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In the country they dine on fresh eggs from the hen-house, fresh tomatoes from the garden, fresh venison and foraged mushrooms. The food they eat is usually better tasting and better quality than the food billionaires eat.

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I grew up in the country, while all of that did happen… it wasn’t like every meal was that. Eggs depended on how many eggs the dozen or so chickens laid recently, most chickens don’t lay industrial quantities… tomatoes only in mid/late summer when the garden is fruiting. deer only after deer season, even with my dad and I tagging out each year that isn’t enough deer for every meal to be deer meat (venison lol we don’t call it that). We mushroom hunted (foraging lol) every once in a while but again, wild pecker-heads aren’t prevalent enough for any population to eat regularly

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11 points

I’m from the country and while your words are nice they’re not factual in the least.

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My partner grew up in the mountains, and that’s very much how they ate. Home-grown, canned and cooked basically everything above flour. The kids got taught what they could wild forage themselves, and what to bring back to ask about.

Now, they were so cash poor as to have to rub two pennies together to make three, but that’s a whole different point of conversation

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4 points

Yeah that’s how my mom grew up 70 years ago in Appalachia, those days are long gone.

The other comment about hotdogs and mac & cheese is much more accurate to the 21st century IME.

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6 points

Lmao, relax Thoreau

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9 points

do you think i could get a billionaire to buy me a lil cottage on their property where i could grow chickens and share them with him

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You’d be surprised but this is indeed a thing. Caretakers of billionaire houses are in such situations if there is a trust factor and feeling of family between them. It’s not about the eggs specifically of course, but these kind of things exist.

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24 points

Sounds a bit like feudalism.

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3 points

Dude That would be amazing

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3 points

This is just being a serf.

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61 points

Most people I know who live in the country eat hot dogs and kraft mac and cheese they bought from Walmart

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