grocery shopping for one sucks because maybe I just want to make like 1 or 2 burgers and not be stuck making burgers for a week straight.they need to start selling single serve ingredients
>>22241049stop pretending to be retarded
>>22241049Dude, a 1 lb. log of ground beef can be bought anywhere. That's 2-4 burgers for $6. You can't handle that??
>>22241052Where can I just get 1 bun
>>22241051>pretending
>>22241049That's what freezers are for. Cook a family sized batch and freeze everything you can't eat today and tomorrow.Same with vegetables. Buy the big bags of carrots/celery/leek, cut them up and freeze them in ready to use batches that you can just take out of the freezer and throw in a pot to make stews/soups.
>>22241055>go to bakery section of grocery store>buy roll from the 39 cent roll binwa la, bun
>>22241063and a single slice of cheese? what about 5 pickle slices
>>22241066You're a cunt.
what kind of shithole you live where you cant buy small units
>>22241049You're supposed to be making a family. This is incentive to man up and spread your seed.
>>22241049your freezer is your friend dude. you picked an example that freezes really well too.
>>22241073I just want to make a burger man. just one. no I wont buy a burger from a restaurant.
>>22241094you're acting like cheese and pickles are only used for burgers. those things last ages in the fridge and can be used for all sorts of things, don't be a retard. the bun and patties, a little less versatile, but you can throw them in the freezer. it's really not that hard to eat as a single person. you're just being stupid. it takes a tiny bit more effort to store things and think ahead, that's it.
>he can't use up old ingredients for a new recipeLow IQ
>>22241066you can get a single slice of cheese in the deli and 5 pickle slices in a cold pack in the deli or produce wall. do you want me to go grocery shopping for you?
>>22241094You're a cunt. As >>22241105 says, the cheese and pickles last for a long, long time. This is when I knew you were a facetious little prick.
>>22241063This.
Yeah, you can go into any American supermarket and buy exactly what you need to make one burger. The butcher will weigh you out 6 oz or whatever you want of ground beef. The produce department also has to sell you what you want, even if it's one leaf of lettuce and 1/4 of a tomato. And the deli and bakery covers the rest. You can get mayonnaise, mustard, and ketchup packets there too. But you will come off as a colossal prick by doing that. Just buy in bulk and enjoy a few burger nights. Maybe even have friends over if you have any.
>>22241094Omega hypertherion basedThis man knows>THE CUSTOMER IS KING, HURR DURRBro over half of humans are single. I dont exactly feel like a king here.
I have the hardest time with lettuce and spinach. It's very unlikely i use all of it before it spoils.
You can but it's not very cost effective. The smaller packages always cost more per pound than the regular consumer sized packages. I'm more curious what you buy for burgers that doesn't keep for at least a month. Except the ground beef you can always use for some meatballs or Bolognese.
get a bf
Just make a BURGER FEAST
OP is a faggot but so are all the disconnected retards claiming you can "go to any grocery store" and find a butcher, bakery, and whatever the fuck a """produce wall""" is where there's an attendant that apparently slices shit for you. What the fuck are you stupid niggers even on about? Have you ever actually entered a grocery store in the United States? Like a real one, not some Erewhon boutique kike shit? Are you aliens?
>>22241049man up and eat 4 burgers
>>22241055The bakery department. Even the grocery stores in ghetto areas have them.
>>22241398Lol americans don't have butchers and bakeries in supermarkets? What a backwards, uncivilized place.
>>22241398They do sell varieties of prepackaged, precut bags or kits labeled "Sandwich Blend" or "Hamburger Blend." It helps to actually have a look around and familiarize yourself with produce departments.
>>22241137stay mad
>>22241144>Bro over half of humans are singleExactly.
>>22241315that's gay
>>22241398THIS
>>22241398I can, it's called Hannaford.3 minutes away.
>>22241398my local store does all this
>>22241049>retard doesn't know what a freezer isRetard
>>22241398Sorry for you.
>>22241398You must live in a shithole.Like I posted a few minutes ago, hannaford and walmart have it all.
>>22241596good
>>22241066>a single slice of cheese?from the cheese package, which will last in the fridge for weeks.>what about 5 pickle slicesby taking one pickle out of the jar and slicing it 4 times.
>>22241144>>22241595which is why you substitute your lack of companionship with another burger 2 hours later.quit pretending like you don't.
>>22241649>calls other places shitholes>says walmart has it allwalmart has everything EXCEPT what i'm looking for, which is a place ghetto people don't go to.
>>22241593you don't need to be so butt hurt
>>22241049You don't have a freezer?
>>22241063No that's not the same. It wouldn't work
>>22241055Bread freezes really well. Check out my pretzel buns. I live alone.
>>22241066>and a single slice of cheese?you've already got cheese in the fridge.>what about 5 pickle slicesget a single pickle from the snack rack.
>>22241398In the USA you can go into any Kroger or Ralph's or Safeway or anything and they will sell you any amount of whatever you want. It's just frowned upon and no one does it. You are a fucking dumbshit. And no N-words on blue boards!!
>>22241398I can go to HEB and buy a small amount of ground beef and a single roll and a single slice of cheese and a few pickle slices in a pouch and 1 tomato. As granular and stupid as OP wants to make this it's not unrealistic but the reality is that he's manufactured a problem and won't hear sense.
>>22241636>>22241649No, those places don't have a butcher or an actual bakery. The ground meat comes in frozen and is pulled to thaw. The "baked in store" shit is all made from pre-fab frozen dough, and most grocery stores don't even do deli slices anymore and instead precut all of that and sell it that way. No, putting a pre-molded baguette in an oven or slicing some ham doesn't make you a butcher or baker.
>>22241954Moving the goalposts now.
>>22241954>No those aren't actual butcher and bakers because the product was frozenOK but the point was being able to purchase single servings, WTF does it matter what bullshit title the guy's nametag says when you ask the guy in the bakery section for 1 piece of bread suitable for a sandwich?
>>22241649>walmartenjoy your cardboard food
>>22241968None of the food at Walmart is made from cardboard and you can't prove any is.
>>22241973
>>22241962>>22241967Braindead are we?Walmart, Shoprite, Food Lion, whoever the fuck CANNOT get you your special snowflake portion of meat. There is no butcher. There is no butcher counter. You buy the ground beef, which was ground in a factory ages ago, in pre-portioned trays. You aren't asking them for 3 and half pounds, you buy four 1lb trays and deal with it. You also aren't asking them to please oh please bake me one single bun sir! Because you are buying the entire pack of 6 or 8 rolls because that's what they have to sell you. They make them in batches, sell them in batches.They don't have butchers, they don't have bakeries, most don't even have a deli counter where you stand and ask for such and such cut like this and 3/4ths pounds of cheese either. If you are seriously implying the people who work stocking meat from the walk-in to the shelves are butchers you are truly beyond help.
>>22241814Sesame seeds on pretzel bread? No wonder you live alone.
>>22242028>You aren't asking them for 3 and half pounds, you buy four 1lb trays and deal with it.>you buy four 1lb traysNot for 1 burger, did you forget what thread you were in? You can get a small amount of meat at Walmart. You can get 1 roll at Walmart. You can get 1 tomato at Walmart. Even if you want to boil this down to the biggest, least accommodating lowest common denominator store you're still wrong no matter how small you want to make the scale of the meal.
>>22241049just get a vaccine so you get autism which turns you into a picky eater that wants to eat the same thing every day of your life. i eat poached chicken, potatoes every day and sometimes mac and cheese.
The troll is being difficult and he's not intending to stand down. Abandon thread. There's nothing more to discuss. He will not buy bulk and he will not buy a restaurant burger. He's mad at the world for unrelated reasons.
>>22242070As a nearly 50 year old man will I contract autism from the vaccines I get? I don't think it works that way.
>>22241066If you buy whole pickles you can slice the whole pickles into pickle chips. Way more crisp, way more cost effective, they taste better and you can slice them to your desired thickness. I don't get the American retardation of buying pickles AND pickle slices AND relish that take up three times the space. Just get whole pickles that last forever and you can make everything you need with that.
>>22242067Pic related, 4chan was being dumb about me posting the stock image.
>>22241398I've never seen a grocery store (aside from Aldi's which is a cityslicker thing) that doesn't have all this. Even when I lived in middle-of-nowhere Alabama, the two nearest grocery stores all had bakery, butcher and produce wall.
>>22242079this guy has never made a dill pickle in his life
>>22242007>>22242028The schizophrenic retards rotted their brain from anime, no wonder. Let me guess, the microwaved food from Lawson's in Japan is like really healthy or something because the microwaves in Japan don't have the "bad kind" of radiation or something? Or something about their salt being different and not causing hypertension?
>>22242072people like OP just can't stand being told they're wrong so they double and triple down on their retardation. this thread should die now, but it will probably hit 200 or 300 posts because people can't help but argue. oh well.
>>22242117Yes. I am contributing to the problem now, but it's to agree with you agreeing with me. I'm done feeding the troll and the thread.Starting now.
Grocery stores don't have butchers you illiterate fucking morons, look up what a butcher is.
>>22242044They made excellent sandwiches.
>>22242167If their nametag says butcher then they're a butcher.If they can sell me a small amount of meat for a burger then that's the only thing relevant to the thread.Get over it.
>>22242175>small amount of meatFuck off retard, nobody at the grocery store can do this. You buy the portions they put on the shelf. You can't buy less than a one pound tray at any normal store.
>>22242182loads of grocery stores have deli counters you ignorant cunt. but you already know that. you're just arguing to argue.
>>22242182>Buy 1lb tray>Make 2 double quarter poundersWow life is so hard.
>>22242183Name one fucking deli counter where you buy ground beef. Or any meat that isn't fucking DELI SLICES (holy fuck look at that, it's in the name!). Are you fucking retarded or are you just the most inbred thirdie on the planet?Grocery stores do not cut, grind or weigh actual portions of raw meat out for you. They just don't. Ever. That's a butcher and grocery stores aren't butcheries. Some old-fashioned stores still have delis where you ask for them to cut you some fully cooked processed meat, but that's also fallen well out of favor.>>22242186Who the fuck are you? Why are you replying to me? What the fuck do you even think this line of thought is about? No fucking shit you can use a pound of beef for four burgers, that's not what the faggit OP was even asking.
>>22242191>Who the fuck are you?The guy you replied to.>No fucking shit you can use a pound of beef for four burgers, that's not what the faggit OP was even asking.Well you're the only one talking about making 4 burgers. I didn't talk about making 4 burgers so why are you? Why are you hung up on OP not talking about making 4 burgers when you're the one talking about making 4 burgers?
>>22242199You're either a bitchy woman or a kvetching Jew, as your reply has nothing to do with anything I was talking about. Kill yourself
>>22242207You're clearly OP and you're mad that your thread made to estrogenpost about a made up problem got blown up by the simple realities of grocery stores. You can in fact go out of your way to buy minimal shit to make 1 burger and this fact inexplicably burns your ass. You can be mad about this but it'll remain true no matter how much venom you spit.
>>22241141>and 1/4 of a tomatoDo you bring a fucking knife to the grocery store and start slicing their tomatoes?
>anybody who disagrees with me is the same person!What causes this mental illness?
>>22242224Oops, meant to quote >>22242191
>>22242182The Meat Department is a thing and they do employ butchers/meat cutters. There's even a union. I just spoke with one on Thursday as he cut up $500 worth of beef for me.They will grind your beef to specific coarseness. They will cut to specific weights or sizes. You can take the meat off of "the shelf" and give it to them and they will cube it for stew if you so desire.Get your shit together and accept the truth, anon.
>>22242223I didn't say I do it, I said it could be done.
>>22242191>are you just the most inbred thirdie on the planet?Imagine being from a place that doesn't have in-store butchers and accusing someone else of being a third worlder. I live in Shithole, TX and my HEB has a fishmonger and a butcher who will cut shit to my specs and pack it in paper in a bag over ice, WTF is wrong with you?
>actually they aren't butchers because no true butcher would be inside a grocery storepotent bait
>>22242256>I live in Shithole, TXlol
>>22241049go to the butcherbuy a single clove of garlicshits easy
>>22242417Just asked my butcher for a single clove of garlic and he made fun of me. Ended up buying 10 pounds of Tenderloin...
>>22242417my butcher just gave me 10 grams of minced for $20did I get ripped off?
>>22242506GRAMS? Less than half an ounce. Yes, and I took your lame bait.
>>22241398>butchermight still happen if you're lucky, but yeah mostly butcher counters are gone from normal stores and all the meat is packaged only>deli where they will slice shit for youcommon, you can get one slice of cheese if you're a weird retard. you know that counter with the big logs of cheese in a glass display case? they will cut some of that for you if you want>bakerythey all have this but it's rarely a "buying one bun" scenario like some idiots have implied, op would have the exact same issue buying baked-in-store product where it's sold as a pack of 6 or whatever
I unironically feel this with vegetables>buy an entire cabbage>it's too much cabbage to eat unless you're eating it every meal>buy bean sprouts to spruce up instant noodles>they go back in like 2-3 days so you have to eat an excessive amount of them EVERY dayfresh produce just isn't meant for single men
>>22243755cabbage lasts so long though and it is easy to just chop some into every bucket of guyslop you make
>>22243755have you tried not being singleby getting a bf, for instance
>>22243755Ex gf used to use Gousto / Hello Fresh for this reason. There's very little waste, which is good but the portions are kinda small and it's not particularly cheap compared to the supermarket
>>22243737>if you're lucky,Even the employee owned poverty grocer in my area has one dude. You can also buy a single roll there.
>>22244160>even my local quirky co-op gentrification charity has oneThanks for your input. I went to my local grocery store today and verified my conclusions (meijer, columbus ohio, so not some ultracheap schizo hole nobody has ever heard of nor way out in the sticks, medium size city)>what used to be a butcher counter/department has been repurposed to just hold prepackaged stuff, no scales on the top, nobody working behind itFACT CHECKED: TRUE>the bakery department has a lot of stuff made in store but absolutely no "single rolls" available in any capacity. you can get a single big loaf or a sack of 6+ rolls/bunsFACT CHECKED: TRUE>deli counter where individually sliced meat and cheese can be had is still staffed, stocked, scales etc. fully operationalFACT CHECKED: TRUEThey even have a sushi station where some chink employees roll up the godless midwest grocery store sushi before your very eyes, but "single rolls" from the bakery are nowhere to be seen and a live butcher where you talk to a guy and point to the meat you want is likewise long gone. My local walmart and kroger are the same. You have to go to a slightly fancier grocery store if you want any of that.
>>22241049Make a couple burgers, freeze or use the rest in other recipes.
>want to make meatballs>i make them with pork, beef, and veal>smallest size I can buy is 1 pound>make three pounds of meatballs every time I want meatballs>takes me six weeks to eat them allJust freeze the leftover meat.
>>22245109>freeze a burger
>>22243755the bean sprouts are a jip but you can go to asian stores and get them per pound. or get beans and make your own. i too struggle with this and usually just say fuck it and pay 2 dollars for a bag of sprouts i'll only eat a handful of
I'm ready to make a burger pretty much anytime. I have frozen patties in the freezer, onions to carmelize and cheese and i just use bread and patty melt it. I mean i could get the buns too but i like patty melts better and i don't like a lot of toppings besides onions and cheese and maybe bacon anyways. total cost to make a burger for me is essentially zero dollars for the next 8 times i feel like a burger.
>>22241814Nice burger bunsI don't think I can get lye in my country ayy lmao so gotta resort to baking soda
>>22245426the crust on those is so pale theres no way he used lye
