I had some English muffin pizzas tonight for dinner

2/5/2009 8:18:40 AM

2/5/2009 8:22:06 AM

you aren't familiar with being poor I see.

my father had me when he was 49...so he was old. he grew up in the great depression...on a farm. he actually acquired a taste for the crap they had to eat. one thing i remember him having was bread soaked in milk

2/5/2009 8:25:35 AM

tuna salad sandwich
egg salad sandwich
raman


psff at your pizza muffins

2/5/2009 8:28:42 AM

^ Tuna salad is baller son. Have you seen the price on a can of tuna these days?

^^ This is poor people food, not despotic walks uphill in the snow both ways to school people food Some of the stuff my great-grandparents would eat definitely made me go as a kid.

2/5/2009 8:43:27 AM

tuna has gotten more 'spehnsilve. its like 70 cents or some shit now

2/5/2009 8:49:10 AM

my dad yells at me when i tell him how i love to eat biscuits, because he thinks it's poor people food (he lives out west and not from this area).

2/5/2009 8:56:23 AM

like regular ole biscuits? pillsbury grands kinda shit?

or is there another food that's called a biscuit too?

I BE CONFUSED

2/5/2009 8:58:31 AM

yeah just regular old biscuits (not cookies, i think the british call cookies biscuits)

2/5/2009 8:59:20 AM

I didn't know that was poor people food

I can't afford biscuits and I'm poor lol

2/5/2009 9:00:49 AM

You can make about five or six meals for about 4 dollars if you buy the dried beans instead of canned. Of course, you pay for it twice. Once with money and once with toilet paper.



Chicken Pastry -- shit you can feed two or three people for about three days for around 7 dollars if you get a whole chicken on sale.

2/5/2009 9:01:02 AM

RICE AND BEANS

2/5/2009 9:01:40 AM

Mac and cheese is probably a top 10 favorite food of mine

I would eat it every day if it wasn't so unhealthy

2/5/2009 9:04:11 AM

back in the 1930's, I used to eat rooster gonads for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

2/5/2009 9:06:34 AM

2/5/2009 9:06:47 AM

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"my dad yells at me when i tell him how i love to eat [some food], because he thinks it's poor people food"

Um, not to be a jerk or anything, but your dad's got issues.
* * cough cough pretentious snob cough * *

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"whole chicken on sale"

This is the key.
Also, don't throw any part of it away unless even your dog wouldn't eat it.

2/5/2009 9:07:17 AM

^you suck so hard

2/5/2009 9:08:31 AM

man poor people are stupid for not eating fresh vegetables

all the people in my neighborhood are getting fucking diabetes from buying mac and cheese and twinkies and hawaiian punch with their food stamps

I mean you could get a pound of carrots and a pound of cabbage for under a dollar and people INSIST on eating refined sugars

2/5/2009 9:09:44 AM

^^
Why? Because his her dad's a pretentious snob, and I pointed it out?
Pretentious snobs fucking suck, way worse than cynics like me. They need to be castigated.

or is it because I don't waste chicken?

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"man poor people are stupid for not eating fresh frozen vegetables"

way way way way cheaper (with very few "seasonal" exceptions)

[cabbage and carrots are pretty cheap, though...]

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"all the people in my neighborhood are getting fucking diabetes"

So...
Can't the government just steal more of my money to take care of that?

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 9:18 AM. Reason : ]

2/5/2009 9:12:04 AM

Personally I feel like food stamps should be run more like the WIC program.

Considering Food Dawg has carrots on sale right now for $2, I'm not sure where you could get carrots and cabbage for $1 or less. Maybe the Farmer's Market?

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 9:16 AM. Reason : ,]

2/5/2009 9:14:13 AM

i'm not a he. my dad isn't a pretentious snob at all, which makes it all funny to me. i mean, his scolding me about the biscuits is done in a joking manner.

2/5/2009 9:15:39 AM

2/5/2009 9:16:14 AM

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"i'm not a he"

my bad

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 9:20 AM. Reason : perhaps 'jokes' would have been a better word than 'yells'.....]

2/5/2009 9:17:25 AM

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"Considering Food Dawg has carrots on sale right now for $2, I'm not sure where you could get carrots and cabbage for $1 or less. Maybe the Farmer's Market?"

$2 a pound? that's fucking highway robbery

I pay $0.59/lb in NYC

cabbage is $0.38-0.42/lb

2/5/2009 9:17:59 AM

It's $2 for 2 pounds but you still need a cabbage in there somewhere

2/5/2009 9:19:41 AM

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"NYC"

because NYC isn't an exceptional case

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 9:21 AM. Reason : ]

2/5/2009 9:21:46 AM

I agree with Snewf. I grew up under the impression that fresh veggies were expensive.

But those shits are so cheap compared to potato chips and oatmeal cream pies, which are waaaay overpriced considering the nutrition involved. I had a realization when I was standing in line with a cart full of junk, and I was like, "WTF? I'm seriously waiting in line to overpay for some food that's gonna kill me? Something ain't right here." Now I look at junk food, and I just think about how if I'm gonna go unhealthy, I'd rather have beer.

2/5/2009 9:23:27 AM

yea but you have to make up a reason to eat them within a few days or you just wasted good money

fresh veggies aint a poor, working persons food

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 9:52 AM. Reason : d]

2/5/2009 9:52:07 AM

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"Also, don't throw any part of it away unless even your dog wouldn't eat it."

you dont give your dog chicken bones do you?

2/5/2009 9:57:12 AM

well, of course you don't give dogs [cooked] chicken bones....

2/5/2009 10:01:52 AM

just making sure

that's not good!

2/5/2009 10:06:08 AM

puppies

you don't give puppies chicken bones


dogs have been gnawing on bones a lot longer than we have been babying them

2/5/2009 10:12:59 AM

you can give dogs other bones but chicken bone earrings splinter really easy

2/5/2009 10:15:54 AM

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"dogs have been gnawing on bones a lot longer than we have been babying them"

this is a smart woman that knows wassup

2/5/2009 10:17:06 AM

3 Carrots, 2 Potatoes, Can of diced tomatoes, 3 celery, 2 onions, bag of mixed meggies, vegetable broth
+
slow cooker
=
$12.00 for 5+ meals.

2/5/2009 10:17:38 AM

she's just a pro at gnawing bones

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 10:18 AM. Reason : e]

2/5/2009 10:17:43 AM

yall cant forget lemon juice sugar and water

that drank will last ya two weeks

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 10:18 AM. Reason : d]

2/5/2009 10:18:34 AM

that's what i drank with my supper at outback the other night

2/5/2009 10:21:14 AM

Why not just a box of 100 tea bags and some sugar? You can drink on that for well over a month.

2/5/2009 10:21:53 AM

of all people I expected LP to come in here with some mentions of Hamburger Helper!

2/5/2009 10:22:43 AM

Quote :

"lemon"

Quote :

"tea"

or....just water

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 10:23 AM. Reason : ]

2/5/2009 10:22:58 AM

i haven't really even read the thread...haha

and hamburger can be expensive...it's only poor people food when you just eat the helper

2/5/2009 10:24:10 AM

that steak was yummy. <3 outback.

2/5/2009 10:25:38 AM

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"...it's only poor people food when you just eat the helper"

Even that is too expensive:

big bag of noodles + dollar store bouillon/seasoning = quarter price hamburger helper

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"that steak was yummy. <3 outback."

That's right!....
Don't forget dumpster diving outside steakhouses!

2/5/2009 10:29:59 AM

ha nah. outback giftcard ftw.

2/5/2009 10:30:57 AM

oh my god that reminds me

i worked at an outback the summer after my freshman year

it was july, we had to cook steaks for a function, so the cooks had been in all morning preppin like 400 steaks

well, the meat, prior to being carved came in these large plastic bags, and residual blood

in the effort of doing like 400 of them, they had been tossing the bloody bags out the back door

i walked in, as the manager was making the bus boys pick up the piles of blood bags that had been out in the july heat for 5+hours and transfer them to the dumpsters

the smell was the worst thing i've ever experienced, and im pretty sure all but one of them vomited

i'd have quit

2/5/2009 10:32:43 AM

good thing the health inspector didn't show up that day

and nice random story

2/5/2009 10:36:25 AM

2/5/2009 10:36:34 AM

lol my friend got fired from outback back in HS when someone dooked in the lobster tank

no one knew who did it but he got blamed

He still denies it to this day, so I'm pretty sure he didn't do it, because thats something you totally admit to doing years later if you did it

2/5/2009 10:37:05 AM

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"Why not just a box of 100 tea bags and some sugar? You can drink on that for well over a month."

i do that too, i make a big ol pot and sit it in the fridge

but i dont always feel like mixing it plus it takes alotta sugar cuz i put alotta tea bags in my tea

lemonjuiceade is a quick mix

2/5/2009 10:42:18 AM