That is true.
Our parents use to give us a dollar when we went to school, even though we had free lunches. We got into the habits of buying a BOX of Little Debbie brownies (it was about 79 or 99 cents or something like that) and a bunch of cans of generic soda (they were like 10 cents a can).
We’d walk across the street and feed the empty cans into the automated canbank and take the change back to the store for more soda.
lol.
We didn’t watch TV and play video games all day back then either, so we weren’t too unhealthy.
I think a lot of us are going to be getting used to generic soda again, and Little Debbies (as opposed to Hostess) and Utz chips (as opposed to Wise or Lays).
The soda itself is actually falling in price, because I think many Americans realize it is nasty (I still love it; it is liquid crack). I see a lot of 4/$5 deals in supermarkets (basically about $.85 per litre) - cheaper than some spring water. I’m sure they’re taking a beating by being tossed from many schools as well.
Yeah, we got lots of exercise walking back and forth to the candy store.