[–] damnbiker 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago (edited ago)
On my way to the gym this morning, I was walking past the Denny's and glanced in; of course everyone was fat, that's not what gave me pause to think. It was that these "people" were most likely spending between $8 and $10, probably every morning, for a breakfast that is slowly killing them, every day before work.
Let's say that they do this 5 days a week, and eat at home on weekends; at an average of $9 a pop. I'm probably erring on the cheap side, but I'm including tip and, to be honest, I don't know what Denny's costs for a breakfast. That's $45 a week, just for greasy breakfasts; that's more than I spend on meat for an entire week. Now, I don't eat a lot of meat (recently reformed vegetarian) but what I do eat is organic, cage free type meat - it's expensive compared to grocery store meat. But it makes more than 5 meals worth, actually closer to 11 meals. Eating healthy is WAY cheaper than eating garbage.
[–] biggerisnotbetter 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Wow, I just did the math on my breakfast, and even counting the spices added, it's less than 60 cents. No tipping needed.
[–] metropolis 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
all of their money goes to food. they have no hobbies, they don't go on vacations, and they especially don't save any money. if they were capale of saving money, they would be capable of losing weight
[–] DammitMoonMoon 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
this is so true and something I've come to learn about hammate. She seriously has no ability to save money. If she has money she spends it on whatever she wants. We are talking about a ham that legit brings in about $3000/month from tax free income, health insurance is govt subsidized, I pay over half the rent (includes utilities) and still find our internet getting turned off because she didn't have the money to pay the bill.
Out buying new, expensive lingerie and very expensive makeup though. Hammate lives up to the Obeast stereotype.
[–] Meep_meep 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago (edited ago)
SIL is a whale and she had food stamps ( she had bad knees and husband had ptsd) yeah . . so no one could work. They spent all their money on junk. They had mountain dew mouth and the stink from their rotting teeth when they would talk was horrible. They never drank water.
Her husband ate nothing but angel hair pasta with butter, dominos pepperoni pizza, thin sliced no sauce, and Doritos. Oh, and straight cooked hamburger meat. That's it.
She would cook pork chops in the oven until they were dried out (no liquid or anything) and pair it with corn. At one point she said she ate raw carrots but her dew teeth got so bad she couldnt chew them (this person weighs 300+lbs last time she went to the Dr.) She won't eat hardly anything during the day but when about 9pm hits she makes corn dogs, hot pockets, those little party pizzas, and she has a constant king size bag of mini Reece cups next to her bed.
Just giving a little insight on how the pigs nearest me eat. All junk, no veg, no chicken, no milk, no eggs, all sugar, salt, and carbs.
Edit: sorry got side tracked. The husband was in the military and pulled disability on top of food stamps. He also half-added school and got some government money from there too. She had disability and they mooch off of his parents from time to time.
That is how they afford all the junk. They don't.
[–] c_i_c_o 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
At one point she said she ate raw carrots but her dew teeth got so bad she couldnt chew them
Oh god, my stomach hurts just reading this. I'm slowly developing a daily carrot habit, and you need to chew these thoroughly so your stomach doesn't get upset.
[–] medved_pls 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
I had this same discussion with my husband, we usually eat home made meals, fruits, veggies, lots of fish since we live by the sea, but once in a blue moon I drive by local burger joint and bring some stuff home and holy shit this is exepnsive, I can't understand how people can do this once or twice a day, I have a full time job but couldn't keep up with this lifestyle if I wanted to.
I eat home cooked meals the majority of the time because it tastes better and I know where the ingredients come from. Even buying quality foods it is much cheaper for me than to eat out at a fast food place, where you also know they're just using the lowest-cost questionable meat they can get their hands on. Fats I've seen at my work really rack up a high bill between their daily Starbeetus and their XL lunch orders with a bunch of sides, sugar drinks, and desserts. Then they hit the vending machine at least once a day and you know when they go home they're microwaving something out of a package for dinner and eating a bag of chips on the drive home. It's a lot of money that I wouldn't want to be wasting daily, especially when it's doing that to your body.
[–] trashpandaparty 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Seriously, had my yearly Big Mac meal over Christmas and it was fucking $9 (granted this was in the Toronto airport). That's a shit ton of chickpeas.
[–] theepilepticferret 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I think that's the norm. I'm about an hour outside Toronto and last time I bought a BigMac meal it cost about the same
[–] The357Cure [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Are you always disappointed by fast food, like I am? The cost is so much greater than the benefit.
[–] medved_pls 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
You're right, I find it expensive just for 2 coke, 2 hamburgers and a few French fries for 2 people, but I didn't put myself in the head of a fatty and now that's even more dramatic. Nah, I should have a side job to be able to afford this, but with this diet the stamina to work 2 jobs wouldn't last long.
[–] 123erdogh 0 points 19 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago
It's because they're disgusting addicts with no self control. They don't care about bankrupting themselves because their tiny little brains are too busy thinking about the next time they'll stuff their faces full of nutritionally-deficient garbage.
[–] RevolutionBetrayed 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Yup. A normal person may spend disposable income on furniture upgrades, concert tickets, outdoor gear, home improvement supplies, the list go on. Not them. For them, it's garbage disposalble income.
[–] NonIssue 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
Exactly. This post made me think about a colleague of mine who was a heavy smoker, over two packs a day. That's a fortune to spend on cigarettes. One day I asked him how can he afford that, as at the time we were both on minimum wage, and his mind blowing answer was that sometimes he skipped rent, " but my landlord is cool with it". The addiction is the first and only priority in the addict's life. That's pretty terrifying actually
[–] diacetylmorfine ago
wow, im a smoker but if it got to the point where i couldnt pay my bills id suck it the fuck up and just go down to two cigarettes a day or something.
[–] Fayutt 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
I was watching a documentary about pill addicts the other day and one guy said he had spent $100k on pills in a single year. I guess where there's a will, there's a way. They'll go to whatever length necessary to serve the addiction.