If you're digging ditches in the sun all day, you have zero energy to shop for hierloom tomatoes, pick some basil from your herb garden, and whip up a nice little caprese.

You're in "screw it, but I have to eat something now" mode. Your win for the evening was not telling your boss to stuff it as you were leaving the job site. KFC isn't that big of a deal by comparison.

> you have zero energy to shop for hierloom tomatoes, pick some basil from your herb garden, and whip up a nice little caprese

What are you even talking about? There are many foods that are inexpensive and healthy, the kind of foods that people have been eating for thousands of years. Rice and beans, for instance.

Honestly I don't know why I'm even replying to you; making childish straw men arguments means you have no interest in an actual discussion.

I was trying to explain that many people in poverty are short on things other than money. Like time, flexibility, creativity, and willpower.

Telling them "to cook more because rice and beans are cheap!" is missing the realities on the ground for many. Besides, you can get fat on rice an beans really easily. Again, willpower can be in short supply.

Anyway, these aren't straw-man arguments. I've been there. My family is there. But I guess it's your right to think that people haven't thought about rice and beans before.

> Anyway, these aren't straw-man arguments.

rco8786 says that it's possible to eat cheaply and healthily, and you respond like he's talking about heirloom tomatoes and caprese salad. That is absolutely a straw man.

If that's true, so is pretending that poor people haven't heard of rice and beans before.

The whole point of me listing Rice and Beans was that it was a cheap and healthy food that poor people have heard of, and have eaten for thousands of years. So no, that's not a straw man, unlike what you said.