I still think the worst thing about poverty eating is fried bread. Mother would buy bread just going stale. She'd bring it home and freeze it. Then, when it was time to eat that stale bread, you fire up a skillet of oil with a dollop of cheap margarine "for taste" and fry slices of bread to make them edible with lunch or dinner. Then, there was "French toast" made stale bread soaked in a mix made from powdered milk and powdered eggs.