I don't watch tiktok so I don't know what people are cooking for clout but you can buy frozen seafood, including lobster and crab. You can't buy cooked shrimp (a lot of grocers will dump old bay on it and steam it if you want) but fresh and frozen shrimp is fine (and you can probably have the shrimp steamed after you've paid for it)
It's more or less the point of soda being a cheap alternative as a luxury item. Like prostitution.
You know they're nothing but shills and grifters at that point so it's a bit of a silverlining. Screw 'em.
shrimp is one thing, gumbos and cajun cooking use it a lot. lobster and crab? fuck no, dont use EBT on that
What's the most idiotic to me is that they're all missing the greatest point; soda is a 'luxury' food item, in the sense that you absolutely do not need it whatsoever to survive, and that it serves as nothing more than a treat. When you're out on your ass and needing a government handout to get by (which is fine, I think it's happened to most of us at some point in our lives) the last thing the taxpayer should be doing is contributing to lowering your quality of health and making you even less capable of working. If you want a treat then it should be out of your own pocket.
This is actually kind of fitting. I'm sure it's been said plenty of times here and elsewhere, but lobster historically was a working man's food. Only recently did it become an upper-class thing. I'm actually of the opinion that fish and seafood ought to go back to being a poor people food and remain eligible for purchase through benefits. Lobster is 100% better for you than any of the candy or soda you can buy with them.
Is that really what you think they did? They still served the same slop, they just served nastier versions of the slop. I'd have killed to get fresh vegetables on my lunch tray if it meant getting rid of the processed slop gruel they gave us.
I agree that stores would take a massive hit for it, but then why should cola companies, of all the worthless most pointless things you can put into your body, have so much pull in government, at the detriment of the health of the people it's meant to serve? If so much of their money is tangled up in poor people wrecking up their own health then they deserve that hit.
oh i agree and lost profits would like be balanced by decreased stock orders, but the seethe would be enormous. and possibly entertaining. because, if you ask any person on the street most will probably agree with removing soda and sweets from food stamps but its probably one of those issues that are 50/50 so it'd be bad politics to serious peruse.
That was parroting a report that was already known back in the day, and didn't really confirm anything that wasn't already known, and was mostly hokey.
Yeah, I'm of the mind that Trump and RFK ought to just come out at a point and tell it straight, "if you don't need it in order to live, we're not paying for it".
Pure juice, not mixed. So pure orange juice, pure grape juice, but not mixed grape juice or say, sunny d. Also the WIC benefits in Florda (linked earlier) state "cheapest possible brand."
Laundry detergent, soap, hygiene products and baby stuff "purchased" with food stamps are all widely used for trade to exchange for cash at pennies on the dollar.
I’ve definitely seen you say this before. What is your autistic aversion to rice all about?
He imagines that he's just better than us poors as he places his Doordash order on their new layaway plan.
A basic AI search would have informed you that "No, you cannot typically use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, formerly known as food stamps, to purchase laundry detergent, soap, hygiene products, or baby supplies, as these are considered non-food items."
Negroes can’t even change their smoke alarm batteries. They certainly aren’t going to figure out rice cookers or bread machines. If we start expecting them to assemble basic staple ingredients in order to make their own meals at home, we are going to see a lot more ghetto housing burn down.
You say that like it's a bad thing
