EBT Story: Very common in Hawaii.

[Zincwarrior]

And I am sure similar stories happen all across the other 49 states, plus territories.

EBT Story: Very common in Hawaii. ​

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EBT recipients go into grocery stores on first day of the month and buy Spam by the case. Some stores limit the number of cases any one person can buy. ​

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They take the Spam to "Mom & Pop" vendors, some street vendors and some with rundown storefront operations in poor neighborhoods.​

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The vendors buy the Spam at a 50% discount because they use it in so many preparations. ​

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The sellers the use the cash for drugs and alcohol. ​

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Between the 3rd or 4th day of the month, and about mid-month, it is hard to find Spam on the shelf of stores in poor neighborhoods.​

You got something against SPAM?

 

[Seymour Flops]

And I am sure similar stories happen all across the other 49 states, plus territories.

EBT Story: Very common in Hawaii. ​

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EBT recipients go into grocery stores on first day of the month and buy Spam by the case. Some stores limit the number of cases any one person can buy. ​

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They take the Spam to "Mom & Pop" vendors, some street vendors and some with rundown storefront operations in poor neighborhoods.​

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The vendors buy the Spam at a 50% discount because they use it in so many preparations. ​

​

The sellers the use the cash for drugs and alcohol. ​

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Between the 3rd or 4th day of the month, and about mid-month, it is hard to find Spam on the shelf of stores in poor neighborhoods.​

I saw on some documentary that they have adored Spam since WWII.

The Texas version of the scheme you describe is for multi-family households to use their SNAP and WIC to buy supplies to make tamales. Selling tamales on the side of the road, or to acquantences at work has been a tradition in the Houston area at least since the seventies.

 

[White 6]

I've seen junkies coming to my business selling meat, steaks, roasts, that they got with EBT, they use the money for drugs.

You bought meat, steaks and roasts from junkies?

 

[petro]

Visit the Spam Museum at the source in Austin, MN.

SPAM® Museum in Minnesota | SPAM® Brand

Tour delicious curated meat exhibits at the SPAM® Museum in downtown Austin, Minn. It puts a whole new spin on cubism.

www.spam.com

Late January the weather is ideal...

 

[fncceo]

In the 1990’s, the commissary grocery store at Yongsan Army Base, for the use of a few thousand military families and civilian workers was the size of a Costco for supporting a large American town.

Much of what was sold there, transported to Korea at taxpayer expense, ended up on the Korean Black Market.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

You bought meat, steaks and roasts from junkies?

Nope. But they still made the rounds. A small business in LA has everything peddled. Fake handbags, counterfeit perfume. Once a Mexican was going up and down the block selling appliances out of an 18 wheeler.

 

[1srelluc]

Honestly, there has never been a verifiable news article written on this Hawaii Spam EBT fraud? No pictures of grocery carts pile high coming out the door of Foodland (the largest chain in the state), no interviews with store managers, no eyewitness news team story from KHON2, FOX News, Honolulu? Nothing, but some random X post guy, without any backup, whatsoever?

Here's some thievery from the top so it's not too hard to figure what goes on at the bottom.

USDA Employee And Five Others Charged In Multimillion-Dollar Food Stamp Fraud And Bribery Scheme

Perry Carbone, Attorney for the United States, Acting under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515; Charmeka Parker, the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General (“USDA-OIG”); and Christopher G. Raia, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New...

www.justice.gov

How about this "how to" site:

How To Sell Food Stamps: A Comprehensive Guide For Quick Cash - Esquilo.io

Learn the insider tips on how to sell food stamps legally and safely. Discover the dos and don'ts of selling your food stamps and avoid falling into scams and fraudulent activities.

esquilo.io

Then there is instance after instance of SNAP fraud all across the country. Pages of them.

MSN

17 People Indicted for Conspiring to Steal More Than $2.4 Million in SNAP Benefits

17 people are facing federal charges for conspiring to defraud the United States of more than $2.4 million in fraudulent Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) purchases, announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon.

www.justice.gov

Man sentenced for SNAP fraud following felony conviction, officials say

A Warsaw man is facing four years in prison for SNAP fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering charges, officials say. According to court documents, 52-year-old Fernan Sanchez had previously pled guilty to making material false statements in connection with an ongoing federal crop...

wcti12.com

There is so much "big fish" fraud that I guess the little fish selling some prime rib he got from his SNAP card and selling it to a waiting "customer" out in some parking lot is not worth going after.

 

[White 6]

Nope. But they still made the rounds. A small business in LA has everything peddled. Fake handbags, counterfeit perfume. Once a Mexican was going up and down the block selling appliances out of an 18 wheeler.

I know what state you are stuck in. Can I assume you are in one of the large cities, or is that just how it is, everywhere out there?

 

[1srelluc]

I know what state you are stuck in. Can I assume you are in one of the large cities, or is that just how it is, everywhere out there?

EBT fraud is both widespread and common as dirt....Why are you so dead set against admitting it?

Do you always need to have someone draw you a picture?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

EBT fraud is both widespread and common as dirt....Why are you so dead set against admitting it?

Do you always need to have someone draw you a picture?

White6's TDS has rotted his brain and turned him into a paranoid basket case.

 

[Paddlefoot]

I saw on some documentary that they have adored Spam since WWII.

The Texas version of the scheme you describe is for multi-family households to use their SNAP and WIC to buy supplies to make tamales. Selling tamales on the side of the road, or to acquantences at work has been a tradition in the Houston area at least since the seventies.

There isn't a self serve gas station that doesn't have a cooler sitting in front of the register full of tamales someone brings in to sell while the taco trailer is closed outside. I never ask but I think it's the taco trailer people leaving there to sell while the trailer is closed.

 

[White 6]

Here's some thievery from the top so it's not too hard to figure what goes on at the bottom.

USDA Employee And Five Others Charged In Multimillion-Dollar Food Stamp Fraud And Bribery Scheme

Perry Carbone, Attorney for the United States, Acting under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515; Charmeka Parker, the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General (“USDA-OIG”); and Christopher G. Raia, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New...

www.justice.gov

How about this "how to" site:

How To Sell Food Stamps: A Comprehensive Guide For Quick Cash - Esquilo.io

Learn the insider tips on how to sell food stamps legally and safely. Discover the dos and don'ts of selling your food stamps and avoid falling into scams and fraudulent activities.

esquilo.io

Then there is instance after instance of SNAP fraud all across the country. Pages of them.

MSN

17 People Indicted for Conspiring to Steal More Than $2.4 Million in SNAP Benefits

17 people are facing federal charges for conspiring to defraud the United States of more than $2.4 million in fraudulent Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) purchases, announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon.

www.justice.gov

Man sentenced for SNAP fraud following felony conviction, officials say

A Warsaw man is facing four years in prison for SNAP fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering charges, officials say. According to court documents, 52-year-old Fernan Sanchez had previously pled guilty to making material false statements in connection with an ongoing federal crop...

wcti12.com

There is so much "big fish" fraud that I guess the little fish selling some prime rib he got from his SNAP card and selling it to a waiting "customer" out in some parking lot is not worth going after.

Let them all rot in jail if convicted.

 

[Seymour Flops]

There isn't a self serve gas station that doesn't have a cooler sitting in front of the register full of tamales someone brings in to sell while the taco trailer is closed outside. I never ask but I think it's the taco trailer people leaving there to sell while the trailer is closed.

In my small town in the Houston area, people post on Facebook when there is a vender with good tamales selling.

They have that orange oil in the foil, but if you can get them hot, they are awesome. First time I had roadside tamales was when my mom would buy them coming home from Galveston.

I'm literally making my own mouth water.

 

[excalibur]

Here's some thievery from the top so it's not too hard to figure what goes on at the bottom.

USDA Employee And Five Others Charged In Multimillion-Dollar Food Stamp Fraud And Bribery Scheme

Perry Carbone, Attorney for the United States, Acting under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515; Charmeka Parker, the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General (“USDA-OIG”); and Christopher G. Raia, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New...

www.justice.gov

The defendants—MICHAEL KEHOE, MOHAMAD NAWAFLEH, OMAR ALRAWASHDEH, GAMAL OBAID, EMAD ALRAWASHDEH, and ARLASA DAVIS

I posted that story a while back.

Thread 'USDA Employee And Five Others Charged In Multimillion-Dollar Food Stamp Fraud And Bribery Scheme'

May 29, 2025

A $66 million fraud.

So much fraud in all these government programs, yet Democrats and the MSM seem oddly disinterested in that.

... announced the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment charging six individuals in connection with a sprawling fraud and bribery scheme that generated over $66 million in unauthorized transactions under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“SNAP”)—colloquially known as food stamps. This is one of the largest food stamp frauds in U.S. history. The defendants—MICHAEL KEHOE, MOHAMAD NAWAFLEH, OMAR ALRAWASHDEH, GAMAL OBAID, EMAD ALRAWASHDEH, and...​

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[Paddlefoot]

In my small town in the Houston area, people post on Facebook when there is a vender with good tamales selling.

They have that orange oil in the foil, but if you can get them hot, they are awesome. First time I had roadside tamales was when my mom would buy them coming home from Galveston.

I'm literally making my own mouth water.

Here some people that have garage sales on Saturday mornings sell tamales and pupusas also.

 

[DukeU]

There are probably five or six drug addicts on the islands doing this, so everyone assumes it is widespread.

So, you're assuming...and then accusing everyone else of assuming?

 

[Doc7505]

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Really, I could gag.

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For weeks all the Marines in Guadalcanal had to eat along with raisins was small supplies of Spam. Many survived on captured supplies of rice. Spam tasted good to them.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Spam single handedly won ww2. It fed so many soldiers around the world

I don't like the canned
Delis usually have it

It's great with eggs for breakfast. And it's really good on bread with hot mustard and horseradish.

Ohh noIt's still a highly processed poison, but it's delicious

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I know what state you are stuck in. Can I assume you are inone of the large cities, or is that just how it is, everywhere out there?

You mean WAS, Stuck. I left. The whole family left. We are now comfortably in rural Idaho. But that's pretty much how it is everywhere in California.

 

[ozro]

Who knew black market spam was a thing?

It's apparently been going on for at least 8 years.

"Denby Fawcett: Why Spam Is Now Under Lock-And-Key At Oahu Stores​

The popular canned meat is a favorite target of thieves in Honolulu, who sometimes sell the goods for quick cash to buy drugs."

More:

Why Spam Is Locked Up At Hawaii Stores - Honolulu Civil Beat

The popular canned meat is a favorite target of thieves in Honolulu, who sometimes sell the goods for quick cash to buy drugs.

www.civilbeat.org