NoneOfUrBusiness

True, I guess the implication is more "traditional cuisine that can be made and/or substituted with local ingredients." It also helps that a lot of the unique regional stuff (like galangal) is spices that can be done without in a pinch. Not to lessen the importance of using the right spices, but even in the worst case virtually everything will taste good with appropriate use of salt, black pepper and (sometimes) vinegar.

Halal economic devastation.

No she just funded and intends to continue funding the famously non-rapist IDF.

Ow, admittedly I hadn't considered allergies. In that case I suspect you'd find something like pasta with bechamel (100 grams of chicken stir fried, 100mL of bechamel sauce*, served with pasta) to be similarly affordable. Basic fried rice with stir fried chicken is also dirt cheap. Really chicken in general is the load-bearing pillar of non-vegetarian cheap cooking, though since you say "our house" I suspect you already know that.

*I like mine on the juicier side, adjust for taste.

Fair enough. The best way to learn traditional cuisine from somewhere is probably to have someone from there who can cook recommend recipes.

Okay I don't live in America but I routinely make healthy meals for the local equivalent of under 5 bucks, which should be equivalent to about 10 in America according to a quick Google. And for the record I mean proper meals, not beans and rice. For example Walmart sells a pound of lentils online for two bucks, an onion for about one buck and half a dozen carrots (actual carrots, not baby carrots) for less than three bucks, or about 50 cents per carrot. A pound of lentils, an onion and a carrot will make enough lentil soup for five days*, or about a $0.75 per dinner. For the full experience you can add half a disk of pita bread for $0.5 per meal, or you can substitute with tortillas for less than 15 cents per meal. We're still a full order of magnitude below the ten bucks limit. And this isn't poverty food; where I'm from people actually eat this because they want to. It's not labor-intensive either, but it does need a food processor (cheapest I could find was 6 bucks on Amazon, but I didn't look very hard).

Point being: Maybe I'm missing something, but even with recent price increases there's plenty of good food one could have without getting any close to the 10 bucks limit.

*There's no need to make the five days' worth all at once; lentils will last for months outside the fridge.

Unless your local prices are seriously outrageous, most traditional cuisine from anywhere will fit that bill. At least the stuff I make comfortably stays below that number. If anything how would a home-cooked meal even get close to $10 per meal?

I'd like y'all to direct some of that scrutiny at Janet Mills too.

Username checks out.

Okay what would you consider "showing that he got better?" That a person became nicer doesn't tend to make the news.

Is that such a high bar?

You're forgetting "who can beat the establishment at the media game." That's the real bottleneck here, and either way grassroots campaigns take time to get going. Save for a major upset occurring, this is now a tossup between the libs and the fascists.

Uh... run for election on a platform of anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism?