A lot of what I see is familiar ground to me: cheap, versatile ingredients, with lots of protein and fat to stick with you.

but that's not what is in the article. the article is chiding things such as nutella and pretzel bread or pizza rolls wrapped in bacon. those aren't cheap, versatile ingredients. those are expensive items that someone with little disposable income wouldn't spend their money on more than once in awhile for a treat. what person with disposable income can afford the pricey and fancy looking chocolate chip cookies with marshmallows and hershey's chocolate seen in one of the links in that article? once in awhile, sure.

the whole point of the article is that this isn't about being lower class and finding a fun way to make cheap food look better. the people being linked are proud of themselves for cooking average food with average, middle-class-budget ingredients and drinking a lot of wine and beer while doing so, and proud that they are smoking a cigarette in every picture with ash and empty cans and bottles and underwear and trash lying around everywhere.

in other words, what you're defending is the stereotype that poor people spend money on frivolous things and can't clean up after themselves, the very kind of "white trash" aspect attributed to kenny in south park.

i've lived in a trailer park. my childhood was in the midwest, with a one-parent household most of the time, surviving on mac and cheese and whatever you can get from the dollar store or with a lot of coupon hoarding.

what the links that article are showing isn't "low-class" at all, and certainly not in the way you're trying to describe it. one of those pictures is literally a full plate of food next to a bottle of dos equis, a five hour energy, and a box of snifters. in what world does someone who is scrounging to get by go out and buy a box of snifters and a case of dos equis?

you turned this into a "this author is making fun of poor people" thing but it's pretty clear to me you didn't read the article or investigate the links whatsoever. the links are literally redditors with big screen tvs and pricey laptops drinking imported or average-priced domestic beers and wines, smoking average-priced cigarettes, and using ingredients that are absolutely middle-class price range.

it's not ground beef and baked beans. it's thin mints and chocolate chips with peanut butter. I don't know about you, but the only time i had treats like that were christmas time when grandma made some various goods with almond bark.