People Are Revealing How They Grew Up Poor Without Actually Saying It (40 Pics)

This is so twisted! Shouldn't a church care for those people and not the other way round?

Not a Christian or even someone from the west, but I find gift giving on Christmas kind of materialistic. I don't like the idea of expecting something from someone at a particular time. The best gifts are the ones given with genuine consideration ,when you least expect it.

😢 sweet yet sad

And still make it taste good. Necessity is, after all, the mother of invention.

Yes, same...

In my country, all schools have uniforms exactly for that reason, so that kids who don't have as many clothes as others don't get bullied or don't feel different.

This. Exactly this. And, on the plus side, you know exactly what's in your food.

I never thought about it as a kid but we only eat twice a day in weekends since we don't get lunch in school.

in many countries people send the kids to school mostly because they'll get fed at least ones a day...

it was THE dessert.

yes, butter and sugar, i loved them.

We had them with cinnamon. Quite tasty.

They're common in Spain. By choice.

why do you need to be poor for that. i had a sweettooth. i loved them sandwich with butter and brown cassonade sugar

yes

i still eat that!

We would have sweet rolls at restaurants for dessert. Save the free dinner rolls that Ryans, take a knife and make a hole in one side almost all the way through, put some butter in the hole and sprinkle some sugar in there.

Sugar on toast!

Oh my God. I had forgotten these. We rarely had bread or sugar, but this was a staple dessert if we could afford them... Man, this brings back a ton of memories.

Being French we used baguette ;)

Didn't try it as a sandwich but as a slice of bread with some butter on it and some sugar sprinkled on top. I still love it and eat it as a dessert from time to time. Yum!

I’ve had sugar toast it’s when you get toast and then butter it and then add sugar it’s was really good

I had them too. Not because we were poor, but we liked to eat them.

Yep.

I have not. However. Brown sugar, cinnamon, buttered toast is amazing.

Yaaassss 👸🏼

And ketchup sandwiches

😋 At 54 still love this. Best midnight snack if you forgot, or in my case too lazy, to buy some. Just spread butter on bread sprinkle some sugar or if available some cinamon...et voila!! Now if I could only buy some Nido (powdered milk).

Yes, put butter on a piece of bread, sprinkle sugar, microwave for 30 seconds.

I loved these, I really did. Since I moved from Lancashire to Yorkshire though they do not seem to be eaten here.

yes. and a ketchup sandwich.

Yep butter and sugar been there...

I eat this for breakfast all the time with my grandparents- My family wasn't rlly poor though, it just tasted delicious

Sugar butties, Yummmmmm, Bread and Dripping, The fat from cooking a roast used to have a brown Gel collect under solidified Fat, this was known as dripping, Loved it as much as those Sugar sandwiches/butties.

toast with mayo on it.....that was the meal....yuck

Omg! Sugar sandwiches! I remember them so well!

I made those all the time when I was a teenager. People look at me funny when I tell them that. My birth giver, did not cook for us kids or anything for that matter. She would for whatever man of the month was though. Or should I say week.

yes me to, to take for my school time and I love it, and even now as adult, I do it sometime

Yes. Stewed tomatoes and spaghetti, too.

I have a hard time wrapping my head around this. I never realized this is why we had these. Until 5 minutes ago I would have said that that was a luxurious treat. I'm 39. But true. I've never actually made one for myself since moving out on my own..

This was lunch, dinner was bread fried in lard.

My mom cut them out with a glass and called them crumpets

Yeah I have. Bread, butter and sugar. We were lower middle class. Everything we had was form discount stores. Hand- me-down Clothes. Cardboard inserts in our shoe because of holes in the soles. We grew up to be self sufficient. I never envied better off folks it's just life. I am happy and able to enjoy life

i grown up in a small town, there was a huge parking with 0 cars every time and me and my classmates used to play in that parking spot, we used it as soccer field, tennis field, racetrack or whatever comes in our mind in mild 90's . there always was a grandmother of someone bring a plate of buttered bread with sugar for everyone !

I've had mustard sandwiches. Even tried peanut butter and mustard once. And had a lot of lo-carb lettuce wraps before they were cool.

For me it was a bit of butter, cinnamon and icing sugar on toast. Still a nice snack.

We call it "Poor's Dream" (a kind of fried pastry with cream fill) - Sonho de Pobre - in Brazil.

they're very good. i grew up in middle class though.....

We had dripping on toast with salt for weekend breakfasts. Yum!

We did cinnamon toast that was sugar sprinkled on buttered bread and broiled for a few minutes. I did do a honey sandwich at times.

Wonder bread, butter, sugar and I still eat them to this day

Wczoraj jadło się chleb ze śmietaną i cukrem, nosiło podarte buty, a dziś się je krewetki, sushi i nosi się rolexy. Nie ma znaczenia co się je, co nosi i w jakim domu żyje. Kiedyś było lepiej. Życie było prostsze i byliśmy szczęśliwsi. Mo money mo problems,

My mom made this for us sometimes. I know this sandwich well.

I used to do this because my ex controlled all my money. I was working 60 hour weeks living off scraps, and expired food

I loved sugar sandwiches when I was young and nothing to do with being poor, we always had plenty to eat.

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I remember one day when I was about 4 years old, and my sister would have been 2 years old, woke up to find no one around. We were hungry but I did t know how to cook or work a toaster, so I made us both sugar sandwiches. No idea who's bread I used as it was a shared kitchen in a hostel for homeless families.

Loved them.