Context here, at least my understanding from when I worked in a deli ~10 years ago, is that EBT can only cover cold food. So they’re offering to let you buy cold chicken then warm it for free.
As I recall, it wasn’t just hot food, but any food meant to be consumed on the premises, such as fountain sodas instead of canned ones. I remember a talking point about that being would get more nutritious and cheaper food buying a bag of rice and dried beans than it would for them to buy pre-made burritos, chili or whatever.
There’s no law against cooking people’s raw chicken for free for them.
Not yet, just wait for the next “freeloader” scare.
I’ve seen more than a couple “man arrested for giving out free food” stories in my time. I suppose if the man is giving out salmonella you gotta stop it, but that’s usually not what’s happening.
[Very sarcasm] Noooo, don’t feed the poors hot food! They’ll, uhh, Idunno, it’s like feeding gremlins after midnight or something! Probably!
So I just got my EBT card and I’ma go use it tomorrow. Will hopefully get to have some variety and even snacks! Woo! Hopefully the cash assistance thingle comes through too or I’ma get scared again 😅 😰 … Dunno why I’m saying any of this here. Hi! Hello. It’s good that somecritters are working around dickish law :3
What a rollercoaster of a read.
Good luck!
Around 2020 my wife had to quit her job and we had a newborn at home. I forget what she had called the local benefits office to setup but the lady basically said “I’m going to get you every benefit I can” and we ended up with Medicaid, EBT and WIC. So we used that shit to make sure the whole family ate as well as we could.
I was still working and we don’t have extremely high expenses, plus it was early in the pandemic so we were avoiding shopping or leaving the house as it was, so we just continued grocery shopping normally (other than grabbing extra of whatever WIC covered that month) and would swipe the benefits card before the debit card and consistently only had to pay for one or two things out of pocket
Fren! Glad to hear you’re getting benefits set up 😀
This is how WinCo sells hot pizzas for EBT. They sell you an uncooked one, and then offer to cook it for free.
Walmart, too, kinda. You can buy any of the hot things on EBT as long as you get the ones that are in the fridge and not the thing that keeps them hot. Rotisserie chicken, corn dogs, popcorn chicken, etc.
Basic compassion seems like such a foreign thing in late stage capitalism, but there is still goodness all around us. It’s important not to lose sight of that.
why are there slurs all over that tumblr page :l i do not understand tumblr
if you mean the ‘slurs’ for gay people then it’s because in some places they are genuinely reclaimed as good things to call yourself.
why did u put the word slurs in quotes lol
Okay, because as I was trying to show not everyone considers them so in every context, if the context is one of reclaiming and positive then that might be a context where they aren’t considered slurs.
ok i tihnk i understand. i had a different definition of slur but i looked up a few definitions and it seems like yours is closer to the common one at least. ofc it’s not my place to tell people what words to say/not say (nor would i want it to be) but it was interesting to me that i’ve only seen this on tumblr. do you know if this is a tumblr thing or on other social media also?
There are a lot of queer and trans folk on Tumblr. It’s like the SM for queer and trans people these days. And it’s awesome.
makes sense. i think it skews younger than me (27), but I (like i imagine a lot of people on lemmy :)) prefer fediverse platforms so most of my social media is lemmy/mastodon. I tried tumblr once a few years ago but had trouble finding content to follow (but now i’m having the same problem on mastodon so maybe i’m just bad at social media haha) thanks for listening to my adhd rambling
Sure, thanks for taking the time 🙂
I’ve definitely seen it in other places, but tumblr is a strange site. I’m not sure exactly why but users there tend to be a bit more emboldened about things like this and there’s lots of injokes, cultures and memes that happen only there.
Not everything is good on tumblr of course, them emboldening can lead to a lot of people talking about things they don’t understand and attacking anyone that doesn’t agree with them. That does happen everywhere, however, tumblr is seen as one of the ‘nicer’ commercial social media sites and so they feel like that makes them more justified in their opinions, would be my guess.
yeah for sure, I appreciate you giving me a new perspective on the words. the internet exists for people to learn things, after all. ofc the n word has to some extent been reclaimed so I suppose it’s possible, although like you say, it does seem to be more on tumblr than all other sites combined :) personally if i were to take a guess as to why tumblr i’d say it’s an older site that really only has the core user base left after they banned porn. personally i’m still averse to those words but yk the only constant is change so we’ll see where we are in 5 years haha maybe it’ll catch on(although tbh i do not expect it to) sorry if this is hard to read i am not good at words
Sure, it was nice to discuss this with you 🙂
Also, to me at least, your words were fine and made sense. I get that words in text can be difficult, especially to translate thoughts to, I have the same problem myself sometimes.
#BoringDystopia
Nah, this is just good people doing good things for other people in need.
I can actually see how you might think it’s a boring dystopia, but this is just how we live where I’m from.
The American welfare system is byzantine, unfair, corrupt, and ineffective. People need this workaround on cooked food because there are irrational, pointless restrictions on what kinds of food people can buy with EBT. That’s the dystopia part.
It’s awesome that good people do good things to fix the problems caused by a dystopian system. But if the system wasn’t broken, they wouldn’t have to.
Sorry it took me a week to get back to this, because I really did want to discuss it. The American welfare system is all the things you mentioned and worse. In conservative states, they actively make things harder on poor people to live, and then make it harder for poor people to vote these knobs out of office.
So yeah, I understand that the cruelty is the point. Then the Republican Party marches some Uncle Tom up on the dais to give a speach about some billionaire shitbird that pretends to care about poor people of any color. The fact that someone in a trailer park in the south thinks that Trump cares about them is really sad to me.
The fact that our state elected JD “I fuck couches and can’t order donuts” Vance as an actual senator in this state because Peter Thiel propped him up with an endless supply of money is embarrassing enough, but then this hillbilly elegy moron just keeps opening his mouth and makes Dan Quayle look like a Rhodes scholar by comparison.
It’s all really tiring, and I guess that’s what they’re going for. But I’ll be god damned if I leave this shithole state a worse place than I found it. I’m not going away until we unfuck our gerrymandered state like Michigan managed to unfuck theirs.
Welfare for people in need has to be as difficult and painful as possible. Corporate handouts don’t need any of that. /s
There is a lot of good discussion here, but I’m going to keep things light, since I doubt I can add much of value given how far the conversation has gone.
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