I heard a lady ranting about these same fake anecdotes a few years ago and finally interrupted to tell her, look, I'm on food stamps, and it's not nearly enough, and the restrictions are so arbitrary and punitive that you can't even get hot food, and if you wanted to trade SNAP benefits for drugs you wouldn't get very many drugs at all. She said, "Oh, I wasn't talking about you, because you're educated." Even when they think they're dialing it back they manage to go in weirder, even more offensive directions. Needless to say, she had no idea how much education I may or may not have had.
Its so frustrating that I can get a hot meal with food stamps. Right now I have a surplus of like 2k because I'm a single adult and I didnt change my spending habits when the covid bonus came in. Its probably mostly because I dont cook for myself most of the time so Im mostly buying like... pasta and cereal lol.
And apparently they're planning to just... take people's surpluses back soon according to one of my disability staff. If I could spend that money on a fucking pizza or something that'd be fucking fantastic, but no. I guess Ill just spend my surplus on a bunch of nonperishables to donate to a food pantry or something? Because just having the gov take it back is not happening lol fuck em.
A rice cooker could be a game changer. We've experimentally cooked Aldi's bagged risotto in ours to good result, so I'd bet any rice-a-roni or other boxed and flavored rice dish would be an easy fire and forget meal. Just add water, turn it on, and come back in 30 minutes.
Also, Instant Pots make really easy rice and lentils dishes (lentils and white rice cook together perfectly) that can be saved and eaten on for days, or probably even frozen like a DIY tv dinner.
I heard a lady ranting about these same fake anecdotes a few years ago and finally interrupted to tell her, look, I'm on food stamps, and it's not nearly enough, and the restrictions are so arbitrary and punitive that you can't even get hot food, and if you wanted to trade SNAP benefits for drugs you wouldn't get very many drugs at all. She said, "Oh, I wasn't talking about you, because you're educated." Even when they think they're dialing it back they manage to go in weirder, even more offensive directions. Needless to say, she had no idea how much education I may or may not have had.
They can't APOLOGIZE now can they? That would make them look weak and they can't have that.
Its so frustrating that I can get a hot meal with food stamps. Right now I have a surplus of like 2k because I'm a single adult and I didnt change my spending habits when the covid bonus came in. Its probably mostly because I dont cook for myself most of the time so Im mostly buying like... pasta and cereal lol.
And apparently they're planning to just... take people's surpluses back soon according to one of my disability staff. If I could spend that money on a fucking pizza or something that'd be fucking fantastic, but no. I guess Ill just spend my surplus on a bunch of nonperishables to donate to a food pantry or something? Because just having the gov take it back is not happening lol fuck em.
A rice cooker could be a game changer. We've experimentally cooked Aldi's bagged risotto in ours to good result, so I'd bet any rice-a-roni or other boxed and flavored rice dish would be an easy fire and forget meal. Just add water, turn it on, and come back in 30 minutes.
Also, Instant Pots make really easy rice and lentils dishes (lentils and white rice cook together perfectly) that can be saved and eaten on for days, or probably even frozen like a DIY tv dinner.
UNEDUCATED DESERVE TO STARVE. STARVE YOU STUPID POOR MAGGOTS
it's literally racism