Being able to only afford the all-you-can-eat salad bar fixins as a marker for being “poor” is a first world problem.
Sizzler salad bars typically had chopped ham, hard boiled eggs, cheese, three bean salad, and a lot of things besides lettuce, celery and cucumbers.
That salad bar was a high point of luxury healthy food.
(...begin rant...)
Most lamenting the problem of “food deserts” use as prime example “lack of fresh fruits and vegetables” (not that those denied are, on the whole, actually inclined to prepare & eat them) without realizing how ridiculously hard & expensive it is to preserve and distribute such fragile & perishable foods, when canned/frozen is equally healthy.
Meghan’s lament attempts to portray her Sizzler salad bar as luxury while exuding “tone deaf” entitled about it.