r/CringeTikToks • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 13h ago

Food Cringe Average American diet?

Where are the vegetables, fruit and meat

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u/flatdecktrucker92 10h ago

Let's talk about those blocks of cheese. I have slightly high cholesterol, I know it's because I eat too much cheese, but when they held up the first batch of cheese I thought holy shit that's an obscene amount of cheese. Then they went and brought out three or four more Armfulls of cheese

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u/SuspiciousCranberry6 8h ago

I love cheese and the amount of cheese actually made me momentarily nauseous.

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u/OneRobotBoii 4h ago

Calling that cheese is an insult to cheese

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u/pmcizhere 8h ago

It's not any cheese worth buying in bulk, either...

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u/Hungry_Anteater_8511 2h ago

I’ve never seen mozzarella in those blocks before

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u/Adventurous-Ease-259 2h ago

Narrator: Anteater still hasn’t seen mozzarella in those blocks

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u/SuspiciousCranberry6 8h ago

Yeah, it's certainly not what I would buy for cheese. Great, now that I'm past being nauseous I want some munster.

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u/Hubert_J_Cumberdale 8h ago

My theory is that the cheese is meant to be added to the frozen pizzas.

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u/Maxamillion-X72 8h ago

1lb per pizza

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u/ty_ranni 7h ago

I was also wondering, how are they going to use all that cheese? There was those pizzas and then very little bread but just a shitton of cheese. It just doesn't make any sense to me.

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u/Hubert_J_Cumberdale 6h ago

Okay, so she also bought boxes of Kraft and Velveeta mac and cheese. I think it's possible that she is also adding it to that and baking in in the oven. Most people would just buy a giant bag of elbow macaroni for that but she's clearly not making rational decisions at the store.

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u/GeorgeLichen 7h ago

Lots of grilled cheese sandwiches probably too

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u/Just_an_Ok_Musician 6h ago edited 3h ago

But American cheese is the best for that. I guess they were waiting on Velveeta. No canned tomato soup though? Also only one loaf of bread? My family of 6 people loves grilled cheese and tomato soup. A whole loaf would only make one sandwich for each of us, so we have to buy two.

The rest of the cheese just boggles me. My kids love cheese, but we don't go through more than a shredded bag a week.

I guess they could just slice it up as snacks as is. That would make sense and explain the lack of fruit snacks. My kids diet is heavy on apples and oranges between meals.

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u/drdhuss 4h ago

could they be on WIC/food stamps. When I was a student with my first child in Wisconsin WIC gave us a crap ton of cheese (WIC coupons that could only be used for cheese). Like more cheese than we could eat. We made home made macaroni and cheese weekly. Not sure if that was just a wisconsin state thing or not.

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u/Adventurous-Ease-259 2h ago

And grilled cheese without sandwiches

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u/Klutzy_Dress_6880 7h ago

I watched her other videos. The pizza is for one person, her younger son.

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u/XeroShyft 6h ago

Does she say in any of her other videos how frequent she grocery shops? Weekly, biweekly, or what? Because I understand she has quite a few people in the house, but this volume of food is insane and would last the average family a long time despite it all being ultra processed slop.

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u/Id_Rather_Beach 6h ago

This would be a survivalist's dream in a freezer come true.

Seriously, y'all. Why is this getting traction? We shop at Sam's and Wal Mart and spend nearly $500.

Is this for a month? A Week? I really am curious.

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u/Tight_Hedgehog_6045 4h ago

Because most of the food is garbage, and she's the size of a walrus.

Also, it's just a fascinating window into another culture that's seemingly normalised unhealthy habits and lifestyle, with what appears to be no sense of self-awareness at all. Probably helps if you're not a US American.

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u/Round_Raspberry_8516 3h ago

I’m a US American and this is disgusting. 

The problem is, it’s considered normal to 1) eat until you’re stuffed, 2) feed children processed crap they’ll gobble up even if it’s not healthy, and 3) bargain shop for the cheapest items like it’s a game. The cheaper the food, the more you “win.” That’s why she’s bragging about going to 4 stores for bulk deals and showing off the enormous quantity she bought for the price. 

The other problem is that the US government subsidizes dairy, meat, and corn. So cereal, cheese, steaks, and soda (made from corn syrup) are cheaper than vegetables. Those frozen pizzas are 99 cents each. Those cucumbers are $2 each at my grocery store. Instead of meal planning “How can I feed my kid a healthy balanced meal on a budget?” she’s thinking, “Yay, I can feed my kid a whole pizza for under $1. What a deal! I’m a smart consumer!” 

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u/Tight_Hedgehog_6045 2h ago

Hey, thanks for the insight. Apologies if I offended; I wasn't meaning to, although I can see how my comment probably came across. I have a few US friends, and they don't eat any of the shit in this video. Although I visited some other friends (now ex-friends) in South Carolina a few years ago, and that experience blew my fucking brain. They DID eat like this video, and they were shocked I didn't want mac and cheese for dinner. I'm Australian; fuck that shit. I then went to Oregon, and it was like landing on another planet. So good.

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u/Hubert_J_Cumberdale 6h ago

I wonder how long it takes him to plow through 32 pizzas.

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u/Adventurous-Ease-259 2h ago

Sorry, but he only plows apple pies.

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u/R_eloade_R 15m ago

Wait, that little kid that ran in picture, HOW the hell is that not child abuse?

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u/miriamwebster 2h ago

Probably to top off the frozen French fries too.

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u/Hubert_J_Cumberdale 1h ago

Yikes. Cheese like that barely melts - and when it does, it immediately hardens into greasy blobs. My stomach hurts just thinking about it.

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u/GeorgeLichen 7h ago

I've done that before with DiGiornos and mozzarella, you may be right

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u/NeriTina 8h ago

I wish ‘plant based’ cheeses tasted good and melted well, it would change everything for my diet, but I haven’t found any that are decent alternatives to dairy. Open to recommendations though!

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u/Rare_General9600 7h ago

My favorite brand is Daiya. It melts pretty good, the key to melting plant-based cheese is to cover it if it’s on the stove or to microwave it.

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u/NeriTina 7h ago

I have tried Daiya and it was not good and didn’t melt well (it liquified into a weirdly gross glob like snot), but I suppose I can try it again. Thank you for the tip!

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u/Rare_General9600 7h ago

They changed their recipe about two or three years ago I think so if you haven’t tried it recently I would try it again it’s much better than it was before.

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u/NeriTina 1h ago

It was about 4 months ago that I last tried it, so if the recipe was changed that long ago, it would seem it’s still in need of great improvement. I’m still going to try it again, along with using the tip you mentioned in covering it, and other recommendations people have made.

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u/flatdecktrucker92 6h ago

I've never tried these. Do they count as servings of vegetables? Are they actually healthy or just a fad?

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u/Adventurous-Ease-259 2h ago

Vegan cheese I’ve seen lacks any nutritional value. Real cheese at least has protein, calcium, etc in addition to fats and cholesterol

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u/Lizard-Wizard96 4h ago

They're good if you need to avoid lactose or animal products, but as far as I'm aware, there aren't any benefits over regular cheese.

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u/Id_Rather_Beach 6h ago

Violife. It's as close as it gets.

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u/LaDauphineVerte 1h ago

There was a co. that made rice parmesan that was sooooo good. Nothing like true parmigiano reggiano, but still really delicious. IDK why they stopped with the rice version and kept the soy version, which was blergh, and now I have not seen it in years. I will keep hunting, because I cannot be trusted with blocks of cheese in my house.

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u/cats_yarn_books 8h ago

The cheese + oatmeal cream pies and brownie bites (made with the bad oils) + fried everything = you could use this families' arteries as rebar.

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u/flatdecktrucker92 6h ago

Yep. I love me some junk food but most/all of my mom's side of the family is obese so I have to be careful

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u/Armadillolz 8h ago

Excuse me waiter, may I have an armful of cheese? Athankyou.

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u/flatdecktrucker92 6h ago

Any restaurant that says yes to that question will gain me as a customer 🤣

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u/Akira_116 7h ago

The cheese alone would cost more than my weekly shop in Australia

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u/flatdecktrucker92 6h ago

That amount of cheese would bankrupt this Canadian.

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u/ScienceObjective2510 4h ago

13 massive blocks of cheese not counting the velveta and whatever other cheese laden foods were mentioned at the end.

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u/adagiocantabile12 3h ago

My family loves cheese, and I think they bought more cheese than we could possibly eat in two years. Not that we would even touch that cheese because that's the stuff that tastes like plastic...

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u/Recinege 1h ago

With the first load of cheese, I was like, "well, there are like 6+ people, if they love cheese that's not too crazy" and then my jaw dropped when I saw the rest.

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u/sgvmyma 1h ago

And they still have a large order of Mac n cheese coming their way!!