Sweatpea, I think I used "starvation" incorrectly, although I'm struggling to come up with an alternative. In my mind, it is much more of an immediate health threat and cause of death in the mold of a concentration camp or drought-plagued area.
Your use, which is much more accurate I think, would (again in my mind) be more akin to rural Mississippi in the 40's and 50's when malnutrition was rampant.
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Originally Posted by seretogis
Maybe it's because some poor people are lazy, which make them both fat and poor. They can spend $4 on McDonalds, or they can spend $4 on a loaf of bread, some sliced meat, and a head of lettuce, and make sandwiches for a week which are a fuck-load more healthy.
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Loaf of bread - $0.89
Sliced meat - 1/2 lb at $2.99 per 1/2 lb (the usual grocery store measurement)
Head of iceberg lettuce - $1.29
I get $5.17 before taxes. Let's leave aside for a moment that iceberg lettuce has very little nutritional value, although it is the most popular one sold (it is a good source of fiber). Or the fact that the bread would be the highly processed and devoid of much nutritional material. How do you make a half pound of meat stretch for a week without going hungry on 1 meal a day?