Food

Question by Truth in Parody: Why are “Ready-to-Eat HOT FOODS” ineligible using Food Stamps (EBT Card)? What’s the REAL reason & origin?
With the present record unemployment and the BAD economy many long time, steady working folks and college educated people are finding themselves unemployed or underemployed and needing some additional assistance just to survive and keep their home and utilities on.

As a result many hard working, educated, “non-lazy” people who are really trying but simply can NOT find any job or enough work are applying for “Food Stamps” only to find there are many insane restrictions such as, you can NOT buy “Hot Prepared Ready-to-Eat Foods” at a supermarket such as a “Hot” Rotisserie Chicken or “Hot” ready to eat Macaroni and Cheese even though the super market will later refrigerate these SAME previously hot food items, relabel them as “Cold” and sell them at the “same price”… yet now they become “Food Stamp Eligible”. In fact at my supermarket today (6/16/09) the “Uncooked” whole raw chicken cost $ 6.39 — MORE than the “Cooked” “HOT” Whole Rotisserie Chicken which is ($ 5.99) and the “Cold” Cooked Whole Rotisserie Chicken was on sale for ($ 4.99).

When you consider it’s THE POOR (a.k.a. Minimum Wage Employed, Underemployed, Unemployed, Disabled, Social Security fixed income Elderly and Children) WHO NEED FOOD STAMPS and because they are “POOR” they may NOT have money to buy a working stove/oven or even a microwave or NOT have enough money to pay for electricity/gas to use a stove/oven. And MANY on food stamps are HOMELESS in cars, tents, parks or shelters WITHOUT a kitchen. In addition many on food stamps are the ELDERLY who because of poor eyesight or forgetfulness may create a cooking fire hazard.

Consider the insanity that (the poor) Food Stamp users are forced to “WASTE” extra electricity or gas to “RE-HEAT” once heated cooked foods on stoves/ovens which only creates HIGHER UTILITY BILLS and POLLUTION and the need for MORE tax payer subsidies for UTILITY BILL ASSISTANCE which food stamp recipients are typically always eligible and encouraged to apply for.

With these REAL LIFE factors – why do we even have these insane restriction against buying “Hot Foods”?

Best answer:

Answer by BHO bows to muslims
That’s just the sort of thing that happens when the Government runs stuff. I can’t wait to see what happens when they run Health Care – only dead people can get X-Rays, infants qualify for dentures, etc.

“I have never seen a store that resold hot cooked food as cold other than bread.”

try the chicken pasta at Costco – recycled rotisserie chicken.

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