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Ranger School 1991

part of the misery they exert on you during the training is prolonged fatigue coupled with limited rations

During Infantry OCS in 1967 we had a week at the Ranger School & were given 3 days rations. The promised resupply never came!

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Originally posted by mark123:
That doesn't count in this case. I'm talking zero food for more than three or four days.

that's not what your original question posed

re-read your original post

there are two options to respond to - doesn't say anything about 'zero food for more than three or four days...'

funny that you would ask Question A then discount responses that directly address the question

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Originally posted by mark123:

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Originally posted by irreverent:
I don’t believe I’ve ever missed a meal if I wanted it (although at times it was just bread and cheese) but I’ve been so busy I forget to eat 2 to 3 meals. Then I’m hangry, but easily remedied. So I’m not exactly sure how to answer the poll, as it only gives the two choices.

that would not count as hunger in this case.

You're going to get very skewed results for this poll. In the literal sense that first world people understand it, of course we've felt "hungry" before. And I'd also bet everyone has at some point "missed a meal."

Knowing what you're looking for though, I did vote for the first choice, even though I've had to miss many meals in my life due to work or school or sports or whatever.

I understand the question and no, I've always enjoyed the safety of regular food, good shelter, and a loving family. Maybe I didn't get ALL the food I wanted for each and every meal though I never suffered.

I have seen hunger. When I was a teacher I dealt with it everyday. My wife would scold me for spending so much on my "snacks" that I kept in my school refrigerator until she saw who the "snacks" were for. I don't know how many children I fed, I know it never felt like it was enough. "My" kids knew that "study hall" before school and at lunchtime in my classroom meant free food and no questions.

As the child of loving parents who provided safety and comfort my world view was shaken to the core when I saw what many of "my" kids had to tolerate just to get to school.

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Originally posted by Sig209:

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Originally posted by mark123:
That doesn't count in this case. I'm talking zero food for more than three or four days.

that's not what your original question posed

re-read your original post

there are two options to respond to - doesn't say anything about 'zero food for more than three or four days...'

funny that you would ask Question A then discount responses that directly address the question

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Yeah, the context was in my head more than in my post.

I've never not been able to afford food.

I've been fortunate enough to never have been homeless.

I've been fortunate enough to have never been unemployed since I got my first job on December 27th, 1991.

I've felt hunger because of working too hard or being so busy that I forgot to eat, but that's about it.

I've also fasted.

I too, have seen real poverty and hunger when feeding the poor or in my time in The Marines when I went to Uganda.

Tony.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by mark123:

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Originally posted by irreverent:
I don’t believe I’ve ever missed a meal if I wanted it (although at times it was just bread and cheese) but I’ve been so busy I forget to eat 2 to 3 meals. Then I’m hangry, but easily remedied. So I’m not exactly sure how to answer the poll, as it only gives the two choices.

that would not count as hunger in this case.

You're going to get very skewed results for this poll. In the literal sense that first world people understand it, of course we've felt "hungry" before. And I'd also bet everyone has at some point "missed a meal."

Knowing what you're looking for though, I did vote for the first choice, even though I've had to miss many meals in my life due to work or school or sports or whatever.

Yes, the results may be skewed but I got my answer. There are people that never suffered hunger. That's awesome. I don't know what to do with this information except maybe try to be more understanding of my wife.

If you're including hospital stays, then yes I've been hungry. Not in danger, because I was getting IV fluids, but hungry. The longest was 5 days with no food, due to a GI bleed that wouldn't stop.

After I went out on my own and entered grad school I lived on two meals a day for years. Being in my 20's I was hungry all the time.
My stipend for the month was only $400 and I had to cover everything with that. Ended up buying a cheap bike and rode everywhere so I didn't have any car expenses...

When I got my first position after graduating it paid $25K/year and I thought I had won the lottery.

This was in '83

as a child, I had my intestines close off due to scar tissue and a crohn's disease flare. I was admitted to the hospital and prepped for a bowel resection. They had to relax my crohn's flare, alleviate the blockage, and then start to clean out my gut in order to operate. From the time of the blockage to post-surgery recovery when I could finally have food (clear liquids, and not much of it to start, of course) again was 12 days.

I was 12, trying to be tough, trying to enjoy the "experience" for what it was, I guess. The pediatric hospital had an Nintendo 64, and I got very good at Mario Tennis and Mario Kart, which was fun since I didn't have a gaming system growing up. However -
I've always heard that quitting tobacco or other addictions, etc. that day three is the hardest, and when I got most of the way through day three without food, I broke down and cried, and cried, saying I was soo hungry. I just remember my dad sitting by my bed trying to comfort me as much as possible. Water and IV fluids aren't much good for alleviating hunger pangs in the stomach.

After the 4th day or so, I just kinda got used to it, I guess. Stomach didn't really feel hungry anymore; it quit complaining as much, at least. But after the surgery, it took a long time for the intestines to "wake back up" from the meds, and I remember just wanting to eat, but they said it would do more harm than good.

When I finally got my first solid food meal from the hospital, it had a side of angel food cake with peaches on it. I never liked peaches before that day, but now I absolutely love peaches.

I have not only never missed a meal, but sometimes I have forgotten that I already ate, and so I ate an extra meal.
Strangely though, I don't really get "hungry" if I am deprived of food. I just don't think about it until it becomes available. Then, once I get started, I suck it down until it is gone.

A couple of months ago, we ran out of caviar . . .

No, I have never missed a meal because of what they now call "food insecurity." (Which means you are poor enough to not be able to get enough food.)

Yep, broke, no place to live and no food and not knowing when or where you will get to eat.

Lost everything because of loss of job and some how not qualifing for any assistance....

Yeah, I know what it's like to be hungry. Maybe that's why I tend to over eat now I guess.


ARman

I have lived cheaply but have never been too broke to eat. Back when I was a college student a Swanson pot pie and a pound of rice could be had for about 75 cents.

A can of stewed tomatoes, a can of mixed vegetables, a can of beans, all mixed together with the leftover rice is enough for two meals.

I never ate ramen in school, but I probably ate equally cheaply. The times I’ve actually missed meals were because I was too busy, rather than to broke to eat.

Fortunately, pretty much every meal I've ever missed was by choice, typically when I'm working on something and just wanted to finish, never because of hardship.

I am Vietnamese refugee leaving Vietnam 1978 on a 16 meters boat with 185 people on board. We only have Yam Bean to replace food and water for days before we got pick up by a British oil tanker.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
A couple of months ago, we ran out of caviar . . .

Hahaha! Nice!

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
No, I've never been truly hungry.

Yes, I've missed meals before and been hungry in the sense that I knew that I had missed a regular meal or even two. But true hunger? No. Never.

This.

Thank God, from childhood to adulthood I never missed a meal due to not having the money to eat. I've been without LOTS of things, as a kid, never once food. We may have gone a week with no electricity, heat, or water, but had at least canned veggies, rice, and beans. Mom could make a lot of food out of very little ingredients.