Bless her heart.
Another X user just discovered that ground beef doesn't grow on trees and decided the entire "just cook at home" crowd needs a stern talking-to after staring down a single package of 80/20 that somehow fails to transform into a banquet.
Nothing says economic hardship quite like carefully photographing the price tag on a pound-and-a-quarter of meat and declaring the meatball math a national crisis. The replies, predictably, turned into a masterclass in "maybe try shopping somewhere else" and bulk-buy flexes, because nothing unites the internet faster than someone acting shocked that food costs money.
Just cook at home they say. This will make MAYBE 12 meatballs if I stretch it. pic.twitter.com/sC73HeM2A8
— Meredith (@FletchHerCox) August 9, 2026
Ugh, the burrito wars.
People were happy to call her out on many levels ... many of them suggesting ways to use that expensive hamburger to make it last.
I have a 500 meatball recipe using that exact amount of ground beef.
— MetaNynja (@MetaNynja) August 10, 2026
500 meatball recipe:
- 1.26lbs ground beef
- 20 cups of bread crumbs
- 200 eggs (include the shells)
.....
Gotta use some Saw Dust to pad those meatballs out (do not do this !!!) :P
— birdbox (@s3rinx) August 10, 2026
One cup of oats to one tablespoon of ground beef!
— Mr. Ripley (@themisterripley) August 10, 2026
This is why I buy a quarter cow at five dollars a pound
— 🍩 Captain Donut (@JoeHarper) August 10, 2026
Recommended
For highly seasoned dishes like chili & meatloaf/ meatballs, I use half ground beef & half ground turkey. 1# chub of frozen ground turkey is $2.19 at my local Aldi.
— AllyD (@lynn_dodds84927) August 10, 2026
*snort*
This is a you problem
— Nathan (@higgsyxh) August 10, 2026
National average is $6.80/lb
Don't cry to us because you got ripped off at the most expensive grocery store possible..
— John K. (@john2kx) August 10, 2026
you are doing propaganda youn can get a pound of GB at Walmart for just over $6
— george robert (@georger33594738) August 10, 2026
WOW
— Don Iverson (@DonIverson38310) August 10, 2026
Choices have consequences!
It's only $8.49 a pound Mid-nowhere TN.
And that's before sales tax.
And it's less than $5 when we buy it from a local rancher as a half beef.
But - you do you
You chose the price if you bought it.
— Galileo’s Go-Kart (@IdiotusGigantus) August 10, 2026
She did eventually get very defensive:
I love how everyone is concluding that I’m the c**t here for buying and/or posting this.
— Meredith (@FletchHerCox) August 10, 2026
We're not seeing that, exactly. But people are a bit irritated that she tried dunking on making life more affordable by cooking at home instead of ordering DoorDash.
I’M NOT A SOCIALIST.
— Meredith (@FletchHerCox) August 10, 2026
And the sad 'burrito wars' continue.
IYKYK.
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