/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5079316]

What are some examples of poverty food?

>"spaghetti" using ketchup as an ingredient

> "tuna casserole" where canned tuna meets noodles and velveeta

> canned ravioli

[Anonymous No.5079331]

Human meat found on dead corpses

[Anonymous No.5079336]

>>5079331
That's poverty food, alright. But a little more extreme than I was thinking in my OP.

[Anonymous No.5079337]

>>5079331
as opposed to live corpses?

[Anonymous No.5079339]

Any frozen meal. Period.

[Anonymous No.5079342]

Jello molds that contain seafood, head cheese, squirrel.

[Anonymous No.5079344]

Thats like suburban white trash food id say somewhere along the lines as nigerian stick and mud soup or stale bread cold lentils and salt pork

[Anonymous No.5079347]

really more like people who can't cook and have no sense of taste.

>ramen
>putting biscuits on anything

[Anonymous No.5079351]

Condiment Sandwiches. (white bread with mustard, mayo, and ketchup on it. Pickles if you're fancy)

"Stone Soup" - water, ketchup, whatever seasonings you have and anything else you can find in your kitchen.

I didn't eat those myself, but I had a friend who grew up really poor who ate that kind of stuff on a regular basis. I'm happy to say he's an engineer now and eats much better, heathier, and complex foods. I was lucky myself, my mom was a chef before I was born, and then taught culinary classes when I was growing up, so we always had awesome food around the house. I think the only time I really ate poverty food was when I was a broke ass college student, and then I still ate things like pizza (my roommate worked for a pizza place and was allowed to make a pizza to take home every shift), and since I knew how to cook, I made stuff like pot roast, vegetable stew, etc, things that would last more than one meal.

[Anonymous No.5079367]

How's this for poverty? This channel hits many feels; it's simultaneously depressing and incredibly endearing.
http://www.youtube.com/show/greatdepressioncooking

[Anonymous No.5079377]

>>5079351
I just have to wonder how people actually survived eating that kind of stuff. Condiments and bread? Ketchup and water?

>>5079367
I will look.

[Anonymous No.5079387]

>>5079316
>"spaghetti" using ketchup as an ingredient
Don't tell me you're hating on Filipino spaghetti. It's basically the same as regular spaghetti, but you add banana ketchup, hot dogs, and a little bit of brown sugar. I make it with the spicy banana ketchup and GOD DAMN. It's like a spicy sweet paradise. The hot dogs are the best part, since they seem to soak up the sauce

[Anonymous No.5079388]

>>5079351
To be fair, the way some people eat cheap burgers and dogs essentially just turns them into condiment sandwiches. You think they can really taste that insipid hot dog under that strait jacket of mustard, relish, and ketchup?

[Anonymous No.5079389]

>>5079377
>I just have to wonder how people actually survived eating that kind of stuff. Condiments and bread? Ketchup and water?

Yeah, he wasn't in great health as a kid and teenager. As a matter of fact, he only has one good kidney because of the malnutrition he went through as a kid.

[Anonymous No.5079403]

>>5079316

> tuna casserole where canned tuna meets noodles and velveeta

Don't forget a bag of frozen peas, nigga. Gotta stretch out all that meat and cheese.

[Anonymous No.5079413]

>>5079387
Everything about that sounds disgusting. It's not like regular spaghetti at all.

[Anonymous No.5079417]

Mehlsuppe ("flour soup"), apparently known as gruel in English.

[Anonymous No.5079422]

Pork neckbone soup.

[Anonymous No.5079430]

>>5079422
Pork neckbones are one of my favorite cuts. Nothing makes soups/stocks like neckbones. It's awesome that they're dirt cheap as well.

[Anonymous No.5079536]

>>5079430
I wouldn't say favorite cut, but I like picking the meat out of a section of neck bone. Very tender. I'd imagine it would be the shit on a taco.

Cook it in fajita sauce with pineapple juice... pull the meat, taco it up. Wtf.

[Anonymous No.5079542]

store-bought pizza is the ultimate poverty food.

[Anonymous No.5079629]

a bread and ketchup sandwich

[Anonymous No.5079642]

whatever's on sale or found through forage, in the crock pot for six hours

pot au feu is the povertiest of poverty meals, yet it is also scrumptious.

[Anonymous No.5079644]

>"spaghetti" using ketchup as an ingredient

That's more the "everyone in the house was at work all day and no one can be assed to make proper food" meal.

[Anonymous No.5079645]

>>5079642
this, essentially

the broke days are mostly behind my friends and i, but we got so fucking good at making delicious free meals with gleaned stuff that we have nostalgic dinners sometimes, just to bust out the old recipes and dishes, all laid surrounding a huge pot of veggie soup

[Anonymous No.5079646]

ramen
love the stuff

[Anonymous No.5079648]

salt and pepper sandwiches
lard sandwiches

[Anonymous No.5079650]

Just to be clear OP, it sounds like you're asking for "food stereotypically eaten by poor people" rather than "cheap food," right?

Because I can make some dirt cheap food filling and nutritious.

[Anonymous No.5079652]

Aglio olio spaghetti. Cheap as fuck and delicious.

[Anonymous No.5079657]

>Tuna casserole
>Velveeta
I don't know what kind of back woods shit trailer park you come from, but Tuna casserole is supposed to have cream of mushroom soup (like %90 of other casseroles

>Not making creamed tuna on toast when you're poor.
wTF?

[Anonymous No.5079706]

>>5079316
unless you plan on taking free ketchup from fast food places spagheti would be cheaper with regular canned tomato sauce, shits like 40c and makes plenty

[Anonymous No.5079719]

>>5079706
>poorfags
>using logic when grocery shopping

Pick one.

[Anonymous No.5079727]

>>5079657
Maybe if you're making open faced tuna sandwiches under the broiler would you use Velveeta

but for a casserole, it's cream of mushroom soup

[Anonymous No.5079735]

>>5079719
>Poorfag cooking
Yeah, maybe it's unhealthy, but at least it's expensive.

[Anonymous No.5079846]

>>5079316
>> "tuna casserole" where canned tuna meets noodles and velveeta
My mom added canned tuna to store-brand boxed mac'n'cheese, which I suppose is a step down even from noodles+Velveeta

[Anonymous No.5080027]

>>5079344
>
what is stick and mud soup? a stick in a mud?

[Anonymous No.5080048]

>>5079727

>Velveeta
>broiler

WAT, WAT don't you know that nuclear yellow, plastic cheese substitute can not be broiled, it breaks down the atomic bonds of the plastic and the radiation escapes.

[Anonymous No.5080064]

Peanut butter jelly sandwiches, unless you're a kid.
There was this episode of Honey Boo Boo where the mom just threw a bunch of shit into a pot.
Sometimes I just cook buttered noodles, cut potatoes, and hotdogs in a pan.

More-known ones would be just spray cheese, Vienna sausages, spam, and pork rinds.

I don't really prefer eggs or macaroni and cheese with ketchup, and I especially hate pic related.

[Anonymous No.5080106]

A loaf of bread smeared with knife
Delicious.

[Anonymous No.5080571]

>>5079644
No, there's never an excuse for ketchup in spaghetti.

[Anonymous No.5080612]

>>5080064

>pb & j

FUCK YOU

[Anonymous No.5080662]

My dad puts ketchup in his spaghetti sauce (he says he likes it because it makes it sweeter). Jarred sauce tastes better imo... but I eat it when he makes it anyway since I don't want to be rude.

[Anonymous No.5080668]

>>5079387

that sounds bomb.

[Anonymous No.5080679]

>>5080571
>>5080662

i hate tomato sauce but i like ketchup, so i eat my spaghetti with some ketchup by choice. spaghetti sauce/pizza sauce/marinara sauce are gross

[Anonymous No.5080680]

>>5080679
It isn't a true italian recipe, though.

[Anonymous No.5080681]

>>5080680
lol wut? who gives a shit? I always experiment and fuse different recipes, i dont give a shit if its authentic as long as its good.

food hipster.

[Anonymous No.5080683]

Why in the name of fuck do poor people think it's a good idea to have kids? Do they not get that you are just dooming some other person?

[Anonymous No.5080687]

>>5080683

yeah because no rich person ever started being poor

[Anonymous No.5080688]

>>5080681
No, you see.
I'm Italian, so it actually drives me a little crazy to put ketchup on spaghetti.

Well, poor dishes: here in Tuscany we eat "penne" with lamb or hog meat, we often do "pappa al pomodoro" or "minestra di pane", which are basically some soups made up by old bread and tomatoes.

[Anonymous No.5080691]

>>5080683
They're poor. They obviously lack intelligence and foresight

[Anonymous No.5080808]

>>5079367
This is 4chan and I'm crying my face off right now. My grandmother is on the verge if dying and I have to leave her and travel 15 000km for a fucking Biomedical Engi degree. Fuck.

[NOC No.5080819]

>>5079316

I miss when my diet consisted primarily of tuna.

[Anonymous No.5081569]

>"spaghetti" using ketchup as an ingredient
WHAT THE FUCK. I'm going to get off of /ck/ for a while
>>5079387
>pinoy
Oh I see

[Anonymous No.5081611]

-pork & beans with chopped up hot dogs in it

-bologna sandwiches

-those Banquet brand frozen tv dinners

-any frozen tv dinner

[Anonymous No.5081641]

>>5081569
That's the "classy" take on spaghetti with ketchup. Now Google sketti and throw up in your mouth a little bit.

[Anonymous No.5081671]

>>5081641

>only a little bit

Closet sketti-eater detected.

[Anonymous No.5081699]

>>5079316
two peices of white bread
add mayo

or

two peices of white bread
add mustard and saltines

or

mustard and saltines

or

just saltines

[Anonymous No.5081716]

>>5079316
>"spaghetti" using ketchup as an ingredient

That is more about mental retardation than poverty.

[Anonymous No.5081727]

There's nothing wrong with ketchup in spaghetti. After all, you need a little bit of sweetness to balance out the tangy acidity of the tomato paste.

Then again, I use mirepoix and wine to do that, but as long as it's just a dash, I don't see the harm.

[Anonymous No.5081746]

>>5081727
>There's nothing wrong with ketchup in spaghetti.
>ketchup in spaghetti.

Looks like mental retardation remains the culprit.

[Anonymous No.5081777]

>>5080064
Spray cheese these days is actually going way up in price for an absurd reason.

[Anonymous No.5081783]

>>5081746
I knew someone would call out my error.

Fine: spaghetti sauce.

[Anonymous No.5081797]

white rice and ketchup. it's taste good as fuck though

[Anonymous No.5081803]

>>5079629
i seriously hope you guys dont do this

[Anonymous No.5081813]

>>5079629

>tfw I once ate a hot sauce sandwich

The fridge was empty and had no cash

[Anonymous No.5081832]

>>5081797
No. It does not taste good at all. You are a disgusting person and should not be alive.

[Anonymous No.5081834]

Alright /ck/, lets play a game.

Rachel Ray breaks into your house and puts a gun to your head. She puts two plates down in front of you. On one is a ketchup and white bread sandwich. On the other is spaghetti and ketchup. The amount of food is roughly the same on each plate. Which do you choose?

>inb4 let her shoot me
None of you would actually make that choice- stop being a melodramatic twat

[Anonymous No.5081838]

>>5081834
Oh, also there's a third plate with ketchup and white rice

[Anonymous No.5081870]

home made tortillas.
mayo burrito.
tap water

[Anonymous No.5081874]

>>5081838
rice, definitely.

Least amount of chewing

[Anonymous No.5081924]

>>5079337
Zombies be rotted yo

[Anonymous No.5081952]

>>5081834
I would eat rachael ray.

[Anonymous No.5081959]

>>5081832
have you tried it?

[Anonymous No.5084147]

>>5081611
That's like the Kraft Mac & Cheese with hot dogs in it.

Hot dogs don't add anything but misery.

[Anonymous No.5084155]

>>5081727
No. No ketchup in spaghetti. Only a small spoon of brown sugar.

[Anonymous No.5084160]

>>5084147
>Hot dogs don't add anything but misery.
I loled

[Anonymous No.5084165]

>>5081834
I'd eat the bread with ketchup on it, I guess. You can ball bread up really tiny and choke it down.

[Anonymous No.5084170]

>>5084155
That somehow sounds even worse.

[Anonymous No.5084178]

my ultimate poverty food is tuna pasta salad
its just tuna, mayo, pasta and S+P

i'm poor as hell though so i have no regrets

[Anonymous No.5084197]

>>5084170
Better than ketchup. And what I mean is about 1/2 t in an entire pot of sauce.

[Anonymous No.5084214]

anything from the microwave dinner aisle

Hungry Man, Stouffers, etc.

[Anonymous No.5084235]

I'm assuming you mean stuff you cook yourself.

For a start, beans, rice, oatmeal, etc. Millet, if you can find it, is extremely cheap and makes a decent porridge.

Various deep-fried things. Special mention goes to frybread. Lots of calories.

French bread. Four ingredients, cheap as fuck to make, but it does require skill.

Home-made noodles. Pretty much just flour.

For stuff that's not boring, offal. Stuff like scrapple and hamhock has perfectly fine nutritive value, actually, but it's worthless because people think the only thing that counts as "meat" are choice cuts. Well, that and most seem to lack the basic cooking ability to make an ordinary soup. Hamhock and beans is delicious...