Apparently I am the only American human who did not eat buttered noodles as a child, also noodle with just butter sounds weird, I like noodles and I like butter but come on you need more than just those two things
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A day later and some folks are coming in here very angry, assuming I was not poor growing up, so, uh, yeah, here's a piece I wrote about being poor. Beyond that, accept the idea that there are lots of ways to be poor in the US, not all with buttered noodles.
Hilariously, the closest thing to that my family ate when I was a kid (noodles with butter and Parmesan) was like…the opposite of a struggle meal, it was always served on the fancy pasta plate/bowl things from the good china.
yeh in my experince it's mostly about the child eating them being too picky to tolerate something different. We already know John "How Can I Make That A Burrito?" Scalzi is not a picky eater, so this wasn't a surprise.
My sister married into a loaded "conservative" family, and we went to a $200 per steak type place and her kids ordered buttered noodles and the waiter was like "...what?".
I thought there was a correlation to picky eaters. 😅 I have one who won't eat sauce, so if I can get him to eat actual carbs by making butter noodles I call it a win.
I didn’t grow up eating buttered noodles either. Most likely, because my mom was a dietitian. We used to joke that you knew it was a holiday if there was more than one starch on the table. 😁
Poverty PTSD is a thing, and also people's experience of me here is generally only as a well-off person, and here in the US skipping up through the classes is rarer than we like to admit, so they assume I was always here.
Ah, gotcha. I guess me never experiencing poverty PTSD says volumes about me. But I do remember regular poverty meals my mom would concoct from what money was in the budget.
I don't know about the folks flipping out, but what a weird thing to flip out on. I think most people who've lived through that are aware there's various ways to show you grew up poor. I'm not going to be mad bc most of you fellow poors didn't survive on rice and beans and potato and egg like me.
I never equated buttered noodles with being poor. It was always as picky kid food to me. Like a kid won't eat anything red or green, so while everyone else is eating spaghetti with sauce, the one kid who won't eat the sauce is getting plain noodles with a little butter.
I'm also confused about why someone would have to defend themselves for not being poor when they were growing up. Unless they were suggesting that other people deserved poverty while they did not; this would be very offensive. But I don't perceive anything like that in your initial noodle post.
For a cultural difference, my family used it to make quesadillas with hand made corn tortillas. Not me bc I'm not a fan of most cheeses (or "cheese"), but everyone else. 😄 Cheap and quick.
Might be regional, but I think that is a generational thing too. We had the kind that came with a package of yellow dye, since they were not allowed to sell yellow oleo.
Oleomargarine is the original name of margarine some shortened to calling it Oleo, before margarine became the standard term.
Oleo! As a child I desperately tried to understand the difference between "oleo" & "butter" as Mom inevitably got mad when I failed to retrieve the correct item from the refrigerator or grocery store cooler case. Learned much later that it was all the same thing: one in stick form & one in a tub.
I also never had those but it can't be *that* different from eating them with a creamy sauce? Just add salt and pepper and you're probably good to go*.
*he wrote, while being sure he'd never try it himself. Still, add flour & milk and you have an honest-to-God roux, though I guess that's cheating.
I also never had buttered noodles growing up. Most of our meat was either fish (ours was a commercial fishing family)or the product of poaching. I had rice. So much rice. Pasta shells and stewed tomatoes, I remember that. Mac&Cheese made with the government handout cheese. But not buttered noodles.
At one point in my childhood we had no electricity or running water in the house and I had to do homework by the light of a lantern. We were eventually kicked out and had to live with relatives.
There were multiple times growing up when we didn't have electricity and/or water for more than a week because we couldn't pay the bill, and lots of times where I had literally nothing to eat that day, and have been evicted a few times as well, and I've never had buttered noodles.
I was an adult before I heard of buttered noodles. I’m in Texas and rice is our go to cheap filler with a shout out to boxed mac and cheese with wieners cut up into it if we had a little extra money.
We didn't have buttered noodles, or any kind of noodles, because my father couldn't stand them. No spaghetti. No mac n cheese after my brother had a thing (long story). No chicken. Daddy had issues (another long story). Still poor, though. Oh, no rice, either (another long story).
I never thought of buttered noodles as a as a poor person’s dish. My grandmother would make homemade noodles and then make this lovely buttery sauce with breadcrumbs on top. It was a treat. My grandmother only cooked with real butter. We were too poor for butter. To this day I hate
margarine.
We were poor enough to be on food stamps, and yeah, we didn't eat buttered noodles. My mom had some very strange ideas about food because it was the late 70s, and we ate a lot, a LOT of cod fish gravy, lentils, terrible homemade bread made from wheat she ground herself, that kind of thing.
Our favorite local fancy Italian restaurant has buttered noodles on the menu (full menu, not kids' menu). They add garlic and parsley, and of course you can have parm grated on top. Noodles with good butter are a comfort food for me.
Some nights I just don't have the energy to do more than pasta, and butter is easy. When I have energy I make a condiment of parsley and garlic blitzed in the food processor, and jar it with a ton of salt, and enough olive oil to make a slightly runny paste. A couple spoons on pasta—yum!
When the grandbug still lived with us, he used to love to make pasta. We have two pasta maker attachments for the stand mixer. Occasionally I get into a mood and make it, but it's hard to bother for just the two of us. (And exhausting to do enough to feed 8 on family dinner nights. But I should!)
I have a theory that anything that is good on one savoury carb will at least be edible on other kinds of carbohydrate. One day I will test this with a peanut butter and jelly baked potato. But not today.
Comfort food for me. I suspect this is a regional and familial variation (I met someone recently that has never had meatloaf. Which, incidentally,they pair well with.)
Also, they're (nearly) ubiquitous for picky toddlers, but they grow up and move on.
I'd never had meatloaf until I was an adult, at least partly bc I'm Mexican American so not culturally common, but also it's all meat! Meat of almost any sort is relatively expensive to many poor people. We relatively rarely ate it, especially beef. More likely chicken, down to gizzards/livers/etc.
I grew up really poor. Never ate buttered noodles. My husband who grew up slightly less poor thinks of them as a great delicacy. So now I make "quick noodles" as a side. Buttered noodles with Parmesan cheese. We're very fancy.
That may be part of it. My wife's dad was Italian-German-American, and she generally prefers butter and spices on noodles;
my folks were Midwestern-American, and when my mom made spaghetti she made tomato or tomato-meat sauce for it.
Macaroni was mac&cheese from scratch.
I never ate buttered noodles either. The first time I ever even heard of that was as an adult, 30 years ago, working at Little Caesar’s. I thought it was yucky then, lol
We were what you would call very poor. My mom would make a pot of elbow macaroni add butter, milk & salt and pepper. That was dinner for 4 kids. We were glad to have it! Still have a little every now again for nostalgia.
Been following you since day 1 here, John.
As a gluten-free-not-by-choice-human, I would give away all four of my spawn for egg noodles, with butter.
Plus a little salt.
Garlic salt for bonus points.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I think I'm correct.
My wife and I are doing a rewatch of Mad Men. Every time Don's second wife Megan makes pasta for his kids, it's buttered noodles. My Italian-Canadian wife never fails to express her outrage. Even if people do it, does it need to be televised? Can't it just be an unphotogenic culinary secret?
It's a good illustration of how horrifically dire the food culture was in America until the 90s, and much later in some areas. Food was so fucking awful prior to the 90s, it's unbelievable.
I'd go the opposite way with it. Yelling at the television for someone calling buttered noodles spaghetti makes her feel better about a rough day, so that's great.
(I get there are good reasons why people would eat spaghetti with butter, but also spaghetti with cheese, butter, and basic seasoning is already cacio e pepe, or al burro without the cheese either)
My 3 siblings and I were fed buttered noodles on the regular. It was a poverty thing my mom learned in her poor 7-sibling family. I didn't know we were poor and didn't know anything different. Occasional guilty pleasure, comfort food for me as an adult. Good recipe for upcoming 2nd great depression
I grew up poor and my mom made my brother and I “fried spaghetti.” She would fry cooked spaghetti in a skillet with butter, then add ketchup. I don’t eat it often but it is still a comfort food for me. At 65! 😝
I'm doing everything I can to help with that. Right now that looks like donating to community pantries, food kitchens, food banks. I hope anyone else with the means does as well. Community is important.
2) considering that maize came from the Americas, we think it best consumed 'as seen on TV', its natural habitat being part of a summer barbecue or steakhouse meal (pictured is the largest French chain). Butter is light, not soaked-through
Grits! Definitely as-seen-on-TV stuff. For us, that means exotica from far-flung lands whilst for you it's 'local'. Unavailable & probably un-sellable here. Italy has maize-based Polenta but beyond that, grits-type staples seem too close to Gruels of the Medieval! We have a less maize-rich diet.
I'm an amateur when it comes to chopsticks. I'd be afraid that somehow the chopsticks would slip and I'd sling a kernal of popcorn. Of course it would hit the biggest meanest guy in the theater (probably a Hell's Angel) in the face at which point he would make beef jerky out of me.
I'd probably lose both chopsticks to the neck of someone with perfect night vision acuity. Sticky fingers (and wet-wipes) are a small price to pay, all things considered.
Chopsticks in the dark - for when that film isn't interesting enough. Must try it! There is little 'digital' residue from UK (or French) salted or sweet popcorn. I remember my repulsion when a sales clerk offered to pour HOT LIQUID BUTTER into my popcorn in US. Grim.
Hahaha! I'm pretty good with my chopsticks. I'm not a fan of melted butter on my popcorn, and they do WAY too much here because, well, America. It's what we do, I suppose.
Things are certainly different! Britons tend to harbour cosy notions of the US being more alike than not (conveniently forgetting that our system of governance is the Tyranny spoken of daily by your politicians). That was dispelled at the same cinema (with child present) with this entrance sticker
The you did not grow up in, or on the edge of poverty. Buttered noodles was not the choice, it was what we fucking had. Over time you aquire a taste for it.
Grandma made Spaetzle with buttered bread crumbs toasted in a pan, but it came with beef goulash cooked in burgundy. Thank you for reminding me how lucky I was.
Or how about chocolate poptarts with butter and hot chocolate (and oj!) for breakfast during elementary school (“why wont Amie stop chatting during morning meeting?”
In my childhood home it was either cheese reconstituted from powder or a marina-adjacent sauce from a jar. Never just butter. Butter’s for grocery store flour tortillas, with a little sugar to jazz it up.
Don't think you need to be poor for buttered noodles. I know it sounds weird, but a good salted butter on noodles or rice, while simple, can be a divine dish when hungry.
Now just ketchup on noodles is weird. I had that in an American-Canadian household. I was not happy.
It was always egg noodles in our home. Other types of pasta tasted weird for some reason?
It's a poverty food that can become comforting. It's for when you can afford egg noodles and butter (or margarine) but not pasta sauce or cheese or milk (for boxed mac and cheese).
This the perfect chance to drop the Noodles & Butter song, which is a BOP, and also the incredible fun fact that the guy from ‘90s band Presidents of the United States of America is now a children’s singer called Caspar Babypants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlP-J5rssa0
My son in law introduced me to Caspar Babypants and my 3 year old granddaughter is obsessed! The songs are so fun and there's like 9 albums! So well written and performed. 'Stompy The Bear' and 'Free Couch' will live in your head for days!
Well, good for you! But if this is all you have in your home to eat, you are hungry. Should you starve of hunger? Why is it a problem to eat noodles with butter? You sound like a white privileged AdamHenry
Hmm, I was going to say something about haluski but the Ukranian recipes I'm finding seem to use dumplings and don't always have cabbage. All sounds delicious to me!
I def feel like "buttered noodles" has to be a cultural specific thing because no matter how exhausted/depressed Ive been I've had the strength to toss water, tomato paste, and some chili powder in a pot for some noodles. Add sriracha & get spicy af noodles that make you cry and cleanse your soul.
We had macaroni with milk, butter, salt & pepper, quite often as we didn’t have anything else to eat. I would give it a zero rating and wouldn’t recommend.
I definitely ate buttered noodles pretty often as a kid, and can confirm I introduced my kids to it a few years ago and it's now a weekly staple in our house. You'd think you would need more, but apparently no
Noodles with butter is such a comfort food - I don't know if I ate it before graduate school, but it is my go to cheap easy comfort food. If you have spaghetti, you can add parmesan cheese to the butter and spaghetti.
Aw. My grandfather used to eat butter on saltines with little squares of processed American cheese on top, as he watch his tiny black and white tv in the kitchen on a sparkly/speckled table. Thanks for bringing up that old memory. 🥰
Never once did I eat that as a child. My father was horribly racist and wouldn’t allow Italian food or Asian food in our house so we only were allowed spaghetti when he was away which wasn’t often.
I was 23 years old and moving into an apartment with a friend from college. My mom offered to pick up some Chinese food for us so I asked her what she likes. She said she has never had Chinese food. 🤦🏼♀️
We’re in our 60’s now and she’s still one of the pickiest eaters I know.
This is like therapy for me. Pizza, Chinese food. TACOS. All waited until I discovered what my friends ate around age 16/17- largely assisted by having a drivers license.
Yeh. I had single parent with severe depression. We were never food insecure, but they often prepared very simple meals because it's all they could manage while working and caring for several kids.
I had that meal many times. A lot of comfort foods are like that - fry bread, collars greens, all kinds of soups. Folks taking what they have and seasoning it with a lot of love, and that love sticks with you all your life.
This is going to sound weird but I feel like it's one of the privileges of growing up broke. There's these things that mom made when you were a kid & you didn't realize you were broke that when you're an adult & you can afford to eat better you still go back to because it reminds you of home.
(Disclaimer: I'm from the Midwest and have never had it, though have had similar foods)
Butter is not particularly cheap? It's like $5+/pkg.
Growing up, the cheap foods were starches (pasta, potatoes, white bread), processed meats (bologna, ham), eggs (ironically, now), some cheeses, and beans.
I’m not from the US so maybe butter is cheaper there, but where I live olive oil with some garlic and chilli flakes wouldn’t cost any more than the butter, and would taste a lot better.
I fall back to this recipe when I'm just super low on energy.
It's good easy comfort food.
And no it's not JUST butter, it's butter and whatever cheese and/or seasonings you have on hand. In fact, you can even substitute sriracha sauce for the butter to cut some fat.
The point isn't that it's *only* poverty food (their comment explicitly said otherwise) but it's less than $2 to prepare at home whether you're using butter or olive oil. It's about the cost of the dish, not the social status; it's a poverty meal at home, and a drunk midnight meal at restaurants.
i agree, though as an adult i finally came across pasta cacio e pepe which i thought had butter in it till i looked up the recipe. anyway it is AMAZING
Oh. My. God. That sounds like abuse. Buttered noodles with the right amount of salt tells a child how much you love them. SO MUCH! First meal after the flu should always be a bowl of buttered noodles in bed.
Had that for breakfast this morning! Although I admit I prefer it (sushi rice) more with bit of greens, canned fish, and furikake - my simple version of Japanese breakfast 🙂
Gotta say, it never occurred to me to eat that stuff alone. I've only ever used it in cooking. Occasionally. The only place I like celery, really, is cooked in Chinese food.
I did that rice thing with Cream of Shrimp soup once, thinking it'd be terrific. It was... too rich or something!
Just about every soup I make starts with onions, celery, carrots, chopped up and sauteed, the standard mirepoix base.
(Unless I'm lazy, in which case it's soup base powder that's mostly that stuff dried.)
Had this discussion the other day here, lol. Buttered white rice as comfort food. My mom learned I liked buttered white rice w/cinnamon sugar, and that's the ONLY way she made rice for me for YEARS. Now the thought makes me cringe, but I still eat buttered rice.
They both grew up very poor, so we ate the convenience foods & sweets they couldn't have. Although my mom probably would have fed us better if my dad didn't have the palate of a truculent child.
I misspoke, the carrots & potatoes didn't come out of cans. But they may as well have, lol.
My dad immigrated to the US as a preteen and pretty poor, but his family did live in a big agricultural area (and my grandparents had a Chinese restaurant).
Never had either buttered noodles or rice.
My mom didn't cook, she opened cans & heated things up. Once I was an adult and taught myself to cook, butter wasn't my flavoring of choice for noodles or rice. 🤷🏻♀️
Garlic and cheese preferred, but at the very least salt and pepper. But I got served spaghetti noodles with just olive oil one night when I was hospitalized during a major snowstorm. No s&p, and only a spoon to eat it.
like we do in Italy! Butter + Parmigiano is a great classic.
I never liked "red sauces" (beside a real homemade meat ragout) and I bet it's all fault of the infamous sauce served in school u.u
Ooooohhh ... you don't know what you're missing. Get some egg noodles, cook 'em up, put butter in 'em after you drain them and they're still hot. Butter amount - measure that shit with your heart. You CAN add some Italian seasoning, or some pepper (and salt if you use unsalted butter).
A lot of poor people food it actually really good.
I can’t do anything about that canned mystery meat, though. Ex made a fairly reasonable stroganoff out of it once, but mostly it sat in the cupboard until we were HUNGRY.
I SWEAR I'M NOT DRINKING WHILE I WATCH THE CONFIRM FARCES THAT ARE BEING SHOWN ON MEDIA. Having said that. I have eaten them with just butter. I was trying to enhance it for his sake. I follow, therefore I am, I think... Peace...
It's a meme because there's a stereotype (grounded in reality) that white people put raisins in potato salad. It's now become a metaphor for white people doing unnecessary shit.
Nutmeg. The third component was nutmeg. We kids added a fourth: ketchup. Parents teased us but we weren't big nutmeg fans at the time and ketchup made just about anything more palatable.
Not exactly a healthy meal. I think mostly large families or poorer families ate that so maybe you're lucky enough to not have that experience. However, they are good and you should maybe try them. Just to fit in. Lol
A children's buttered noodles is literally noodles and butter. As they grow older they grow into more complex foods, but children's butter noodles is just that.
That was often what we had growing up. Though butter was a luxury, so it was usually margarine. Noodles, butter, salt, and pepper. Maybe some of the cheap powdered parmesan in a can if we had it.
We ate it all the time. When that's all you could afford at the time for something to make you feel full.. you tend to make it a lot.
Now I make it to save money and bc it's good. I add a dash of garlic powder in it. 😉
Soon, we won't even be able to afford the noodles and butter to even make it
Butter, a little salt and pepper...and a whole lot of Parmesan cheese. And I'm off Eastern European heritage, so I really like cottage cheese and egg noodles. 😋
Agreed. What’s wrong with a little marinara? Well - a lot of marinara actually. And wtf is wrong with my kids for liking buttered noodles? I did NOT teach them that.
Buttered noodles, yep. A bigger treat was noodles with tomato juice. I still think Kraft Dinner is the best macaroni and cheese. that was a real treat for me as a kid.
It's more common among lower income households who had a lot of food insecurities, trust, when you get one meal a day, ( because that's all you have) just butter and noodles is a delicacy.
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pft.
They served them too.
That said, when the margarine container is low and you put hot noodles into it, it makes its own "Tupperware" container!
My mother basically failed at boiling water. No buttered noodles for me. Also, actual butter is expensive.
I had a lot of peanut butter.
When the spray 'pam' came out and that is what was used for any cooking on the stovetop. Adults were not big on recipes
Lots of crackers, tuna fish, jiffy muffins.
Oleomargarine is the original name of margarine some shortened to calling it Oleo, before margarine became the standard term.
We never had just margarine in the house because the adults in my family really did not bake or cook. Occasionally things from a box.
So it was whatever was used on sandwichs and possibly for pans.
I remember learning butter came in "sticks" sometime in my late teens
(I never was poor but I did work in a Dutch hotel for the homeless for 18 years, so I witnessed enough of it.)
*he wrote, while being sure he'd never try it himself. Still, add flour & milk and you have an honest-to-God roux, though I guess that's cheating.
Poor takes on many forms.
I've never eaten buttered noodles.
I'm curious as well. I will probably give it a try soon.
It's simple and quick.
But I live in the land of butter and pork now.
As a poor child in the US, it was not a thing in my house.
margarine.
Avocado toast craze was wild to me for reasons other than what most folks were getting weird about it for.
I'm old enough to remember when the butcher would sometimes *give away* beef bones for soup (or "for the dog") when you bought anything else.
Butter isn't particularly cheap.
Comfort food for me. I suspect this is a regional and familial variation (I met someone recently that has never had meatloaf. Which, incidentally,they pair well with.)
Also, they're (nearly) ubiquitous for picky toddlers, but they grow up and move on.
Tomato sauce was always cheaper
my folks were Midwestern-American, and when my mom made spaghetti she made tomato or tomato-meat sauce for it.
Macaroni was mac&cheese from scratch.
As a gluten-free-not-by-choice-human, I would give away all four of my spawn for egg noodles, with butter.
Plus a little salt.
Garlic salt for bonus points.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I think I'm correct.
This you're talking spaetzle That's just not any ordinary noodle
you also need salt & pepper
Food choices were awful for poor people, but the US used to have a large middle class who lived fairly well.
LOL
The end.
But never really liked them myself
For the folks who find 'Butter Herb Noodles' too spicy.
Scandinavians?
(I get there are good reasons why people would eat spaghetti with butter, but also spaghetti with cheese, butter, and basic seasoning is already cacio e pepe, or al burro without the cheese either)
Not how you decide.
Thanks.
I don't know, how do you eat popcorn?
I'm afraid to ask.
1) corn on the cob isn't really cinema food.
2) considering that maize came from the Americas, we think it best consumed 'as seen on TV', its natural habitat being part of a summer barbecue or steakhouse meal (pictured is the largest French chain). Butter is light, not soaked-through
I'll go with corn on the cob consumed with barbecue food.
Now that we've discussed popcorn and corn on the cob, I think I'll go get some grits!
No thanks!
https://youtu.be/GNldnx3wT84?si=Uu_Ax48bEn64eYRQ
since you think your the only American who did not eat them, what does that tell you about income inequality?
Also, occasionally, toasting a blueberry one (no frosting!) and putting a scoop of vanilla ice cream on it.
Now just ketchup on noodles is weird. I had that in an American-Canadian household. I was not happy.
My initial query would be what brand of noodles?
It's a poverty food that can become comforting. It's for when you can afford egg noodles and butter (or margarine) but not pasta sauce or cheese or milk (for boxed mac and cheese).
I don't consider it much as a "broke" food but its a simple comfort and given I detest most pasta sauce, I toss pasta in butter or hot sauce.
that's just kinda cool...🤯
It's not too late! Break the cycle!
https://youtu.be/zlP-J5rssa0?feature=shared
Want something exotic? Noodles with butter and ketchup.
We’re in our 60’s now and she’s still one of the pickiest eaters I know.
Mom used to make a wok full of bowtie butter noods and fried polska kielbasa and it was honestly best meal of the week.
I have a sudden urge for fried cube steak, sliced potatoes loaded with cheese and bacon bits, and French cut green beans...
Butter is not particularly cheap? It's like $5+/pkg.
Growing up, the cheap foods were starches (pasta, potatoes, white bread), processed meats (bologna, ham), eggs (ironically, now), some cheeses, and beans.
It's good easy comfort food.
And no it's not JUST butter, it's butter and whatever cheese and/or seasonings you have on hand. In fact, you can even substitute sriracha sauce for the butter to cut some fat.
but yeah
Wait, apparently it is a seasoning? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegeta_(condiment)
Mix it, layer it with cheese, maybe add white meat chicken chunks. Bake. Ahhhhh. Make a TON and eat it for days.
I did that rice thing with Cream of Shrimp soup once, thinking it'd be terrific. It was... too rich or something!
(Unless I'm lazy, in which case it's soup base powder that's mostly that stuff dried.)
Even ramen's good w/just butter.
That episode is a standout but it's not the only one. There are more of those to come when you pick it up again.
But buttered rice? Hell yeah
Also good is white rice with butter, sugar, and milk (pinch of salt). Comfort food!
(nutmeg)
Or a fresh vegetable or fruit....
I misspoke, the carrots & potatoes didn't come out of cans. But they may as well have, lol.
My dad immigrated to the US as a preteen and pretty poor, but his family did live in a big agricultural area (and my grandparents had a Chinese restaurant).
My mom didn't cook, she opened cans & heated things up. Once I was an adult and taught myself to cook, butter wasn't my flavoring of choice for noodles or rice. 🤷🏻♀️
sprinkle a little cheese on them - even better
I never liked "red sauces" (beside a real homemade meat ragout) and I bet it's all fault of the infamous sauce served in school u.u
I can’t do anything about that canned mystery meat, though. Ex made a fairly reasonable stroganoff out of it once, but mostly it sat in the cupboard until we were HUNGRY.
This legitimately gave me a belly laugh.
This is what I use to do that...
I see your point though... 😜
I ate that a lot as a kid.
Poverty.
NGL husband and I like egg noodles with butter and parsley as a side dish. Simple and comforting.
Now I make it to save money and bc it's good. I add a dash of garlic powder in it. 😉
Soon, we won't even be able to afford the noodles and butter to even make it