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Hi. I think you're ignorant. I'm a guy who, for a number of years during my young childhood, was hungry in the US. Meals at home consisted of some "creative" v
by runjake 14y ago
Hi. I think you're ignorant. I'm a guy who, for a number of years during my young childhood, was hungry in the US.
Meals at home consisted of some "creative" variants of government cheese (yeah, it actually existed. The blocks in the cardboard wrappers.), egg noodles, cheap and expired white bread and milk or milk powder.
We'd go to these stores, which you may not be aware of, but they sell expired food at steep discounts. It wasn't like a grocery store with stuff neatly displayed. Everything was dumped into giant bins and you dug through them. We felt like scavengers. For a long time, I knew how long after expiration each food time was good for.
My only saving grace was stealing food and the free school lunches which sometimes provided fruit and some variance to my meals. But that still wasn't enough and I wasn't hungry in the "boy, I could use a sandwich!" way you might be familiar with, I was hungry hungry.
I don't really want to blame anyone, but the fact of the matter is that there are kids in this country, who through no fault of their own, suffer.
- ekianjo 14y agoI am not saying that it does NOT exist, I am saying it is very uncommon nowadays, and that saying "much hunger" is clearly an exaggeration at the same level as what tabloid are capable of. There is no way you can compare the situation in the US with the situation in many other countries in the world and say there is "much hunger" in the US. It's just being blatantly ignorant of the situation outside of your country.