The Cost of the Mukbang Diet vs. Whole Foods Market Diet

[Anonymous]

We all know that mukbangers love to eat huge quantities of food, and huge quantities of food do add up in costs. We also know that Whole Foods Market has a reputation for "whole paycheck". If the amount of money used for mukbang food were used to buy Whole Foods products, then what can they buy?

Hungry Fatchick

The Hungry Fatchick is a YouTuber who loves doing mukbangs and massive eating challenges. In the above video, she buys and consumes 9 cans of Chef Boyardee Overstuffed Beef Ravioli straight from the can, with a glass of soda on the side. If I were to shop for that at my local Kroger, then that's like $9.00 worth of food.

I could use the money ($9.00) to buy Organic Honeycrisp Apples at Whole Foods for $3.99 a pound. As apples are relatively heavy, weighing at a little more than a pound per apple, I could probably afford 1-2 apples.

Eating only 1-2 apples for a mukbang video would be great for weight loss. Heh-heh.

Nikocado Avocado

Nikocado Avocado is a YouTuber who also loves doing mukbangs and massive eating challenges. In the above video, he buys $100 worth of McDonald's.

Whole Foods Market

Organic White Basmati Rice, 4 lbs/bag, $10.49

Organic Whole Chicken, $3.99/lb, 5-7 lbs/chicken, $19.95 - $27.93

Vital Farms Organic Pasture-raised Eggs, 12 eggs/carton, $6.99

$100 can probably buy a bag of rice, a whole chicken and eggs at Whole Foods Market TWICE! Of course, realistically though, it may be best to reserve $50 for the rice, chicken and eggs, and the rest for fresh or frozen produce.

That can be a whole week's worth of groceries!

The Hunger Diaries TV

This girl buys 5 Big Mac burgers for a mukbang. A single burger costs $3.99, so 5 burgers cost $19.95.

Chopped Frozen Spinach, 1 lb, $1.39

Frozen Vegetable Medley (Carrots, Peas, Green Beans, Corn, Baby Lima Beans), 1 lb, $1.39

Petite Frozen Brussels Sprouts, 1 lb, $1.39

365 Everyday Value® Frozen Cut Okra, 1 lb, $1.49

Frozen Whole Strawberries, 1 lb, $1.99

365 Everyday Value® Frozen Broccoli Florets, 1 lb, $1.99

You can buy those 6 bags of frozen produce twice with the cost of 5 Big Mac burgers. This may be enough food to last you all week!

[ct1243]

Yes these people are sick especially nick and hungry fat chick / both channels are depressing

[Edanurus]

Nick especially, for fat chick it's obviously a fetish thing but for nick it's the drama, people aren't watching him for the mukbang they're waiting for him to break down and start crying, I hoped that it was just a performance thing but I don't think it is after looking into it.

[ct1243]

Exactly nick has gained so much weight to the point he’s dramatic and candy 🍭 is just eating because she enjoys binging / it’s really sad af that she’s getting bigger and eating unhealthy. The moaning she does it cringing 😬

[Pasiton5]

Again I say why stress yourself out over what I've fired with their life if they want to make a video of the selves pigging out so be it it's clear all they want is attention and I don't know about you but I'm not that desperate to give it to them but if they can afford to eat their way from ever getting it the house without cutting the side out what can I say we are our own individual free to do as we please not to judge who is right or wrong we only have an idea of what is and isn't what do I know,

[Edanurus]

The problem here is that mukbang is not a diet it's content.

It's unhealthy for sure but it's not a diet. It's not like these people are doing it for the pleasure it's about the money it generates for something that takes no skill.

Take big mac girl, she ate 5 big macs and spent $20, has about 300k views on that video and on average its $2 per 1k views so she didn't spend $20 she made $580. She makes 2 videos per week from the looks of it so that's 104 videos per year, if each video has roughly the same views on each video then that is roughly $60k a year for an hours "work" a week. And that's before you take into account things like patreon and super chats.

Your argument isn't incorrect however it is irrelevant.

[myTake Owner]

"Diet" actually has two meanings.
1. the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats.
2. a special course of food to which one restricts oneself, either to lose weight or for medical reasons.
You are probably thinking of the 2nd meaning. The first meaning refers to the kind of food. If you eat large quantities of food for a mukbang video, and you primarily thrive on your mukbang feasts, then you essentially have a mukbang diet, or diet of mukbang (feast).

[Edanurus]

Ah i see, no the issue hear is that you are defining Mukbang as gorging and that's not entirely true.

Mukbang is a form of entertainment where you film, whether for a video or livestream yourself eating large quantities of food. Another name it went by was "eating show". It's not the act of gorging that makes it a mukbang it's doing it for an audience.

Back to big mac lass. Your argument is that she would be financially better off by buying a weeks worth of food when eating those 5 burgers net her enough by your figures for half a years worth of groceries. The financial argument falls apart there.

Mukbang is basically a form of soft core porn. It's about the show not that that's what they're eating. It's for people with a feeding fetish.

[myTake Owner]

1. Mukbang is essentially a form of entertainment of people gorging on/feasting on food. The people are still eating huge quantities of food. If a Mukbanger eats like Nikocado Avocado and broadcasts a mukbang every single day, then he/she essentially eats a huge amount of food every single day. I am not focused on the definition of mukbang; I'm focused on the HUGE quantity of food that a mukbang would entail.

2. You keep focusing on the broadcast component of the mukbang, while I am focusing on the food aspect of the mukbang. If that person buys/eats 5 Big Mac burgers WITHOUT a mukbang broadcast, then that's still a great feast. I merely use the word "mukbang" to mean a "great feast", focusing on the food/eating, not the broadcasting. *mukbang* can be broken down into *muk* and *bang*. *muk* means to eat, and *bang* means to broadcast.

I know what mukbang is, dumbass.

[Edanurus]

Well that's rude.

[Massageman]

Our food budget is under $40.00 USD per week for the two of us seniors, and trust me, we are not underfed. (This does NOT include any meals purchased at restaurants) and that is a treat, not a regular thing).

The USDA puts a "thrifty" (read that as "low") food budget at about $85-87 per week for two adults. I just can't figure out what we are doing wrong! Wait. I've got it! We don't stuff our faces full of food until we puke so that people can watch us throw up!

[myTake Owner]

- Some people like to go out to eat or order food/grocery/meal delivery. That raises the cost of food.
- Some people live in expensive locations, like New York City. That also raises the cost of food.
- Some people are loyal organic shoppers, and they only buy natural & organic products for everything - food, body & hair care products. This, of course, raises the cost of food.
- Some people buy non-essentials at the supermarket or make impulsive buys.
- Some people want convenience, so they have to pay extra for that.
- Some people just buy everything they need at ONE grocery store, and they refuse to jump from store to store to find better deals.

[Anonymous]

Hungryfatchick gets a monthly stipends
She apparently went through abuse she mom and dad both heroin addicts.
She has two children that don’t live with her.
Along with monthly stipends, she receives money from YouTube, her porn, and something else I can’t remember if it’s from disability.

[ct1243]

Wow thought she had 1 kid

[Opinion Owner]

It’s two, she spoke about in one of a series of her videos. I don’t remember I don’t follow her anymore ever since she allowed racist slurs to be accepted in her live chat I can’t support anyone like that. I think she is prejudice. She could’ve disabled the racist comments from 5 of her biggest fans but she didn’t. She even told her moderators it was okay after I tried to confront her bout it. She has two kids whenever she would do porn a while back I think they are living with friends and sometimes go to grandma house but I know for a fact her dad died of a heroin od

[John_Doesnt]

Or you could shop at a normal grocery store. I don't see what the problem is with Ralph's or Albertson's or Walmart.

[Ryfyle]

You lose clout if your social media followers find you in a walmart.

[mrgspoter]

Nobody's going to follow all that who even eats that way really, I think there are better ways to be healthy it's not just about food I do know some people who eat low quality crap and are really old and don't look unhealthy it's all luck of how body deals with things

[hornyafbi69]

Whole foods a freaking scam all natural right okay how can you as whole foods show me no pesticides or fertilizer from the field of tomatoes right next to the ones you have that uses pesticides?

[19magic]

Or you can buy all these foods from walmart since you seem to be from USA and get about 10x the amount of food you stated here

[4eyes2mouths]

Aldi would be a better choice

[19magic]

I have no idea what shops are there, I've never been, hell I've never left Europe

[4eyes2mouths]

I feel you lol I never left the US because fuck planes

[Edanurus]

You have Aldi in the US? I thought it was a Europe thing personally.

[4eyes2mouths]

Yeah we have Aldi and Lidl

[ryancg]

Is it called mukbang because those people kinda look like the Pokemon Muk? 😂

[Wewladdy]

Stop trying to push your vegan crap you bug eating soy sipping freak

[19magic]

You do realise vegans don't eat chicken or eggs right?

[Wewladdy]

I honestly couldn't care less what the difference is between vegan and vegetarian, they're both mentally ill.

[myTake Owner]

Chicken is meat.

[I_want_a_moustache]

Off topic but my dad used to feed me those chef boyardee ravioli I used to love them as a kid. Thinking back now I didn’t even know it was meat because of the texture.

[Anonymous]

Tbh I’d like to be able to eat that much so I can actually get somewhere with my weight gain diet now… I need a lot of calories to gain :/

[Edanurus]

That wouldn't work. Gaining weight and losing weight is exactly the same procedure, Healthy diet and exercise. You can't gain weight by eating lots of junk because it will just speed up your metabolism putting you further back.

[SupremeWarlord]

I would buy healthy foods even if they are much more expensive because there's no price in being healthy.

[ManHater]

I would pay good money to see one of these people have a heart attack right in the middle of stuffing their faces.

[ct1243]

So cruel

[tHISpLACEiSbONKERZ]

I'm here to say that people who look like Hungry Fatchick just should be put down.

[ct1243]

Really a lot of people who watch 🍭 sometimes they help

[tHISpLACEiSbONKERZ]

@ct1243 I don't care, the ammount of animals that need to die to support her gluttony is too great for me to wish her well.

[ct1243]

I don’t watch her it is sad though and in humane

[hahahmm]

Do you really think you’re helping anyone here?

[havingfun101]

So calorie load and rage workouts or?

[honestGUY45]

*She buys 9, eats only 5.

[honestGUY45]

Mmmmm, yummy. But I think I'll just take a pass and report you.

[zaighumzahid1122]

these people were very hunger

[scarlett774]

I love Whole Foods