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The Horrors of Lean Cuisine and Microwave Diet Food
from #197 - Essential Episode | The Tim Dillon Show · #197
4 min
He riffs on microwaving food since childhood cocaine use, then goes on an extended riff about the awfulness of Lean Cuisine sandwiches, crisping trays, and the diet-food industry pretending to help people it made fat.
- Lean Cuisine sandwiches where you add water and it becomes food, served in little crisping trays.
- Tim describes eating a Lean Cuisine sandwich in an office as so depressing it makes suicide seem reasonable.
- The horrors of mass-produced diet food: the same corporations that pushed sludge through drive-throughs now selling expensive alternatives that just need water added.
- Tim watched his mother and countless Long Island women choke down Lean Cuisines, and men did it even more shamefully.
- Men pulling out a Lean Cuisine in the break room had to act tough and aggressive about it, turning health food into a weird masculine display.
- The Asian chicken Lean Cuisine contains just four to five morsels of meat the FDA considers close enough to chicken, plus a handful of angel hair pasta.
- Lean Cuisines get so explosively hot in the microwave they cause third-degree burns, hotter than a cast-iron pan because it's just chemicals burning plastic.