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First time for everything…
Most of the time, when politicians complain about what people can buy with their SNAP benefits, it’s a lot of huffing and puffing from Republicans over the fact that anyone is allowed to buy anything other than actual, literal gruel. For some reason, the idea that people receiving these benefits might remotely enjoy the food they are eating is particularly galling to some folks, so we have a lot of restrictions on what people are allowed to get.
One of those things is hot prepared foods. This is because the program was specifically designed to encourage people to cook at home, because godforbid anyone feed the poor without getting all holier than thou about it. However, there is a new bill on the table looking to change that. Well, some of it anyway.
In what may very well be the first non-shitty thing he’s done since being elected to office, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is leading the charge on a bipartisan bill that will allow people to use their SNAP benefits to buy hot rotisserie chicken at the grocery store.
4.99 for a COSTCO rotisserie chicken. My wife and I get 3 meals out of one bird- then sometimes boil down the carcass for stock and etch out a 4th meal.
We don’t need SNAP benefits, but this is one of the best deals on the planet- and all of those antibiotics and hormones are free.
