had to eat cereal with a fork so my brothers had some milk.
We were so poor growing up we....
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twangking
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My family was so poor we went to orgies just for the grapes -- Rodney Dangerfield
Harry Styron
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We took turns with the neighbor boiling the soup bone.
Engine Swap
Poster Extraordinaire
We had a bowl of steam for breakfast
doster
Tele-Afflicted
badinfinities
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We had to swing a second mortgage on the trailer just to buy a bag of frozen brussels sprouts.
KyAnne
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Can't post it. I'd be banned for life!
Had to order something from sears twice a year just to get toilet paper.
We could hardly pay rent much less attention.
I know this thread is parody, but a friend of mine (of whom, we joke about our mythical bluegrass/southern rock band called "Gubment Cheaz") once tracked down the actual "Government Cheese" that used to be sent out. Turns out it was (and still is) made by Land O' Lakes, and you can actually buy it. Unfortunately it's only available in "Institutional Packaging". As in, 5.5lb units of fake cheese. We tried to enlist all our friends so we could buy a bucket and divvy it up, but none of them knew what Government Cheese was. Or the cans of pork. Or food stamps, or any of that stuff.
Those poor wealthy kids were missing out. Gov't Cheese was the mad notes on a pasta-bean mulch!
Those poor wealthy kids were missing out. Gov't Cheese was the mad notes on a pasta-bean mulch!
Mongo Park
Tele-Afflicted
We were so poor we couldn’t afford colour, so everything was in Black&White, look at the photos if you don’t believe me.
"Ohhhhh, you had it EEEEEEEEEasyyyyyyyy!"
NHFlyCaster
Tele-Holic
My dad died. My mom didn't drive, and had to bum a ride with the minister somewhere. She made me go too so I was ugly. When we got in the van, he said what's your name? When I didn't answer he said, "if you won't tell me your name then you can't ride in my van.". So I said, "Good, I don't want to ride in your ****ing van anyway!", and got out. My poor mother had to deal with that. How embarrassing!
EDIT:
Eli Mercer was his name, and didn't deserve that. He was a very nice man who used to call people "Friend" when greeting them. I looked him up this afternoon, and discovered his obituary.
It turns out he was quite interesting.
Pastor Eli Mercer
EDIT:
Eli Mercer was his name, and didn't deserve that. He was a very nice man who used to call people "Friend" when greeting them. I looked him up this afternoon, and discovered his obituary.
It turns out he was quite interesting.
Pastor Eli Mercer
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We’d go to KFC to lick other people’s fingers
Dad got me an air guitar for Christmas
We were so poor we got our toaster with S&H Green stamps
Thebluesman
Tele-Afflicted
next Xmas i'm asking for an amp!!!!
when I taught in eastern Kentucky, all of us teachers qualified for government subsidies which included cheese. We also got milk, sometimes rice, we got a big cardboard box of stuff. It was GREAT! The cheese was real cheese and very high quality and it was in the shape of a wheel.
The students and teachers all made jokes about constipation from government cheese, but I'd go to lexington and get tortillas and I ate quesadillas like they were going out of style! For a young man make 16K a year as a teacher, it was a HUGE help! We were told there was tons of it!
A wheel of real! That's impressive.
The stuff I'm referring to came in a rectangular box similar to Velveeta, and it too was similar to Velveeta, but maybe saltier and more melty, if you can believe that. It is absolutely "pasteurized process cheese food" and not real cheese. But as you know, that stuff has some value too.
Hopefully you added some beans to your quesadillas. Either in them or on the side. That part doesn't matter, of course.
Maybe your secret was that after you graded a big stack of papers, you had visions of epic battles in a past life and that encouraged a prodigious digestive cycle?
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