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⌈ Secret Post #3999 ⌋

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[Louisa May Alcott, Little Men]

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09. [SPOILERS for Stranger Things]

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Judging from the responses I've had at work... eating hotdogs/hamburgers on normal bread instead of specifically hotdog and hamburger buns.

I grew up in a lower class single parent home, so yeah, fancy buns weren't ever getting bought. Things are much better now, and my whole family is solidly middle-class socioeconomically these days, but I mostly work with people who were always middle/upper class and the idea of using bread in lieu of fancy buns is apparently something 'only trailer trash' would do.

(Too bad for them, I still prefer normal bread instead of buns for things like that.)

Yes! My sister's boyfriend thinks it is so weird! But we did it all the time.

Man there's all kinds of poor people food like this. I still don't bother buying buns most of the time bc like why?

Don't forget quesadillas made in the microwave. (Or, peanut butter and jelly or sugar+cinnamon on a tortilla, because they were cheaper than a loaf of bread.) Turning boxed mac n cheese into a "meal" by adding a can of diced tomatoes or some chopped up hot dogs. So many things. I ate so much of that crap as a teenager. Buying a can of vienna sausages as like a "fancy" thing to have hahaha. And one of my favorites was making "dessert" that just consisted of butter on a cold piece of white bread and then sprinkling some sugar on it.

When I moved to the rich kid school, I went over ot people's houses and it was like wtf what is all this food? They had fancy name brand soda rather than just koolaid mix and goldfish crackers or triscuits or something rather than saltines.

YES! I've done all of this and, honestly, my comfort food when I'm feeling down is still a lot of this.

butter on a cold piece of white bread and then sprinkling some sugar on it

I USED TO DO THIS TOO! I didn't even see it as a poverty thing, just as something I could make as a kid (since my parents didn't allow a lot of sweets in the house, which in retrospect *was* partly a financial issue, as well as a health issue, but I didn't get that at the time). I figured it was like cinnamon-sugar toast, but without the toasting or the cinnamon.

And one of my favorites was making "dessert" that just consisted of butter on a cold piece of white bread and then sprinkling some sugar on it.

Brown sugar on hot buttered toast is the best version of this. I still make this when I feel like a sweet snack. :)

That dollar bread solved many issues ! Hotdogs were had in these when we didn't have buns or they weren't on sale. And we'd but the store/off brand buns. And if we had buns, but no sliced bread, yes, we made sandwiches of all sorts in those.

My family definitely wasn't rich but I wouldn't call us poor either - and this is something we did. Sometimes we had buns if we were having a barbecue? but most of the time, burgers were a QUICK meal that we made when we didn't feel like cooking a big thing, or when we were just craving burgers, and who wants to go out just for buns when we have perfectly useful bread right here? with the cost of the buns and the gas, it's wasteful as well as inconvenient, also not something I EVER thought twice about or figured anyone would judge me for

but I tend to not like people who call other people "trash", so

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