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[conuly]

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How the Other Half Eats

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Comments

[kengr]

How the Other Half Eats missed a few important points. Like the fact that you can't *get* foodstamps if you don't have a way to cook things.

Also, the same hoot foods that you aren't allowed to buy with foodstamps can be bought *cold* the next day...

[conuly]

I've never understood the hot foods rule, and it's bullshit.

[kengr]

Oh, I kinda understand it.

Without it, I'm afraid that far too many folks I knew would have spent most of their foodstamps on that sort of thing instead of spending less "money" (and more time) doing much the same thing at home.

These were folks who had to have it explained to them (with calculations and stuff) that buying the small jars of mustard/mayo/ketchup etc at the corner convenience store was costing them several times what a "normal" sized jar at a supermarket would and that *that* was why they were always running out of money.

[conuly]

...how many condiments were these folks even buying?

[kengr]

the condiments were just an example. Basically, if they *could* buy it at the corner "convenience" store, they did.

Which gets *hideously* expensive, real fast.

[conuly]

Yeah, it does. Their parents never told them not to do that?

[kengr]

Apparently not. They were far from the only "young adult" that hung out on the BBS who were severely lacking in life skills.

On the other hand we had a couple of grade school age kids who were on there (with parental permission) and were very mature (we had to explain to other users a few times that they were talking to a kid :-)