That was one of my mother's favorite snacks....cornbread and buttermilk!
She was a city girl (Atlanta) though she sure knew some poverty. I'm not sure she ate much chittlins and things like that but they did exist on beans, greens and cornbread. Not much meat. Occasionally fried chicken legs.
My father was born on a farm in Kansas so grew their own meat.
My grandmother btw was one of 20 kids.

I duuno even I can relate to some of the stuff you're talking about, Scout so point well taken. When I was a little girl we tried living in Kansas and farming for a short time. We had no indoor bathroom and the telephone was one of those crank style party line things.
But it was also the time of the beginnings of fast cheap convenient foods and when we moved back to Atlanta that is a lot of what we ate. Boxed mac cheese, frozen fried shrimp, pork and beans.


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