{"id":2457,"date":"2009-02-25T20:49:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T06:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2025-02-02T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:48:29","slug":"review-betty-crocker-asian-hamburger-helper-mongolian-style-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/25\/review-betty-crocker-asian-hamburger-helper-mongolian-style-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW:  Betty Crocker Asian Hamburger Helper Mongolian-Style Beef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/betasianhbhelperbf1.jpeg?resize=600%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-67636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/betasianhbhelperbf1.jpeg?resize=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/betasianhbhelperbf1.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/betasianhbhelperbf1.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/betasianhbhelperbf1.jpeg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/betasianhbhelperbf1.jpeg?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/betasianhbhelperbf1.jpeg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just want to make clear that the Betty Crocker Asian Hamburger Helper Mongolian-Style Beef and its other flavors are not part of some big conspiracy for Asian Domination.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh wait.  <\/p>\n<p>Why did I capitalize the D in &#8220;Domination&#8221;?  It makes it look like a code name for something, which it is totally not.  If I had typed &#8220;Operation Asian Domination,&#8221; and something cryptic along with it, like &#8220;All salamanders in apples need some Rogaine under leggy eyes,&#8221; then maybe it might look like all the Asians, except North Korea, are coming together to take over the world.  But that IS NOT the case.  <\/p>\n<p>The Betty Crocker Asian Hamburger Helper Mongolian-Style Beef is just an easy-to-make dish and the eyebrows on the Hamburger Helper glove are not slanted eyes, his eyes are not nostrils, and his nose is not a gigantic zit.  All you need is a pound of ground beef, 2 3\/4 cups of hot water, and, of course, the ingredients contained in the box.  Within 20 minutes, you&#8217;ll have a dish that native Mongolians will not recognize at all, because the Mongolian Beef dish is an American creation.<\/p>\n<p>Betty Crocker is not trying to deceive you, just like Asians aren&#8217;t trying to swindle you by infiltrating various aspects of society to bring it crashing down two weeks from today.  People love Jackie Chan, the number one golfer in the world is half-Asian, there&#8217;s a Korean on <i>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy<\/i>, my doppleganger is on CBS&#8217;s <i>The Mentalist<\/i>, there are Japanese players in Major League Baseball, Olivia Munn is half-Chinese, there are over a thousand Panda Express locations across the United States, Rob Schneider is half-Filipino, sushi and karaoke bars are all over, and many women learned a new Japanese word, Harajuku, but all of that does not equate to Asians wanting to rule the world and force everyone to drive fuel-efficient Toyota, Honda, Kia, or Hyundai cars two weeks from today.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/betasianhbhelperbf2.jpeg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-67637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/betasianhbhelperbf2.jpeg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/betasianhbhelperbf2.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/betasianhbhelperbf2.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/betasianhbhelperbf2.jpeg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides, how can the Betty Crocker Asian Hamburger Helper Mongolian-Style Beef be part of an Asian conspiracy to take over the world when it doesn&#8217;t taste Asian.  It was all right tasting, but it tasted more like Hamburger Helper Beef Stroganoff than any Asian dish.  The pasta noodles were gummy and the addition of freeze-dried peas and carrots seemed unnecessary since they didn&#8217;t add anything to the flavor.<\/p>\n<p>So to all the non-Asians out there, you don&#8217;t have to worry about an Operation Asian Domination because it&#8217;s just silly to think Asians would want to take over the world.  To all the Asians out there, All salamanders in apples need some Rogaine under leggy eyes, two weeks from today.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Nutrition Facts &#8211; 1\/3 cup prepared &#8211; 270 calories, 11 grams of fat, 4 grams of saturated fat, 0.5 grams of trans fat, 55 milligrams of cholesterol, 700 milligrams of sodium, 330 milligrams of potassium, 24 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 3 grams of sugar and 20 grams of protein.)<\/small> <\/p>\n<p><b>Item:<\/b>  Betty Crocker Asian Hamburger Helper Mongolian-Style Beef<br \/>\n<b>Price:<\/b>  $3.50<br \/>\n<b>Size:<\/b>  6 ounces<br \/>\n<b>Purchased at:<\/b>  Don Quijote<br \/>\n<b>Rating:<\/b> 6 out of 10<br \/>\n<b>Pros:<\/b>  Decent tasting if you like Hamburger Helper Beef Stroganoff. Easy to make. Ready to eat in about 20 minutes.  Two weeks from today.  Olivia Munn.<br \/>\n<b>Cons:<\/b>  Not Asian tasting.  Noodles were gummy.  Conspiracies that involve Asians wanting to take over the world.  Not Mongolian.  Freeze-dried peas and carrots were useless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just want to make clear that the Betty Crocker Asian Hamburger Helper Mongolian-Style Beef and its other flavors are not part of some big conspiracy for Asian Domination. Oh wait. Why did I capitalize the D in &#8220;Domination&#8221;? It makes it look like a code name for something, which it is totally not. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1671,1690],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-betty-crocker","tag-hamburger-helper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2024,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/22\/makers-of-hamburger-helper-give-some-glove-love-to-asians\/","url_meta":{"origin":2457,"position":0},"title":"NEWS: Makers of Hamburger Helper Give Some Glove Love To Asians","author":"Marvo","date":"January 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The only four-fingered pleasure I get from a glove is the one I get from Hamburger Helper. 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