You add the meat too it, the can is just the sauce
Yes, as I mentioned upthread, I must've been thinking of something else, though offhand I don't know what. Not "canned chili", but maybe some sort of canned (allegedly) meat-laden hot dog "chili sauce"? Dunno, I wasn't paying that much attention - I tend to browse in supermarkets the way some people browse in clothing stores...
But in any event, I happened to notice this stuff on sale at the supermarket this morning, so I bought a can. Despite the ingredients list
* and the facts that it has ten (
!) teaspoons of sugar in the 15.5 ounce can
and that they have the balls to claim that the contents of the can mixed with a
(whole!) pound of ground beef will make "7 servings", no less... (For the record, I went with the "Thick and Chunky" version. Given the option, that somehow seemed preferable to what is presumably the "texture-less and runny"
Original version pictured in the OP.)
I would've put it back on the shelf, laughing mirthlessly, before paying full price for it ($2.39, according to the store receipt) but for a buck, I figured actually trying it was the Right Thing to Do if I was going to make fun of people for eating it... Didn't buy the ground beef yet, though - I'm going to need a day or two to gird my loins before actually cooking and
eating tasting (and then maybe eating) it...
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* I will admit I was pleasantly surprised to find the list not to be "gross", but rather merely "depressing"; to wit: tomato puree (tomato paste, water), high fructose corn syrup, distilled vinegar, less than 2% of: dried green and red bell pepper, : salt, [Yet More!] sugar, chili pepper, tomato fiber, spices, [unspecified] "natural flavors", locust bean gum, guar gum, [and presumably since this is the "thick" version, they spared no expense and, just for good measure, threw in some] xantham gum, dried garlic, citric acid. (In other words, it's basically ketchup mixed with some dried onions and dried bell pepper.<sigh>)
"Another great recipe" - suggested on the label - is, on the other hand, unspeakable. So-called "Turkey Stroganoff" made with this stuff, 20 oz of ground turkey, chopped onion, sliced mushrooms (canned, of course), chicken broth, and the coup de grâce (well, more like "insult added to injury", but at that point, who's counting?), three-quarters of a cup of sour cream. All of which I adds up to what I suppose one could conceivably think of as (a sort of nightmare version of) "Turkey Goulash", but which has only the sour cream in common with Russian recipes for <Anything> Stroganoff...)