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I'm sure you have heard of mustard sandwiches. Another one that was popular (especially for those who were poor) was potato chip sandwiches (often with mustard as well).

Peanut butter (very thin layer) sandwiches were a norm, or sandwiches with one slice of bologna etc.

I mean, alot of people just ate half a loaf of bread (which you got for $1) a day and called it.

School lunches (I went to mostly schools in the projects etc as a kid) were pretty close to that, and what was worse I couldn't eat a few of the regular meals. I couldn't even be in the cafeteria when they served egg salad, I couldn't eat the melted american cheese sandwiches.

Thank god they didnt' spend extra money to make the burgers with cheese on them, so I would save up my tickets on egg/cheese etc days, and get an extra sloppy joe, hamburger/hotdog etc on the days that I could eat them.

It REALLY sucked if an egg/cheese day happened on a friday, or the absolute worst was when two of them would happen in a row right before the weekend. It's one of the reasons I looked like an ethiopian as a kid and my brother looked relatively normal (even though he was 2 years younger than me).

Once I got old enough to work that all changed though and food has been super important to me ever since then. I was in 4th grade when I started being able to make money myself, so I skipped the entire year of school (first time we actually stayed anywhere over 3 months so they just figured we moved again). I remember the first time I had money and went into mc donalds. I bought something like 10 hamburgers and it was freaking heaven. Now I can't stomach them at all, but back then, they were probably the best thing I had ever eaten.
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