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Can you even call it meat loaf without bread crumbs or some other filler?
As someone who grew up poor, I thought the whole point of meatloaf was to add cheap filler to ground meat to make it "go" further.
When you have 6lbs of meat you don't need filler.
Exactly the point.
Bread crumbs, carrots, onions, even celery. All filler elements to make the meatloaf taste better and go further.
It's a WW2 meal designed to make rationed meat go further.
How is that recipe not just a giant baked burger?
It makes my colon cringe
That's more or less what meat loaf is, eat it with some greens and it's a decent cheap meal that's pretty easy and quick to make; throw shit into a big bowl and hand mix (or it was before Trump ruined the price of beef)
Meatloaf requires bread crumbs or Oats to make it a "loaf".
We used corn flakes, 3 eggs (had chickens, have them now too), Worcestershire, onions, and maybe celery, mixing it by hand was good fun to me for some reason. As an adult when I started growing mushrooms, I added a bunch from a flush that produced way too many to use and was starting to go bad, and omg I love it that way now! (Not necessarily mushrooms on the edge of going bad, but is a good way to use a lot up and freeze for later meals!)
It's also there so the proteins from the meat don't all bind together and turn your meatloaf into a meatbrick.
My mom (and consequently, so do I now) would use quick oats instead of bread crumbs. Add in an egg, onion, green pepper, maybe celery. Now it's sounding really good, haven't made this in a while, thinking I'll have to do that this weekend.