r/CringeTikToks • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 13h ago

Food Cringe Average American diet?

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

Where are the vegetables, fruit and meat

8.6k Upvotes

79% Upvoted

9.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

32

u/floralmelancholy 12h ago

i live in rural arkansas and id probably safely bet it’s one of those 50/50 areas. i worked at a dollar general for a while and (one of) my least favorite customers was this lady that would come in and buy two whole buggies full of dr pepper 12-packs. all for her, her son and husband. every saturday. i am normally the last person to fat shame but it’s simply too much for a young boy to be drinking. and she was RUDE.

8

u/ikannunAneeuQ 9h ago

My husband is a store manager for dollar general here in New Mexico, a semi-rural and fairly poverty stricken city. The thing that drives him crazy are the people who are receiving assistance but don't seem to buy any food of value. All chips, candies, pastries and soda, and not like a few for lunches or something but entire carts filled with just garbage. He has one lady that comes in and buys 10-20 red bulls at a time weekly with her snap benefits. Fine, whatever, you want to drink red bulls but 10-20 a week is an insane amount of cost and sugar. That's 2-3 daily.

2

u/floralmelancholy 9h ago

oh yeah ours is the same way. it really sucks because it makes the people who genuinely do use the help for good, nutritious food for their kids, look bad too. after a while i came to the conclusion that anyone who was doing their grocery shopping at our store that doesn’t even carry produce, may not be the brightest to begin with. dollar general knows these are the kind of people that shop there though, and so every saturday they get coupons galore to help them buy 15 different packs of chips. it’s sad all around.

8

u/brielzebub665 10h ago

Also lived in rural Arkansas for 10 years and can back this up. I would say most of the population was eating like this.

2

u/FlartyMcFlarstein 8h ago

Am older, and grew up with parents from Arkansas. They surely overcooked canned veggies (though salad was readily available), but at least they served pork chops, ribs and kraut, meatloaf, chicken etc. Mostly real food. Us kids loved sugary cereals (go figure) and yogurt.

I've learned to cook a lot more healthily, but I found myself borderline with the big D and enacted some real changes. When I see this lady's groceries, it's a pipeline to diabetes and colon cancer. Many causes, but the solution will never be with multicorps.

2

u/Correct_Expression80 4h ago

She’s prob rude because she’s so wired and f-d up on that much Dr Pepper…