Wilted Rose
<Snipped quote by Vilageidiotx>
I suppose the "even every month" thing is fair, and the shelf life and price tag make it a little more accessible. Still, having gone through a period in my life where the chief components of my deity were spam, ramen, and dry cereal, I'm a little leery of the prospect of eating spam when there are any number of alternatives.
Those were dark times in my life. I was living on campus at a different university, I actually stayed on campus over Thanksgiving break because I didn't want to make my family pay the time or money to drive something like 8-12 hours straight with no stopping just to pick me up. I had dry Raisin Bran and peanut butter for Thanksgiving. I'd spent the day before walking over to a Subway on the street opposite of the opposite side of campus (read: far away), tried to buy a big sub to have for Thanksgiving, and learned that I had something like 12 cents left on my debit card because I tried very hard not to take any student non-student loans that year.
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Those were dark times in my life. I don't like spam. I'll eat it.
EDIT: I should clarify that I DID take out student loans. Made a typo up there. But that situation was really bad because all my food-related money was loaded onto a student card, which I couldn't use at all during Thanksgiving because all the on-campus food places closed down. That was also the same semester I realized I was paying 700 dollars a semester for a meal plan that gave me 300 dollars of food in return, 400 dollars if I only went to the discount places with the very best discounts for having a student meal plan. And then I learned the school in question wouldn't let me drop classes while I had some $25 hold that I didn't have the on-hand cash to pay for, nor the money in the bank to pay for. Those were dark times.
I had a friend who played the college game that way. She ended up getting real sick from malnourishment and ended up having to drop out. Never went back after that.
