You don't know struggle unless you ate this cereal...

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So we just gomna completely forget about
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Or that juice that came in the metal can that no one ever opened all the way...just used the can opener to poke a hole in that bytch. Wish I could find a pic of it

I still love these...huggies son!
 
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you don't know struggle until you didn't eat for a few days and every single thought in your head is about food and you just eat some hot water with some salt lol

I've been there before...during my college/after college years...:wow:

You don't know struggle until your fridge is filled with condiments and all you have to cook is rice...:wow:
 
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Let me set the atmosphere that this was best enjoyed...Something that every 80's baby and beyond can appreciate.

A New York Summer with the wind blowing a teasing warm air, definitely not pleasurable enough to cool you off as the Hot sun is baking the cracked concrete of Brooklyn. Yes Brooklyn, Old Brooklyn, not even a dream of a Basketball stadium o overarching gentrification exists yet, and the African american, Caribbean american & African culture warmly blanketing the Borough in such a way where traveling block to block makes you feel like you should have a passport handy. But you don't, all you have is a faulty beeper, a token & a few quarters.

Your ears light up & come alive when a honda civic stops at a light, its window down, but the air conditioner still on, the driver hot & cool all at the same time. Playing from the speakers is a symphony of beats & voices, a song that makes you feel..like New York. "Whooo oooo oooo, ooo, If I Ruled the World". You stop, instantly feeling how special the sound is to your ears, before it continues its play through, a bomb is dropped and a music magician, Funk Master Flex replays it 2 more times, all before the 57 second stop ligh tthat the Honda Civic is stopped at, but still creeping into the intersection, leaving you wondering what it is the driver is rushing to. A barbecue? A fly shorty in Bed Stuy? Or just tryingt o finish up his errands that his mother let him borrow the car for. Who knows, as you repeat the words beautifully uttered by Lauren Hill & Nas, you feel your throat parched.

Not a city park near & the heat baking down onto your fitted, you walk into the corner store. Greeted by the tease of an air conditioner, you quickly realize its not on but nobody seems to notice. You step over a brown dusty cat that seems to own the bodega & you walk past the water bottles, you walk past the soda & grab the best beverage that your 24 cents could grant you. You grab a quarter water.

As you walk back out into the broiler pan that is Nostrand Ave, you use your pinky finger to pierce the seal covering this red concoction. As you place the beverage to your mouth, throat in dire need, you close yoru eyes. Nothing but water, sugar & food color, as it hits your palette, the taste is nothing short of magnificent. And as you keep your eyes closed to savor this unique taste, the Honda Civic pulls away w/ Nas & Lauryn Hill's voices going into the distance with it. Not knowing, that that taste will one day be gone forever, just like you Old Brooklyn.

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fukk Gentrification.
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Don't see this one much anymore, but we used to drink this all the time at my aunts house back in the day. This shyt had such an awkward taste and you could never tell how old it was or how long it had been in the fridge.


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Word life...I'd smash on this right now...:wow:
 

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:ehh:I don't recognize anything in this thread. :whew:at having college educated middle class parents. (no brag :whoa:) That bully beef actually looks :win: status.
 

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mayonnaise sandwich......real struggle meal.


using water for cereal............:russ:
 

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Real shyt was this a struggle cereal?? I only requested it bcuz I loved wrestling.. But moms was so happy I asked for it.. shyt started to get outta hand.. shyt was nasty af but I did it for da legion of doom lol
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I wasn't poor enough to have those but I remember as a kid I was excited as hell to try the bootleg cereal because I could get my mom to cop for cheap. The news was telling nikkas that it tasted exactly like the name brand. shyt until I actually tasted it :merchant:
 
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