So it's a little known fact that when the economy gets bad sales of pic related increase. has anyone had to eat it?

All you need to cook a beef patty is some discarded wooden boxes and a stick

what do people think goes into those cans?
hotdogs and cheap burger patties arent better quality than that
hell i couldd probably cook with the beef they use and make something good for dinner

This is just sad. We need to do something about it.

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dog food is for dogs not people
stop steling the food from dogs!!!!!!!!!

Poor people don't have a means to cook shit like beans and rice you daft cunt

>poor people dont know how to make fire

>poor people don't own pots and pans
Really nigga?

>what is having to cook something that takes a lot of time and consumes a lot of electricity/gas

Typical spoiled millennial cunt, never had to struggle a day in your life.

Bwahahahaha
You are a fucking joke

Cooking rice takes literally 15 minutes

You're either baiting or actually mentally retarded. I hope it's the first for your sake.

Do any of you guys remember that little PSA game where you need to make it through a month on a strict budget, but you were handicapped with a character who saddled themselves with shitty life decisions that you could actually fix, but aren't allowed to (like having a pet, a kid, washing clothing in a laundromat instead of at home w/ powder detergent, not being allowed to make beans/rice/spices last as long as they actually would)?

Probably propaganda
I could live for next to nothing if I wanted to while still eating better than 90% of people

Bwahahaha I clearly wasn't talking about rice there, dipshit

I've eaten many flavors of dog and cat food and I like cat food more than dog food

You "clearly" know absolutely nothing about cooking

>propaganda
Well, yeah, it was made through some sort of Brit Gov. food aid service.
My point was that it's usually worth a bit of fun-digging the game up and mocking it.

>shitty life decisions you could actually fix
>like having a kid

not to be a moralfag, but there's no "fixing" that

So you can magically cook beans in 15 minutes too? You're """"clearly"""" retarded.

I ate dry dog food once; not that bad

I remember the African farmer game that pol managed to beat by having kids and selling them into slavery

Were you referring to the beans? Poor people can't handle soaking legumes over night?

Why can't poor people.cook beans? Is water too expensive?

And then once they are soaked they cook in 15 minutes, right?

Energy consumption is a thing.

It's like you retards don't consider that your electric bill is based on how much energy you use, then again living in mom's basement you've never seen a bill in your life.

Still cheaper than buying dog food fucktard. Come to the third world I'll show you how really desperately poor people cook their meals.

>soaking beans in water overnight requires electricity
You need several things explained.

You don't even need to soak them overnight, I don't really eat beans but I make them once with this quick method that involves boiling them for a bit and then letting them cool and then you change the water and cook them all the way

Cooking them requires electricity. Or are they just magically going to cook themselves?

Cooking beans is a hell of a lot cheaper than eating dog food
Seriously what's even your point now? Poor people literally can't afford to live? How are there so many poor people around then? Do you live in Africa or something?

How did people cook before the 1800s?
It's almost as if there was this magical strange thing called fire.

Note, I'm not the one who said 15 minutes, but after a good 8hr soak, it'll probably take you 45 min-1hr to cook. Have it soak over night and cook 'em first them in the morning or whenever you have the time.

Poor people (not homeless, I mean the working poor) have a literal hour to spare, right?

Nobody said cooking beans took 15 minutes.

He got BTFO on the rice and burger patties and had to switch to beans to try to salvage his shit argument rather than admit he was wrong.

If you have open space to start a fire then it doesn't
I imagine the poor people you talk to are some crazy hobos living in the woods or something because there isn't anyone that poor except for actual homeless people and homeless people can still afford some gas and a portable burner so you must be talking about a strange case like a man raised by wolves or something

I was talking about beans the entire time, not my fault you can't read :^)

Eat rice instead of Ben's then retard
There, solved poor people can afford to eat, they can't afford to be picky

Even ignoring the whole "can a poor person afford to cook beans?" debate, there are cheaper canned foods that a person can buy that don't require cooking. Hell you could even spend pretty much the same amount on a can of spaghetti that's bigger and more filling.

Nope.

See
>Poor people don't have a means to cook shit like beans and rice you daft cunt

Get lost retard.

>no "fixing" that

A can of beans or campbells soup is literally cheaper. Who are these retards eating literal dog food instead?

The reason why people say beans & rice is because of nutritional reasons.
I guess you could just do beans, but the pairing is filling and satiating.

Notice how I still said beans :^)

I used to work at my local convenience store when I was in high school, and for a few years we used to demand proof from old people that they actually owned a cat or dog. This is because we had a rather angry woman come in one day and demand that we stop selling cat food to her mother, who lived locally, because she was buying it for herself since it was cheap as shit. After that we had a few other people complain similarly about their elderly relatives buying dog and cat food from us for their own consumption, so the owner started making us demand proof of ownership from seniors.

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Ah, there it is. Thanks.

Did you ever get a sense of why they did it? There's tinned meat and soup just a few isles down, grandpa.

Is this reviewbrahs sister

Fucking make a fire
All you need for rice and beans is water and a fucking container
You'd be practically homeless to not have either
if you're so poor you can't afford an electrical bill to cook fucking beans you use
>A gas stove
>MAKE A FIRE
You're so fucking retarded it's painful

>Requires electricity
No
How the fuck do you think people from before cable grids cooked their food you fucking dumbass
This whole argument is over whether it's easier to buy dog food or cook rice/beans
If you can afford enough dog food to supplement yourself for a time you can fucking
>Pay an electrical bill
>Use a gas stove
>Make a fire
>Use any container to cook beans
It's most likely bait, you can't be this retarded

The only explanation I can think of is that it was cheap budget brand pet food that worked out cheaper than the potted meat we sold. Other than that, I have no idea, other than perhaps there was a weird mass hysteria among seniors in my area where they all started eating tinned pet food.

Figures. The US throws it's seniors on the trash heap financially. The medico-pharma-insurance complex takes their every penny then consigns them to the garbage dump of medicaid where Tyrone provides his special treatment. Then some faggot prevents them from obtaining their only source of protein, dog and cat food. I shore do luv me some Christian corporate fascism.

so its basically tons of bullshit pay for this texts until you are out of money and if you are doing fine then your paycheck is half even tho you made the right choices and your rent is twice and there is no winning condittion?
fucking bullshit, how come my character is a single parent in the first place anyways? seems lik raising the kid with someone would fix everything

old people are crazy man
who knows why she was eating catfood

So, you want some sort of secular national socialism within a mono ethnic state?

hrmm

Stupid niggers.

Paid all the bills and bought my child everything he needed.

>Social security net is literally hitler

>seems lik raising the kid with someone would fix everything
I think they're suggest that you're playing as a woman whose just become prepared to settle down with a nice guy.

i dont know, seems like the game automatically telling you you are a single parent and giving no reason for it like its suppossed to be that way is fucking bullshit
Im not a single parent
Im not at risk of becoming a single parent
nobody is forced to become a single parent
if the character in the game is that stupid and selfih then let them starve

you can eat most food raw, except for grains

Forget about Hitler. Forget about fascism.

Without saying it, this just seems to be what a lot of people who are dissatisfied with society's priorities (not caring for people as well as might be done), but who don't like the "wrong people" being cared for. If you'll allow me to read into your use of "Tyrone" and the vague suggestion that that's wrong sort of person.

Oatmeal, rice and potatoes are way cheaper than this stuff

The game is probably trying to open your eyes to some of what others are dealing with if you're literally so sheltered and privileged than any of the surprise expenses wouldn't come to mind if you were thinking about how you'd survive in the shoes of the broader demographic they're attempting to get represent.

Sheltered from being poor and living in shit? That sounds nice though.

or maybe i chose to live next to work not to worry about having to own a car because its only 50 bucks difference anyways and now the game is forcing me to choose between fixing the car i dont need, paying for a cellphone i also dont need, paying them both or borrowing money
when in reality cancelling the phone and selling the car is the responsible answer but noooooo, the game cant have you win can it?
this game taught me poor people are too stupid to be allowed to handle their own money, the goverment should keep it from them so someone who knows better can have a say on what they can use it on

Yeah we call that the privilege of not making an long series of bad decisions one after the other.

Well it had the opposite effect, now I hate poor people even more.

>having pets when you are poor
>having a child as a single parent
>owning a car when you are poor
>not renting where it's cheaper
>not helping your neighbour move for money
>joining a strike on your first week at work
>getting into a fight with your coworkers on your first week at work
If that's the kind of selfish idiotic decisions poor people make then fuck the poor. I'm never donating to charity again.

It is, but if you're trying to actually do something about the less fortunate, (whether for empathetic/humanitarian reasons or acknowledging that ignoring social issues leads to bigger problems (me)) then engendering empathy rather than trite sympathy in people is what you wanna do so they'll donate and vote accordingly.

My fantasy is to have a qt black slave girl who would be chained to a post, whipped daily and only gets to eat dog food.

i am fucking better at being poor than poor people
this week i managed to spend only half the usual amount in grocerys because i know what to buy and where
the gas company sent me a bullshit bill with 50% mark up because i didnt pay on time since the fucking letter never arrived here in the first place and guess what? since i only paid half for groceries i wont even nottice it anyways

You can literally live off of eggs, rice, beans, oatmeal and canned fucking peas for the rest of your life and meet most of your dietary and nutritional needs, all for a maximum of maybe $50 a month.

The game isn't perfect or even realistic. Obviously. But to someone somewhere that played it, they'll actually be exposed to things they've never faced or thought about. If the idea was to widen some perspectives, than for some people, it'll be effective.

Right and after acknowledging that some people are like this, what do you do about? Letting them default on their debts, raise shitty undernourished children and be a greater drain on society isn't productive.

Do nothing I guess. What's the alternative? Institutionalize them?

I agree, there needs to be a greater focus on social issues such as illegitimacy and single motherhood.

Congratulations, you've got a working brain and are capable of self discipline.
The question is how to approach people who aren't as capable in such a way that makes them more like you, leaving them to their own devices, because they'll probably riot and steal if left with nothing.

Not my use of Tyrone. That said, Tyrone isn't quite the name for an upper class dude, black or not. It quite specifically implies a poor black male from the inner city, affiliated with the afro-american culture. I don't find that to be the best possible person to care for elders, purely statistically.

you make them more poor than they currently are for a while so they are forced to learn
then you give them back wathever they are getting and its fucking christmas
people survived the depression, people on italy mixed ashes with flour so it would last longer
poverty my ass

>What's the alternative?
A system of social service and education that works to ensure that they're fed and armed with the knowledge and opportunities to become productive members of society and recognizing that while there will always be people who take advantage of a system, there are many more who, with assistance, work their way towards independence and, ultimately, a tasty tasty tax-positive relationship in the government and society's favor.

That's not true. In a recession, the sales of most pet-related items goes down but food sales remain strong because people aren't as willing to cut back on feeding their pets the foods that they are accustomed to. If anything, sales remain flat when the rest of economy falters. Please cite your source that sales increase.

You sound like a certain American politician. From the great state of Vermont.

Further evidence, as if we needed it, that society is going to the dogs.

>the depression
You mean the generation who voted for and in some cases died in the pursuit of government assistance when they needed it most? Those people?

Yeah, welfare in some areas can create a negative relationship between some communities and government, but an imperfect system is better than washing ones hands of potential demographic crisis'.

>ride the cock carousel with niggers
>end up as single parent
>cant make rent
burn the coal, pay the toll.

>no option to not be a broke-dick single parent
>no option to go to school to earn more than 9 bucks an hour
>no option when the sink breaks to actually be a competent homeowner who can fix a sink WELL
>No option when your family pet is sick to just take it out to the country and shoot it, must pay shekels to be put down
>6 bucks for salad but the burger is free?
>no option to teach my kid to not be a little shit whining about a free lunch because some cuck in his class calls him names
>implying I'd bank with a bank that had a minimum balance of $50 if I was poor
>nothing ever materializes out of the comp sci classes you were taking at the beginning because lol college is scam i so smart college is dum
0/10 propaganda

you know what feels better than buying a pizza with stolen money?
that feeling when you know how to budget so well you overhear your nextdoor neighbor comment to her husband about how delicious it smells while you are cooking and you know you are spending less than half what they spend and getting twice as much food out of it
or maybe being dragged to a resaurant with shitty service and overpriced food and telling yourself i can make this better in half the time and it would be so cheap its funny
women used to know how to be housewives and do all of this, it was something to take pride on
Now they sit around waiting for gibs and look at anyone trying to be better badly what a joke

I thought trump was encouraging coal burning. Isn't that why he backed out of the Paris accords?

Yeah "clean coal" what he's fucking talking about.

It's fucking retarded.

On my first run I picked the Barista job because I figured I would be able to get a second job on the mornings or figure out a second income with all that free time.

But no, the retarded game imagines your character sitting in his room with a thumb up his ass when he has loads of free time every day.

>It quite specifically implies a poor black male from the inner city
Obviously. Did you read what I wrote?

Did you?

Of course pensioner man Tyrone should be cared for. I don't want him caring for my dad, but I would definitely pay taxes to have him and 90 y/0 Zaineb cared for just as much as the average native. Anything else would be morally reprehensible.

here are some tips for anyone stupid enough he cant feed himself
like fried chicken? keedz want nuggies? buy wings, thy are so cheap my butcher used to practically give them away

cut them in half and cut away and throw the tip
flour-cornstarch-garlic powder-black pepper-salt-chili powder if you like them spicy, into the hot oil, remember it takes a bit longer than average because of the bone

like beef? make stew, you can buy the bad though cuts fot it, hell it makes it better. Cheff jhon has a great recipe for it

want pork? the legs are cheaper but too though, learn how to make a propper marinade. I like honey-wine-garlic-herbs
beat it up with a short glass and cut against the fiber

fruits and vegetables? dont buy in the supermarket, they overcharge you for them and they sell you shit. Find some store that only sells that, they usually have cheap eggs aswell

take advantage of discounts, sometimes those save your ass

you have a freezer? good, buy twice the amount of that cheap pork, your future self will thank you after the nuclear fallout

>clean coal
You mean, like, they wash more than once a week or something?

>average native
>whites are natives
wew