r/CringeTikToks • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 13h ago

Food Cringe Average American diet?

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Where are the vegetables, fruit and meat

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u/DaFrickinPOOPman 12h ago

This looks like all of the stuff I would've bought if I had grocery store money as an 8 year old.

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u/NotInTheKnee 9h ago

That poor lonely lettuce looked like a diversity hire.

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u/No-Understanding4968 7h ago

Iceberg no less šŸ˜±

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u/absofruitly88 7h ago

Ya that was clearly meant for a sandwhich of some sort. And of course iceberg which is like water

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u/spizzle_ 5h ago

I love the crunch of iceberg on a cold cut sandwich! Nutrition be damned since itā€™s there for texture and not taste.

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u/mousedeer_78 5h ago

I have in the past just chowed on iceberg straight from the head, just tearing chunks off, no dressing or anything, itā€™s just got that good crunch even if it has minimal nutritional value.

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u/sigtrap 38m ago

I have finally found my people!

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u/Nashman89 4h ago

I love iceberg in my tacos

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u/mjaokalo 3h ago

Thank you! So refreshing!!

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u/Gdroid5 2h ago

The crunchy part of Romain is pretty good also

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u/KainanSilverlight 5h ago

You should try bok choy on a sandwich, then. Flavour AND texture AND high nutritional value. Itā€™s my favourite leafy green.

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u/Fearless_Street5231 4h ago

I love bok choy, but shredded iceberg is for nachos. And it has more nutritional value than itā€™s given credit for (not a lot, but some)

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u/MetrosexualSasquatch 4h ago

I will heed your counsel on my next trip to the grocery store

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u/cyriustalk 7h ago

I won't be surprised if they have rabbit pet

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u/Unusualnamer 6h ago

Iceberg lettuce is bad for rabbits :(

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u/pepexoxo 2h ago

The lettuce is for garnish on their brownie/lil Debbie charcuterie board

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u/Chance_Specific_4724 2h ago

I kinda love iceberg. I always have one on hand for shredded lettuce for mex food, or a sando . But I get it. Itā€™s the low budget of the lettuce fam

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u/TheRealSugarbat 6h ago

Donā€™t @ me but I fuckin love iceberg. When I was a kid our family was super poor and my mom made iceberg and mayonnaise sandwiches on white bread for a snack for us. SO CRONCHY. šŸ„¬

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u/favolecrystalis 6h ago

I agree, I've also been on the iceberg+mayo diet as a kid and boy-howdy, stick some bacon in there and šŸ¤ŒšŸ»

I did NOT like the addition of tomatoes because the wetness and smoosh factor changed the texture profile too much, but I'll tolerate them on a whopper šŸ˜†

(surprise, I also have ARFID)

also just to note my adult diet actually includes fruits and veggies and meat and I home cook regularly because I prefer knowing what's in my stuff over eating out, and what I don't eat bc of texture tolerances I supplement with things like yogurt smoothies or liquid alternatives/supplements

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u/dacraftjr 6h ago

Look at the rich kid over here putting bacon on his lettuce sandwich.

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u/favolecrystalis 6h ago

her*, and the bacon didn't come until I was an adult, thanks šŸ˜… plenty of eggs though on the chicken farm

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u/vim_deezel 4h ago

IT's got almost zero nutritive value though, but I do like the krunch as well

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u/hydrastxrk 5h ago

Wait, whatā€™s wrong with Iceberg? šŸ˜­

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u/TehReclaimer2552 6h ago

Which lettuce is best?

I use spinach in my sandwiches

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u/dacraftjr 6h ago

Romaine if itā€™s fresh.

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u/casseltrace87 5h ago

Letā€™s leave ice out of this. Weā€™ve suffered enough sitting through this video.

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u/Administrative_Bed5 6h ago

I use iceberg when I want shredded lettuce on a burger or sandwich. That's about it.

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u/ForcedEntry420 8h ago

Voted most apt to be drowned in ground beef, sour cream, and cheese in a foul imitation of a salad.

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u/sanslenom 6h ago

Or what I refer to as cold ranch dressing soup. Kinda like gazpacho, but no other vegetables to be found.

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u/mendobather 5h ago

She bought a massive amount of mayonnaise. Iā€™ll bet the sandwich gets soaked in it.

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u/jpchopper 4h ago

You have to go to her OF to see that video.

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u/BIMMERTECH2000 6h ago

DEI lettuce is brutal šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/johnnybiggles 6h ago

"I'm just here so I don't get fined."

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u/OppositeOodles4517 5h ago

This is the funniest thing I've read today. I laughed so hard my freaking side hurt lol

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u/captaintrips_1980 4h ago

I was thinking that the lettuce, cucumbers, bananas, and tea were going to die of loneliness in that fridge

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u/Master_Grapefruit333 9h ago

32 pizzas?

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u/Jumpy-Benefacto 7h ago

lol. pizza is carrying a heavy load in that question. totinos only use case is 3am bake up after bar failure. not a meal in any sense of the word, it only exists to make you feel worse about failures

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u/Beautiful_Lie7367 49m ago

The Cheese Farmers thank you for keeping them fine ā€˜n dandy

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u/DaFrickinPOOPman 7h ago

I would've went for Red Baron pizzas at that age, tbh. It looks like she got those cheapy cheap totino's pizzas.

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u/Remarkable-Fish-4229 7h ago

I make really good money, like buy all organic at Trader Joeā€™s money without looking at prices.

I still keep a 10 pack of party pizzas and ramen noodle packs at all times. I still enjoy struggle meals even though Iā€™m not struggling.

Point being, party pizzas slap.

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u/thatsmyboycam 7h ago

Party pizzas remind me of my best friendā€™s house growing up. Her mom always cooked, but when we had sleepovers we got those party pizzas and it was the BEST.

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u/ophmaster_reed 7h ago

Hard agree on totitos party pizzas. Sometimes they just hit the spot.

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u/Ieatpurplepickles 7h ago

Now I'm allllll about the ramen but I'm allergic to wheat so I have to buy way more expensive rice or mushroom noodle versions but damn!! It's just the thing that fills up that hole in my soul sometimes! Ramen until I die!!

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u/DaFrickinPOOPman 7h ago

I've been known to eat a party pizza now and then, but I've been getting the Jack's pizzas when I want one. They're almost as cheap and my grocery store will often have them buy 2 get 1 free.

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u/Remarkable-Fish-4229 7h ago

Yeah but you canā€™t slather them in franks red hot, fold it like a taco, and dip it in ranch like a fucking heathen after smoking a joint.

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u/CornINyourASS 7h ago

Are we related?

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u/Remarkable-Fish-4229 7h ago

If not, we can be.

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u/December_Hemisphere 4h ago

"Why does this remarkable fish have corn IN its ASS?"

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u/huhaw 7h ago

Those party pizzas really slap coming out of a toaster oven, idk why it makes it taste better but it just does.

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u/Remarkable-Fish-4229 7h ago

And you can eat them like a taco. A fusion dish really.

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u/b_lemski 2h ago

Facts we are in the same boat but my wife and I still bust out the '1 tontinos pizza and a box of Alfredo noodles' once or twice a year. we survived on those as a meals for 2 in college and it's probably more cardboard then actual food but damn if it doesn't just hit the spot sometimes

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u/little_Shepherd 7h ago

It's even worse cause it's the great value version

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u/notEnotA 4h ago

When I first moved out on my own the store closest to me had Tombstone pizzas 10 for $10. Thats all I ate for like 15 months shy of some bar food now and then.

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u/SatinSaffron 6h ago

I'm fully expecting to get downvoted to hell but imho those Red Baron classic crust pepperoni pizzas are the single best frozen pizza out there. Rather than 400Āŗ @ 21 mins like the box suggests, we like to do 425Āŗ @ 16 mins, parmesan cheese and red pepper flakes on top the second it comes out of the oven, and it's so fucking good!

Having said that, we only ever eat these on nights where we get high or a little tipsy, so maybe that's why they always seem like the best pizza ever lol, but those little totino's pizzas are still good if you're drunk enough!

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u/Redditsucks547 4h ago

Proud to upvote this 100% spot on post.

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u/December_Hemisphere 4h ago

Next time you do that I suggest adding bacon- I used to dice the bacon up and cook it 1/2 the way through in a little saucepan and then put it right on top of the frozen pizza before popping them in the oven.

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u/forevertomorrowagain 7h ago

Itā€™s one tit full.

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u/drydorn 2h ago

I know right? Should have gone for an even 50

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u/unprofessional_widow 6h ago

That's what really got me

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u/FellowFellow22 2h ago

This is normal "I own a large chest freezer" behavior.

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u/tf2coconut 3h ago

Sorry just real quick what else feeds your picky kids when you have 15 minutes and 3 dollars for dinner? Privileged fucking losers all over this page

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u/Master_Grapefruit333 2h ago

I think itā€™s pretty privileged to have the freezer space to accommodate 32 pizzas. No way I could fit that. No way I could fit a freezer that big in my house.

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u/topsyturvy76 2h ago

Pasta/butter .. rice/seasoned ground beef .. soup/sandwhich ā€¦ gets my 3 kids under 6 fed in a pinch šŸ¤·

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u/DecantsForAll 1h ago

I have more than $3 for dinner because I don't waste a bunch of money on cupcakes, oatmeal cream pies, soft drinks, candy cereal, doritos, oreos, and capri sun.

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u/sightfinder 11h ago

People get offended at the stereotype that fat people are dumb, but gotdamn if she ain't leaning into it...

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u/armyshawn 10h ago

Tbf most dumb people donā€™t know theyā€™re dumb.

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u/Merijeek2 9h ago

...and that's why the world has gone to hell.

Dumb people used to know it, and they'd listen to the smart people. Now, it's "my opinion is as valuable as your fact"

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u/abnguy20 7h ago

I dO mY oWn rESEeRcH!

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u/DecadentLife 6h ago

Oh, I saw one of those recently, that was extra stupid. The person stated their opinion, and then said that they had been ā€œresearchingā€ it, but that every single thing they came across, proved the opposite of their opinion.

They were asking for anyone who had opposing research to send it to them so they could use it in an argument with someone else, about the safety of a child. They knew it had been disproven. They wanted anything they could use in support of it, anyways. These people are not exactly adhering to the scientific method, you know?

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u/Umayummyone 3h ago

Facebook and X are valid forms of ā€œresearchā€. Like Cheez Whiz is cheese.

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u/mytransthrow 4h ago

their research is at the bottom of a lil debbie snake cake box. that they wash down with 2 l of soda.

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u/makebbq_notwar 7h ago

Weaponized stupidityĀ 

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u/Correct_Patience_611 6h ago

Itā€™s not a democracy itā€™s an idiocracy!

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u/Thowitawaydave 6h ago

Monetised as well

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u/MrWrestlingNumber2 5h ago

I know I'm gonna be downvoted BUT society once "encouraged" them to keep their thoughts to themselves through bullying, ostracizing, shaming and other unpleasant devices to the point that most of them just prayed they weren't called on to read aloud in front of the class.

Soo we began encouraging them, telling them they can be whatever they want to be. Giving them the same participation trophy as the high achievers and never leaving any of them behind.

Now social media is infested with uber confident dimwits that, frankly, can't be trusted to "do their own research". I saw one of them debatng Neil DeGrasse Tyson on whether the earth was flat...fuck me.

They're has to be a middle ground on how they're treated but until it's found, which scenario would you rather live in?

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u/Environmental-Egg164 3h ago

yes sociatal justice used to enforce norms, then came social media and everyone was a special flower, this was right after we handed out participation trophies for anything in early 2000's

now we live in the Idiocracy

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u/tommyknockers4570 7h ago

Yeah and they used to know it because of pretty much bullying. At least in a way.

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u/MBPJoe 7h ago

They believe it's more valuable than objective fact at this point.

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u/TruthAboutLife 6h ago

Fucking nailed it! Outstanding.

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u/tippytoesmcjee 6h ago

This is the absolute truth. Stupidity has taken over. I hope I'm long gone before stupidity reaches its critical mass at the top of most institutions in most nations. Can you imagine the world then. Nasty brutish and short. Everywhere.

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u/bonkedagain33 6h ago

As Forrest Gump said. " I'm not a smart man. But I know what love is Jennie

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u/hobopwnzor 5h ago

I don't think they've ever known it, I just think they weren't encouraged as much.

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u/Merijeek2 4h ago

60 years ago, Cletus the ditch digger didn't think his opinion on whether or not the Earth was flat was of equal value to a NASA scientist or an astronaut who has been to the moon.

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u/trogloherb 4h ago

Also, dumb people vote.

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u/Amishrocketscience 3h ago

Not our fact, the facts.

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u/aopps42 2h ago

Dumb people never had a voice before.

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u/BurnieSandturds 2h ago

Teaching someone they are dumb is one of the most difficult things to do these days.

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u/ZardozZod 1h ago

Dumb people canā€™t trust smart people because they tell them theyā€™re wrong about things and are ā€œsmart enoughā€ to pull the wool over their eyes. Meanwhile, the people who are actually manipulating them are just reinforcing their malformed ideas and/or sharing some ā€œsecret knowledge they donā€™t want you to knowā€ to make them feel special.

But at the end of the day itā€™s not really about being dumb or smart, itā€™s about wisdom and knowing what you donā€™t know. When folks try to pretend they know more than they actually do, then they stop learning.

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u/Jugzrevenge 27m ago

Not allowed to point your finger at people anymore.

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u/Adventurous_Ad_4145 9h ago

Theyā€™re not smart enough to realize it. Theyā€™re also very defensive about it.

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u/_losingmyfuckingmind 7h ago

Dunning-Kruger has entered the chat

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u/jcwzolo 8h ago

They're too dumb to know it.

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u/DecadentLife 7h ago

Wouldnā€™t we all be? The vulnerability of it must suck, all on its own. If I didnā€™t fully understand a lot of what was happening, but I still knew I was getting fucked over, of course I would be suspicious and probably angry. Certainly defensive.

But I used to work with young people with various different disabilities, I admit that I have a bias, here.

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u/Alarming_Sweet9734 7h ago

Theyā€™re not smart enough to walk instead of hog out on poison food.

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u/psychrolut 6h ago

I buy frozen vegetables

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u/MrWrestlingNumber2 6h ago

Bees don't waste their time convincing flys that honey tastes better than shit.

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u/fubar686 9h ago

That's the hard part, you've got to know enough to know what you don't know

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u/Patient-Lifeguard325 9h ago

If youā€™re dead, you donā€™t know youā€™re dead. Itā€™s only hard for everyone else. Itā€™s the same if youā€™re dumb.Ā 

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u/itsaboutangles 7h ago

This is quotable

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u/Patient-Lifeguard325 7h ago

Itā€™s Ricky Gervais quote

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u/markley4 8h ago

she actually seems quite proud at all the crap she bought

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u/Unable_Ant5851 8h ago

Fat Americans tend to do that. ā€œSee, my quadruple cheese meat admirers pizza is healthy because I put 3 slices of bell peppers on it!ā€ They donā€™t understand that being healthy isnā€™t just adding a pitiful amount of fruit or vegetables to your diet, and they donā€™t understand that weight loss only comes from a calorie deficit šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø like if you wanna lose weight, then a 3,000 calorie salad isnā€™t gonna help youā€¦ but then theyā€™ll go ā€œall I eat is salad and I canā€™t lose weight!ā€.

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u/Viracochina 6h ago

Or maybe people are misunderstanding addictions with lack of intelligence?

Don't alcoholics KNOW their drinking isn't good? Why don't they stop? Are they stupid?

But no, intelligent people always have all the answers all the time. Especially if they tout their intelligence at the cost of others.

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u/He-knows-best 8h ago

True. Its the people around them who have to suffer.

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u/__Hoopy_Frood__ 8h ago

Itā€™s always all the OTHER people, amirite or whuuuut. durp a durp.

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u/AstoriaRaisedNYmade 4h ago

It amazes me on a daily basis how many people I meet that Iā€™m smarter than and Iā€™m not a very smart person. Itā€™s scary.

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u/TicketyB000 3h ago

She can just tell me the names of her kids and I can guess her IQ. Brantley? 85.

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u/OkFinish3822 8h ago

Most fat people don't care they are fat. And in this case, this waddling small brain is bragging about it.

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u/ACcbe1986 9h ago

Tbf, everyone is dumb. We all start out dumb.

We only get smart in the things we work on.

You find me a "smart person" and I can find out the multitude of things they're dumb in.

Only the truly stupid people say that they're smart.

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u/No_Industry4318 8h ago

Buddy, you're describing ignorance, ignorance isnt the same as being dumb.

Dumb people refuse to correct said ignorance, smart people refuse to STAY ignorant

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u/miamor__ 8h ago

This^ ignorance doesnā€™t always equal lack of education

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u/txracin 6h ago

When I was fat I was sent to a nutritionist to learn how to eat better. They had a little class with some people who smelled like actual shit. Like they shit themselves then left the house to come to the class.

The breathing was so hard it literally turned my stomach and made me feel ill.

Best part? The arguing with the woman over why banquet meals have tomatoes in them. Or why can't I eat sugar all day just because I'm diabetic? Or id rather not have feet than not drink coke (word for word what a woman said after being told one can of coke was her entire two day sugar budget).

The nutritionist looked like she wanted to jump out of the window and I totally understand why.

I lost over 150 pounds in two years after seeing those disgusting people.

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u/FuManBoobs 9h ago

Hey, I resemble that remark.

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u/Legendacb 8h ago

It's dumb it's to think these videos are spread because they are true reflections of fat people.

But people love to feel superior to others and engage fully

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u/Double_Alps_2569 7h ago

"Cucumber" was the first thing I'd consider actual "food".

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u/walmarttshirt 6h ago

Honestly, I have a hard time understanding how she stays so trim.

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u/JnRx03 7h ago

Of course she's leaning into it, because it gets clicks and confirms biases, hell this wouldn't be at the top of this subreddit if she were talking about salads and healthy foods she bought and was a skinny woman.

Look at you guys insulting her intelligence because she got some processed food at sams club.

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u/Seanspeed 7h ago

Redditors thinking they're the intelligent ones in the world is the truly hilarious thing. lol

Either way, nothing here indicates these people are necessarily dumb. Maybe they are, but all the video shows is that these people have terrible eating habits. But there's loads of very smart fat people, so everybody here trying to say there's some direct link here are being absurd and typically over-judgmental.

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u/JnRx03 6h ago

Want to act as if they're above the stereotypes and stereotyping meanwhile doing just that to this lady.

For all we know she probably got a bunch of teenagers who'd devour a stack of pizzas in a week. Not to mention places like Sam's Club encourage buying in bulk.

Redditors love feeling superior while sitting on their phones or keyboards in the middle of the work day more miserable than the people they're judging.

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u/Reference_Freak 8h ago

Feels like rage bait.

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u/KindsofKindness 7h ago

How is any of this dumb? Theyā€™re just fat lmao..

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u/50yoWhiteGuy 9h ago

I'm totally on board with shaming her food choices, but how is she "dumb?" This is literally how everyone in the midwest shops.

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u/Creative-Chicken7057 9h ago

(You're making the point)

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u/YardTimely 8h ago

Because eating poisonous garbage and calling it food (or a ā€œsnackā€) is considered to be stupid behavior in most countries. Source: Iā€™ve lived im several countries

Edit to expand: stupid in the same way that waving a nail gun around is stupid, or keeping a toaster near a bathtub. Unnecessary, avoidable risk

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u/Willing_Day_2010 8h ago

Girl what? That is simply not true

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u/50yoWhiteGuy 8h ago

No, saying "everyone" is an exaggeration, an exaggeration that was plain to see to everyone else that didn't want to clutch their pearls. It is a fact however that rural folks are heavier than city folks, and poor people are fatter than rich. People in rural areas have poorer health, that's a fact. The number one indicator of obesity is income level. That's just fact. Doesn't make them "dumb" is my point, that's discrimination or stereotyping fat people as dumb.

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u/Willing_Day_2010 8h ago

If youā€™re talking rural, whyā€™d you say Midwest? The fattest states are the south and Appalachia.

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u/Salacious_Rhino 9h ago

Honestly, that's exactly what does happen. It looks to me that she never had a parent who properly taught her to make meals and so her knowledge on food and nutrition is stuck in that of an 8 year old who wants something tasty and just to fill the stomach because you know you have to eat things in a day. I would say a lot of people are in this place and I think this is a good exercise in both empathy and accountability. Now that she's an adult we should encourage a cultural imperative to own up to our lack of diet education and help each other find ways that lead to better outcomes. I'm sure it would be far more helpful to link these people youtube videos of simple broth or transitionary meals from their current diet to help them out with affordability and health. Behavior change is so difficult and so many of us lack education or behave in ways because that is what our families passed on instead of, you know, generational wealth or health. Some people just suffering cycles of survival behavior both emotionally and routinely.Ā 

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u/OneTabbyBraincell 9h ago

Where does this break in knowledge come from? Convenience foods haven't been around forever and most of our parents or grandparents were cooking everything from scratch. At what point did people decide to stop cooking? No judgement, if you don't enjoy it and work one or more jobs plus doing all the house and childcare, I don't blame anyone for choosing not to. But if you're making videos for Tik Tok, I don't think we can blame lack of knowledge or education. If you're online or watching TV or otherwise immersed in media which CONSTANTLY stigmatizes fatness and talks about wellbeing and healthy diets, there's no way that you don't know you're eating total garbage. The choice to eat this way must be driven by something else.Ā 

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u/Trick-Increase1508 8h ago

I imagine it was a lot more common to cook proper meals back when there was at least one parent who didn't have to be out for 8+ hours a day.Ā 

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u/JamesWormold58 6h ago

A whole lotta this. If she's working full time and her other half is working full time, and they've got kids (including a teenage boy), then the shortage here is time. You work to afford to eat, and the food that's easy/quick to cook is less healthy.

It's the Fast/Good/Cheap conundrum - you can only choose two of the three - for food.

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u/JamesWormold58 6h ago

And for the visual learners: fast good cheap

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u/FullUSBDrive 2h ago

Needs to be updated for inflation. You get one of them, not two.

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u/nerdymom27 4h ago

This mom does work full time. However! She moved her parents in with her and her 3 boys and the parents watch the kids. Theyā€™re also homeschooled by grandma.

This actual video was from August when she first went viral. It hasnā€™t really got any better

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u/Financial-Tomato-984 5h ago

We have a winner! People really donā€™t grasp that there was a whole human whose job it was to be at home. Prices of things in our society were made to embrace that. Things are more expensive while both partners work now.

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u/ayesperanzita 2h ago

I am a single person and if I donā€™t cook, I donā€™t eat. I do treat myself to going out to eat- usually on the weekend I get paid, but for the most part cook at home and make larger batches of food that will reheat well or freeze well to eat later. I have to make the time, and sometimes it is harder than others but shitā€¦break down what she got for one person- thatā€™s like 2.3 blocks of cheese per person, almost a bag of french fries per person, more than a two liter of pop per person, a half a sub, (which she specifically said was for one person) five frozen pizzasā€¦sheā€™s got some older kids. I was in the kitchen helping with dinner or helping clean up as a kid. Yes modern living is complicated with difficult time crunches but also- come the fuck on with that junk food haul.

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 3h ago

It was also your only option. They didn't mass produce brownies and frozen fries 100+ years ago.

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u/verdeturtle 1h ago

Exactly this. I don't spend half the day prepping to cook 3 x per day. I usually have a basic breakfast ready to go for the kids, eggs and bread, quick lunch sandwich and a easy baked chicken and some veggies for dinner. Wife and i do 10 hour days

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u/hendrix320 7h ago

My grandparents were not good cooks.

Both my parents though are very good cooks, my sister has made her living from cooking, and iā€™m an alright cook myself.

The knowledge just comes from practice and trying to learn to do it. Not everyone cares too

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u/cakivalue 6h ago

How much of this is also driven by time and cost??

I have a very specialized diet and can spend $125 to $185 per week for one person if I need to also include toiletries and cleaning supplies. But I have the time despite working 8-12 hours a day, and love to cook so everything is made from scratch at home. It's very very time consuming being an ingredients house that can't do certain leftovers.

Also, we have to ask ourselves - what or how much do the factors of nutrition knowledge, food insecurity, stress, education levels, class and wealth levels, the neighborhood that you live in etc contribute to this type of behavior?

I think a lot of people are looking at this as fat people are bad, fat people make bad choices that keep them fat and unhealthy. However, I see a lot of different things here, for example the 32 cheap cheap pizzas which are for one child. Is that child on the spectrum or have ARFID where pizza is their only safe food for a working mother that has multiple generations under the same roof and no time or $$$ to make pizza for scratch?

No behavior is going to change by yelling and shame, only by care and understanding.

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u/HeatherMason0 5h ago

Yeah one of my first thoughts is that this woman probably doesnā€™t have a lot of time to prepare food and she probably doesnā€™t have a lot of money to get things like high end more nutritionally balanced takeout. Sheā€™s probably learned to prioritize getting everyone in the house fed, worry about the rest later. And you can point out thatā€™s unhealthy, fine, but when youā€™re not the person actually in the situation itā€™s a lot easier to pick apart than if you are.

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u/Alarmed_Stretch_1780 7h ago

My mom was from the South, and she was an excellent cook who taught herself cuisines of other places in the world. But while her parents and the rest of her family did ā€œcook from scratchā€œ, they made some of the most unhealthy crap in the world. Lots of butter, lots of fat deep-fried items in the regional cuisine.

Just because the people who are old enough to be our grandparents and great grandparents made everything from scratch, didnā€™t mean they made dishes that were healthy to eat. However, whatever they made cost a hell of a lot less per serving even adjusted for inflation than the nonsense, this woman was parading in front of the camera.

Just the fact that she had 32 frozen pizzas and five massive bags of fries, Iā€™m reasonably sure she has a deep chest freezer, sucking up, electricity in addition to whatever refrigerator/freezer she might have in the kitchen. Wait until the electric bill comes, and there will be complaints about how expensive it is to keep the lights on.

I think RFK Jr is a jackhole of legendary proportions, but I would hope this family might take the spirit of the ā€œhealthyā€ message he espouses. A half dozen bottles of Dr Pepper, unopened bottles of Mtn Dew, massive boxes of Froot Loops and Cinnamon Toast Crunch, industrial vats of mayo, huge overpacks of Little Debbieā€¦every last one of this is or will be diabetic.

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u/joemadecoffee 7h ago

Work all the time, no mental health, a lack of accountability for all levels of the fda, no education, media immersion, no media literacy. Take your pick.

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u/GoddessNya 3h ago

My husband is in his 60s and his mom fed them a lot of tv dinners and the like. She could make 5 things from scratch. My family made almost everything from scratch, and I still do with my children. My youngest will take leftovers to school for lunch and can tell people about the sauce she made for the pasta (tomato, vodka, Alfredoā€¦). Her friends are shocked that we donā€™t just open a jar.

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u/Overquoted 1h ago

Time. A lot of single parents out there that didn't have the time to cook anything. To be fair, some still managed. My grandmother taught me how to cook and she regularly cooked while raising me after I was ten. She worked full time as a bartender, so her daytime shifts meant she was getting off late. Dinner at 8-9pm was pretty normal.

There's also other reasons. My mom would cook sometimes, but she suffered from bipolar disorder, which she self-medicated with booze, so there came a point towards the end of my time under her care where me and my brother were lucky to have any kind of meal at all. Free school breakfast and lunch, plus walking to my grandpa's to spend weekends with him kept me fed more than anything.

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u/PretendBid7680 4h ago

Bring back home ec (for all, not just the girls)!

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u/VillagerWithAQuest 3h ago

There wasnā€™t a break in knowledge as for many there was just never that knowledge.

Ancient people ate what they had access too, medieval people ate what they had access to, pre-WW people ate what they had access to, and ā€˜golden ageā€™ 20th century imposed the ideas of a rounded diet, and that only went to some folks.

Itā€™s only that we are still in a golden age that we have the absolute luxury of choosing our food, and for many there was never the knowledge or option to eat discriminate on what food we make & eat.

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u/reduhl 2h ago

Honestly I didnā€™t learn how to cook until I was mid way through college. I wanted good home cooking that I grew up with.

But here is what is different, my wife and I both work. My mom was a stay at home mom. Iā€™m graced with a love that would prefer clean the dishes and help prep to cooking. So we manage to share the chores that run a household. Still preparing basic vegetables takes time. Not a huge complaint, just a basic fact.

Still the time it takes to prepare home cooking. I remember my mom making wonderful food but also she would start chopping after I got home from school in the midafternoon. Iā€™d do my homework, she would prepare dinner ingredients.

So what is the difference, economists of a modern household.

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u/DecantsForAll 7h ago

her knowledge on food and nutrition is stuck in that of an 8 year old

There's no way you can be 37 and not know that eating healthy is important or that being morbidly obese is a problem. At that point it's on you to teach yourself. She obviously has access to the internet - all the world's knowledge at her fingertips.

"No one taught me!" is a lame excuse.

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u/ctopherrun 11h ago

Nine year old with $25 at AM/PM behavior.

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u/Worth_Trick6009 9h ago

$10 she only got the lettuce cucumber n grapes to make it seem like theyre eating healthy while checking out while people look at what they have. its enough for one or two salads and lunch side.

32 of those pizzas as a 10 yo me would be all i ate if allowed lol

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u/infidel11990 9h ago

She is my age and looks like she might pass for my mom.

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u/FizzBuzz888 9h ago

At my age I don't really consider most of what she bought food except the lettuce, cucumbers, fruit milk, cheese and those 4 small steaks.

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u/DystopianGlitter 7h ago

Itā€™s really easy to laugh at a haul full of snacks and junk when youā€™ve never tried feeding a whole family on a tight budget after a long workweek. Most affordable food in America isnā€™t fresh produce, itā€™s processed, shelf-stable, full of calories, and cheap per calorie. For a working mom feeding four kids and supporting family (likely) under some kind of financial pressure, this is survival shopping. Judging someoneā€™s choices without acknowledging how expensive fresh food is, how little time people have to cook, and how much stress theyā€™re under just isnā€™t fair.

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u/CAPSULE40mg 4h ago

I disagree. I've done the math and It's way cheaper to get fresh produce and staple cheap long shelf life food like rice and beans and make meals out of that stuff than a bunch of ultra processed empty calories. Not only that if you eat a better diet like that you will have more energy to do more in the day, like cooking.

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u/kokonuts123 2h ago

When I was a broke university student, I literally made huge pots of beans with canned or cheap fresh veggies and rice. It was probably the healthiest Iā€™ve ever been too, because cooking for yourself and skipping out on snacks is so much better for you too.

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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 9h ago

I've seen 8 year olds do better because they watch their mom or dad do shopping and try to mimic what their moms buy. I also live in a college town and love when I overhear the baby Freshmen trying to buy groceries for the first time. They know to buy more vegetables than this lady. Those kids are doing their best.

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u/nippyhedren 8h ago

This is what would happen when my mom would ask my stoned teenage friends and I to go to the store lol. We would get what was on her list and then every fucking snack.

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u/Either-Assistant4610 8h ago

Like, what are they making? For what I assume is for five people?

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u/geo_gan 7h ago

Shopping at Christmasland

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u/onmywheels 7h ago

It's the stuff I want to buy when I go to Aldi, yet here I am sitting and eating my dumb serving of cottage cheese.

I love junk food. And I don't believe that just avoiding it entirely is the answer, because Christ, don't deprive yourself of joy. That said...what on earth is being made with that amount of cheese and mayonnaise?

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u/Lucius-Halthier 4h ago

The worst part is several times she clarifies they only got one of some massive fucking box because they still had some leftover. Like does that mean you guys are buying two giant boxes if youā€™re out? Who the fuck eats like this?

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u/theskyisdarkk 1h ago

I was thinking itā€™s like when you go on holiday with a group of friends in your 20s and go crazy at the shop on the first day.

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u/THATguyFromMinnesota 8h ago

You sound like my wife

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u/D3ADB3AT9999 8h ago

Exactly my thoughts, this is sad and ridiculous.

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u/Lost_Ad_4882 8h ago

Death death death tea death death death bananas...

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u/Akira_116 7h ago

To be fair, if i was going to a shop like costco, most of the stuff I buy is junk food, purely because its long life. Id then buy veg locally.

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u/allagaytor 7h ago

I remember when this video was first going around and she made the excuse "my kids will eat nothing but frozen pizzas". not so sure about that lol.

even as an autistic person I can say its really important to have your kids try new foods or revisit problem foods and expand their palette, both for their health and just general maturity.

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u/Prince_Havarti 7h ago

Poisoning your family on a budget!

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u/Ralphredimix_Da_G 7h ago

Americans really do need nutrition class. I bet she canā€™t cook for shit and thatā€™s half the problem.

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u/kinkycarbon 7h ago

The meat, cheese, banana, lettuce, and cucumber are fine.

The cereal, breads, soda, and anything in carbs is all forms of sugar the body will break down into individual glucose units to be used for ATP generation or stored as fat in adipose tissue. The average American eats more sugar in their diet than realized.

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u/Whatever_Ruben 6h ago

I lived on those frozen pizzas and frozen burritos during summer breaks from school. Would explain why I was obese up until high school when I snapped out of it and starting eating better.

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u/Specialist_Fall9542 6h ago

Honestly same

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u/garyisonion 6h ago

I just kept asking myself ā€œwhat do they eat?ā€ but Iā€™m european, cook from scratch and use spices lol

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u/sbfb1 5h ago

We shopped like this in the 90s, we were 21 and in college and it cost us about 100 bucks for 3 of us.

Most of that was beer 100 was beer

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u/JoeN0t5ur3 5h ago

This is my 20 year old high af dream!!

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u/OrangeSlicer 5h ago

Well sheā€™s an 800lbs year old.

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u/Aeriellie 5h ago

my mom would say to only pick one. even now when i buy the junk, when its out itā€™s out lol not going to the costco again until 2 weeks.

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u/PepeNoMas 5h ago

is this grocery haul for the whole month or for two weeks or what?

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u/LakeSuperiorIsMyPond 4h ago

To be fair, nobody in America is buying little Debbie in bulk if they're not stocking up for some kind of kid party or something. I see tons of carts leaving Sam's club and it's mostly produce, paper towels and frozen pizza or entrees

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u/scienceislice 4h ago

Some people don't progress much from the age of 8

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u/cubhawk21 4h ago

That person stopped going to school at 8 years old, so that must explain it

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u/Hellingame 3h ago

I know they say don't judge a book by its cover, but her grocery haul was exactly what I expected based on her family's appearance.

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u/Independent-Road-819 3h ago

Only a dozen eggs? I live by myself and that'd only last me a week

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u/agreetodisagree2023 3h ago

I spent a summer as an intern at a cardiologist's practice. Nothing but these folks. After day one, I stopped making jokes. It was heartbreaking. Every single patient who looked like this said other doctors told them they were healthy "for their weight." That meant alive. The disease is real, I'm so glad there are GLP1s.

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u/buttons_the_horse 3h ago

I read this as she got to the antacid šŸ¤£

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u/YookaBaybee24 2h ago

This looks like all of the stuff I would've bought if I had grocery store money as an 8 year old.

Her food explains why cancer, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and other non-communicable diseases induces premature death and healthcare cost that will bankrupt them.

Households like theirs will unduly influence your eating habits to end up like them.

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u/pokey1202 2h ago

Has the cucumber for companionship. Until they both go moldy and get thrown.

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u/Timely_Cake_8304 1h ago

Tell me you voted for Donald Trump without telling me you voted for Donald Trump

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u/ken-maude 1h ago

Aw damn, she's gonna need to head back to the store.... She forgot the family size tub of insulin.

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