Larry the Cable Guy Lasagna Dinner: Why?

"You gotta try it!" The tag line on the Larry the Cable Guy Lasagna Dinner box said it all.. I had to effen try it! One of the reasons Big Lots is perhaps my favorite store ever is because of the rare and sometimes strange products you can find there. And this one certainly qualifies as both. For only one dollar, this was too fun a product to pass up. In this economy, you need to find deals like this. So with that, it earned a spot in my shopping basket right between the sour gummi worms and Jolly Rancher Soda (review of the latter coming up), now that is something you gotta try, Larry.

I got home, eager to try my latest Big Lots fun find but then it hit me. A question that I knew would come up the moment I saw our featured product for the first time... is it worth it to waste a pound of ground beef? Or do I have too much culinary integrity to do such a thing? Of course, it was! I'm not one to take myself seriously, plus my brother pushed me to make it as he's a huge fan of our man of the hour. So three weeks later, I gave it a go and decided to finally make this "lasagna" dinner come to life.

As is the procedure with all Hamburger Helper products and it's rip offs, such as this, all you'll need is one pound of ground beef (or turkey), water, and.... milk??? Why the milk? No thanks Larry, I'm gonna leave out the milk on this one. The thought of adding milk to this mixture grosses me out so I just substituted it with more water. I'm pretty sure it doesn't make much of a difference in the final product. In fact, I'm positive it doesn't. So feel free to do the same if you ever decide to make this yourself.

As expected, the finished product is almost identical to the Hamburger Helper version of "lasagna." If my palate was more refined, I would probably be able to pinpoint the differences, but it's not like I'm a culinary school graduate or anything so let's just leave it at that. My stupid brother enjoyed it... but he was probably just blinded by his love for Larry. As for my opinion... it wasn't terrible. I most likely wouldn't buy it again, but who am I to be snobby about food when so many people in the world are suffering due to a lack of it?