A Supper that tells people you grew up poor without saying you grew up poor

[ThunderKiss1965]

Fish cakes made of canned Mackerel.....Damn, I hated those things.

Hamburger Helper. I loath that shit. It's one of the reasons today that I don't mind paying a higher price for good food.

 

[Sunni Man]

SPAM ....

 

[deannalw]

A syrup sandwich was movin on up.

Syrup and peanut butter was ooh la la

 

[1srelluc]

SPAM ....

Thin sliced, fried crisp, on a potato roll with a slice of red onion topped with honey mustard.

Not bad at all!

 

[1srelluc]

Haven't had that in a long time.

Pan fried rabbit is good, though.

These rabbits out here munching on my Black Eyed Susans don't know how lucky they are that I haven't had a taste for em lately.

The local Martins has rabbit meat. I buy one on occasion.....When I run out of squirrel.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

fried rabbit and potatoes

Breaded and fried rabbit is better than chicken.

 

[the watcher]

I wish I could find some now. I miss wild duck and rice too.

 

[the watcher]

country boy will survive

 

[MayorQuimby]

LOL....My mom made terrible meatloaf. Stretching was a kind word for it.

One day at supper I was gumming the bready concoction down and mom asked me "don't you like it?"......I told her the meatloaf at school was a lot better....I was not lying either.

She did not say anything but that was the last time she made meatloaf.

You broke your mom's plugged up little heart.

 

[Care4all]

But, no, you ain't poor until you've had a sugar sandwich. lolol...

A what? Never heard about that option!

 

[Care4all]

Breaded and fried rabbit is better than chicken.

We have a lot of snow shoe hares around here and my cat loves them! She's an assassin... Killed as many as 7 in one day, it was a chaotic nightmare, she had killed 4 and bit their heads off before I got outside and saw what she did and tried to stop her....finally I gave up and went back inside so I didn't have to see the massacre. ( She was a stray cat, before she found us to wait on her hand and foot)

When I went back out many hours later, to view the damage....she was in the process of burying the last one....what the heck? Why was she digging holes and putting them under the dirt?

 

[Natural Citizen]

A what?

A sugar sandwich. lol.

Never heard about that option!

Well, I wouldn't necessarily call it an option.

I'll tell you what, though. Being that kind of poor, particularly in one's developmental years, will for darned sure serve as a lifetime driver to be your very best in everything you do and to put everything you have into achieving success and self-sufficiency over the course of a lifetime.

I was just telling someone else that I've always had far more respect for poor people as human beings than I do for people who have never learned the value in being poor for real.

I think that there will come a time, (I used to say later than sooner, but now I say sooner than later) that average Americans will have to learn how to live and to survive in the poor house the hard way as their purchasing power is dwindled down and as government takes more and more from the fruits of their labor.

Will they survive without screaming for government to print more money, thus further compounding the matter? Will see. It will be a bad time for the uninitiated, though, in my view.

 

[Care4all]

A sugar sandwich. lol.



Well, I wouldn't necessarily call it an option.

I'll tell you what, though. Being that kind of poor, particularly in one's developmental years, will for darned sure serve as a lifetime driver to be your very best in everything you do and to put everything you have into achieving success and self-sufficiency over the course of a lifetime.

I was just telling someone else that I've always had far more respect for poor people as human beings than I do for people who have never learned the value in being poor for real.

I think that there will come a time, (I used to say later than sooner, but now I say sooner than later) that average Americans will have to learn how to live and to survive in the poor house the hard way as their purchasing power is dwindled down and as government takes more and more from the fruits of their labor.

Will they survive without screaming for government to print more money, thus further compounding the matter? Will see. It will be a bad time for the uninitiated, though, in my view.

I went from poor to rich and forgot the poor old days...but the the hubby and I, CHOSE to give it up for a simpler life, a one income...relatively poor life....it was calling us....we didn't really know why...

Now, we are experts on survival, with near nothing but nature and self served ingenuity, and learned manual skills we never had, with land enough to garden and a river (creek) just yards, a close walk....

And now that we are both retired, with two SS incomes and 401ks and traditional IRAs and a couple of smaller company retirement incomes, we are sitting prettier than we had been for the past 20 years living here...still being frugal, which we are now comfortable with, and gained all that surviving and living on nothing skills!

NOW we feel like we were subconsciously lead down this poorer man's road for reason.

 

[the watcher]

I am surprised that government cheese and that powdered milk isn't on the menu.