where's the cheap food?

What do the really poor people eat these days? 

When I was a boy back in the Dark Ages, we were very poor.  The job my dad found in Seattle in 1937 ended shortly after he moved us from Spokane.  We went on WPA.  I recall my dad earned a whopping 54 dollars a month.  He moved up to be a supervisor and made about 68 dollars.  But we shopped for most of our food at the Pike Place Public Market.  Lots of local truck farmers had stalls there along with the big California produce houses.  We could always grab some free soup bones when we were really hard up.  Fish heads were tossed out, and they made great soup(ugh!!). 

But you could buy sacks of flour, sugar, corn meal, oats and rice for pennies a pound.  Pasta was dirt cheap, too.  Lots of noodle dishes.  Lots of pot pies and casseroles containing stuff we never new the name of, but it all tasted delicious. 

But where is the low cost food today?  MacDonald's Happy Meal? 

 

Curious Carl