Poor or middle class food

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Anonymous wrote:Beans and rice

Hunh?

Our HHI is $500k, and this is one of my kids' favorite meals. Black beans and rice. Who knew it was poor food??

Are you a complete moron? What are the staples of indigenous people in Latin America? rice and beans. India? Lentils/ beans and rice.

Why do you think they are staples, cheap and together rice and beans form a complete protein.

Maybe you need to get out of your sheltered $500k HHI world and see how others live before you say stupid things.

I've actually lived in India. Have you?

And yet you still managed to make light of what millions (billions??) of poor people around the world are forced to eat to keep from starving? Bravo.

Oh STFU. She didn't make light and she didn't act like she was slumming it. Beans and rice is a meal that transcends SES boundaries. Tasty, healthy, simple and amazingly free of additives.

Oh and high-fives to 500k poster for not putting your kids on some shitty paleo diet.

This is what I took away from her post, as well.

I also took that away from her response.

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Mac and cheese with hot dogs
Fried egg and fried bologna sandwich
Fruit cocktail

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Anonymous wrote:What would you determine 'poor' or 'middle class' foods?

I mean the actual products, meals, restaurants

Why do you need to know?

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Cool Whip, Soda, any drinks with sugar (sweet tea, Hawaiian Punch, etc), “salads” with marshmallows or gelatin in them, Golden Corral, Applebee’s, TGI Friday’s, Pringle’s, Dinty Moore Stew, Chef Boyardee, Celeste pizzas

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Anonymous wrote:Beans and rice

Maybe for white people, but I know a lot of rich Indians who live off of beans and rice!

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We were poor when I was a child. We are normal food, because my mother cooked everything (a lot of pasta, casseroles and sandwiches). We didn’t get juice as it was too expensive (we got frozen cans of concentrate), so we drank a lot of Koolaid. We also rationed milk and meat, because it wasn’t cheap. We never ate bacon except for Christmas. We didn’t eat at restaurants and we had to share meals at McDonalds for a treat. But I never knew we were poor and my parents loved us very much and we had a happy home.

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This is the most stereotypical DCUM thread ever.

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Anonymous wrote:Beans and rice

I love beans and rice.

It’s healthy, gluten free, filling and delicious.

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Anonymous wrote:Beans and rice

wealthy indians, asians and mexicans eat this often as staples

Wealthy South Americans if any nationality eat this almost daily. Africans and Asians do too.

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Cow milk. Especially the people who make their kid drink it with dinner.

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Chicken anything, most pasta, oat meal, any kind of bottled drinks.

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Anonymous wrote:Vienna sausages. The ice cream that comes in a large plastic bucket (if you get ice cream at all).

Yes! Ice cream screams poor! Same with pies and most sandwiches.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the most stereotypical DCUM thread ever.

A lot of class obsessed, insecure people.

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Anonymous wrote:Any restauraunt that is a chain

Nice to hear that poor people can eat at Ruth's Chris, Bobby Van's, Morton's, Seasons 52, Flemings, etc.
Yank your head out of your ass... moron...

+1

And I'm pretty sure the truly poor aren't wasting their money at Applebee's or Chili's, either. They're trying to get by on rice, eggs and potatoes.

Any restaurant = disposable income.

I'd agree in general, but there are exceptions, especially if you include fast food restaurants.

In college, I used to skip breakfast and lunch and stay for hours at the Wendy's all you can eat salad bar (alas, no longer a thing). That was where I filled up on fresh food and veggies, and I'd do it 2-3 times a week. Proteins, too. On the other days, since I was sleeping in my car, I'd eat mostly shelf-stable carbs and cheap proteins, like bulk boxes of packaged crackers and peanut butter.

There would also be intermittent cheap deals at KFC, where you could get a lot more chicken pre-fried than you could buy uncooked for the same money. I think, maybe, 25 pieces for $9.99 around holidays, like for fourth of July parties? I could keep it in a cooler in the car and share if it was getting too old.