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re: Tell me you were poor without telling me you were poor
Posted on 12/11/24 at 5:09 am to CrawfishElvis
Posted on 12/11/24 at 5:09 am to CrawfishElvis
Anything with the 1lb chubs of hamburger meat…. Mostly spaghetti. To this day spaghetti is my least favorite meal.
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Posted on 12/11/24 at 5:43 am to Duane Dibbley
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black cherry Shasta.
Man I used to love that.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 6:46 am to LSUlefty
Potted meat and onion sandwiches. Shasta had Tiki Punch too! That and black cherry were my faves
Posted on 12/11/24 at 7:28 am to CrawfishElvis
“Put some water in the bottle, shake it up. More Tussin”
This post was edited on 12/11/24 at 7:30 am
Posted on 12/11/24 at 7:33 am to kook
we were low income but fortunately my grandparents owned a small grocery store/butcher shop so we always got what didn’t sell
round steak & rice/gravy was a staple
lots of casseroles
deviled ham for lunch
tang, kool aid and country tyme
pineapple salad, pear salad
round steak & rice/gravy was a staple
lots of casseroles
deviled ham for lunch
tang, kool aid and country tyme
pineapple salad, pear salad
Posted on 12/11/24 at 7:47 am to DR93Berlin
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If we got soda, it was Chek cola
Y'all must have been well off, My mom mixed root beer extract with water and told us it was Barq's
We ate mullet 3-4 times a week, watched the sun come up many a morning from the back of the skiff while my dad threw the cast net for supper. If I ever eat another piece of mullet it will be too soon.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 10:10 am to RichJ
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RichJ
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Sometimes mama would sit us around the dinner table, & read us a couple recipes. We had a younger sibling that was hard of hearing, & damned near starved to death…
Name does not check out
Posted on 12/11/24 at 10:11 am to CrawfishElvis
In my mid-20s, I had a girlfriend whose family put hot dogs in their red beans instead of smoked sausage. I think she might’ve been poor, because she didn’t react well when I laughed.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 10:12 am to CrawfishElvis
I still cut up hot dogs and mix with my mac n cheese. Call it redneck jambalaya.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 10:19 am to REB BEER
We had breakfast for dinner often because all we had in the house was flour, eggs, sugar, and milk.
My mom once sent me out around the neighborhood once asking for ingredients and all I came back with what a can of green beans and two potatoes. She boiled them together and it was a mushy mess. I distinctly remember her crying in the next room while I finished eating. I think I was around 5 or 6 at the time. No idea how CPS wasn't called for that one.
On a less sad note, we would have mock oyster. Toast with canned cream of broccoli soup dumped over the top.
Spaghetti and marinara from a jar often. With that powdered parmesan from the green can.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all time.
My mom once sent me out around the neighborhood once asking for ingredients and all I came back with what a can of green beans and two potatoes. She boiled them together and it was a mushy mess. I distinctly remember her crying in the next room while I finished eating. I think I was around 5 or 6 at the time. No idea how CPS wasn't called for that one.
On a less sad note, we would have mock oyster. Toast with canned cream of broccoli soup dumped over the top.
Spaghetti and marinara from a jar often. With that powdered parmesan from the green can.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all time.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 10:33 am to StringedInstruments
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Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all time.
That's not poor people food... Is it?
I don't consider chipped beef on toast poor people food either, but we ate a lot of it, as well as breakfast for dinner, but I never asked why. Getting a jar of peanut butter in college at Christmas, wrapped under the tree, is a glorious sign of depression era grandparents.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 10:36 am to CrawfishElvis
We weren't poor, just broke. 
My mom is/was an excellent cook. Owned her own bakery/lunch place for awhile, so we ate pretty good when she cooked, but when it was take care of yourself night, whew...
Cheapest hot dogs and white bread we could find. Not buns, just fold a piece of white bread for the bun. Would eat that 2-3 times a week.
Grandparents owned a deer processing place, so lots of tenderized deer meat and mashed potatoes nights.
Off brand poptarts and cereal.
Diet Dr. Thunder instead of Dr. Pepper.
That being said... I'd give just about anything to go back and have a deer meat and mashed potatoes, or mom cook breakfast for supper, while we stand in front of that old fireplace watching the Holiday or Alamo Bowl, and just talk to my dad again about where we were going to try to hunt the next morning and what we did or didn't see that afternoon.
My mom is/was an excellent cook. Owned her own bakery/lunch place for awhile, so we ate pretty good when she cooked, but when it was take care of yourself night, whew...
Cheapest hot dogs and white bread we could find. Not buns, just fold a piece of white bread for the bun. Would eat that 2-3 times a week.
Grandparents owned a deer processing place, so lots of tenderized deer meat and mashed potatoes nights.
Off brand poptarts and cereal.
Diet Dr. Thunder instead of Dr. Pepper.
That being said... I'd give just about anything to go back and have a deer meat and mashed potatoes, or mom cook breakfast for supper, while we stand in front of that old fireplace watching the Holiday or Alamo Bowl, and just talk to my dad again about where we were going to try to hunt the next morning and what we did or didn't see that afternoon.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 11:25 am to prostyleoffensetime
Hot dogs with white bread bun
Kool aid pitcher and kool aid cups from the coupons cut from koolaid packs
lot of hamburger helper
We weren't poor we were just broke as was already said. My mom grew up poor so she'd always make us act like we had it good.
I'll never forget we were living on the air force base most of my life and my mom would absolutely rag me for leaving the lights on, and electricity was free on base. She'd always say "yeah but one day you won't live on base and I'll have to pay for it"
Kool aid pitcher and kool aid cups from the coupons cut from koolaid packs
lot of hamburger helper
We weren't poor we were just broke as was already said. My mom grew up poor so she'd always make us act like we had it good.
I'll never forget we were living on the air force base most of my life and my mom would absolutely rag me for leaving the lights on, and electricity was free on base. She'd always say "yeah but one day you won't live on base and I'll have to pay for it"
Posted on 12/11/24 at 11:40 am to CrawfishElvis
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Also anything we ate with rice
This was every meal for us. Cook meat with a gravy, with a can of green beans or peas, and rice. Rice is a cheap filler and my mom took full advantage of that.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 11:47 am to Sea Hoss
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My mom mixed root beer extract with water and told us it was Barq's
Zatarain's Root Beer Extract was a staple in our house too. Also, back before lemons got to be so much less than they are today, lots of fresh lemonade and lots of iced tea.
I have a bottle of Zatarain's Root Beer extract in my pantry now and will make a pitcher every now and then for old time's sake.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 12:22 pm to CrawfishElvis
A splurge to us was a fishing trip in a rented bateau boat, along with shasta cola and some off brand chocolate cake snacks.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 12:36 pm to CrawfishElvis
My mom would make hamburger steaks and gravy. Always billed it as a “special meal.”
Figured out later that 30 or 40 years ago, with a few potatoes and a pound of hamburger, you could feed six people that way for like $1.75 total.
She still makes it when everyone’s home sometimes now, but we splurge for the two pound pack.
Figured out later that 30 or 40 years ago, with a few potatoes and a pound of hamburger, you could feed six people that way for like $1.75 total.
She still makes it when everyone’s home sometimes now, but we splurge for the two pound pack.
This post was edited on 12/11/24 at 12:38 pm
Posted on 12/11/24 at 12:48 pm to CrawfishElvis
We had leftover soup. Leftovers were turned into soup which we ate on Friday night with cornbread.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 12:50 pm to CrawfishElvis
I never had fresh broccoli until I was at a friends house in high school. We always had the frozen bricks of vegetables.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 1:18 pm to CrawfishElvis
My brother and I had a fast food circuit in highschool.
We knew when one of our friends was working at McDonald’s. He’d ring up whatever we ordered as 1.99 total.
We had a friend at Pizza Hut who would just go make us a pizza and not charge us when he was working.
Our biggest hookup was my now sister in law. She worked at KFC. When she was on the closing team, they were instructed at a certain time to start adding what was left to orders for free or it would just get thrown out. She’d make sure they made some fresh batches as late as she could get away with. We’d go in and order one biscuit and leave with bags of KFC.
We knew when one of our friends was working at McDonald’s. He’d ring up whatever we ordered as 1.99 total.
We had a friend at Pizza Hut who would just go make us a pizza and not charge us when he was working.
Our biggest hookup was my now sister in law. She worked at KFC. When she was on the closing team, they were instructed at a certain time to start adding what was left to orders for free or it would just get thrown out. She’d make sure they made some fresh batches as late as she could get away with. We’d go in and order one biscuit and leave with bags of KFC.
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