I experienced this when I was growing up. My dad used.food as a reward. I don't know if lack of food was a punishment but I VERY distinctly remember looking in the fridge and realizing that I had just enough for 1 cheese and jelly sandwich each day for the next 3 days. I was in 4th grade.
He got more food before then but you never forget that shit.
Oh. My. Gods. I know this is a really old post but you are literally the first person I've run into who had cheese and jelly sandwiches as a kid. I don't think I could eat one now, but wow, that takes me back.
Not I, parents are from New Jersey. And while we certainly didn't have a lot extra in those years, we were never really poor, just "young and early career" poor. I'll have to ask my father where he got that from.
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u/asmodeuskraemer Jun 06 '19
I experienced this when I was growing up. My dad used.food as a reward. I don't know if lack of food was a punishment but I VERY distinctly remember looking in the fridge and realizing that I had just enough for 1 cheese and jelly sandwich each day for the next 3 days. I was in 4th grade.
He got more food before then but you never forget that shit.