• Gormadt
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      A local pizza place in my home town did this for years until they got new owners. The new owners shut that down within a week.

      They went out of business within a year.

      They had good pizza.

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        I wonder if this is why papa Murphy sells uncooked pizza. I’ve never had the desire to buy pizza and cook it in my own oven, but it makes sense to sidestep the EBT rules.

        • @BigPotato
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          Yeah, that’s one of the reasons at least.

  • JackbyDev
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    Context here, at least my understanding from when I worked in a deli ~10 years ago, is that EBT can only cover cold food. So they’re offering to let you buy cold chicken then warm it for free.

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      Raw. And then they’ll cook it. Which means you (and maybe your kids) don’t have to wait to get home and cook it, plus you save on whatever fuels your stove. This must be the kind of store that also sells raw ingredients as well as cooked. If they have the grill or fryer hot already, it’s not a big loss for them, and you’ll probably also buy milk or whatever, but it’s still a big kindness.

        • @theangryseal
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          They wouldn’t be able to accept EBT if that was the case.

          I worked at a place that accepted EBT for a while. They removed the store’s approval because they didn’t sell enough milk, bread, eggs, cold meats, and butter.

          We only had around 1 or 2 EBT sales a month, so not a lot of people were terribly bummed about it.

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          I don’t know how you can tell from the image? My local grocery store has a sign over the fish section offering to fry up your freshly purchased fish for free. I assume it’s done over in the hot foods area’s kitchen, but the sign is over the raw fish case. (There’s no mention of EBT though.)

            • @[email protected]
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              83 months ago

              Around here, the grocery stores usually have a deli section that also cooks and sells ready-to-eat food, including fried chicken and chicken tenders. I suspect something like that is where this sign was seen

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              Well if it is a fried chicken shop, they get “extra credit,” because it’s more work for them to redeem the EBT credits, whereas a grocery store already has that set up.

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    There’s no law against cooking people’s raw chicken for free for them.

    Not yet, just wait for the next “freeloader” scare.

      • @primrosepathspeedrun
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        everybody’s favorite radical pacifist terrorist organization has procedures for confounding the cops while they feed people.

      • @[email protected]
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        As someone who did food safety with a health department there certainly is no arresting going on over such food service. At most a health inspector notifies them of the problems and provides guidance on requirements of serving food publicly.

        But I think every example I remember of this happening in a rural town: it is a trespass charge filed as a complaint from a property or business owner that involves police.

        • @[email protected]
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          It was all over the news 3 and a half years ago. Even giving sealed bottles of water to people waiting in line to vote is illegal.

          Freedom!

          • @Jiggle_Physics
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            My local poling station was cool with people leaving the water, stacked near where the line formed, with a take one free sign, before it opened for voters

  • KeriKitty (They(/It))
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    [Very sarcasm] Noooo, don’t feed the poors hot food! They’ll, uhh, Idunno, it’s like feeding gremlins after midnight or something! Probably!

    So I just got my EBT card and I’ma go use it tomorrow. Will hopefully get to have some variety and even snacks! Woo! Hopefully the cash assistance thingle comes through too or I’ma get scared again 😅 😰 … Dunno why I’m saying any of this here. Hi! Hello. It’s good that somecritters are working around dickish law :3

    • @[email protected]
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      Around 2020 my wife had to quit her job and we had a newborn at home. I forget what she had called the local benefits office to setup but the lady basically said “I’m going to get you every benefit I can” and we ended up with Medicaid, EBT and WIC. So we used that shit to make sure the whole family ate as well as we could.

      I was still working and we don’t have extremely high expenses, plus it was early in the pandemic so we were avoiding shopping or leaving the house as it was, so we just continued grocery shopping normally (other than grabbing extra of whatever WIC covered that month) and would swipe the benefits card before the debit card and consistently only had to pay for one or two things out of pocket

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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    This is how WinCo sells hot pizzas for EBT. They sell you an uncooked one, and then offer to cook it for free.

    Walmart, too, kinda. You can buy any of the hot things on EBT as long as you get the ones that are in the fridge and not the thing that keeps them hot. Rotisserie chicken, corn dogs, popcorn chicken, etc.

  • @[email protected]
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    143 months ago

    Basic compassion seems like such a foreign thing in late stage capitalism, but there is still goodness all around us. It’s important not to lose sight of that.

    • @[email protected]
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      93 months ago

      Welfare for people in need has to be as difficult and painful as possible. Corporate handouts don’t need any of that. /s

  • Track_ShovelM
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    83 months ago

    There is a lot of good discussion here, but I’m going to keep things light, since I doubt I can add much of value given how far the conversation has gone.

    Me:

  • kate
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    why are there slurs all over that tumblr page :l i do not understand tumblr

    • @Jiggle_Physics
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      Are you talking about the poll? It appears to be created by gay people, for gay people, and shared by gay people, on a site well known for its giant lbgtq+ community.