Gohmert: Cutting food stamps not evil because poor people buy king crab legs

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146. Okay, I admit it. I did it.

About 20 years ago now. I bought a Prime rib with stamps.

So I had an agreement with a friend who had family money. I was in grad school, couldn't afford to breathe (because I could not afford to get a virus) so TP and soap and tampons were NOT in my budget. My scholarship (which included a housing stipend that barely covered 9 months of rent) and food stamps was the entirety of my income, and between my 20 hours a week of work study and my class load, there was no time for a job, too. I was lucky to have stamps, and really happy to have them. Most of the time, I was living on eggs, bread-machine bread, apples, oranges, lettuce and Everlasting soup made primarily with beans, onions and random cheap vegetables.

My friend would buy me the hygiene necessities with her cash, I'd buy part of her groceries. It was always an equal exchange, we never made money off of each other. And yes, tampons and soap are as important as food.

But then there was this time that she really wanted to try to make something called a Shooter's wedge (which is a type of roast beef sandwich) which required prime rib.

That's what she had on her grocery list, so that's what I bought for her that month. (Iirc, that was shortly after the Oprah-beef beef, so beef prices were depressed, which is why I think we got it for somewhere around $2.00 a pound. And why she considered making it at all.)

Yes, she shared. It was a nice sandwich. Prime rib gets really boring after about 15 straight meals of it.