Food stamps are the modern equivalent of depression era soup lines.
I get your point, but I think you’re wrong. Soup lines were usually provided by private charity rather than the government. The pictures I’ve seen the participants looked somewhat ashamed at being in the line—they don’t look entitled. And, of course, the soup and bread served as basic nutrition. There weren’t “steak lines” or “lobster lines” and the people being fed weren’t able to trade their soup for cash.
Yes, they are from a different source, but my point is, imagine what kind of economy people would think we were in if people had to wait in line for every “welfare/snap/etc” benefit as they used it. It would look a LOT worse than what we had in the depression, regardless of who is supplying the service.