A coworker just gave me a packet of Quaker Instant Grits.

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28. A friend of mine lived on cheese grits and peanut butter

All the way through college. He should have come down with ricketts or some other vitamin deficiency!

Once a week he'd borrow a hot plate, cook a pound of grits, stir in a block of cheese, let it set up and cut it into blocks. He kept those in a cooler. During the summer he'd put a block in the window to heat up, in the winter he'd put it on the radiator. That was dinner.

His other meals were stale bread with peanut butter and whatever he could scrounge from places he'd never mention.

This was long before ramen noodle were a thing. When any of his friends had a few extra bucks we'd stand him to dinner but none of us were much better off than he was so that didn't happen very often.