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In reply to the discussion: Who among us wore bread bags on our shoes while growing up? [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)really.
We got cheap bread from the store on sale or the outlet and were south of the poverty line and doing so was the typical experience not some exception in the 70's and 80's. Of course we had food stamps and didn't depend solely on commodities which included some flour at times (but not every month, it doesn't seem) but not 15lbs but would include pasta and rice. I mostly remember the block American cheese, terrible dry milk, and the worse dry eggs.
I'll also add that the assertion that if someone was really poor they'd be baking their own is somewhere between greatly overstated and a malicious and a TeaPubliKlan style bullshit argument like saying people aren't poor because they have a refrigerator or a TV.
This bread thing is a weird hill to die on here. You can still in 2015 get a crappy loaf for a buck at the regular store, it was affordable even at the most minimal incomes 20, 30, and 40 years ago and I'm not even sure that it is or was particularly cost effective to make it instead.