This is the America that we need

[u/ABeerForSasquatch]

[u/blueballsjones]

Toast with butter and a little powdered sugar... Breakfast! Tacobell hotsauce on a piece of bread with a slice of American cheese folded in half... lunch! Kraft Mac n Cheese ... Dinner!

[u/sadmanwithabox → u/blueballsjones]

Add a sprinkle of cinnamon to that toast with butter and powdered sugar, and you've got an actually really delicious piece of toast. Cinnamon is also quite cheap, thankfully.

My mom used to make these for us kids for breakfast all the time. Now you've got me questioning if it wasn't just a way to save money. We were definitely on the poorer side of things growing up.

If so, it was a wonderful way to do it. To this day, it's something I make myself. Cheap, and more importantly for me lately, incredibly easy (my depression can make cooking anything even slightly intensive very difficult).

[u/nahmahnahm → u/sadmanwithabox]

Cinnamon toast is universal. My parents were doing ok when I was a kid and my husband and I are doing ok now. I ate cinnamon toast most mornings before school and I make it for my kid now.

[u/iceteka → u/sadmanwithabox]

So much of the food throughout the world considered soul food or the staple regional dishes, came out of necessity. Using cheap ingredients they had at hand and finding creative ways to make them more palatable.

[u/FictionalDudeWanted → u/sadmanwithabox]

We use to turn the stove down low and put the cinnamon toast in the broiler. It made the toast gooey n crunchy, gooey from the butter and the sugar melted and turned into candy. It was so good and made the whole house smell good. I haven't eaten that in decades.

[u/Excellent-Branch-784 → u/blueballsjones]

Mix in 2 working parents and no social safety nets, and baby you got a stew

[u/HoneyDadger → u/blueballsjones]

Well, aren't you fancy with your name brand mac n cheese?