this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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I know a lot of folks in this thread are taking the piss but imagine you are a single mother on a limited / min wage income working 2 jobs and a kid or two to feed. You need food that doesn’t spoil and that you are certain your kids will eat (can’t afford to waste it) and that doesn’t require much if any time to prepare (you don’t have time). This is how you get shopping carts like this.
People posting the Russian borscht or whatever don’t get it, there are people out there that simply can’t spend an hour or whatever cooking.
I mean I get it but when I was a kid it was "shut up and eat what's put in front of you"
sounds like you had abusive parents
"Making kids eat things other than junk food is abuse"
Jesus fucking christ I thought we peaked with the "homework is authoritarianism" struggle session yesterday
Is anybody on this site over the age of 14?
You just going to gloss over the "shut up" part, and assume it's the lack of junk food?
I don't think so I think I just had tired parents who didn't have time to cook me a separate dinner if I was being fussy
Huh, I thought it was a choice between eating nothing and eating what was put in front of you. Which for me meant no dinner on pasta nights.
well no because you would just eat the pasta
Nah, it makes me gag. I'll eat it out of politeness, but not because I'm hungry
then it would be breakfast the next morning and eventually you would eat the pasta
Sounds like your parents died young of heart conditions