Reply #110: There must be a lot of variance state-to-state

[geniph]

I've heard a number of folks talking about existing programs, and programs that existed before the 60s, etc. I suspect there's a lot of difference in the way different states and/or localities administer this and their food stamp programs.

Thankfully, I no longer qualify for either, but I am almighty grateful they were there when we needed them. Might not have been the healthiest food in creation, but there's nothing terribly healthy about malnutrition, either, and as the youngest of 13, I could have been very intimately acquainted with it had we not had commodities distribution.

Maybe I don't remember food stamps because my mother wouldn't consider them as an option, but just going to pick up food for her kids was different in her mind. She would have considered either welfare or food stamps to be degrading, but surplus food distribution when we hadn't anything to eat was different, at least to her.