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[–] Daucus7 0 points 26 points (+26|-0) ago 

Growing up, my family was really poor so we ate a lot of rice and beans and eggs and frozen vegetables. We couldn't afford Hot Pockets or soda pop or tortilla chips or whatever candy or junk food there was. Mac 'n' Cheese was a treat.

People who whine that they can't afford to eat healthy because they can't get whatever highfalutin shit at Whole Foods just piss me off. You're not poor - you're stupid.

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[–] Lilina 0 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago 

The stupidity is why the hams are poor.

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[–] OOZING_CURVES 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

It's also why they're hams in the first place.

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[–] biddle [S] 0 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Fuck yes. What did me pa put on the table with his 500/month SNAPS? We ate mac n cheese, Velveeta ramen, canned pork n beans, Campbell's casseroles with Doritos crushed up on them, lots of cheap glazed rolls and donuts and chips, Dew instead of water, fried toast, SPAM, fried baloney, and a shit ton of ground beef and hot dogs and potato hash. Seasonings? Ketchup. No vegetables. No way in hell this is poor people food. My father was just fucking lazy and didn't give a single thought to budgeting or eating healthy, despite not working.

Why is my whole family rail-thin? All of them are meth addicts, and none of them have cars. Plus, they're outside all day like grown-ass hooligans.

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[–] hiddenbutt 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

My sister does a lot of work with impoverished minorities in public schools. One family got onto SNAP, and the mom was remarking that they were eating like kings now. They went from 200$ a month for food to 400$ a month for food. And you can bet they weren't buying processed crap with it. If you don't buy processed crap, you can eat steak and lobster and roasts almost every night on SNAP.