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Kokonut Kangs Klan said:
I bring you food bank review chimpouts from Google Maps.
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I've occasionally needed a foodbank especially when I was a child, HOWEVER, the old expression goes don't look a gift horse in the mouth (IE if you get shit for free, don't bitch).

I've been there and gotten plates of free meals, or a little extra food to tide over when out of work, and never once do I feel its acceptable to complain about stuff. I always feel like anything is a gift.

unless something is ACTUALLY physically inedible or something major, complaining just feels tacky.
 
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Tell me you don't know how to cook without telling me you don't know how to cook. You have the ingredients for multiple struggle recipes. Lentil soup, roasted potatoes and carrots, tripe soup, menudo. If you can use Google to bitch then you can use it to look up simple recipes.
 
Those reviews are very telling. People expect it to be like a regular grocery store, but free.

How can these places “discriminate” against the Lgbtqwtfbbq “community”? What does being gay have to do with getting food? Do these people announce their sexuality to the store and flounce if they don’t receive applause?
 
TismFarmer said:
Plan B is to just lock the doors and have that same security team accompany customers, one for each team member, as they 'shop'.
Beauty of plan B, they'll get scared granny's etc shopping there just to be escorted to the safety of their car after buying their groceries.
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At the height of the toilet paper panic I did a stint standing guard for a busful of frightened oldsters from a retirement center because ALL the police and proper private security for miles around were spoken for. The police did not like the sheathed machete i was carrying or the Joker-face I kept doing at any suspicious looking folks who got too close, but they worked.

Then one day a retired Army vet parks his car nearby, hobbles out with a goddamn M1 and "relieved me of duty". I still wish I had a photo of the looks on the faces of those cops.

Hooked on phobics said:
I've occasionally needed a foodbank especially when I was a child, HOWEVER, the old expression goes don't look a gift horse in the mouth (IE if you get shit for free, don't bitch).
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From my limited experience and that of some friends, your chance of a foodbank handing out all-good vs. some amount of near-inedible/rotten/non-nutritive food is about 65-35%. Some examples of the latter include leftover frozen gas station sandwiches, wierdo-brand canned vegetables that are 100% actually tasteless, or at the extreme end an unflavored plain-box bran cereal that everyone just used to feed the local park geese - actually eating it was like eating shredded cardboard.

Plantation Barbie said:
Tell me you don't know how to cook without telling me you don't know how to cook. You have the ingredients for multiple struggle recipes. Lentil soup, roasted potatoes and carrots, tripe soup, menudo. If you can use Google to bitch then you can use it to look up simple recipes.
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Any of that is gonna be a hard sell for a kids' breakfast (if thats what she really means) but a big bundle of bananas and a family-sized box o' cereal is easily <$10 even in the Trumpconomy. Store-brand yogurts go for <$1 each.
 
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VargReallyDidNothingWrong said:
There's a reason people in New York make like $110,000 a year and consider that poverty and live in some shitty 1 room apartment.
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New York is full of people who will put up with this because there's an actual sense of community nowhere else in the entire country has. Small country towns are full of miserable wretches who sit in their trailers and look at their phones all day, and every other big blue city is full of miserable wretches who do the same in their shitty apartments.
 
ManInTheBlarms said:
New York is full of people who will put up with this because there's an actual sense of community nowhere else in the entire country has.
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A sense of community where "being on your New York shit" means actively ignoring everyone around you and not looking anyone in the eyes because there's always something weird or crazy going on and nobody wants to be directly involved in it.
 
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Hooked on phobics said:
I've occasionally needed a foodbank especially when I was a child, HOWEVER, the old expression goes don't look a gift horse in the mouth (IE if you get shit for free, don't bitch).

I've been there and gotten plates of free meals, or a little extra food to tide over when out of work, and never once do I feel its acceptable to complain about stuff. I always feel like anything is a gift.

unless something is ACTUALLY physically inedible or something major, complaining just feels tacky.
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As a single male that only works minimum wage jobs and am frequently out of work, I occasionally have used food banks.

Yes, sometimes the food is rotten. I’ve had that happen before I’ve gone packages of strawberries that had mold on them or I’ve gone lettuce that was just too old and no good or cucumbers that were soft.

But you know what I also get? Big bags of organic grapes. Bags of coffee. Fucking Starbucks cake pops. Turkeys and hams. All shit that had i paid for it would have been quite pricey.

The food banks are nice because they act as a way to catch produce that would otherwise just go straight into the trash. If you have just a little bit of humility, you can make out like a king. 👑
 
Plantation Barbie said:
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Tell me you don't know how to cook without telling me you don't know how to cook. You have the ingredients for multiple struggle recipes. Lentil soup, roasted potatoes and carrots, tripe soup, menudo. If you can use Google to bitch then you can use it to look up simple recipes.
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All food pantries give you all that stuff above, which makes it funnier to me. When I did work for one, I had to give each bag grains, vegetables, fruit, bread, and stuff like beans.
 
Plantation Barbie said:
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Tell me you don't know how to cook without telling me you don't know how to cook. You have the ingredients for multiple struggle recipes. Lentil soup, roasted potatoes and carrots, tripe soup, menudo. If you can use Google to bitch then you can use it to look up simple recipes.
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t. Been around these "people" my whole life
People like this tend to fall into one of two categories, they either have choosy beggar syndrome and think cooking their own food beyond heating up a stoffer's lasagna is beneath them. Or they think turning raw beans and rice into Gallo Pinto is some arcane knowledge that's beyond them.

The latter i partially blame on food tiktok which makes cooking seem a lot harder than it is, if you cant into slow cooking you might be actually retarded
 
I can't take the word "EBT" or "foodstamps" seriously anymore without thinking about these racist AI videos and I'll always picture an obese black woman in my head going "what do yall mean i cant pay for this mortgage with my EBT? DEADASS."
 
Well Folks WILL IT HAPPEN? will Daddy Guberment fail to turn the EEBEETEE back on in time?
Its almost exciting, because at least, if they don't, something will actually happen for a few days, and as we all know, the Boomers don't like any change or happenings, not.. one.. bit, so I imagine they will suddenly move heaven and earth to flip the Gibs back on, its just in Boomers nature, and they run the show.

but..
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Hooked on phobics said:
I've occasionally needed a foodbank especially when I was a child, HOWEVER, the old expression goes don't look a gift horse in the mouth (IE if you get shit for free, don't bitch).

I've been there and gotten plates of free meals, or a little extra food to tide over when out of work, and never once do I feel its acceptable to complain about stuff. I always feel like anything is a gift.

unless something is ACTUALLY physically inedible or something major, complaining just feels tacky.
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Yep, we had to go to food banks for a bit when my kids were small. I was grateful for what we got, every little bit helped. You could only go once a month, but it was better than nothing.

We ate a lot of beans, rice, chicken, and greens because that's what was cheap.
 
Plantation Barbie said:
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Sounds like an outstanding food bank; all the food banks I've seen in operation hand out food in smaller quantities than that. I wish someone would hand me hundreds of dollars' worth of pantry staples and fresh vegetables for free, lol

That this woman prefaces her complaint with "I don't want to sound ungrateful however" indicates she has enough self-awareness to know better.
 
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