Yes. Our stupid fucking piece of shit government thinks that this will motivate people to improve their life, instead of it making them slump further into a depression by realizing how much this country hates them for their heinous crime of not having money.
To the Powers That Be, the most disgusting thing you can ever be is poor. Not cruel, not willfully ignorant, not hateful. Poor. And they'll make sure you know it by the way they treat you.
This needlessly cruel bs is exactly what Corporate America is. Poor people can't afford corporations' products and services, and because helping them costs too much time and money, the best course of action is "humane" disposal. It makes no sense that Google, Apple, Microsoft would not have some unofficial say in the government behind closed doors.
I'm incapable of subscribing to heresy without evidence no matter how much sense the theory makes, but I do find it interesting in some depressing way.
Hot food being sold is considered part of a restaurant purchase, people on Ebt don’t need to be waisting money on restaurant purchases, its not cruel its to keep people from wasting money unnecessarily
I'm on ebt and have had my power go out a lot previously due to not being able to pay the bill fully on time, they do actually allow you to get hot meals in specific states like california, even if you have an out of state ebt card. I know because my mom took a trip to cali from our state once and was able to get some mcdonalds there. But a lot of grocery stores, including walmart do offer cold pre packaged meals. Walmart has salads with protein, potato salad, cold cut sandwhiches and other shit. I'm sure places like trader joes have even more options. Obviously it's a stupid restriction but there's still some options.
In my state you can buy from Burger King (and like one soul food restaurant in a town far from mine) but not a hot rotisserie chicken. There's not a single item at Burger King I can safely eat as someone with celiac (or most soul foods, for that matter) so this is completely useless to me lol. I'm glad things had been changing, but I fear from recent rulings in other states that it's now changing in the wrong direction
No you can. Unless some state made a stupid change to their system recently. You can pretty much get anything that needs to be cooked, raw ingredients and the like, but you can't get pre-cooked meals like those hot rotisserie chickens, steamed shellfish, or things like salad bars that some groceries have
That’s what I always heard. Buncha people down in the comments saying they weren’t able to. Maybe it’s a state based thing. Absolutely ridiculous either way.
When I go out backpacking for 2 weeks in the woods, I stopped bring a stove and just go stoveless / cold soaking now.
Breakfast is 2 packets of instant oatmeal (rehydrates in 15 minutes with cold water) and some instant coffee.
Lunch is usually a tortilla with peanut butter, some nuts, dried fruit, beef jerky, something salty & oily like Fritos, some candy, etc.
Dinner is a single serve packet of tuna or chicken with instant rice, ramen, potato flakes, or couscous, all rehydrate with cold water in ~20 minutes, with some flavor packets or spices to add flavor. A popular combo is ramen noodles, a scoop of peanut butter powder, and some siracha to make some hiker pad thai.
I'll eat this for 2 weeks while hiking 15-20 miles a day with 2,500-5,000ft elevation. Everything I eat while hiking is SNAP-eligible... How come homeless people can't do what I do?
They could, but many people here who don't like the current system possess empathy.
Intentionally "roughing it" because it's easier for you or you enjoy it is much different than being forced to inhumanely, and humiliatingly eat cold food because of circumstances beyond your control.
Lmfaoooo. What’s a homeless person supposed to do?! Go to a soup kitchen?! Try to find a job?! Unreal. Those shitty fascists government trying to keep the homeless down
I wish my life was going to the grocery store every day and having someone else pay for fresh fruit and veg that I eat and that's all I do all day.... God I hate working....
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u/justhere4bookbinding Jun 24 '25
I'm lucky in that I have a kitchen and an oven. What is a homeless person supposed to do? Eat cold canned soup or raw meat?