Why SNAP allows soft drinks.

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Sugar is in everything. If there is a problem, that is it. Tell the FDA to get much of the sugar out of the food. Soft drinks are food. People need liquids more than they do hard food itself. It is utterly pointless to tell people they are banned from soft drinks (many of which are sugar free) so they can spend the same amount of money on some other drink!

What is the point? So a few people pissed off that so many need food stamps can feel better about nothing? This won't even save money as people STILL NEED FLUIDS TO LIVE. And sugar is in everything, even fruit juices, cakes, deserts, ice cream, and even many dishes.

If people are pissed at anything, they should be pissed that this country doesn't have more economic opportunity for so many people to support themselves, instead giving about literally trillions of dollars to other countries for the most idiotic reasons.

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I gave up sodas because I didn't like the poisons that were showing up in almost all of them.

When I decided I really wanted something a little sweet and fizzy, I learned how to make ginger beer. Ingredients are:

Organic ginger - a little bit expensive
Sugar - cheap
Water - very cheap
Instructions - free

I later found a book for less than five bucks, full of instructions for a wide variety of sodas! You've got to have a Mason jar with an air lock for starting fermentation and special bottles for storing soda during fermentation - the greatest expense, but you only have to buy it once.

The initial outlay is less than $30, but then you just need to buy the first three ingredients.

A great feeling of accomplishment and empowerment when you make your own fizzy soda.

Or you can buy that bottle that injects CO2 into your water, and add whatever flavorings you want.

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[initforme]

Lots of jobs unfilled here, good paying jobs at that. What we need is to spread the Protestant work ethic around more. Sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll isn't a good plan for success.

Good paying implies $40 per hour. Anything less nope. Average to lower.

 

[toobfreak]

Lots of jobs unfilled here, good paying jobs at that. What we need is to spread the Protestant work ethic around more. Sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll isn't a good plan for success.

I hate to tell you this Woodsy, but the plan to ban soft drinks from SNAP as eligible food will actually only drive the cost of SNAP up higher as people need liquids to drink and most any beverage a person buys to rehydrate other than cola is MORE EXPENSIVE.

As to filling jobs, that is the state's responsibility. If a person can work and hold a job and support themselves, the state should find them work and not put them on SNAP.

 

[toobfreak]

I gave up sodas because I didn't like the poisons that were showing up in almost all of them.

When I decided I really wanted something a little sweet and fizzy, I learned how to make ginger beer. Ingredients are:

Organic ginger - a little bit expensive
Sugar - cheap
Water - very cheap
Instructions - free

I later found a book for less than five bucks, full of instructions for a wide variety of sodas! You've got to have a Mason jar with an air lock for starting fermentation and special bottles for storing soda during fermentation - the greatest expense, but you only have to buy it once.

The initial outlay is less than $30, but then you just need to buy the first three ingredients.

A great feeling of accomplishment and empowerment when you make your own fizzy soda.

Or you can buy that bottle that injects CO2 into your water, and add whatever flavorings you want.

Ginger is tasty and good for you. One could probably buy dried ginger. For a more root beersy flavor, you might try adding some sarsaparilla root in as well.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Good paying implies $40 per hour. Anything less nope. Average to lower.

Methusaleh, your dementia is getting worse. Please see a doctor to get you back in touch with reality.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Ginger is tasty and good for you. One could probably buy dried ginger. For a more root beersy flavor, you might try adding some sarsaparilla root in as well.

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You'd make a great soda!

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[braalian]

Good paying implies $40 per hour. Anything less nope. Average to lower.

Depends on where you live

You’d be impoverished making $30/hr in San Francisco

In a midsized city in the Midwest you could live quite well on that

 

[MarathonMike]

Vodka contains calories as well.

But you can't buy the beverage with snap.

Really? I didn't know SNAP had any limitations.

 

[Woodznutz]

I hate to tell you this Woodsy, but the plan to ban soft drinks from SNAP as eligible food will actually only drive the cost of SNAP up higher as people need liquids to drink and most any beverage a person buys to rehydrate other than cola is MORE EXPENSIVE.

As to filling jobs, that is the state's responsibility. If a person can work and hold a job and support themselves, the state should find them work and not put them on SNAP.

Water is cheap and great for hydration. Physical work generates metabolic water as well, but one must work to benefit from it.

The private sector has many good paying job opportunities.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Soft drinks contain calories, which USDA considers food. Also those who run the program likely recall quenching thirst with soda after exercise. I remember once downing three bottles of soda after a tennis match on a hot day. The problem is that today's youth sit on a couch in an air-conditioned house playing video games or surfing their smartphone and getting fatter by the minute.

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The fact that the people who are supposed to be governing, managing people etc, are lazy, and can't do their jobs properly, it just representative of the US these days.

People should be educated to not put excess sugar in their bodies. If kids don't learn to like this stuff, there's less of a chance they'll get fat or have problems as adults.

The problems are:

1) The companies who make them want to make lots of money selling this shit
2) The medical community also wants them to drink this shit, so they can make loads of money treating these people.
3) The government finds that dead people don't get as big a pension as living people.

For the government it's a win win situation to make people unhealthy.

 

[braalian]

The medical community also wants them to drink this shit, so they can make loads of money treating these people.

No they don’t.

When the subject comes up, Doctors and nurses constantly tell patients they shouldn’t drink the stuff

 

[frigidweirdo]

No they don’t.

When the subject comes up, Doctors and nurses constantly tell patients they shouldn’t drink the stuff

Not really what I'm talking about.

Hospitals, medical companies etc. Rather than the individuals.

 

[braalian]

Not really what I'm talking about.

Hospitals, medical companies etc. Rather than the individuals.

Ok

So hospitals and medical companies are telling people to consume sugary drinks?

How so?

 

[frigidweirdo]

Ok

So hospitals and medical companies are telling people to consume sugary drinks?

How so?

That's not what I said. I said they "want them to drink this shit". As in, they've got no reason for this to not carry on as it is.

They don't go and bribe (sorry, I mean, give campaign funding) the government to make the government to increase taxes on sugary drinks, or to promote not drinking this stuff, or to take it away from food stamp people, or kids in schools.

 

[Woodznutz]

No they don’t.

When the subject comes up, Doctors and nurses constantly tell patients they shouldn’t drink the stuff

A doctor once told an old alcoholic that he should cut down on his drinking. The old drunk muttered, "He's quit doctorin' and gone to meddlin'."

 

[Woodznutz]

Doctors don't actively promote good health. They are swamped as it is with patient care.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Doctors don't actively promote good health. They are swamped as it is with patient care.

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They don't want healthy patients. They don't make revenue off of healthy patients.

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[Mac-7]

Soft drinks contain calories, which USDA considers food. Also those who run the program likely recall quenching thirst with soda after exercise. I remember once downing three bottles of soda after a tennis match on a hot day. The problem is that today's youth sit on a couch in an air-conditioned house playing video games or surfing their smartphone and getting fatter by the minute.

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Does water no longer quench thirst?