Alright PD, seriously, what do you think of...

[East Coast Hustle]

"Gregor" and "Enzo"?

your friends aren't even American, they don't get to have an opinion on this.

They are. Those aren't their real names.

Lemme guess, their real names are Sacco and Vanzatti.

[Suu]

"Gregor" and "Enzo"?

your friends aren't even American, they don't get to have an opinion on this.

They are. Those aren't their real names.

Lemme guess, their real names are Sacco and Vanzatti.

If only. but neither of them are from american families that came over here sometime before the turn of the 20th century.

[Telarus]

As someone who was in your situation multiple times this last year, I have to wholeheartedly echo my fellow spags.

Survival comes first.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

If food stamps aren't for students, who are they being saved for?  Man, you're in school. You're going to graduate, get a good job, and pay into the system for decades. Right now, you need to eat, and you need to have time to study so a second job, even if you could get one, isn't an option. Get some fucking food stamps so you can finish your schoolin'!

As for Whole Foods, "gourmet" food, and food stamps, I don't see why that's such a bad thing. Basics at Whole Foods don't cost much, if anything, more than basics at Safeway, and it doesn't become "gourmet" until you cook it, no matter what store it's from. I live six blocks from a Whole Foods and I'm broke as fuck, but I buy a lot of food there, like bulk brown rice, fresh meat, milk, etc.

I don't plan to start going the extra distance to a marginally less expensive store if I ever get on food stamps, either. I don't buy prepared packaged foods so it doesn't make that much difference to me, and in most cases it's not worth the extra gas unless I'm doing major huge shopping.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

College kids on food stamps/SNAP?

Everybody gotta eat.  Do what you have to do.