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Default Eating and shopping well on a strict budget

Sheldon wrote:
> Cindy Fuller wrote:
>> I have found great bargains on produce at Asian groceries. �
>> I can get a bag of shallots for what it cost to get two or three at a
>> supermarket.

>
> That's too funny... people on a $5/day food budget don't buy
> shallots... whatsamatter, Ms Champagne Taste, ordinary onions ain't
> good enough for your beer pocketbook... well la dee dah, may as well
> pick up a little basket of mushyrooms to go with those shallots,
> there's goes nearly your entire $5/day budget and you didn't eat yet.
> <G>
>
> WTF are you going to do with shallots on your P&J budget.
>
> SHELDON �


Shelly,

Some people can't afford what you can. I can probably afford a hell of
a more than you. Does that make me better? Of course not and I'm not
compelled to flaunt my status and belittle others for saving a few bucks.

Did you get your ass kicked as a child or do you have another excuse for
being an asshole?

-dk