Whew, I Thought You Were Trying To Convert Me To Vegan!

I made my dad some vegan chili and he ate like 3 bowl, afterwards I mentioned it was vegan beef and he acted like I just served him a turd, I believe the word assault was tossed around. Conservative reactions to just eating vegetables is weird.

The association between meat and masculinity has been a Western trope since the renaissance era. Just one of those cultural quirks that's persisted to present day.

More of a jab at poor families.

Is this what poor families eat??? Where I'm from poor families eat rice, beans, vegetables... This stuff is expensive.
- Usually high sodium, no nutrient food is the cheapest.
- If it was off brand it would be really cheap and you know your kids will eat it. Also its EASY. At the end of a long day getting shit on by everyone, sometimes making rice and beans just takes too long and us too much effort.
tbf, the system is so fucked up, healthy food should be cheap, vegan diets are literally cheaper. but food deserts, and not having time to cook is a massive punishment.
Bulk beans and rice are the OG poor person food.
Canned soda, cold cuts, and single serving boxed pasta are horribly expensive by comparison.
Anyone who actually had to live cheap would know that. But for some reason "eating like shit" is always conflated with "being poor". As though rich kids don't regularly get stuffed full of quick cook crap by parents too busy working late or traveling long distances to cook proper meals
- Poor people are unfortunately disproportionately targeted by junk food. Food deserts are a real thing in rural or poorer areas. Bulk rice and beans are accessible, but most poor families in America don't seem to realize this.
  I've known many people and families that are convinced that this is the only way to eat. My partner's friend is very ill/malnourished because he doesn't realize he can eat cheaply outside of the food from the gas station he works at. I've also known many that don't cook for themselves at all and order out every day multiple times - regardless of income level. My aunt had severe GI problems and balked at me when I suggested an elimination diet to her after months of her going to doctors with no relief (because it'd require her to cook).
  I feel this is a failing of our education and healthcare system. Ensuring that people know how to nourish their bodies is fairly basic stuff.
- As though rich kids don't regularly get stuffed full of quick cook crap by parents too busy working late or traveling long distances to cook proper meals
  No, rich kids have a cook, nanny, au pair, etc that cooks them meals. If the parents can't afford a person to cook for their kids, then they're upper middle class at best.
- There are other constraints. No stove or hotplate, but someone donated a microwave or immersion idk it's called but boils water. There have been times when if a neighbor hadn't allowed me to come over and cook my meals to carry home, I would've lived on potato chips. Slumlords are real.
- Bulk beans and rice are the OG poor person food.
  I've been unemployed for almost a year now and rice and beans is the shit. Twenty pounds of rice for $10, canned beans for like $1/each, and some spices, and I'm good to go for a while. I do splurge on vegetables and fruit when they're on sale though.
I grew up I'm a well off middle class neighbourhood, this is what the families ate and fed their kids, except for our house and the Indian family a few houses down.
I used to like sleeping over a friends house because we got to eat count chocula for breakfast with chocolate milk on it, instead of shredded wheat.
- Shredded wheat isn't exactly nutritious.

The two wrongs make a right starter pack.

Kraft Mac and cheese is already laco-vegetarian and barely cheese...

But they have a fully plant based option:

You should add Oreos too! Nice vegan kid favorite

The sodas are already vegan!

The soda is vegan tho

Nobody needs to force their kids to eat these foods, it's more of a battle to stop them from knowing how great they are for as long as possible

would absolutely go to bat for KD, that, ground beef and some mixed frozen veggies is what I live on while working on minimum wage

...in the late 70s it was known cross-Canada as "Vancouver steak."

TUBES has to be some dystopian scifi shit somebody wrote about, fr fr.

Is that not gogurt?
It need not be dystopian; food in a tube is a staple of space travel

Where's the Sunny D?

You know the stuff that might contain actual orange juice .... or even water.

And bromated vegtable oil

I refuse to eat animals because I don't come from a Jewish family. Elohim promised all the animals to Abraham and his descendants, but I don't know if I'm descended from Abraham, and I'm not risking it. The only meat I eat is the flesh of Jesus Christ.