[Gabz]

You can buy cigarettes, booze and prostitutes with food stamps, so why not junk food?

I would love to know how this myth originated........because it is just not true. At least about the cigs and booze - maybe the prostitute would accept the card in place of cash, but I doubt it.

Funds that used to be called welfare checks and food stamps are now called TANF and SNAP and are received monthly via electronic transfer. When you use the card in the machine at the register it automatically separates items eligible for the food stamps (SNAP) portion and the welfare (IOW cash.)

[hinckley buzzard]

Register tapes also record automatically purchases which are food stamp eligible.

[autumnraine]

NO WAY!!!! THAT CAN’T BE TRUE!!

Why I just read last week how some Freeper saw some food stamper use their little paper food stamps (which hasn’t been around for two decades) to buy beer!!!!

Yeah, you can’t believe everything you read. Even on FR.

[traditional1]

"You can buy cigarettes, booze and prostitutes with food stamps, so why not junk food?

I would love to know how this myth originated........because it is just not true.

Au Contraire, Mon Ami....I don't know what part of the planet you live on, but inner-city tribal parasites regularly frequent "convienience stores" in the ghettos, where obliging merchants give them whatever they want, and discount the value of the EBT to skim off profits.

If you're ever in Cleveland, just stop by in the eastern downtown area, and see for yourself.

The MYTH is that these EBT's aren't used in Casino's, lounges, etc., or used on the street to exchange for CASH, to buy crack cocaine.

I've SEEN IT, and it's pervasive in the big cities.