Soda and Candy Banned from SNAP/Food Stamps - Coming to a State near You?

[Not Xavier Ravenblood]

Yes, the fats (and soda companies) must be made to pay.

How are they going to classify soda and candy though? Is anything carbonated going to be soda? What about flavored mineral water? What about non-carbonated drinks that are pumped full of corn syrup? There are a lot of granola bars out there with exactly as much bullshit in them as candy, will they be banned?

For sweet products specifically it seems like the best idea would be to make an added sugar threshold, where anything above a certain percentage by volume is disallowed. That wouldn't apply to diet sodas or candies though, will those be banned as well even if they don't contain actual sugar? What attribute of these products does the government actually consider undesirable?

It would just be nice if fat people could stop being so fucking fat instead. Most regular Americans can't handle that though, so expecting inner city welfare minorities to do it would be totally insane.

This is likely to change for each state.

 

[The Ghost of Rarity]

This is a great step but I’ve heard about some states now allowing the purchase of “hot food”, meaning that you’ll be able to go into a fast food place and use your food stamps there. Not sure how true this is but it sounds like it could potentially outweigh any good this pop ban would do

Ideally the food stamp system should work the same way that the WIC (Women, Infant and Children) system does. You can only buy certain food products that are considered healthy and not full of added sugar and empty calories.

 

[SCV]

Should people applying for SNAP be forced to take cooking classes to receive aid?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

What about zero sugar soda?

 

[Fly in the Ointment]

My heart goes out to the grocery store cashiers who are about to get torn a new asshole by 400lb retards who will go absolutely apeshit when told they still owe $6.68 in real money for their goyslop. Maybe one of them will have a stroke and die on the spot like that one King of the Hill episode. That would be funny I think.

 

[King Of Braves]

That's odd. I was on SNAP several years ago in one of the listed states, and I don't recall soda or candy being allowed in the first place?

Also SNAP requirements are crazy now. I applied again a few years ago during a stint of unemployment and I was automatically disqualified because I owned a car.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

From what I remember, Colorado is the least overweight state in the country by a decent margin. Might be a cultural thing, don't know the exact cause of that.

Edit: I was right. Weird how it stands out so much.
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It's because people in Colorado are more likely to be into activities that require you to go outside. No idea why. Also has a lower poverty rate.

 

[Not Xavier Ravenblood]

It's because people in Colorado are more likely to be into activities that require you to go outside. No idea why. Also has a lower poverty rate.

Walkability in their cities and trains n' sheeit too.

 

[No-Eyed Square Guy]

My heart goes out to the grocery store cashiers who are about to get torn a new asshole by 400lb retards who will go absolutely apeshit when told they still owe $6.68 in real money for their goyslop. Maybe one of them will have a stroke and die on the spot like that one King of the Hill episode. That would be funny I think.

Realistically, we're giving grocery clerks law enforcement duties so they can get punched by crazy niggers.

 

[Town Drunk]

12 years ago I was working for 8 bucks an hour and living alone, paying all my bills. I applied for food stamps and got 13 bucks a month. Didn't even bother reapplying when it ran out. Seeing these unemployed land whales getting 1K plus a month is such an insult.

How did it even get to this state? I don't spend anywhere close to 1K a month in groceries, and my current income allows me to eat almost anything I want.

I'd almost cheer on a society breakdown/apocalypse period for a decade or so to kill all these parasites off.

 

[Internet-Based Lobotomy]

Without the waivers, SNAP recipients can purchase anything except alcohol, tobacco, hot and prepared foods and personal care products. The terms of waivers differ from state to state, with some limiting soft drinks only while others exclude candy, prepared desserts and energy drinks."

As a tax payer I'd prefer if SNAP and EBT only covered the cheapest brands of food and only applied to raw ingredients. You don't have a (real) job you may as well learn to cook your monthly chicken ration and single loaf of white bread into a tasty meal. Far too often I've seen EBT niggers buying expensive food before getting into a brand new expensive car.

Should people applying for SNAP be forced learn how to cook and then get a job to continue to receive aid?

Yes.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

This is a great step but I’ve heard about some states now allowing the purchase of “hot food”, meaning that you’ll be able to go into a fast food place and use your food stamps there.

Pointless trivia: that one desolate state with that big canyon doesn't let EBT be used on "hot foods", booze, and tobacco stuff. No limit on junk food or sugar water though.

 

[Not Xavier Ravenblood]

Pointless trivia: that one desolate state with that big canyon doesn't let EBT be used on "hot foods", booze, and tobacco stuff. No limit on junk food or sugar water though.

That's almost every state.

I swear half of you must be non-Americans.

Here are the federal requirements for SNAP:

https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/retailer-eligibility-prepared-foods-and-heated-foods

Spoiler: Text

This memorandum defines heated foods, hot foods, and cold prepared foods in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) retailer eligibility determinations. Only staple food products are counted toward a firm’s eligibility to participate in SNAP. Heated foods, hot foods, and cold prepared foods are not considered staple foods, and are not counted when determining if a firm meets Criterion A or Criterion B to be eligible to participate in SNAP as an authorized retail food store.

However, heated foods, hot foods, and cold prepared foods are counted when determining if a firm is a restaurant. If more than 50% of what a firm sells are heated foods, hot foods, and/or cold prepared foods, then that firm is considered a restaurant. Other than the states that operate a Restaurant Meals Program, restaurants are not eligible for SNAP authorization as retail food stores.

Spoiler: Restaraunts

As of August 6, 2025, nine U.S. states currently participate in the federal SNAP Restaurant Meals Program (RMP), allowing eligible SNAP recipients to use their benefits to purchase hot, prepared meals at participating restaurants. These states are Arizona, California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia.

These are places like soup kitchens or state/city ran cafeteria shitholes; it's not McDonalds or KFC. It's more like shitty gas station food you'd get at 7-11 in da hood. It's two tiers below Golden Corral.

 

[jray4559]

I'm gonna be the moralizing faggot in the room and say that I don't like the idea that being on the government dole should mean that you're never allowed to have cheat foods. Putting a $20 limit on it or something would be alright, not like I want fatasses to gorge on fudge rounds, but we don't whine at paycheck-to-paycheck people, the lower middle class, for allowing themselves happiness with an occasional Coke, why should needing government help stop you from allowing that same luxury?

If you're disallowing it because the soda and candy is unheathy and people shouldn't be having it, then guess what, same goes for every other wealth range, and it should be banned everywhere. Not just for those that don't have a freer option. It gives off the feeling of 'second-class citizen', and I'm not that grinchlike.

 

[Tiny Chinaman]

howz a nigga post to eat??????????

 

[Eventide]

TIL my state's food stamps covered soda & candy? Da fuck?

Although can't say I'm shocked. In High School I had a friend who worked at Papa Murphy's. They always complained about having to work shifts on the days EBT cards refilled ('cause takeout pizza was for also for some reason covered by EBT?)

 

[YouDoNotHaveTheRight]

Yes overlords please keep taking the sweat from my brow and keep feeding the parasites and keep them alive and the costs of whatever they buy as high as the moon. People used to work or starve here I can't believe how commie it already is here and how many people are okay with it.

 

[Eventide]

Pointless trivia: that one desolate state with that big canyon doesn't let EBT be used on "hot foods", booze, and tobacco stuff. No limit on junk food or sugar water though.

Hot take: if all these sugar restrictions are meant to lower the weight of your average EBT recipient...than why not just cover tobacco? Cigarettes do curb appetite

 

[thog]

surprised to see a blue state in that list

Colorado's the only state in the union where less than a quarter of the population is obese. It's one of the only things we still have going for us.

 

[Oliver Onions]

If our taxes have to be used for these programs, it should work like company scrip where it can only be redeemed at government run stores that only stock real food --or the closest approximation of real food America can manage-- and it's strictly rationed like Soviet bread lines.

It's always been fucking crazy to me that we give people """free""" cash money/credit and trust them to use it sensibly.