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Struggle Meals

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Struggle meals are meals that are made with food lying around when funds are low. Everyone has their own versions of struggle meals, including foods like ramen. For me it’s interesting how different foods for certain individuals aren’t considered struggle meals but for others they are. In the TikTok clip mixing corn with mayonnaise was considered a struggle meal while for the other individuals in the video it was a regular meal called esquites. The difference of the food that they are making shows how one could be a luxury while the other would be a struggle meal. 

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    Amelia Susana

    It is really interesting to see the different visions of people of what is “struggle meals” I think people see it from their own privileged backgrounds, and sometimes struggle for people is not even not having food to cook a proper meal, their struggle can be not having someone near that can cook a full meal for them so the struggle is to cook.

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