Someone Online Wondered: “What Is Some ‘Poor People Food’ That You Will Eat No Matter How Wealthy You Get?“, And 30 Folks Delivered

So true or I know it's weird but I dunk my grilled cheese in hot sauce.

Tomato soup with rice goes with my sandwich. Has since I was a small child. How did this start?

Yeah, douse it in garlic butter and we're good.

That's my scheduled Monday night dinner. I've found the best bread is sourdough.

If you’re very very broke: a loaf of bread, a jar of mayo (bear with me) and a can of tomato soup: heat up the soup (fry some onions first if you have them then add to soup), toast the bread and spread mayo on top (tastes like butter, promise.) bonus points for having garlic or spices to mix with the mayo. Extra bonus points for making rice to mix with the soup. Scoop bites of the soup/rice mixture up with the bread - if you like hot sauce, this is the time to use it :) this has kept me alive a few times

As Dylan Hollis said, I'm pretty sure it's a felony to eat a grilled cheese without tomato soup if you can help it

If you feel the need to "elevate" it a little, homemade tomato soup is where it's at; it tastes miles better than the old standby, Campbell's (which now tastes too sugary to me as a consequence). Very easy to make gallons of it to freeze and enjoy whenever you like.

Thank you for the dinner idea. ✌🏾

Here's two for me and one for you.

What's taters aye

I loved that reference way to much

But please cook the fish, yessss

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Fry 'em, Try 'em, Whoo-whoo-whoo!

Bake em, fry em, you know what to do!

Except if you're poor, you cant afford the fuel to cook them. Not so clever.

AMEN !!

I'm assuming because they're cheap, plentiful, and filling.

Yes but in the 1800 and 1900s people just ate them boiled. And not cooked all the way through so they would make you feel fuller for longer. Not with seasoning or butter or milk or cream.

You had me until you said Miracle Whip.

My fave when I’m “rich” (extra pay) is this cheddar bread from the grocery store, toasted plus fried egg/Miracle whip/bacon/cream cheese/apricot jam. Little hot sauce doesn’t hurt either :) sweet and savoury mmm, my favourite luxury meal. Fry the egg in the bacon grease and add some cheese for bonus points!

Yep! Same here! Though it wasn't miracle whip, but the cheap store brand. Usually "Western Family" salad dressing. Fried egg sandwiches are still one of my favorite breakfast foods, though I nowadays I usually use whole wheat and mayo and add ham and cheddar to it. And in full honesty, I never even realized until this post just what a cheap breakfast that was for us as kids. My parents were great at not letting us kids realize just how tight things got sometimes.

Never had that but I'm a Miracle Whip fan as opposed to mayonnaise. We're a house divided.

In my family, it was ketchup. Which is funny because the idea of ketchup on eggs, like scrambled or an omelet, is just gross to me. But plain white bread (sometimes I go fancy and will toast some bread in butter over a skillet), a fried egg and ketchup. Good eating.

if it was a soft fried egg, I would be game!

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We did that too!!

I still eat that!

We did that except we would add fried bologna. Miracle Whip does make just right.

And mayo.

Egg sandwich with breakfast sausage 🤤

I often envy people with these sorts of grammy memories. One of mine loved all the grandkids except me and my brothers so all we could hope for was the leftovers from the cakes she made for them. That is until my Mom had enough and cut all communication with that side of the family before we kids could understand how humiliating we were treated. The other grandmother was a psycho, a bitter, revolting excuse for a human being, with a limp, weak POS for a husband who let her do what she wanted. They lived next door to us when I was born and it took them about a year to take a look at me. When I was six I broke my knee and against all worries my Mom let me "vacation" with them for a week at their weekend house. They were told that I cannot under any circumstances stand on that leg and she gave me a room upstairs, then screamed at me for an hour when I tried to crawl up the stairs without standing, with a cast from crotch to ankle.

Try toasting the bread first and then adding the butter, sugar, and cinnamon while it’s still hot from the toaster. I’m 66 and that’s how I learned to make it both from my mom and from my paternal grandmother. I’ve never heard of adding the toppings and then toasting it. I’d think the sugar would burn before the bread would toast.

It's the love.

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what I remember from my grandma's kitchen is that she one time made strawberries and accidentally mixed up sugar with salt. So we had super-salty strawberries (well... we didn't have them because they tasted awful). She made some nice cookies, but she wasn't a good cook or baker. And the other grandma had no interest in doing household. Nice enough, both of them, but not really the best eating-memories ;-)

Let a stick of unsalted butter soften * Stir into it 1/4 C light brown sugar * Add 2 T fresh cinnamon * Make toast, spread sweet cinnamon butter generously * ENJOY!

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Grrl, yer talkin' my language!