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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| If I remember the reason, we added it to the food because if we just drank it on its own, we'd seem like alcoholics. But then again, I'm pretty sure we were already drunk at the time. |
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Hyalucent
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:32 am Post subject: |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:33 am Post subject: |
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| When I was going to Berkeley in the winter of '69 (Tricky Dick was being inaugurated) I had 50 cents a day to spend on food. I could buy a sandwich, a fried apple or cherry pie and a carton of juice. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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The worst thing I ever ate when I was a student (of the JLPT, not university but on my own in Vancouver) were two butter tarts.
Why? Actually they tasted okay. However, I only had $5 a day to spend on food. Indulged myself with two butter tarts with the last of my money for the day, opened the package and...down they fell on the road. I quickly picked them up, gave the matter a bit of thought, and then ate them. Whatever. Yum, butter tarts. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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A carrot. Just a carrot.
My cafeteria declining balance was gone, my ATM card wasn't working, and all of my friends were broke too.
And I hate carrots. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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I've been plenty poor in my time but good ole' Dad was always there with his butchers shop. I was the only poor student who dined on sausages and bacon every day!  |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I used to go to the deli at Wynn Dixie at 8:31 PM cause thats when they put the deli food at 50% off before they through it out. |
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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I think that Vanislander has the early lead, but there's still plenty of time to submit your entries. Keep them coming. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| It was a real feat driven by hunger and the shame of the alternative: having to phone home and tell my dad I couldn't make it on my own, a phone call I never made before, then or since. |
Have you told your father about this? What do you think he would say? |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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I had a tight budget which I was trying to stretch to include baking. Butter and chocolate chips were expensive, so I ate a bagel with cheese and pickle every night. Sometimes I couldn't afford that, so for dinner, I'd cook up a bowl of hot oatmeal. I don't care for hot oatmeal at all, so I'd throw in some chocolate chips on there for flavour.
There weren't any Hare Krishnas about, but the Student Soup Kitchen provided some sustenance. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
My father taught me, "If you don't have, do without", a principle tested to its limit then. Have had an emergency slush fund of savings ever since. |
My father taught me, "If you don't have, call me." |
Same here, I pretty much wanted for nothing. My worst meals were all things where I screwed up a recipe, not this "I was so broke, you won't believe what I ate" stuff everyone else is talking about.
I had a monthly stipend that I'd regularly blow most of on records and going to smart restaurants with girly-girls, or friends, or just by myself at the start of every month. I also almost never cooked if I could avoid it, which didn't help the situation. When I was running low, I'd just eat less and at less expensive places. Small, fast, junky, yummy food that I could buy in the streets and eat standing or while walking to class. I also fasted for a few days at a time, but not to save money initially. Really just so I could say I did it and then get incredulous, impressed responses from my friends. An artsy painter flatmate used to live on lemonade for a week at a time, and he got me thinking about it and showed me it could be done without much chance of my getting dizzy and walking in front of a speeding bus. He was all about the "cleansing your body" aspect, but I was going for the "wow!  " factor.
If I was ever so broke that I had to eat some of the things people here have described, I'd probably fast (if it was near the end of the month), borrow money, or sell something. There were always places to sell used records & textbooks, so that situation -- eating packets of catsup, etc -- would never have arisen. |
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formerflautist
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Popcorn for every meal. I don't really like popcorn anymore. |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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ooof...not a student but the winter AFTER being a student and I paid all the money owed by me. It was a long winter and pogey hadn't kicked in....
2 WEEKS of thousand island dressing and rice...EVERY DAY!
My roomate gave me an apple the first week...and another friend gave me a couple potatos and a pepper the first weekend. |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:51 am Post subject: |
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2 WEEKS of thousand island dressing and rice...EVERY DAY!
My roomate gave me an apple the first week...and another friend gave me a couple potatos and a pepper the first weekend. |
Sounds like you almost had enough ingredients for Korean fruit salad, so I don't see why you're complaining. |
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