A random poll about being broke & eating
1. E: College student funded by family
- Cost cutting
- Cheap food (ramen)
- Mooching
- Fruits, oatmeal
2. R: Disability recipient, lives with roommate
- Food Bank
- Ramen
- Canned/boxed stuff
3. My folks: Welfare days, earlier years; family of 4
- Ramen
- Cheap meat
- Discount fruit
- Crap brand stuff
- Shake n' bake chicken (it WAS cheap once)/pork
- Assorted vegetables
4. Me: Disability recipient, lives alone
- Ramen
- Homemade soup
- Fruit
- Cheap, bulk meat
- Sandwiches (using of pre-sliced meat)
5. A: Swedish college student in the UK
- College-provided meals
- College canteen; paid along with rent
- Fried things
- Root vegetables (ie: carrot)
6. K: Job hunter, lives all over
- Rice
- Mac n' Cheese
- Ramen
- Boxed/canned stuff?
The thing I keep thinking is, "Damn -- none of this shit is really all that good for you". I recall a comedian saying that lobster used to be a food for the poor, plentiful and unappreciated; now only the well-off can afford it. Such is the same with produce. The question becomes: will the rich eventually take Mac n' cheese for themselves? What will we, the dregs, be left with?
- Cost cutting
- Cheap food (ramen)
- Mooching
- Fruits, oatmeal
2. R: Disability recipient, lives with roommate
- Food Bank
- Ramen
- Canned/boxed stuff
3. My folks: Welfare days, earlier years; family of 4
- Ramen
- Cheap meat
- Discount fruit
- Crap brand stuff
- Shake n' bake chicken (it WAS cheap once)/pork
- Assorted vegetables
4. Me: Disability recipient, lives alone
- Ramen
- Homemade soup
- Fruit
- Cheap, bulk meat
- Sandwiches (using of pre-sliced meat)
5. A: Swedish college student in the UK
- College-provided meals
- College canteen; paid along with rent
- Fried things
- Root vegetables (ie: carrot)
6. K: Job hunter, lives all over
- Rice
- Mac n' Cheese
- Ramen
- Boxed/canned stuff?
The thing I keep thinking is, "Damn -- none of this shit is really all that good for you". I recall a comedian saying that lobster used to be a food for the poor, plentiful and unappreciated; now only the well-off can afford it. Such is the same with produce. The question becomes: will the rich eventually take Mac n' cheese for themselves? What will we, the dregs, be left with?