myrtenyaster: fox-bright: ellidfics:invisiblefoxfire:aromaseraphy-lavender:tumakhunter:sine-cosine:
myrtenyaster: fox-bright: ellidfics:invisiblefoxfire:aromaseraphy-lavender:tumakhunter:sine-cosine: an-gremlin: periegesisvoid: theunicornkittenkween: medusaofthesea: scarlettstclair: thequantumqueer: ukeagent21: freejimmer: Why do they want us dead so badly stfu this price on food will keep me alive when I’m starving and putting quarters together to maybe stay alive until my next shift. rich people: why is unhealthy food so cheap? don’t they know we have no self-control and will eat this until it causes health problems? poor people: oh, thank god, something i can afford. Five bucks can buy you so much more though if you take more than five minutes to prepare it. Umm. Idk where you’re buying groceries, but $5 doesn’t get me anything. Lol they want u to live on salted pasta and nothing else. XDDD God forbid people want something cheap that TASTES good. Like- if u have more than $5 u can buy lots of things in bulk and per serving it’s cheaper. But for just straight $5??? Fuck outta here. $5 is like the cost of one spice at a grocery store ffs Yeah for just straight $5 I could maybe buy a bag of rice and a jar of peanut butter, and that’s honestly less complete nutrition than that fast food, which at least has some vegetables in it, some meat, etc. Rich people don’t get that being poor actually costs money. Terry Pratchett summed it up pretty well in one of the Discworld books:“But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.” In fact, it’s such a good example that one widely used term to describe this socioeconomic bullshit is literally ‘Vime’s Boots’ “Five bucks can buy you so much more though if you take more than five minutes to prepare it.” This can actually be true - if you already have a pantry full of staples. The thing a lot of people not living in poverty don’t get is that the poor _don’t have a cupboard full of rice, beans, canned tomatoes, etc_ to build from. Also many poor people actually DON’T have the time. Many have multiple jobs, school, taking care of their siblings/kids. Many are exhausted like all the time. Like can you blame them for wanting to just buy some fast food that takes no time from them vs spending time to prepare, cook, then plate something home-cooked. op’s logic reminds me of a lesson from back in my high school health class. the teacher told everyone to imagine they would be stranded on a desert island for six months and write down what food they would want an infinite supply of to stay as healthy as possible. almost everyone in the class wrote down something like “salad”, “vegetables,” “juice”, etc. things we’d all been told our whole lives were “healthy”.this led to a lesson in nutrition where the teacher explained how badly we’d been misinformed by society when it comes to what “healthy” means. if you’re on a desert island you want eggs, or skin-on potatoes, or organ meat. something that contains lots of calories as well as things like vitamins. even raw sticks of butter would be more useful than salad. we’d all spent our lives in a situation where food was always plentiful and the risk of overeating was greater than the risk of starvation, and we’d internalized that calories were bad for you.he spent several lessons making us understand that you need calories to live. you need fat and carbohydrates. that while it was possible to eat too much and that was a real risk in some cases, that did NOT mean we should think of nutrition as being bad, or eating nutritionally-dense foods as a bad thing. because if we tried to live off of salad and juice we would starve. Anthony Bourdain wrote a scathing critique of what a terrible, out of touch snob organic food guru Alice Waters was. He was right, too. Nights when we’re having, say, rice and homemade chili for dinner? I feed my husband and I for about three bucks.But do you know how many instances of three bucks I had to have at once, for us to have that cheap meal of home-canned chili now? I put by about thirty quarts at once, and we buy our rice in fifty pound bags.And the act of canning itself is pretty cheap–once you have the hundred to four-hundred-dollar canner, and the jars that are a dollar apiece to buy, and the single-use lids that are about a quarter apiece……and come to think of it, the TIME. It takes me three days to make that thirty quarts of chili.When I was scraping by on thirty bucks a week, or thirty bucks for two weeks, to feed myself? I could never have done this. You guys can buy food with $5 ? -- source link
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