Louisiana Is The Latest State To Remove Soda and Candy From Food Stamps

ChicagoFigure said:
U can't get whatever u want with snap or even food stamps. Hot foods and rotisserie chickens for example. So that does not equate.
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Maybe they should add that then. You’re nitpicking now to win an argument and we’re going in circles. You actually understand my point based on one of your prior posts.
 
TheNightKing said:
Do you know what a food desert is?
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I do know that not every area they claim to be a food desert is one. Last place I lived in Vegas was supposed to be a food desert, but there was a whole ass Mexican grocery store directly across the street from us. Full service too: They had fresh produce, fresh meats that were butchered on-site, hot foods, a bakery, and basically everything you could want or need; just a lot of the shit was in Spanish and the majority of the people working there were Mexicans. I did most of our grocery shopping there 'cause produce and meats were so cheap. There's also a Von's (Safeway) supermarket less than a mile away as well as an Albertson's just barely over a mile from our old apartment. So, while it was labeled as a "food desert", it really wasn't one.

Where I live now is most definitely a food desert, but Kroger delivers here for a $6-$9 fee and they take SNAP so it's pretty much mitigated.
 
konceptjones said:
I do know that not every area they claim to be a food desert is one. Last place I lived in Vegas was supposed to be a food desert, but there was a whole ass Mexican grocery store directly across the street from us. Full service too: They had fresh produce, fresh meats that were butchered on-site, hot foods, a bakery, and basically everything you could want or need; just a lot of the shit was in Spanish and the majority of the people working there were Mexicans. I did most of our grocery shopping there 'cause produce and meats were so cheap. There's also a Von's (Safeway) supermarket less than a mile away as well as an Albertson's just barely over a mile from our old apartment. So, while it was labeled as a "food desert", it really wasn't one.

Where I live now is most definitely a food desert, but Kroger delivers here for a $6-$9 fee and they take SNAP so it's pretty much mitigated.
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You got to step outside of yourself sometimes and see things from other people’s perspectives. What you experience isn’t what everyone experiences.
 
TheNightKing said:
You got to step outside of yourself sometimes and see things from other people’s perspectives. What you experience isn’t what everyone experiences.
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I know that.

However, it still doesn't negate an area being called a "food desert" with two whole grocery stores right there as being incorrectly labeled as such. That's factual and has absolutely nothing to do with someone else's experience.
 
konceptjones said:
I know that.

However, it still doesn't negate an area being called a "food desert" with two whole grocery stores right there as being incorrectly labeled as such. That's factual and has absolutely nothing to do with someone else's experience.
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But that’s not the case everywhere. I don’t know where you are now, but Las Vegas, NV is not Grover, NC.

There’s a lot of rural areas where poor people live that doesn’t have a grocery store close by. Or the grocery store is a Dollar General that has nearly and already expired food and limited, terrible produce. Some places the grocery store is a convenience store with no produce.
 
TheNightKing said:
But that’s not the case everywhere. I don’t know where you are now, but Las Vegas, NV is not Grover, NC.

There’s a lot of rural areas where poor people live that doesn’t have a grocery store close by. Or the grocery store is a Dollar General that has nearly and already expired food and limited, terrible produce. Some places the grocery store is a convenience store with no produce.
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Exactly, I know that's not the case everywhere which is why I contrasted it with where I live now as absolutely being a food desert. The nearest grocery store to me (another Mexican grocery store) is over 3 miles away. The closest major chain, Kroger, is over 4 miles from me. And the bus don't run this way. You gotta walk about a mile or so to the closest bus stop in front of the projects. I'm literally in a rural area. There's fuckin corn fields and forests across the street from my sub division.

I don't see how you missed that in my post, unless you stopped reading mid-way through.
 
konceptjones said:
Exactly, I know that's not the case everywhere which is why I contrasted it with where I live now as absolutely being a food desert. The nearest grocery store to me (another Mexican grocery store) is over 3 miles away. The closest major chain, Kroger, is over 4 miles from me. And the bus don't run this way. You gotta walk about a mile or so to the closest bus stop in front of the projects. I'm literally in a rural area. There's fuckin corn fields and forests across the street from my sub division.

I don't see how you missed that in my post, unless you stopped reading mid-way through.
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I said it’s like saying someone living in a food desert should get the same food as someone living in Bel Air. Then you said people can go to Whole Foods. Then you suggested food deserts aren’t real or not as much of a desert as people think.

So what was your point if it wasn’t to counter what I said? Just to give your anecdotal experience?
 
TheNightKing said:
I said it’s like saying someone living in a food desert should get the same food as someone living in Bel Air. Then you said people can go to Whole Foods. Then you suggested food deserts aren’t real or not as much of a desert as people think.

So what was your point if it wasn’t to counter what I said? Just to give your anecdotal experience?
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I never said any of that, nor did I even respond to that Bel Air comment. Go back and re-read.

I said that not every place labeled as a food desert is actually one and I used my previous residence as an example that was listed as being in a food desert despite having a whole grocery store directly across the street from it and a major chain supermarket less than a mile down the street. I then went on to contrast that place to where I'm living now, which is absolutely a food desert as it's a more or less rural area.

That's it.
 
TheNightKing said:
Do you know what a food desert is?
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Do you know? I think you have this idea or scene in your head where it's one store in the area and they are selling nothing but bad food.

Whole Foods sell just as much bad food as these so-called local groceries. From you Piggly Wiggly, Shopper Value, Winn Dixie, Rouses etc, they pretty much carry the same stuff. One may have more items that are labeled "organic" but turn the item over and read the ingredients of that item, it's just as bad as any other food that you'll get at your local store. "Organic" is turning into chemical made food

If it's not 1 or 2 ingredients listed, you're getting into chemicals being used to make the food.

Maybe we need to define what healthy eating looks like to you? What type of foods would you consider to be sold in a Sprouts, Whole Foods vs one being sold at a local grocery store in one of these desert zones?

Fruits are fruit, veggies are veggies, there's bad fruit in every store, you pick and choose over the good ones and bads ones in every store, at least that's what you're supposed to do.

Chicken, Pork, Fish are sold in most stores, Whole Food carry bad meat or the same meat as other stores. "Wild Caught" is the meat you're supposed to be eating, not farm or any other crap.

I can go to a store in a food desert area and come out fine...as long as there's a produce area and a fresh meat market area for the most part, I am good. Most stores have that.

Candy in these stores, one may have stock pile of candy that's full of sugar and dyes and artificial sweeteners, the so called "organic" stores have candy that they have removed the tons of sugar but replaced with other ingredients that are made from chemicals. Same difference.

It's all about what you're eating, not the store
 
konceptjones said:
I never said any of that, nor did I even respond to that Bel Air comment. Go back and re-read.

I said that not every place labeled as a food desert is actually one and I used my previous residence as an example that was listed as being in a food desert despite having a whole grocery store directly across the street from it and a major chain supermarket less than a mile down the street. I then went on to contrast that place to where I'm living now, which is absolutely a food desert as it's a more or less rural area.

That's it.
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Oh shit, I didn’t even realize it was you responding to me. I thought it was Knock the whole time. He don’t be knowing critical shit sometimes.

My bad. The factual points I stand by. The assumptions about your knowledge and intent were intended for Knock.
 
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