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On 4/13/2025 at 10:27 PM, msucolt45 said:


In the early-mid ‘80s (SETX) my Uncle would have my cousin and me “flag” during heavy crop dusting season. That was back before GPS and the cockpit got computerized. Depending on what they were spaying dictated how far we’d walk before waving the flags.

I’m 55 now so I guess that shit wasn’t toxic? I remember on a summer day, we were both 8th and 9th graders going into the next school year. We got a 6-pack of Coca-Cola to start the day at (5:30-6:00 AM) and that shit was gone before 10:00. All we had to drink out in the rice fields was the other “workers” Miller Lite. All Uncle said while refueling was time to man-up boys and let’s get this job done! We were both lit by 2:00.

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This was my job when planting hayfields.  25 steps.  

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On 4/11/2025 at 8:27 PM, GringoSalado said:

You had shirts?

We got trucker caps with iron on letters and that was it. We all played good defense tho because there was not a blade of grass within 5 miles of our home baseball diamond. Just sand and gravel and bad hop after bad hop.

 

edit: boy scouts was the same. I got a cap and a tie. And a guide book full of impossible things I was never going to see the materials to build.

Trucker hats are so expensive these days.  
and hey at least your parents had the funds to sign you up for boy scouts

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Sometimes mom would make a big skillet of white gravy and a stack of toast. Then you tear up toast into pieces and pour the gravy all over it. I never thought about asking why there weren't biscuits, even though we had biscuits and gravy every so often. 

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16 minutes ago, Sandman said:

Sometimes mom would make a big skillet of white gravy and a stack of toast. Then you tear up toast into pieces and pour the gravy all over it. I never thought about asking why there weren't biscuits, even though we had biscuits and gravy every so often. 

Man, I forgot all about that. It was damn good too. Thank you. 

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20 minutes ago, Sandman said:

Sometimes mom would make a big skillet of white gravy and a stack of toast. Then you tear up toast into pieces and pour the gravy all over it. I never thought about asking why there weren't biscuits, even though we had biscuits and gravy every so often. 

we went to the Mrs Baird's thrift store and I thought that shit was awesome.  Fuck yeah, we'd have some Texas Toast for SOS.  and all those little snack cakes were a dime.  Fuck yes!!!

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On 4/9/2025 at 7:40 AM, Al Czervik said:

Green jeans, required uniform 1st through 8th grade at the Catholic school.  Also served as church cloths on Sunday. Haven’t worn green pants since May of 1981. 

St. Louis?

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14 hours ago, Sandman said:

Sometimes mom would make a big skillet of white gravy and a stack of toast. Then you tear up toast into pieces and pour the gravy all over it. I never thought about asking why there weren't biscuits, even though we had biscuits and gravy every so often. 

Mom would make white gravy with browned hamburger meat to serve over toast - shit on a shingle.

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Wearing sweat pants to 7th grade and being bullied for it because I didn't have any jeans. My parents divorced and immediately my mom had liver cancer when I was in 6th/7th grade. Had a liver transplant in KC at KU Med. My grandparents, brother and his wife, my mom and my stepdad all rented a house in KC burbs that year. Coming from a small town and then having next to nothing while going to middle school in the more affluent KC suburbs hurt bad and I was made fun daily. Made me find jobs so I can have money for clothes and stuff and I started lifting weights. This was the early 90s.

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19 hours ago, Sandman said:

Sometimes mom would make a big skillet of white gravy and a stack of toast. Then you tear up toast into pieces and pour the gravy all over it. I never thought about asking why there weren't biscuits, even though we had biscuits and gravy every so often. 

My wife and I still do this from time to time. We are a long way from poor but some nights we just don't feel like doing much more than that. Another guilty pleasure is a pot of rice, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar with a splash of half and half.

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My mom used to make a pot of macaroni and sauteed onions. She then made a thin gravy using bacon drippings and poured it over the macaroni. Probably had less than 50 cents in the whole meal. I'll bet we ate that at least 3 times a month.

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18 hours ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

My mom used to make a pot of macaroni and sauteed onions. She then made a thin gravy using bacon drippings and poured it over the macaroni. Probably had less than 50 cents in the whole meal. I'll bet we ate that at least 3 times a month.

This sounds pretty good. 

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On 4/16/2025 at 12:50 PM, Shoxthemonkey said:

My wife and I still do this from time to time. We are a long way from poor but some nights we just don't feel like doing much more than that. Another guilty pleasure is a pot of rice, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar with a splash of half and half.

Tonight’s supper. Leftover rice from Fridays gumbo. 
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Growing up, I was clueless about our finances...lots of these in this thread hit home...

potted meat sandwiches

hot dogs wrapped in a piece of bread or a tortilla

tortilla w/butter for a snack (maybe some sugar or cinnamon if no one was looking)

mom-made shirts from patterns

toast w/ cream gravy ("shit-on-a-shingle") for dinner

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On 4/14/2025 at 10:57 PM, SHOOTER12 said:

Ketchup or Miracle Whip sandwiches. 

Bread was only 19c per loaf....unless it was on special. 

Miracle whip sandwiches bring back memories. 

Both parents were public school teachers so we were more middle class, but they both grew up so poor and kept their habits that I thought we were.  My mom would tell stories of eating cow tongue and stuffing newspaper into her ratty old shoes when it got cold.

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On 4/15/2025 at 5:57 PM, Iceman said:

we went to the Mrs Baird's thrift store and I thought that shit was awesome.  Fuck yeah, we'd have some Texas Toast for SOS.  and all those little snack cakes were a dime.  Fuck yes!!!

Those were happy days. Maybe score a 75% off fried pie and mom would let us have one.

Sos  was a staple.

Some poor people food I had forgotten was "crumble burgers. " A piece of white toast with crumbled raw hamburger meat and yellow mustard run under a broiler" I may have to run that back!

We were so broke in the late 80s

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Iron-on knee patches and not just work jeans.  We wore those things to school.

Mom made a lot of our shirts, even sweatshirts. She was a craftsman and ngl, my friends were jealous.  

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