain.
Typically in Spain you'd get a ración, which is a single item on a plate (like jamón or chorizo ibérico). That way you only get what you ordered, and not extra filler items.
Also, I googled the image, and seems to be from a restaurant in Florida, so each item could be from a different country, and my whole argument is pointless.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 324d
Good points and that chorizo looks tasty as hell. But the French reference was referring to it being called a "charcuterie" board.
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 324d
This person Spanish-es. And they are right: you ain't never gonna see this on no menú del día.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 25 pts · 324d
Charred cute airy board.
loaf@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 324d
Shart blueberry award
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 324d
Shark hue terry cloth
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 324d
Shark coochie
zakobjoa@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 324d
As sweet as a can of beans.
Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 324d
Whore-du-veray
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 324d
What are lunchables
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 324d
Processed cheese, ham and crackers in a little box.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 324d
Cute
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 324d
It's an unholy testament to the hubris of man, and an affront to the very concepts of 'meat' and 'cheese' - but yes, also kinda cute ☺️
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 323d
My new headcanon is now that this is what aliens say, as a meme, whenever they see a human do anything they don't understand.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 324d
Cutting meat into smaller pieces and putting it back together again is...a lot of cuisine, actually.
eah@programming.dev · 1 pts · 323d
What you call cute, I call the rape of the natural world.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 323d
They're having trouble lately containing their led levels. In a kids food.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 324d
Not a fan of the cheese to ham ratio
MBech@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 324d
Agreed, there needs to much more cheese
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 324d
Not the kind of cheese they put in these though
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 324d
How much is sixty dollars bucks in USD?
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 324d
59.99+tax
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 323d
Plus tip.
RaoulDuke@piefed.social · 3 pts · 324d
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 324d
How much is thirty dollars Schrute bucks?
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 324d
What's the ratio of Stanley Nickels to Schrute Bucks?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 324d
Yes
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 324d
Real Lunchables have led in them.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 324d
Salt of Saturn, adds flavour.
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 323d
And avoids dangerous expressions of intelligence later in life, which could threaten the integrity of the empire.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 323d
that explains why i'm glowing 30 years after eating one
wieson@feddit.org · 14 pts · 324d
US-Americans and Canadians are weird for putting crackers instead of bread.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 324d
Crackers are a type of bread!
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 324d
And they're more on theme for being more heavily processed than your standard HIGH QUALITY breads. Ick
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 324d
That really depends on what kind of cracker you're talking about. I was thinking more, like, saltines. Which is just unleavened bread pretty much.
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 323d
Haha fair enough, I was just being dramatic! Love me some tasty breads
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 324d
What about crackers and bread?
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 324d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 323d
i'm disappointed by the bread but that chorizo looks 🤌
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 323d
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 323d
Like a wanker?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 323d
like its being pointed at by a wanker (me)
jollyrogue@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 324d
I’m getting $40 worth of joy looking at that, so fair. 😃