This week, senators introduced what they're calling the Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act, which would make the supermarket staple an eligible purchase under the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
Walmart already uses a loophole for their rotisserie chickens: Just sell some of them cold out of the fridge section. Can use snap for those just fine; but not for the same exact chickens kept in those heat lamp things.
Winco does the same for their pizzas. You buy an uncooked pie with SNAP; they then offer to cook it for you gratis.
Honestly, just let poor people get prepared food, too. A ton of people on foodstamps are homeless and don’t even have a way to fucking cook. At least California (and another state I can’t remember) have allowed snap to be used at restaurants like McDonalds if you are homeless and/or over a certain age.
Honestly, just let poor people get prepared food, too.
I think the problem is that poor people are able to use government programs to get food at all. So much of these legislative maneuvers are intended to selectively punish or disenfranchise portions of the population that the state government hates and scare them out of these programs entirely.
The Walmart / Winco end runs are fine enough, until you start asking where these places are located (predominantly white neighborhoods with a surplus of upper income residents) and where they aren’t (minority-majority food deserts).
We’ve got a public-private partnership intended to squeeze out certain segments of the population from having access to any kind of food at all.
Walmart already uses a loophole for their rotisserie chickens: Just sell some of them cold out of the fridge section. Can use snap for those just fine; but not for the same exact chickens kept in those heat lamp things.
Winco does the same for their pizzas. You buy an uncooked pie with SNAP; they then offer to cook it for you gratis.
Honestly, just let poor people get prepared food, too. A ton of people on foodstamps are homeless and don’t even have a way to fucking cook. At least California (and another state I can’t remember) have allowed snap to be used at restaurants like McDonalds if you are homeless and/or over a certain age.
I think the problem is that poor people are able to use government programs to get food at all. So much of these legislative maneuvers are intended to selectively punish or disenfranchise portions of the population that the state government hates and scare them out of these programs entirely.
The Walmart / Winco end runs are fine enough, until you start asking where these places are located (predominantly white neighborhoods with a surplus of upper income residents) and where they aren’t (minority-majority food deserts).
We’ve got a public-private partnership intended to squeeze out certain segments of the population from having access to any kind of food at all.
So that’s why take n bake pizza places are so popular in southern red states? I didn’t know there was a regulatory reason!