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To: Moominoid who wrote (55470)	8/28/2006 10:36:30 AM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Depending on how do you define middle class. I would consider a lot of Whole Food shoppers are middle class, even some poor class (like college students). I live nearby a Whole Food Market, saw plenty of college students go there shopping For poor people, high price definitely is a major issue. Even for regular food, high fat and high salt are usually cheaper, and they are consumed almost entirely by the less advantaged. That is the major reason why poor people are heavier and have high percentage of high blood pressure and heart disease.

To: Moominoid who wrote (55470)	8/28/2006 10:42:05 AM
From: Incitatus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

What comes up for me is like I'm in junior high school again and the middle class kids are laughing at my clothes and they're looking at my sandwich and they're saying, 'What's that?' And it's that kind of feeling I think that the people in the neighborhood think they're going to get — that these people are going to be looking down their nose at them and they're eating white bread. —Oak LoGalbo, Artist Sometimes it's the humblest, everyday things which display what class you are. Take the kind of bread you eat: even though Americans 5 to 1 prefer white bread, whole wheat has the greater cachet, and tends to be consumed by more highly-educated people. What seems like an amusing statistic, however, can have great repercussions, as we learn in a visit to a town where foods like seitan and tofu have never gone out of style. In Burlington, low income folks are at war with upper middle-class counter-cultureites over who will build the new downtown grocery. Will it be Shaw's, a national chain of supermarkets, or the Onion River Co-op, a smaller, community-based health food store? While the Co-op promises that it will accommodate the tastes of the masses, many Burlingtonians are suspicious of a place they consider too expensive and judgmental of those who opt for Wonder Bread, cigarettes, and red meat. People Like Us listens in on the acrimonious class-conscious debates, and imparts some lessons on which classes wield cultural and political power in America today. pbs.org