I don’t know why someone on the internet thought it would be a good idea to actually ask the folks at Hamburger Helper what exactly is inside “Lefty” the glove mascot. But now that they did, thousands of people on the internet really wish they he hadn’t.
It all began with one tweet that has now blossomed into over 570 comments, over 50,000 re-tweets and almost 130,000 likes.
https://twitter.com/soongrowtired/status/919246458494255106
Because, internet, dozens of people decided to take a stab at guessing…
— Joel Carroll (@joelcarroll) October 15, 2017
It's obvious there's an Olympic high diver in there, doing some sorta reverse cowgirl triple-lutz backflip. #b3d pic.twitter.com/v9IMemxwJW
— Sketch2 (@doyousketch2) October 15, 2017
Day 17 #INKTOBER
The anatomy of Hamburger Helper. pic.twitter.com/eXsh6k4oNW
— alisa (@stopdotcom) October 17, 2017
the truth of the #hamburgerhelper mascot, is that there are no bones, but it’s actually the Noid and the California Raisins trapped inside pic.twitter.com/GreTGg4ibM
— Tiny DeMarco (@DeMarcoDraws) October 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/whiteIais/status/919662672450412545
https://twitter.com/ExplorerRowan/status/919394706626367488
The glove is more a chitinous exoskeleton
— Macula (@The_Macula) October 15, 2017
He's obviously a starfish. Five arms surrounding a mouth.
(He has no bones)
— Doctor Sea Monster (@DrSeaMonster) October 15, 2017
Turns out that everyone was wrong. How do we know this? Because Hamburger Helper told us…after at first declining.
I cannot be defined by your so-called human standards
— Hamburger Helper (@helper) October 16, 2017
If I must pic.twitter.com/avKPZm80CX
— Hamburger Helper (@helper) October 16, 2017
I think that is the definition of the phrase “some questions are better left unanswered.”
Twitter agrees…
What the f-
— Rusty (@RustyBean_) October 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/bookmaggot/status/920015233598582784
https://twitter.com/Calebstrfkr/status/920155840367267840
https://twitter.com/skeletonspooky1/status/920031682589163520
— Blaire (@BlaireBitchproj) October 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/sewinggirl28/status/920374283968372736
STOOOOOOOOP
— dawnpop 🍟 (@dawnp0p) October 18, 2017
But why does its hands have fingers?
— Brian Jordan (@briantnjordan) October 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/Phillip9596/status/920460914003910656
https://twitter.com/darth/status/920028653005578240
https://twitter.com/hartja_/status/920014726737752065
https://twitter.com/charamanda_/status/920539803648749568
That course of action there is probably for the best.
H/T Delish