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To: TimF who wrote (341487)	6/26/2007 8:44:52 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577900

re: Are you trying to deny that among working class people eating out, and eating pre-prepared foods is more common are both more common than they where a couple of generations ago? Yeah they eat McDonalds and Hamburger Helper because it's cheaper to and they don't have the time or money to prepare fresh foods. re: Do you deny that the average employed person has more space in his home or apartment than his counterpart in the past? I don't know. In the inner cities, people are living in the same buildings. I assume they are the same size. You think people should work twqo jobs for an extra 100 sq. feet? Assuming they have it... which is unknown (except by Tim). re: but more people live in houses Not at the low end of the wage scale. re: As for housing for the poor, in the past they often lived in places that couldn't meet today's building and health codes. Clueless, they still do. rer: Even if all the extra cars, electronics, and services count nothing in your opinion (and there isn't any good reason for that to be the case), my point was still accurate. Poor people don't have "all the cars, electronics and sevices" that you enjoy.

To: TimF who wrote (341487)	6/27/2007 1:04:22 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577900

"Are you trying to deny that among working class people eating out, and eating pre-prepared foods is more common are both more common than they where a couple of generations ago?" Some prepared foods are cheaper than making fresh. I remember reading a study on obesity among the poor in West Texas during the early 1980s. A big factor was that their diet consisted mainly of canned biscuits and lard. It, by far, was the cheapest food they could buy. It also had a huge calorie load. Things like fresh vegetables are out of reach for many inner city poor. The stores they have available simply don't stock them. Supermarkets typically don't exit in inner cities, and it likely is cheaper to eat at Mickey D's than trying to put together meals out of the stores that do exist there.