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BTW, "pop" used to be the more common term:

It would be indeed right IMO to forbid completely unhealthy stuff like sodas and corn flakes. Yes, these are very unhealthy, too. If food stamps continue, they should only be used for unprocessed foods like veggies, fruit and meat. Or they could make a division in the stamps, like 100 % usable for the healthy stuff and 10 ro 20 % for more processed foods like American breads etc. Not sure where to draw the line, as most American stuff is more or less unhealthy! It would be much better to give everyone a decent wage so we could get rid of the food stamps altogether. I had no idea when I came here, you still had these stamps, I thought that was something from the wartime!

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100% agreed. But they should not tax it to make up for corrupt crony govt shortfalls. People should be able to buy with their own money un-penalized goods (or bads in this case).

There should be no EBT. This automatically solves the soda problem.

The lesson here is that if "Influencers" will take a lousy $1000 to push EBT still applying to Coke...

...what else are they paid to promote?

RWSGFY says

There should be no EBT. This automatically solves the soda problem.

Yes, there should be rice/flour, beans/canned meat, and seasonal unsold veggies and fruit (fresh or canned) distributed. Milk and Cheese occasionally. Provided at nickel or so above cost as a convenience to producers or warehouses to unload their surplus. They provide all labor onto the truck; it's already a big benefit to them that the taxpayer helps empty their storage facility and pays just over cost to do so.

AmericanKulak says

The lesson here is that if "Influencers" will take a lousy $1000 to push EBT still applying to Coke...

...what else are they paid to promote?

everything, that’s why they are in influencing business

If you can't get a Coke at Burger King, what are you gonna wash down your burger and fries with ??

I love Grok:
Australia has restrictions on certain assistance cards like the SmartCard, limiting 80% of welfare payments to essentials and blocking cash withdrawals, alcohol, tobacco, and gambling purchases for some recipients in specific regions.

are you saying that Coca Cola doesn't have lobbyists?

remember when ceo of coke asked for color revolution in south america because of some labor or tariff dispute? this is what i call arrogance

Misc says

If you can't get a Coke at Burger King, what are you gonna wash down your burger and fries with ??

Unsweetened Ice Tea.

As usual I have never got the urge for people to worry about what people eat or drink. And why not drag up another excuse to post a random fat person perusing the isles at Walmart. I still stand by my position that morbidly obese people are less than 5% of any given crowd. Someone that could stand to lose 20 to 50 pounds are less than 30%. While 90% of those that claim anyone that doesn't look like a stage 4 cancer victim is obese or overweight could stand to gain at least 20 pounds themselves.

Oh the Coke thing. Since snacks and soda pops has been politicized by the Obama's My Plate Icon. Most working Americans struggling to put food on their tables, rarely ever buy Chips or Soda. I know it breaks your minds, of course you don't consume them, but the rent seekers has you all convinced it's all people are carrying out of the grocery store. Who in the fuck is paying $6 for 10 ounce bag of chips? $3 to $4 for a 16 or 20 ounce soda? Not many! Maybe at a restaurant to wash down their meal, but hardly ever at the grocery store. In the past 10 years I have been to the grocery store thousands of times. I have yet to see the Chips isle or the Soda isle missing stock or near empty like before food was politicized and Wise Chips could still be had for 69 cents a bag, and 2 liter sodas were under $1.50. Even during Hurricane warnings and everyone is emptying the shelves, the chips isles are the last to go. Even during Covid lockdown the Chips isle was unmolested.

But Coke does own a lot of Bottled water brands, and now that they are losing money on their sodas, they are gouging people for bottled water. If you're at any convenient store, and want cold water. It's just as expensive as the bottles of soda.

laugh it up funny boys! Ooh look! Another Fatty! Ca-ching! Get's em all the time, they are laughing all the way to the bank.

The rules should have been held to decades ago that you can only purchase basic food stuffs. No Soda, energy drinks, Chips, No Snacks, No High sugar cereals,etc. Only vegetables meat and some dairy products. How is is that to figure out? But didn't the food stamp program start out that way? What happened? I remember I was in a grocery store and this humongous fat lady had her shopping cart filled with 2 liter soda bottles and I bet she wasn't using her cash to buy that crap. I should have took her picture...lol

AmericanKulak says

RWSGFY says

There should be no EBT. This automatically solves the soda problem.

Yes, there should be rice/flour, beans/canned meat, and seasonal unsold veggies and fruit (fresh or canned) distributed. Milk and Cheese occasionally.

By churches. Gubmint should stay out of it.

beershrine says

The rules should have been held to decades ago that you can only purchase basic food stuffs. No Soda, energy drinks, Chips, No Snacks, No High sugar cereals,etc.

What's a snack? Who's the food police that is deciding what a snack is? The same carpet munching retards, paying a premium because they put an "Organic" label on the same 99 cent head of lettuce?
Not everyone stocks up on all chips and soda, and that's all they eat. Because you thought you some fat person you would personally force into an involuntary diet, those that don't load up on chips but like to buy them occasionally when appropriate. Like your kids birthday party, a summer picnic the Fourth of July celebration. Your desire to chastise and tax those you think needs to be on a diet, teleports to punishing everyone else.

Who in the fuck made you people your brother's keeper? instead of doing what RFK Jr. is doing, making them remove the bad shit. You guys just championed making snacks unaffordable. And I was so fervently bitching about it, back in the early days, because I saw exactly where this was fucking going, and it has. If you can force one group of people to pay a 500% markup gouge, then why in the hell not just inflate everyone's grocery bill for every fucking thing.

Go starve your stupid asses if you care to, but stay out of people's grocery business, you dumb sons of bitches. I'm telling you this for your own ignorant good!

https://x.com/SpiritofPines/status/1903433913189740656

If you’re curious how the influencer media pay-op works on the right, here’s a short explainer:

Coca Cola never actually writes a check to Ian Miles Cheong. First the Coke money is laundered to a libertarian or “pro capitalism” think tank as a “donation.”

Then a PR person for the think tank sent an email blast to all of these conservabro influencers with versions of the post to make.

No direct compensation is attached, but it maintains the implicit promise of future access and funds. So Ian can say he honestly never took a check from Coca Cola. Coca Cola can say they never paid a bunch of social media influencers to advocate for taxpayer-funded obesity.

And yet, thanks to the magic of middlemen, that’s exactly what happened.

https://genius.com/Oliver-anthony-music-rich-men-north-of-richmond-lyrics

Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat
And the obese milkin' welfare
Well, God, if you're five-foot-three and you're three-hundred pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of Fudge Rounds

When I was a kid graham crackers were one of the most wholesome snacks you could give a kid, recommended by pediatricians everywhere.
By time I was in my late teens and early 20's when HFCS were starting to be put in everything, and baker shops were replaced by industrial automated conveyor belts. They were chocked full of so much shit, and HFCS that they were no longer the wholesome biscuit/crackers that they once were. So everyone said, "it turns out they are bad for you after all, don't eat them." so now you never see graham crackers eaten by kids like before. But for some reason Lunchables and Dannon gogurt is being pushed on kids instead. Why did Pediatricians pull the plug on graham crackers like they were always bad, rather than calling out the Nabisco and Keebler for adulterating them? And don't get me started on the peanut butter we used to slather over the crackers.

RFK Jr. has been long over due, blaming fat people for our bad food supply is a suckers game.