I didn't know times where THIS BAD!!

[blueriver]

Were the 2 ladies skinny and malnourished or were they pleasingly plump. I'm certain they walked home since they are poor.

They where average ... not bone poor not Plump ... Salvation Army Type Clothes. I do not know can assume there was a vehicle. I quess what surprized me was I had never seen anyone fill baggies.

I grew up in a family that always had food ... cause we raised it or grew it. BUT we had to be clean platers and nothing went to waste. So it gets me to see waste at food establishments.

Perhaps it was better to bag it and take it with than to leave it behind.

 

[Wooddust]

My experience says that the poor in America are by choice. Old saying is that if you want to starve an American, "hide their food stamps under their work boots".

mark

Indeed. Well said.

 

[MossRoad]

Mark, one of my brothers claims to have had nothing to eat but rice for awhile in Vietnam, so he won't eat rice at all now. But I'm quite fond of it myself in Mexican food, Chinese, Cajun, etc.

I have met several Vietnam vets. Some that were POWs and some that were not. They will not eat rice ever again. I can't blame them.

My mother lived through the depression. They survived on rabbits and turnips. Guess which two foods I never ate growing up! :laughing:

 

[two_bit_score]

They where average ... not bone poor not Plump ... Salvation Army Type Clothes. I do not know can assume there was a vehicle. I quess what surprized me was I had never seen anyone fill baggies.

I grew up in a family that always had food ... cause we raised it or grew it. BUT we had to be clean platers and nothing went to waste. So it gets me to see waste at food establishments.

Perhaps it was better to bag it and take it with than to leave it behind.

Think they might have been taking it home to someone else?

 

[dmccarty]

Reading your post has started me drooling. :licking: Whay time are you serving tomorrow? :laughing: : :dance1:

Well you missed tonights dinner. And the corn bread is gone after two dinners. Boy that corn bread fills you up. Plenty of the pork is left as well as the pot of beans.

Come on down. I can feed a FEW TBNers but I think they might have big appetites.

Did I mention the wood that needs to be cut and split before dinner? :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

Dang that sounds good! I'm inviting myself over also. :licking::drool:

Come on over! But be careful the roads are icing up.

But bring your chainsaw I got some work ya'll can help me with before dinner.

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

If ya'll do a good job I might break out a bottle of Mead. :licking:

Funny thing about beans is they taste better after the first night/day. Tonight they were really good. The starch in the beans had started to really thicken up the soup. :licking: Put on some Parmassian cheese and drizzled with a bit of Rosemary flavored olive oil. :licking::licking::licking:

Later,
Dan

 

[Eyeshade]

Do a google search for poverty in the states and obesity in the states. The poorest states have the highest levels of obesity. Seems counter intuitive, especially if you've seen pictures of people in the depression that are starving. But malnourished and starving are two different words. Poor people have access to less healthy(more fatty) foods.

Its one thing to see people take home a doggy bag from a paid for meal. Most places offer a take home box and it would be wasteful to leave it on the plate. Nothing wrong with that at all.

It is frowned upon to take home a doggy bag from an all you can eat buffet.

It is gluttonous to take more on your plate than you can eat just because you paid for it. I always tell my kids to take less than you think you can eat, then go back for seconds if you are still hungry. Heck, I tell them that at home, too. That wasted food on their plate could be my lunch tomorrow! :licking:

You are incorrect moss road, "poor people have access to less healthy (more fatty)foods.
Fats are the expensive part of cooking; butter, cheese, dairy, meat, cooking oils, etc. Non-fatty foods are cheap; grains,rice, beans. There aren't many people in America who are malnourished due to lack of money. They may make poor food choices but those are secondary to cost.

 

[Taylortractornut]

The other day the wife and i went to Pizza hut for the dinner buffet. Usually got about 2 times a year there. We went in and there was a family in there 3 little kids and 2 parents about 25 or 26. There was a few others in there to. Every time we gotup te get another peice the table was empty. We looked ver and the 3 kids were taking piles of pizza to the table and nibbling on the ends. The Thing that made me steam was the fact they left whole slices untouched. I got up and was about to get a slice f a supreme and the mother got up there and just picked up the whole pizza and caried it over to the table. I went to school with a girl that works there and she counted the slices they wasted 36 slices eaten and no telling howmany 1/4 eaten slices there were.

Other buffets like Ryans has terrible abmounts of waste. We usually dont go there unless we are meeting my wifes kin folk. My FIL and BIL both will heap up plates and waste about half of it. It bothers me to see waste when I think how my dad and his parents and my mothers parents grew up poor on farms. My dad said they had plenty to eat but didnt waste anything.


I have a customer that runs a restaurant in onther town and she said some of the most wealthy folks in town will fill their purses and pockets with napkins, sweetener, butter and creamer and anything else on the table. One old man in town here retired from a big job and has tons of money. But every wednesday when the local paper comes out he makes a trip to the local Exxon coffee shop where the regulars will buy a paper and pass it around. On paper day he will show up and sit there and read the paper when hes done he will fold it nice and neat and walk out with it.

 

[jinman]

Well you missed tonights dinner. And the corn bread is gone after two dinners. Boy that corn bread fills you up. Plenty of the pork is left as well as the pot of beans.

Come on down. I can feed a FEW TBNers but I think they might have big appetites.

Did I mention the wood that needs to be cut and split before dinner? :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

Why am I picturing that scene from Blazing Saddles with everyone sitting around the campfire?:ashamed:

 

[dmccarty]

Why am I picturing that scene from Blazing Saddles with everyone sitting around the campfire?:ashamed:

Well.....

To be honest....

For some reason, I cannot be sure why, I added quite a bit to global warming last night.

It could have been the beans. Or maybe it was the CO2 in the club soda? Yeah, Yeah, that is it, it was the ....

Club soda.

Later,
Dan