r/asheville • u/silkysmoft • Mar 21 '24
What does this mean?!?! Meme/Shitpost
Please, what does this mean? I’ve seen this same car with this bumper sticker a few times in the mills river/fletcher area and I can’t let it go. I NEED to know what this means. Why ground beef? Why 2lbs and not 3? Help!
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u/Cooked_Brains Mar 21 '24
In case you wanna make them dinner and you need to know how much hamburger helper to bring over.
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Mar 21 '24
They want the simple things in life, clean air, no tv after 7pm, little billy with his telescope and only 2lbs of ground beef.
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u/Zmchastain Swannanoa Mar 21 '24
Little Billy with telescope and his 2lbs of ground beef. It was a simpler time.
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u/tajake Mar 21 '24
You have to get the legs on the telescope level somehow
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u/Unsettling_Skintone Mar 23 '24
'You have to get the legs on the telescope level somehow'
Good luck in Asheville.
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u/yodelayodelay BURGERMEISTER Mar 21 '24
Y'all! We can make bumper stickers about anything!
I dislike weeding
It feels weird when a cat licks me on the arm, but I like that the cat seems to like me? Not sure
I only drink diet soda (but not diet Pepsi)
Purple is an awful color
Shoes that hurt my feet are bad
I had a thought but lost it YES PRINT THAT!
Calvin pissing a rainbow
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u/karstomp Mar 21 '24
Wow you’re like a savant of relatability.
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u/silkysmoft Mar 21 '24
This is the thought path I went down. Like, is it just some random phrase to drive people like me crazy? Because if so, I adore that idea.
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u/baevard Mar 22 '24
saw one yesterday with flames for the background that said “i was told there would be a handbasket” 💀
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u/BadWolfIdris Mar 21 '24
Leave purple alone...
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u/silkysmoft Mar 21 '24
Right? The audacity… When yellow exists?
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u/BadWolfIdris Mar 21 '24
Personally I dislike orange. It's just so....orange
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u/omagolly Mar 22 '24
Upvote for orange!
(Ok, that sentence is counterintuitive, but you know what I mean.)
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u/electric_taupe Mar 25 '24
I’d buy a “Calvin pissing a rainbow” bumper sticker. Not the drawing; just the words.
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u/froaln Mar 23 '24
My car is purple so the “purple is an awful color” would be going right on the back of it just for the giggles
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u/silkysmoft Mar 21 '24
These are all reasonable explanations, I suppose. Is this a thing that people say? Because I cannot stop thinking about it. At random points of the day my brain is just like “wHaT iS a 2 pOuNdS oF gRoUnD bEeF FaMiLy?!?” Also, if this is your car and you’re reading this, do y’all smell like beef? Because I can’t imagine it any other way. Like, is your family just 2lbs of ground beef in a trench coat? Make it make sense.
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Mar 21 '24
It's legit kinda funny but you aren't like, missing the joke or anything. You're just overthinking it. It's one of those "aren't we quirky?" hooks. As u/patad explained, tons of recipes start with 1lb of ground beef. This family, whether because of how many of them there are or because of their appetites, are like "One pound!? HA! We're a 2lbs of ground beef family."
But I wholly empathize with your "out of the loop" feeling. I saw a bumper sticker in Texas once that said "TELL THEM STAN SENTCHA" and my only solution was to never go back to Texas.
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u/gonnafaceit2022 Mar 21 '24
I'm so out of the loop, I didn't know who those guys were on the trump/epstein billboards lol
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u/mtnviewguy Mar 21 '24
I've never heard it before, but it makes sense and I'm not surprised it's on a bumper sticker. Slogan companies are always looking for a catch phrase to market for sales.
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u/acertaingestault Mar 23 '24
What I find most interesting is that this isn't the case. You can't find this bumper sticker for sale online.
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u/CWMJet Mar 22 '24
Ah, the "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college" phenomenon.
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u/ASAProxys Mar 22 '24
Next time you’re at the store, look at how much 2lbs of ground beef is and maybe it’ll make more sense?
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u/donutsonmyhead The Hotspot Mar 21 '24
Seems relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4RNb3tt0LM
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u/silkysmoft Mar 21 '24
Well. I’m going to choose to believe that all of this was for this purpose right here. That is, quite possibly, one of the funniest things I’ve heard in my entire life. I actually don’t even care what it means anymore. 🫡
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u/effortfulcrumload The Boonies Mar 21 '24
4 kids
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u/silkysmoft Mar 21 '24
I feel like that was said with confidence. Is this a thing people say? Like the ground beef version of those family stickers?
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u/IShouldBWorkin Mar 21 '24
Fellas, if you got four kids and have to start grabbing two 1lb packs of ground beef to make dinner... Here's your sign.
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u/berrykiss96 Woodfin Mar 22 '24
The 2lb packs are cheaper idk why you’d buy 2 of the 1s. Even if you don’t have a big family buying the larger pack and splitting it into smaller bags and freezing … p sure it’s a tik tok thing (that stole it from literally every person I know trying to stretch a dollar thing).
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u/_heatmoon_ Mar 21 '24
They’re a family of very small magical individuals, who can be ground into an uncooked weight of two pounds of meat, which when consumed gives the individual eating them the power to solve a multi-millennia religious territory war through virtual reality, but only while digesting said two pounds of family. Duh.
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u/princessmalice Mar 22 '24
almost certain I've serviced this car and I remain baffled. I like to believe the "big family = more meat than the recipe calls for" theory.
seeing odd bumper stickers at work is one of my favorite little things
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u/billbobham West Asheville Mar 21 '24
Anything but the metric system
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u/0MGWTFL0LBBQ Local Hero Mar 21 '24
Yeah, it would be completely unreasonable to have a measurement system that was rational.
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u/felixj Riceville 🍚 Mar 21 '24
This is really funny and would (and now will) totally get under my skin too. Thanks for sharing.
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u/silkysmoft Mar 21 '24
You’re thanking me now, but when you wake up in the middle of the night, in a cold sweat, screaming WHAT DOES A 2-POUNDS OF-GROUND-BEEF FAMILY MEAN? AND WHY ARE THERE SO MANY HYPHENS? you might want to have a different conversation.
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u/No_Key_5621 Mar 22 '24
Waking up to this made both of our days — the bumper sticker maker and the bumper sticker owner. We were sitting at a park discussing how much it takes to feed 3 kids and 2 adults, and I thought the phrase “we’re a 2-pounds of ground beef family” was just the funniest thing. I came home and whipped up the bumper sticker thinking it would probably end up on her bulletin board or something. But not this gem of a friend — straight to the bumper it went. Thank you, Reddit ♥️
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u/2_many_choices Mar 23 '24
I read this fun thread all the way to the end thinking what are the chances the owner has come here, and BAM there it is! Closure. Thanks! By the way, the guy who services your car has also been here.
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u/silkysmoft Mar 23 '24
I don’t even know what to say. 😅 this has been living in my head rent free for about a month now and I was finally able to get a photo the other day. I feel like this is a really big moment for all of us. Feels like a 2lbs of ground beef celebration is in order. You’re a legend.
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u/MountainCheesesteak Mar 21 '24
Bumper stickers are cheap and the time for being straight forward with their meanings is over! I don’t know what it means, but I’d rather spend the day imagining the possibilities than ever finding out.
Personally I’m a big fan of your idea that they are actually 2 pounds of ground beef in a trench coat disguised as a family.
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u/vuvuzelah Mar 22 '24
I saw a car the other day with a bumper sticker that just said “Tuna, no crust.” And I’ve been thinking about it ever since.
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u/Important-Spring3977 Mar 22 '24
That's a reference to The Fast and The Furious, when Paul Walker's character orders a sandwich from Jordana Brewster's. "Tuna, no crust."
"...bullshit asshole, no one likes the tuna here...."
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u/BuckKnifeRandy Mar 21 '24
Personally We’re a 10 pound beef family. Always need the beef reserve. Reserve the beef.
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u/B1893 Mar 21 '24
Like others said, a lot of recipes and box dinners use 1lb of ground beef, and are based on family of four.
Which is weird, IMO. My daughter usually eats one serving, and I eat the other three...
So they either have a big family, uh, a big family, or someone has a high metabolism.
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u/ZookeepergameMore402 Mar 22 '24
Their cannibals and one of their childrens legs are missing bon appetite
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u/YoungPeteyReddits Mar 21 '24
Is that their only sticker?
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u/silkysmoft Mar 21 '24
Yes. Isn’t that enough? I’m stressed just by their one. Imagine the power they would wield with…more than one.
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u/partmachine623 Mar 23 '24
We are a 2lbs of ground beef family. In the last 3 minutes I have thought of so many uses for this phrase. Next pta party gonna be lit.
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u/Unlikely-North-9191 Mar 23 '24
I met a twenty year old this week in a running club wearing a shirt that said “Everyone at Sam’s Club is my father.” Had drawings of bulk items like no stir peanut butter. It gnawed at me for the forty or so minute run plus the thirty minute meetup following, so I finally asked. Thinking it was a cult tv or movie quote or some inside joke I was too old for. Nope, he just thought it was funny.
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u/Impressive_Dance6816 Mar 21 '24
It means you have a big family you need to feed or you just like to eat a lot of food..
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u/permanentwallflower Mar 21 '24
Honestly it might just be a random, meaningless bumper sticker simply meant to make people go “wtf?” I have one on my car!
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u/shrimp-and-potatoes Leicester Mar 21 '24
We are a family of 4 and we use 1lb at a time. Maybe their family is big, or they are a big family.
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u/HallOfTheMountainCop Mar 21 '24
They like ground beef and two pounds is enough for their family. Simple as.
I never understood the "I'm stickin with the pig" piggly wiggly bumper stickers I used to see so often. I got the sticker itself, I just couldn't figure out why there were so many. It's just a grocery store.
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u/FCAsheville Mar 21 '24 edited Mar 21 '24
Or people wearing Buc-ee's gear??!! It's a gd convenience store... you are literally paying them to advertise for them.
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u/HeHateMe115 Mar 21 '24
You are literally paying them to advertise for them
But isn’t the the case anytime you wear something with branding on it?
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u/HallOfTheMountainCop Mar 21 '24
Buc-ee’s is the new American institution, nothing says “I have never thought about European politics in my life and I know I never will” harder than wearing a Buc-ee’s hat.
It’s a master class in American exceptionalism and I’m here for it.
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u/timshel42 where did the weird go Mar 21 '24
same reason you see a bunch of people with apple stickers on their car.
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u/Gargoule Mar 21 '24
I think it is taking a stan on/or against vegetarians, vegans and gourmet coffee drinkers.
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u/tinyketchupbottle Mar 22 '24
Shame they're not a two pounds of paint family. That car really needs some touching up.
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u/angelcatmemes Mar 21 '24
I think it just means they’re not fancy, they’re simple, not rich, but resourceful? Like pluggers.
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u/I_was_bone_to_dance Mar 22 '24
Per week. It means they get two pounds on their Sunday grocery run.
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u/Environmental-Bus-25 Mar 22 '24
I'm from a 3 pounds of ground beef family... 8 bros and sis' all together at dinner with mom and pop will def put away a few pounds of GB.
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u/CAPOakaINDIO Mar 22 '24
I’ve never used this term but at sone point once the family grew I went from 1 pound to 2. I actually think it’s a cute way to say I have a big family. Don’t know if I’ll use this expression but it’s funny and clever.
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u/flortny Mar 23 '24
I can't take anyone's advice on food consumption or their anecdotal advice because everyone is fucking obese, that could be 2 people who just eat a lot of meat
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u/Yarnest Mar 23 '24
I see it as a play on the usual pictures of the stick figures of dad, mom, and 3 or 4 kids and a dog. Meaning they have a big family.
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u/Cleanbadroom Mar 23 '24
Only 2 pounds? I'm single and buy 2 pounds for myself. A 1 pound burger is typically what I eat. I'm guessing maybe 2 people in the family?
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u/lotgworkshop Mar 23 '24
My family is also a 2lbs family. Really it should be more. But cost of food is way too high. We have 7 people in our home. My wife & I, 4 kids (two of them in their 20’s) and my mother who moved in with us a few years ago.
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u/scankavaavl Mar 24 '24
2 lbs of ground beef in a day meets my fat and protein goals. I think it means it hits your macro nutrients by eating 2 lbs. 3 is too much.
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u/HiggyFartdust Mar 24 '24
That they have a bunch of kids or they like their pasta sauce super meaty 😂
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u/windblade88 Mar 24 '24
I always buy two pounds because it lasts longer for two adults. We eat it for several days or freeze what we don’t feel like eating.
Flex, I guess
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u/Almighty-Gorilla Mar 24 '24
They have absolutely no sense of humor and waste money on bumper stickers that they think are funny? Where does one actually purchase this particular sticker and who thought it would sell if they made them! I’m in the wrong line of work obviously!
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u/whoisSYK Mar 24 '24
If I had to guess, the recommendation amount for beef a week is just over a pound since too much increases your chances to get cancer. A lot of conservatives don’t like the “woke” media is coming for their beef and have been complaining for awhile now. That’s what I’m assuming this is about
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Mar 25 '24
The other fender reads “How is a 12-ounce goddamn roll of sausage supposed to feed your brother and me and you, 600 pounds of men, at least. You get my point? And the two girls, and they put it in fucking pussy roll of sausage. Son of a bitch! Somebody needs their ass kicked.”
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u/Alternative_Row_8671 Mar 25 '24
Bruh.... Thank the good Lord for Costco. Father of 5. This hit me in the feels... Now I need this sticker 🤘
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u/PatAD South Asheville 🚧🏢🚧 Mar 21 '24
A majority of family recipes (that consider family size to be 4 people) that use ground beef require 1 lb. of beef, so this implies that they have a big family. At least that is what I would think, unless the guy who gets out of the car is 500 lbs., then I might think something else.