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I remember watching this PSA on saturday mornings over 30 years ago. While it brings back sweet nostalgic memories, I couldnt stand it as a little kid. We were dirt poor. Hunger was a constant companion. Our fridge was bare most of the time. So all of the suggestions he gives for breakfast (juice, fruit, lunch meat, peanut butter sandwiches, etc) was absolutely worthless to me as we had none of those food items in our home. The only part I identified with was the rumbling, empty stomach part.
It's a shame that they did not address poverty concerns in schoolhouse rock PSA's. However, you mention that you watched this on your tv. If my kids were going hungry, I would have sold that tv and everything else in the house to feed them!
So your folks paid for a tv and electricity to watch this PSA but never bought food for you to eat at all? Did you ever tell your teachers or the law that they were starving you at home just so they could watch the soaps or some other programs? And why didn't they apply for food stamps or seek assistance from the Salvation Army, United Way, local churches or synagogues? Did they apply for welfare, unemployment, disability, social services? Did they work and make money but horded it from you? Your parents couldn't even ask money from relatives or friends? Did your folks know that they could make quick cash by selling their blood or plasma, recycling cans, bottles, and plastic? Did your parents seek out help from food pantries or food kitchens around where you lived? Too many things just doesn't make sense on this story...not saying it's not possible...just not adding up. Unless you're just making others feel bad for liking these old PSAs.
Yeah…..I’m calling BS on ghostrepublic too. I give i props to Debra for calling him out first. Peri I think it’s some weird psychological turn-on for him, to lie like that. Infarct…..I get the feeling that he actually grew up EXTREMELY comfortably, wanting for nothing, and either he lacked attention, love from his parents (hence, watching way too much telly in lieu of spending time with his parents - hence, poor in love), OR….he feels guilty for never wanting for nothing, so he constructed a fantasy childhood where he grew up “dirt poor”, in his mind only. Whatever the reason, I call BS also. Ghostrepublic - Why couldn’t you just write that you fondly recall this PSA? Why sell your soul by telling lies? Too bad. Hope you get it together soon, and become honest with yourself. Debra and I call BS.
Some real psychos telling a person that because their family owned a TV that they also couldn't be poor enough to have food insecurity. Lots of poor people have televisions and refrigerators. Good lord.
Ghostrepublic is my old account. My parents split up when I was young. About 5 years old. Mother retained custody of us kids and promptly went on welfare, including food stamps. I don't know how much Mother got in food stamps, but apparently it wasn't enough. I don't know if she ever went to a food pantry. I do not know if any existed near us at the time. We did not buy a tv in the middle of our poverty. The tv was a wedding gift to my parents from my father's parents. When my parents split up, mother retained custody of us kids as well as all the furniture and the tv. Father retained only his clothes and his car. Mother did go to charities for handouts in addition to the welfare. My clothes, including my shoes, were ALL charity hand me downs. They were all years out of date and raggedy. My clothes were a source of derision and bullying by others. With the exception of socks and underwear, mother never bought me new clothes. What with rent and utilities, she couldn't afford it. Nor new toys. The only toys I had were mismatched odds and ends, bits and pieces, that were handed down to me by friends or found in the streets somewhere.
For a guy like me nowadays: I'm someone who has to cut back on sugar. Even if it's brown sugar: I still can't ingest/consume it. What's so hard for me to get is Splenda: that's imitation sugar. I even have to cut back on salt as well.
The government paid millions of $s for a PSA to tell people to make cheese sandwiches. That's crazy and all of this just to find out that Timer is addicted to crack cocaine -- and to find from Family Guy of all things. Mind blown
These little PSAs are ADDICTIVE, I just binge 'em.
I refuse to take dietary advice from a magical booger.
Once upon a time in 'murica , public service ads had to be run to remind kids to eat.
Now they have to remind kids not to eat all the time.
Voices
Basically, Timer described the kind of breakfast I'd have most mornings. I simply refer to it as "Make Do with What isn't Spoiled" .
I remember watching this PSA on saturday mornings over 30 years ago. While it brings back sweet nostalgic memories, I couldnt stand it as a little kid. We were dirt poor. Hunger was a constant companion. Our fridge was bare most of the time. So all of the suggestions he gives for breakfast (juice, fruit, lunch meat, peanut butter sandwiches, etc) was absolutely worthless to me as we had none of those food items in our home. The only part I identified with was the rumbling, empty stomach part.
It's a shame that they did not address poverty concerns in schoolhouse rock PSA's. However, you mention that you watched this on your tv. If my kids were going hungry, I would have sold that tv and everything else in the house to feed them!
So your folks paid for a tv and electricity to watch this PSA but never bought food for you to eat at all? Did you ever tell your teachers or the law that they were starving you at home just so they could watch the soaps or some other programs? And why didn't they apply for food stamps or seek assistance from the Salvation Army, United Way, local churches or synagogues? Did they apply for welfare, unemployment, disability, social services? Did they work and make money but horded it from you? Your parents couldn't even ask money from relatives or friends? Did your folks know that they could make quick cash by selling their blood or plasma, recycling cans, bottles, and plastic? Did your parents seek out help from food pantries or food kitchens around where you lived? Too many things just doesn't make sense on this story...not saying it's not possible...just not adding up. Unless you're just making others feel bad for liking these old PSAs.
Yeah…..I’m calling BS on ghostrepublic too. I give i
props to Debra for calling him out first. Peri I think it’s some weird psychological turn-on for him, to lie like that.
Infarct…..I get the feeling that he actually grew up EXTREMELY comfortably, wanting for nothing, and either he lacked attention, love from his parents (hence, watching way too much telly in lieu of spending time with his parents - hence, poor in love), OR….he feels guilty for never wanting for nothing, so he constructed a fantasy childhood where he grew up “dirt poor”, in his mind only.
Whatever the reason, I call BS also.
Ghostrepublic - Why couldn’t you just write that you fondly recall this PSA? Why sell your soul by telling lies? Too bad. Hope you get it together soon, and become honest with yourself. Debra and I call BS.
Some real psychos telling a person that because their family owned a TV that they also couldn't be poor enough to have food insecurity. Lots of poor people have televisions and refrigerators. Good lord.
Ghostrepublic is my old account.
My parents split up when I was young. About 5 years old. Mother retained custody of us kids and promptly went on welfare, including food stamps. I don't know how much Mother got in food stamps, but apparently it wasn't enough. I don't know if she ever went to a food pantry. I do not know if any existed near us at the time.
We did not buy a tv in the middle of our poverty. The tv was a wedding gift to my parents from my father's parents. When my parents split up, mother retained custody of us kids as well as all the furniture and the tv. Father retained only his clothes and his car.
Mother did go to charities for handouts in addition to the welfare. My clothes, including my shoes, were ALL charity hand me downs. They were all years out of date and raggedy. My clothes were a source of derision and bullying by others. With the exception of socks and underwear, mother never bought me new clothes. What with rent and utilities, she couldn't afford it. Nor new toys. The only toys I had were mismatched odds and ends, bits and pieces, that were handed down to me by friends or found in the streets somewhere.
Obviously Timer never heard of intermittent fasting
Cold leftover pizza’s good.
A quickie for breakfast..
Did Timer not know that milk, OJ, and fruit are decent breakfast foods?
He said that.
For a guy like me nowadays: I'm someone who has to cut back on sugar. Even if it's brown sugar: I still can't ingest/consume it. What's so hard for me to get is Splenda: that's imitation sugar. I even have to cut back on salt as well.
Let's get some food in the place!
The government paid millions of $s for a PSA to tell people to make cheese sandwiches. That's crazy and all of this just to find out that Timer is addicted to crack cocaine -- and to find from Family Guy of all things.
Mind blown
Lmao what
0:47 I'm allergic to peanut butter.
Have a cheese sandwich then! Good grief, the timer gave you options!!!
Everything happens either
Whats his problem?
He just smoked a whole bunch of crack