Posted on 03/31/2026 10:06:00 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Why wasn't candy and sugary drinks banned before?
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If EBT cards don't work that way, then why not?
stop screwing around with soda and candy: if they’re gonna bother, fix this all the way instead of just symbolic fixes: ...
[OTOH i’m guessing there’s zero will for a real fix since probably everyone in Congress is bought out by some portion of the food industry]
nonetheless, the only way to stop SNAP from slowly killing people with very-expensive-to-treat chronic diseases is to list the things that they *CAN* buy with SNAP, because the list of ineligible junk food is simply too long ...
here’s a starter SNAP-eligible list:
meat and seafood in all forms (excluding added sweetener forms)
all forms of legumes (excluding added sweetener forms)
vegetables and fruits in all forms (excluding added sweetener forms as well as all fruit juice)
all WHOLE grains (excluding added sweetener forms)
milk and milk products in all forms (excluding added sweetener forms)
eggs in all forms
seed flours and breads, both risen and flat in all forms (excluding fried forms such as chips as well as all added sweetener forms)
all nuts (excluding added sweetener forms)
cooking oils and fats (excluding semi-synthetic forms such as anything made with hydrogenated oils)
baking supplies and seasonings
The surest sign that your neighborhood is about to be destroyed is when the local stores start putting EBT Cards accepted here signs of the doors.
We need to start enforcing the welfare reform provisions that Obama suspended when he took office.
they were along with a whole lot of other stuff back when you had to use Coupons, you know Food Stamps...
My wife works at the SNAP/WIC baby store where parents can get clothes and such. If any clothes have retail tags, they have to be removed. Customers will sometimes freak when you do that because they were planning to return them for money.
My son works at a grocery store and says that they come in and buy lobster and other high dollar items with SNAP cards.
I can tell you from firsthand experience that it's a bear to manage items in a national chain's systems based on different criteria by state, county, and larger cities.
And good luck with counties that have "blue laws" which don't allow sales of certain items on Sunday or after certain hours during the week. It's an absolute nightmare.
Years ago, some jurisdictions started restricting soda above a certain volume (regardless of calories) and calorie content limits on individual snacks. It forced the buying, merchandizing, planning, and allocation teams to set up greatly varied items and layouts, often for stores that were a minute or two away from each other. The costs and effort of managing such variances were ridiculous and the problems it caused in the stores was unbelievable.
And that's not even getting into changing the technology for the vending machines. The cost of retooling to manufacture a soda vending machine production line alone for the new smaller cans was preposterous.
Sales of Woke-a-Cola have been in decline due their anti-white racism chasing customers away.
I believe allowing such junk foods was based on lobbying by certain agricultural interests.
It’s designed to subsidize Walmart and the big grocery store chains.
The number of businesses that have put up “EBT Accepted Here” in the past five years is astonishing...and very dismaying. I’m talking nice stores in good neighborhoods in good towns.
“”””What started the hysteria was claims that people were buying whole carts of cases of soda then using those cases as cash with which to barter.””””
The story about aluminum cans was sort of silly, wouldn’t it be easier to buy and sell food for pennies on the dollar, like smoked oysters, steaks, expensive cheeses, canned hams, watermelons, baby formula, seasonings, cookies, canned meats and make 50% instead of the price of recycled cans?
Even soda six packs wouldn’t be as good as some other items.
“”””SNAP isn’t designed to feed people healthy food.
It’s designed to subsidize Walmart and the big grocery store chains.””””
How does it do that? Aren’t people still going to buy food and most shop for the best prices?
Why weren’t they banned before? I suspect that it’s because of the powerful lobbying of the junk-food producers.
Go into the SNAP heavy ghettos. Few Walmart, few supermarkets. Many Quickie Marts.
In Atlanta a Fresh Market tried a store in Atlanta’s south food desert. It sold mostly fresh produce, fresh meat. Not many sugar/salt/highly processed foods. Those who lived in the area preferred the Quikie Mart. When others are paying, you don’t care the price. And sugar/salt/chocolate/beer are the 4 food groups.
“””””When others are paying, you don’t care the price.”””””
That isn’t true at all, grocery money is grocery money, and limited, for some reason people think snap is like a blank check rather than just some supplementary grocery money.
A californian getting the 2024 average of $192, in most cases will be having to add to his grocery budget and will be trying to stretch it all for the whole month, just like other people, everyone has to eat for the entire month.
No. Most people dngaf
It doesn't take "most people". It only takes a significant number to start and then further a trend.
Woke-a-Cola went woke because their sales were already in the tank from the COVID-1984 Scamdemic lockdowns.
They told their employees to be less white.
They told outside law firms that did business with Woke-a-Cola that those firms had to hire a certain number of minority lawyers in order to work with Woke-a-Cola. (Not for the lawyers' sake but to steer lawyers applying at Woke-a-Cola toward those other companies). They backtracked on that one very quickly.
Then they doubled down and refused to print "Jesus" on customized cans while allowing "Mohammed". The customized cans were a desperate attempt to pick up sales and instead it blew up in their korporate faces.
They've also lost sales due to bans against Russia.
But yeah, they're shutting down bottling facilities because of EBT restrictions which aren't going to last anyway.
Neat process. I’d like to see it applied to Ukraine, Israel, universities and other money wasters.
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