For those who don’t understand, EBT are food stamps (government money for buying food for low-income people). Because the money is from the government, it comes with horrific restrictions, one of which is you cannot buy “prepared” food with it. You can only buy raw chicken, not cooked chicken, for example.
This kitchen is getting around that stupid rule by selling you raw, unprepared chicken, and then charging your EBT account for raw, unprepared chicken.
Then as a side thing, totally unrelated, they cook the chicken for free. Since you bought raw chicken with the EBT, it’s legal. There’s no law against cooking people’s raw chicken for free for them. That’s just charity.
This kitchen is a blessing to anyone who doesn’t have a kitchen of their own.
Ah yes, prepared food, the thing that of course poor people would have no reason to buy. Everyone knows that people living in poverty are guaranteed to have infinite free time and energy, access to an equipped and functional kitchen, and be free from disabilities that affect their ability to cook. Poor people never have unreliable gas or electricity, are never struggling to feed multiple dependents, and just live for the chance to come home from ten hours of underpaid work to spend another hour in the kitchen cooking. Excluding prepared food from benefits makes SO much sense, it’s not like that’s the demographic who needs it the most or anything. We gotta make their lives as hard as possible so they’ll choose not to be poor.
