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eeyore_grrl) wrote2025-06-18 06:04 am
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LJIdol Wheel of Chaos Week 1 - Quality
LJIDOL Wheel of Chaos week 1 prompt: QUALITY -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quality over Quantity Quality over Quantity is easier said than done when food is a desert and cola is cheap “nutritionally dense food only,” we tout we crow proud of ourselves for having money education time as if as if it grew from the earth & we all have equal access well, i'm here to tell you it's lies all of it lies none of it but the fruit grows on trees & we hoard like villains in a disney movie doling out poison dressed pretty in needed calories giving the people nothing but disdain when they bite the candy apple & goddess forbid the poor treat themselves to anything else fresh meat fresh veggies or horror of horrors: a cake we judge and we judge and we judge harshest critics of our sisters meanest to our brothers we judge them all secretly eating snickers in our bathrobes hypocrites R us in america we like to judge to think we are better we like to think that we CHOSE Quality over Quantity of calorie but really our social status chose for us
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It drives me insane when people say things like "if the poor cared about nutrition" etc when there ARE Such a thing as food deserts. Some people also don't have transportation and there is rarely good public transit. So they feed their kids what they can, as any parent would!
I hate when the "rich" talk about the "importance" of buying quality clothes etc too. SURE as long as you can afford the initial price!
So many choices were made by ancestors and those who oppressed them, way before today's people existed. So they are choosing from the only choices that exist.
Many options is privilege.
A very timely poem!
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Even here in the UK where we have more public transport, it still takes time and money just to get to the food, the better supermarkets are out of town and everything is so expensive that I find myself really having to assess the benefits of the fresh ingredients vs the cheaper processed stuff. Even knowing what to do with ingredients is a mark of my privilege.
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It's my understanding that places like Walmart and McDonald's give their employees tips on applying for assistance instead of you know paying a living wage.
And it is tough in certain neighborhoods finding healthy food, I've lived in some of them lots of liquor stores, used tire shops and payday loan advance places but no grocery stores with a decent produce section.
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- Erulisse (one L)
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"& we hoard like villains in a disney movie"
" secretly eating snickers in our bathrobes"
Hahaha, I love snickers!
Being able to hear your own interpretation by listening to the poem was first rate! Thank you!
Dan
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we judge them all
secretly eating snickers in our bathrobe
Thinking ourselves righteous when we choose a better balance without understanding that for some, the choice is gone.
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This hits a little too close to home. Trying to have a more healthful diet after decades and decades of nutritional abuse of one sort or another all smothered in expectations beyond my means, and lies.
Yes! This!
Yay, you're back!
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Very true!
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