I grew up on ketchup sandwiches and warm hose water.
Kids these days are soft.
I grew up on ketchup sandwiches too but we had relatively cool spring water to drink although it was occasionally filtered through mouse hair. Maybe that's why we looked forward to Kool aid season each year.
I ate the ketchup sandwiches by choice to avoid the vegetables Dad grew in the garden. I hated that stuff when I was young and still do sixty odd years later.
Mom would say there was a funny smell in the water and we would go to the spring and take the cover off to find dead mice or a dead snake floating around on the surface. Dad would dip out all the water he could while it was still seeping in in the nature of springs and then he would scrub the field stone incasement with bleach and baking soda. We didn't think much about it, at least we had water and it was a step up from river water.
We all grew up healthy and seem to have remained that way for the most part.
A lot of our childhood would be considered abuse today I suppose.
The current generation is soft in many ways but they are becoming hardened to things we never imagined.
