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babyDunk said:
Think of the children!

Ironically poor people would be grateful and make due. Add some seasoning or combine the beans with some savory protein.But not (some of)the EBTfolk, they are way too good for that.
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I think it's a good thing to go without occasionally. It makes you appreciate things so much more. I feel for those who are always going without though.
FatalTater said:
When folks talk of poors buying steak and lobster, it's usually just being hyperbolic and illustrating bad choices of buying luxury food instead of equally nutritious but cheaper things.
Pretty sure lobster IS covered by EBT though, as long as it's purchased in a grocery and not in a restaurant or deli.
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You can definitely buy lobster and steak with EBT. I had EBT last year but forgot to renew it and ironically tried a couple weeks ago and the website wasn't working, before learning about the shutdown lol.

I am employed full time, just poor. I got $70 a month in EBT.

If you are unemployed and have children you get much more as most people probably know. But most of the people I work with who are also full time also have EBT because, let's be honest, it's getting a little tough out here for the little guys.

But pretty much anything in a grocery store that's edible is covered. Steak, lobster, caviar, filet mignon, it doesn't matter. You could spend your entire EBT monthly amount on one purchase of the fanciest high end cut of meat and it won't stop you.
I bought yeast, grape juice and sugar one time to make wine.

WIC on the other hand only covers certain items.
 
Stiffy said:
I highly doubt there will be many chimpouts over SNAP gibs this soon, not everyone gets SNAP replenished on the the first of the month. I believe it's random based on the day approved.
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From what I have seen on those awful "we are going SNAP shopping, spending 1800$ on snacks" a lot of people do their massive spree at the end before the money expires.

So I would expect the worst offenders, the massive families on EBT that gets thousands, will be ok for a bit if they stocked up on non-perishables.
 
FatalTater said:
When folks talk of poors buying steak and lobster, it's usually just being hyperbolic and illustrating bad choices of buying luxury food instead of equally nutritious but cheaper things.
Pretty sure lobster IS covered by EBT though, as long as it's purchased in a grocery and not in a restaurant or deli.
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I'm sure people have jumped in with their EBT takes already, but here's mine: I was on EBT for a year after adopting my (minor) sibling. I was working full-time but it just wasn't enough. Having that safety net really made a difference in a difficult time in my life.

That being said, we got about $350 a month, plus a few hundred extra here and there when they kept adding on extra for schoolchildren as a post-COVID thing (three years later). I literally could not spend all the money. I had to get cash back every time (and no, you're not supposed to do this) in order to deplete the funds. I don't know if it's state-dependent but I can totally believe the stories of people buying luxury food, expensive junk food and soda, reselling food, etc.

I expect it'll be a while before we get chimpouts because it's hard for me to believe anyone actually getting this shit doesn't have food stocked up for weeks.

(In my state, money didn't expire monthly, and I imagine amounts depend on state.)
 
newport100s said:
I think it's a good thing to go without occasionally. It makes you appreciate things so much more. I feel for those who are always going without though.

You can definitely buy lobster and steak with EBT. I had EBT last year but forgot to renew it and ironically tried a couple weeks ago and the website wasn't working, before learning about the shutdown lol.

I am employed full time, just poor. I got $70 a month in EBT.

If you are unemployed and have children you get much more as most people probably know. But most of the people I work with who are also full time also have EBT because, let's be honest, it's getting a little tough out here for the little guys.

But pretty much anything in a grocery store that's edible is covered. Steak, lobster, caviar, filet mignon, it doesn't matter. You could spend your entire EBT monthly amount on one purchase of the fanciest high end cut of meat and it won't stop you.
I bought yeast, grape juice and sugar one time to make wine.

WIC on the other hand only covers certain items.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure you cannot buy any prepared hot foods in grocery stores with SNAP unless marked down first and put in the refrigerated cases. That means hot soups, hot chicken, ribs, jo jo potatoes etc

I've often wondered if they do that to prevent a certain entitled demographic on welfare from buying up all the hot chicken and not leaving any left for the 9 to 5 ers? 🤔
 
Racist Parrot said:
Just left Walmart. Literally was 80% white people and there was a noticeable decrease in niggers and browns.
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Same except it was 100% white. Everything felt calm and relaxed. I wasn’t dodging carts flying through aisles. No one was standing in the middle of the aisles talking on dey cell phones with the speaker. I saw 2 married couples having a polite conversation being respectful not blocking the aisle at a reasonable tone. No one mother with a multitude of brown kids running around screaming.

Cancel EBT permanently. Don’t bring it back.
 
Stiffy said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure you cannot buy any prepared hot foods in grocery stores with SNAP unless marked down first and put in the refrigerated cases. That means hot soups, hot chicken, ribs, jo jo potatoes etc

I've often wondered if they do that to prevent a certain entitled demographic on welfare from buying up all the hot chicken and not leaving any left for the 9 to 5 ers? 🤔
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According to the government fact site (may require US IP to access) what it may be used for, food that is hot at the point of sale is excluded.
 
Stiffy said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure you cannot buy any prepared hot foods in grocery stores with SNAP unless marked down first and put in the refrigerated cases. That means hot soups, hot chicken, ribs, jo jo potatoes etc

I've often wondered if they do that to prevent a certain entitled demographic on welfare from buying up all the hot chicken and not leaving any left for the 9 to 5 ers? 🤔
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This is true. Prepared food is not covered.
 
0life said:
I'm sure people have jumped in with their EBT takes already, but here's mine: I was on EBT for a year after adopting my (minor) sibling. I was working full-time but it just wasn't enough. Having that safety net really made a difference in a difficult time in my life.

That being said, we got about $350 a month, plus a few hundred extra here and there when they kept adding on extra for schoolchildren as a post-COVID thing (three years later). I literally could not spend all the money. I had to get cash back every time (and no, you're not supposed to do this) in order to deplete the funds. I don't know if it's state-dependent but I can totally believe the stories of people buying luxury food, expensive junk food and soda, reselling food, etc.

I expect it'll be a while before we get chimpouts because it's hard for me to believe anyone actually getting this shit doesn't have food stocked up for weeks.

(In my state, money didn't expire monthly, and I imagine amounts depend on state.)
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How did you manage to get cash back?

Sorry for the double post.
 
AnOminous said:
Tell me you lack the IQ to understand proportions and per capita without telling me that.
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13% of white people are on snap, I get that per capital more niggers are on snap. But overall white families and white children use it more. When it comes to political divides a majority of red states benefit from EBT more than blue states to. Alabama is literally 67% on EBT.
 
AnOminous said:
You could even survive indefinitely on nothing but potatoes. It's not a great diet, and it isn't a great source of any particular nutrients, but it's at least a mediocre source for everything you need to live (other than B12 and you keep months of reserves of that in your body).
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When my daughter was a baby, we had juuust enough money coming in each week to buy a can of formula to last her a week, and a 20kg sack of Potatoes to feed the other 2 adults and 2 children in the house.
I shoplifted some oil and herbs, plus a bottle of childrens multivitamins, and we had salt and pepper from fast food restaurants.

We survived for nearly a year like that before things improved.
It was a pretty miserable existenc, picking dandelions from the lawn and watercress from creeks for greens and my oldest getting given free fruit and a sandwich at school each day plus the occasional litre of milk donated was really what counted.
Its possible.
Not good.
But possible.
 
Retrodogkiller said:
13% of white people are on snap, I get that per capital more niggers are on snap. But overall white families and white children use it more. When it comes to political divides a majority of red states benefit from EBT more than blue states to. Alabama is literally 67% on EBT.
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What blows me away is 1 in 8 Americans rely on food stamps. That is absolutely crazy. 43 000 000. That number grows every year.

Why wait? America should just change it's status to 3rd world country now.
 
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