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Do you still eat it?

Cup noodles and yes, I still eat them.

It was more like what we didn't eat: steak. Growing up, I thought steak was something people only ate at restaurants to celebrate a special occasion, not something you might have at home on a weeknight. We ate beef, just not in steak form. It was weird in school when we'd be learning about food groups or in a foreign language class and the teacher would ask a random kid to describe what they had for dinner last night and the kid would say "steak" (or the equivalent in another language). I don't think random steak-eating is actually all that prevalent, even in the US, since my friends usually didn't eat it much, either, regardless of income level, but I think some people just see it as a normal, everyday menu item.

I think part of it is a terminology thing maybe?

Re: What 'poor people' food did you grow up eating?

(Anonymous) - 2017-10-25 00:54 (UTC) - Expand

I’m vegetarian and have been since I was 11, so I’ve still never had steak. Basically the only meat we had was canned tuna, ground beef, chicken in soup or (if we got fast food as a treat) nuggets, turkey at Thanksgiving, and sometimes seafood, when we had company. For some reason bacon only happened on camping trips.

i would eat skirt steak (I think it's called that- -- lean cuts of beef that cook in less than a minute, aka minute steak) when we had money for proper meat. I always thought that was proper good steak. Imagine my surprise when asked which cut was the best and I found out it was not in fact my lean steak if childhood, but the nice fat marblized cut? lol and I was around 20 when this happened.

fried bologna

potato cakes (basically leftover mashed potatoes fried into little patties)

salmon stew (canned salmon simmered in milk with potatoes)

still eat & adore all of them

Kraft mac 'n' cheese with hotdog pieces in it. And no. Kraft mac 'n' cheese has way too much sodium and hotdogs are not for me anymore. I eat horribly, but not those generally. (And I ate other poor people food and still eat poor people food, it's just that was the first example I thought of.)

Re: What 'poor people' food did you grow up eating?

greghousesgf - 2017-10-25 01:49 (UTC) - Expand

I remember eating chicken strips where you would bread them with crushed up chips.

Also, I totally used to make a 'grilled cheese' by microwaving some American cheese between two slices of bread.

Faggots- a sort of English haggis.

No, alas, I live too far away from where I grew up. You can't get the ingredients here.

Re: What 'poor people' food did you grow up eating?

el_regrs - 2017-10-25 01:16 (UTC) - Expand

Spam. We ate it a lot back in the day, and I do like a plate of Hawaiian-style fried rice with pork and Spam in it every once in awhile )with 2 fried eggs on top, woo hoo!!!), but it's not something I seek out on a regular basis (too much sodium, plus it's not exactly cheap "po' folk's food" anymore.

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rosehiptea - 2017-10-25 01:16 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What 'poor people' food did you grow up eating?

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Re: What 'poor people' food did you grow up eating?

(Anonymous) - 2017-10-26 06:31 (UTC) - Expand

Those little deviled ham cans.

And hell no.

Re: What 'poor people' food did you grow up eating?

(Anonymous) - 2017-10-25 01:31 (UTC) - Expand

Does mac n cheese with ground beef count? Cuz then yeah. Sadly, I only really get to eat it for my birthday. =(

Also, does pasteleos (puertorican style empanadas) count? Cuz then definitely. xD

I'm sure there's other stuff I still eat that people consider 'poor people food' but they're just part of my life.

Re: What 'poor people' food did you grow up eating?

(Anonymous) - 2017-10-26 06:37 (UTC) - Expand

Zucchini.

my mom used to make "green soup" which I think was just a bunch of cheap vegetables and some stock pureed. It was good. It's never occurred to me to make my own version of it but maybe I will??

Re: What 'poor people' food did you grow up eating?

(Anonymous) - 2017-10-25 01:18 (UTC) - Expand

(Non fried) cheese sandwiches - just slices of cheddar and pickles between bread

Don't really eat that anymore

Air popped popcorn eaten with milk, like cereal, but with salt instead of sugar. My mom said her mom ate it like that too. And yeah, sometimes I’ll still eat it, especially if I have lots of bills to pay. Cup noodles and instant ramen, and not unless I toss the flavor packets because they have miniscule amounts of meat and I’m vegetarian. We ate a lot of rice and beans and veggie soups, and I still make them.

Boxed mac and cheese with a can of peas and a can of tuna mixed in. Ngl, I loved that, but I don't eat it anymore because it's not very healthy, plus I make my own mac and cheese these days, with real cheese (and sometimes prosciutto if I'm feeling fancy).

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skeletal_history - 2017-10-25 02:33 (UTC) - Expand

is canned ravioli poor people food?

Ramen and yes

It's not so much that we ate poor, but my parents grew up during the Great Depression and on war rations respectively, so we ate EVERYTHING. Nothing was allowed to be left on the plate, and nothing was left unused. Mom's let up on the latter in her old age because she can't be bothered and I can't be bothered unless it's veggie scraps and bones for stock, but we have a big soup cup of bacon grease in the fridge that we cook everything with and reuse until it's gone.

So... I guess I'm gonna go with that. Our 'poor people' food is the accumulated rendered fat of past meals.

Edited 2017-10-25 02:27 (UTC)

Ramen,and yes, still do. When I was a kid, chicken wings were cheap and considered a waste product from the rest of the chicken. This was before buffalo wings got popular. We ate them all the time.

Ramen, and yes, but the ones with fried noodles are now definitely more of a treat. I'll stock some of the "healthier" kind, though.

If canned meats count (canned corned beef, Vienna sausages, sardines, deviled ham, Manwich...), I will still go to town on some sardines and rice or crackers, especially the ones in a tomato sauce. Though I'm more likely to add other things now, as well -- an egg, greens, yogurt, etc.

Our diet was mostly cheap cheese.

Rice, eggs and spam. Cheap, quick to make, and fills you up!

Only on rare occasions, and I tend to avoid spam these days.

it's traditional to my culture/country, but rice and beans errday. Yes, I still eat this. I probably will forever.

pasta made with Vienna sausages/ hot dogs, tv dinners (although those were a treat), crackers with potter meat. I don't eat these much it at all anymore.

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