• nomous@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m from the country and while your words are nice they’re not factual in the least.

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      2 months ago

      My partner grew up in the mountains, and that’s very much how they ate. Home-grown, canned and cooked basically everything above flour. The kids got taught what they could wild forage themselves, and what to bring back to ask about.

      Now, they were so cash poor as to have to rub two pennies together to make three, but that’s a whole different point of conversation

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        2 months ago

        Yeah that’s how my mom grew up 70 years ago in Appalachia, those days are long gone.

        The other comment about hotdogs and mac & cheese is much more accurate to the 21st century IME.