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In reply to the discussion: Where did the "poor folks buying crab legs with food stamps" thing come from? [View all]madville
(7,413 posts)Maybe 3 or 4 of the kids were in elementary school and probably getting free breakfasts and lunches 20 days a month. 6 kids under 10 don't eat a whole lot anyway. It wouldn't be difficult to feed them well for $40 a day if one shops smart.
I recall her mom used to babysit the kids while while we were in evening classes some days. Maybe she took a few hundred bucks of the EBT money and bought her mom a bunch of meat or something as payment for babysitting and feeding the kids in the evening.
I don't know all the details. The point of this thread is where do these types of stories come from? Imagine the cashier at the grocery store seeing this woman come in and buy $300 worth of steaks, hams, shrimp, etc at on time and put it on an EBT card. Then that cashier goes home and relays to everyone how the people getting food assistance eat pretty darn well based on what they saw that day. That's where stories like that come from, people that don't know all the details assuming things.