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Bono survived on instant mashed potato and leftover airline food during his teenage years

Bono got by on leftover airline food as a teenager

Bono was so poor as a teenager that he lived off instant mashed potato and leftover airline food.

The U2 frontman was just 14 when his mother Iris died and explained that times were so tough that he had to survive on the surplus food his older brother Norman brought back from the airport where he worked.

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