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Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:26 Subject: Poor or middle class food

Any restauraunt that is a chain

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:25 Subject: Re:Poor or middle class food

Dear $500k poster: it can be a mob mentality around here once you out yourself as a 1%er. Regardless of what you can add to the discussion, you're dismissed as ignorant, out of touch, lacking empathy, etc. etc. As far as I can gather, other posters blame you for their (sadder) lot in life.

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:25 Subject: Poor or middle class food

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boxed macaroni and cheese, frozen chicken, frozen meals for lunch, canned fruit and veg, most boxed cereal, bagged salad, fast food, Applebee's, tgi Fridays and the like...

bagged salad?

boxed cereal? HHI of more than $200K here and we love our Cheerios. Sometimes we mix it up with Honey Nut and damn do we have an awesome week.

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:24 Subject: Poor or middle class food

Anonymous wrote:

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

'Upper's' don't buy ice cream??

Check your reading comprehension at the typepad, evidently.

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:23 Subject: 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?

Just because you've lived wealthy in multiple countries doesn't mean you understand anything.

Yes, you know exactly how I lived there. Because you can see me through the computer.

Kind of a non-denial denial.

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:22 Subject: Poor or middle class food

Anonymous wrote:Olive garden, Outback

OP didn't ask "What do affluent people on DCUM with no first-hand (or even second-hand) experience of poverty in America believe that poor people eat?"

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:22 Subject: Poor or middle class food

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boxed macaroni and cheese, frozen chicken, frozen meals for lunch, canned fruit and veg, most boxed cereal, bagged salad, fast food, Applebee's, tgi Fridays and the like...

Poor people go to sit-down restaurants to pay $10-12 per person for dinner? Your idea of poor must be different from mine.

+1
It's telling that poor=middle class for a lot of these posters.

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:21 Subject: Poor or middle class food

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

'Upper's' don't buy ice cream??

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:19 Subject: Poor or middle class food

Olive garden, Outback

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:18 Subject: Poor or middle class food

Apple Bee, TGIF

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:18 Subject: Poor or middle class food

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm rich bitch and I don't go a year without my annual dinner of beans and franks. I've graduated from Campbell's Pork and Beans and any old hot dog to Bush's Vegetarian Baked Beans and Nathan's hot dogs but it will always be my favorite meal; even when I'm CEO.

And with a real Pepsi!

Rich Bitch too

I heart you! Forgot about the Pepsi. I haven't had soda in almost 15 years but I sure remember the awesome taste of a an ice cold Pepsi. Yum!!!

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:15 Subject: Poor or middle class food

Op here: what a huge variety of responses!

I am asking this question because I grew up in the Midwest and recently relocated to an urban area and what the 'rich' ate in my hometown is what the 'poor' and 'middle class' eat here... We had no whole foods, trader joes etc. We had walmart and a handful Ma and Pop grocery stores/resteraunts l.

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:13 Subject: Poor or middle class food

Anonymous wrote:Boxed macaroni and cheese, frozen chicken, frozen meals for lunch, canned fruit and veg, most boxed cereal, bagged salad, fast food, Applebee's, tgi Fridays and the like...

Poor people go to sit-down restaurants to pay $10-12 per person for dinner? Your idea of poor must be different from mine.

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:07 Subject: Poor or middle class food

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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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?

Just because you've lived wealthy in multiple countries doesn't mean you understand anything.

Yes, you know exactly how I lived there. Because you can see me through the computer.

Anonymous

05/02/2014 14:06 Subject: Poor or middle class food

Anonymous wrote:I grew up a poor and ate way better than most poors now. My mom could not afford the sodas, mac-n-cheese boxes, and hamburger helper.

We ate baked chicken, baked potato, and steamed broccoli all.the.time for dinner. Next of course came the chicken noodle soup made from the carcass.

Lots of PB&J for lunch, popcorn for snacks, and oatmeal for breakfast. We ate much healthier as a poor than as a rich now.

Nothing's stopping you from eating that way again.

And I do remember when junk like Hamburger Helper was relatively expensive - now if you live near a Big Lots, it's marked down to 1.29. Of course, you still have to buy the hamburger.