Ha!
One would think that. However…
Nutritionally speaking THE_DEVIL is for good health for souls. It’s the mental stuff IDGAFA
"You know there’s a problem when soda is the item most frequently purchased by the 41 million Americans who benefit from the Supplemental Nutrition.."
- Thread starter NorthernHawkeye
- Start date
One would think that. However…
Nutritionally speaking THE_DEVIL is for good health for souls. It’s the mental stuff IDGAFA
Removing import quotas for sugar would hurt the U.S. sugar beet industry far more than it would the U.S. corn farmer.
I'm just trying to help build your ever growing choir down there by advocating for one of the seven deadlies. Don't worry, you've got my soul for one of the others. (off to the boobs and butts threads)
I vaguely remember Michelle working on school lunches. I didn’t have kids in school. What was the issue? Not enough chicken nuggets and pizza?
My kids are in school now and the lunches are garbage. Basically the frozen food section of the grocery store.
I pack lunches nearly every day.
a lot of businesses that count on taxpayer subsidies to supplement their low wages paid to employees would also be screwed
or they'd have to pay people a living wage
It's soft drinks so you are factually incorrect. Why does it matter? Why do care if they purchase soft drinks?
The next two items are milk and ground beef. Is that ok?
I want to understand your logic. Is it about shaming poor people?
That's because 'good' food, or healthy food is too darn expensive.
This:
is cheaper than:
Neither one is especially healthy. Get em outta here.That's because 'good' food, or healthy food is too darn expensive.
This:
is cheaper than:
Then perhaps Congress should eliminate sodas from the list; Coca Cola and everyone else lobbied like crazy to add it on.
Better yet - leave things like that "on", BUT they count 2x the price you paid against your benefits.
Healthy stuff counts 80-90%. So, the more healthy stuff you buy, the bigger the actual benefit.
Buy chips and soda, and your benefit gets reduced.
I'd be totally on board with SNAP only allowing a very limited array of items. Have a panel of nutritionists vote on a narrow pallet of things. No sodas, candy, or snack foods. Just dairy, fruits, vegetables, cereals, and protein. That's it.
They can but what they want with their money
"You must eat only what the government wants you to eat! No fun foods - you are poor people!"
I do the majority of our grocery shopping outside of the wife’s trips to Costco because I’m the primary chef in our house. It’s always interesting to look at other people‘s carts and see what they’re buying. The amount of crappy sugary carb bloated snack food and all the processed and additive laden foods is mind blowing.
I split my shopping between Byerlys (more upscale) and CUB foods. (Hy Vee would fall in between the two). I see a lot more crap in carts at the discount place.
I split my shopping between Byerlys (more upscale) and CUB foods. (Hy Vee would fall in between the two). I see a lot more crap in carts at the discount place.
Last edited:
I believe you can have 'neutral food' that is neither good nor bad. I remember CNN listing a top 10 health snacks and chips and salsa were on there. So, if I'm going to eat my home-made salsa, I prefer a healthier option to scoop it with and organic chips fit that bill.
Brad's is made up of organic yellow corn, organic sunflower or safflower oil, and sea salt. Not much to it.
Utz Cheese Balls, on the other hand, contain cornmeal, vegetable oil, whey, maltodextrin, cheese powder (milk, salt, enzymes), and a LONG list of additives like Yellow 5 & 6 and tons of other preservatives.
I don't believe in shaming people because they are poor. They should be allowed to buy things everyone else buys minus booze.
BTW it is ****ing ripe having you call someone uninformed.
The gateway to high volume soda consumption was the explosion of convenience store fountains. All of the sudden instead of a 12 oz can, people were grabbing 32oz mountain dews and slamming the whole thing. Fast food restaurants were right there with larger sizes too. Tough to be healthy when every meal is accompanied by 24 to 32 ounces of sugar water and your in between meal thirst quenchers are the same thing.
“Lobbied” is one of my favorite political euphemisms. Translation: bribed or paid off.
Well money is speech thanks to the conservative scotus. Being rich means you get more say than everyone else.
That is their own money provided to them through government assistance. I know you think it's your money but it isn't.
You must be furious at the Citizens United verdict, then.
Maybe you need to write your Senators, daily, to get the slime off the SC that enables it.
Always has. Money flowed into DC hands long before you and I were alive. It’s nothing new. Congresspeople of both parties fill their pockets. As long as they are for sale there will always be a mechanism. Unions, corporations, “special interest groups”, what ever name it’s all the same.
Last edited:
Only it's not all the same.
It may be a smaller number, but there are members of Congress who are more honest than others.
Currently, the party that will not hold its own members accountable are the Republicans.
I agree there are some members that are more honest than others. Washington is a bit like a hog lot the longer you hang around the more the stink tends to stick. One would have to be pretty naïve, or at least willfully biased to think it only applies to one party or the other.
If that were the case, it would be cleaned up by now because each party has had their opportunities when they controlled both executive and legislative. Nobody wants to be the one responsible for derailing the gravy train.
Last edited:
What else is in your decree? Potato chips? How about dried banana chips? What about carbonated water?
Easy pickings with pop and candy. I do believe they should be able spend it all on steak and lobster tail if they choose. Just my opinion not a decree
And there it is....
The LIBERALS want SNAP recipients to pay with a credit card, no strings attached (except for alcohol, tobacco, firearms and lottery), to avoid the "shame and stigma" of being on public assistance. So buy whatever you want in the grocery store! Get the lobster! Get the jumbo shrimp! Get the scallops! Get the filet!
If these people were truly poor, they wouldn't look at any of that stuff. Milk and hamburger are fine.
Last edited:
It happened during Covid, manufacturing could not get enough aluminum or plastic to bottle
Gatorade and similar drinks have a purpose. If their kids are in sports I would think I would want them able to get Gatorade or such.
Having grown up in a small town I know of parents who would buy themselves a solo junk food laden meal via snap, only for the respective oldest child to come back with cash for cans of soup the kids had to prepare for themselves. This happened in more than one family. The cashier wasn't terribly warm to the parents as one can understand knowing what the decision making hierarchy was.
Yes the town had a grocery store, but it wasn't as close to each family's house. 20 ounce pops at convenience store prices don't make the money stretch to actual food no matter who drinks them. Those kids being on school provided breakfast and lunch gave them the leg up to graduate despite at least a few of the parents being dropouts.
Count your blessings
Yes the town had a grocery store, but it wasn't as close to each family's house. 20 ounce pops at convenience store prices don't make the money stretch to actual food no matter who drinks them. Those kids being on school provided breakfast and lunch gave them the leg up to graduate despite at least a few of the parents being dropouts.
Count your blessings
