Breakfast In America: EBT & Fast Food
After coming back to America a few pounds lighter from eating those shrubs and gravel they call food in China (just kidding chinese readers), I noticed a few new things:
Michelle Obama found a cause, and that cause is to teach kids nutrition and exercise
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And This
Fast food joints, 7-11s and shady liquor stores now accept EBT/Food Stamps.
Does one hand know what the other is doing?
The main people who use EBT/Food Stamps are children– poor children— who probably don’t have good role models if being poor is an indicator of that. As a poor kid growing up, I can vouch that we ate with a pretty wild disregard for nutrition in my house.
I’m not an Obama basher (I’ve become apolitical lately), but this seems radically incongruous. Fast food joints and liquor stores do not have nutritious meals, are overpriced and incredibly prone to fraud.
I’m sure in some time there will be a news report about this and they can dust off that stock footage of fat people walking down the street.
Did someone move the McDonalds further down the street? It seems further today
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The fraud aspect of this is even more worrisome. If you look at the quality of convenience stores where EBT is accepted you can rest assured they are the type that would trade $50/EBT for $15 cash for crack.
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Minor quibble. I’d argue that fast food restaurants are VERY affordable. Some argue that the low cost/high convenience is why so many people eat too much junk food. As someone who eats several meals a week in my car on the way to or from work, I’d have to agree.
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It drives me crazy when food stamp folks buy really crappy food. But the shelf life of Ramen Noodles is 2,345 years, vs fresh produce that last two days. So they by Ho Hos and Ramen Noodles and get fat.
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Quality food is better than junk food, all right. “Better” is generally worth something. Which means that it usually costs more–somehow, somebody figures out how to charge more for it. Like, you can get cheap produce, but it’s only the produce that’s half spoiled today and will be all spoiled tomorrow.
Carbs provide a short-term mood boost, even though long term they make you feel like crap. They’re easy to binge on when you’re depressed. Chocolate provides a mood boost as well. And there’s always the sugar rush.
Fruit is expensive but tastes decent. Veggies are barely affordable but taste yucky if they’re starting to go off and you don’t have time, skill, seasonings, and equipment to cook them really well.
Ho-hos are fairly cheap, especially in super-generic, fake, trans-fat enhanced, cocoa and HFC fake-chocolate Brand XXX Ho Hos for Hos.
Poor people eat cheap, crappy food and get really fat so rich people can bitch about the cost of food stamps and whine about how obviously worthless and lazy all these hideously obese poor people are who obviously only sit on their fat asses all day and collect their food stamps and vote for Obama, right? And vote to tax the rich, right? [Misanthropy--king me]
Meanwhile, the “working girl” hos eating the XXX ho hos are keeping their weight under control with the drugs, as are the pimps, for the short span of time until the drugs make all their teef fall out and the next class of high school drop outs is ready to begin the workplace diet of Supersize Pepsi, rotgut, meth, XXX ho-hos, and Micky D’s.
And they pop out the next generation of meth babies to live with the teefless grandma or aunt or something until old enough to pimp or ho in turn. [Misanthropy--king me]
Oh, and skip the racism gripes–white chocolate, brown chocolate, dark chocolate. Rich, top end chocolate that’s all cocoa butter and from the very best pods all the way down to “chocolate” that’s faked up with some kind of trans-fat from hell only knows where, cooked up in some cheap-ass corporate lab for bottom dollar from waste byproducts—all kinds of people–all kinds of “chocolate” form humanity’s rich and poor from the whiny suits down to the teefless lumps of lard sobbing on the cat-peed sofa.
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I thought you couldn’t use EBT for any restaurants or form of prepared food…
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