madskillz on 02 November 2009
| Vonmercury said: I grew up poor and even though we never had food stamps or where on welfare, i do remember standing in line for food. ( a brick of government cheese is not easy to make grilled cheese with) |
Those bricks kept folks constipated.
I remember kids rhyming talking about govment cheese. LOL. You'd spot them at 10 paces. They would have no logos on the packaging - just the wrapper.
The EBT cards don't have the same effect as the stamps. Standing in line, kids would snicker when someone pulled out the food stamps. Then, we'd laugh at them when their moma pulled them out.
The stigma is pretty much gone now. Only real way you can tell someone is on WIC or stamps is when they have 3-4 jugs of milk, boxes of cereal and the real blocks of cheese.
