You canāt even buy all food with food stamps. You justā¦ you flat-out canāt buy āfood that will be eaten in the store/any food sold for on-premises consumptionā or any āhot foodsā with food stampsāmeaning you canāt buy anything hot, you canāt buy anything that gets blended together, you canāt buy anything āpre-prepared,āĀ in most cases you canāt use your EBT card at restaurants. You literally CANNOT purchase a milkshake with food stamps, because itās considered āsold for on-premises consumptionā (which was ridiculous at the place I worked, because the customer had to mix their own milkshake themself with a little machine we provided them, and several people got upsetārightfully so, I thinkāthat it wasnāt covered under food stamps, because they often only found out at the register after already mixing it, often as a treat for their kids). You literally canāt walk into a gas station, grab one of those hot dogs off their grills/out of the little heated food area, and buy it with food stamps, because itās hot.
And when I say ācanāt,ā I donāt mean āif the cashier notices you trying and cares enough to stop you, theyāll refuse to do it for you.ā I mean āit is actually impossible to do this.ā Iām not even sure these people who disseminate false information about food stamps have paid any attention at all when buying things at the store, because what happens is: We scan in the customerās items, into our computer. The computer has specific codes for the items and rules for what it will let you pay for things with. We scan the customerās EBT card, and it tells us exactly how much of that price total can be paid for via EBT, and it will not include anything that isnāt food, and it will not include anything considered āpre-preparedā food. It does this automatically AND THERE IS NO OVERRIDE FOR IT. If our machines say that you canāt use the EBT card to pay for something, there is literally nothing we can do to change that, even if we WANTED to.
So no. You canāt buy iPads or cigarettes with food stamps. You canāt withdraw money from casinos or anywhere else with food stamps. You canāt buy dog food with food stamps; sometimes you canāt even buy people food with food stamps. Iām not even sure if you can buy āthe big chicken legsā at Disney with food stamps; remember, you canāt buy āany food sold for on-premises consumptionā OR any hot foods, and thatās both.
Literally the only thing these fearmongers listed that you can actually purchase with food stamps even if you are in goddamn cahoots with the evil liberal cashier or store manager is soda, and the judgement against people buying that with food stamps is classist fuckwittery at its finest.
So, as always, Fox News is actually flat-out lying, and hateful conservatives both donāt know what theyāre talking about and donāt give a fuck about people going through shit that they will never have to go through themselves, and that they in fact donāt have even the tiniest clue about (not even via five secondsā research; a list of things that canāt be purchased with food stamps is on the Food and Nutrition Services website) but still think they should spout off about to their TV audience anyway.
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