NJ Mayor Booker: I'll Live on Food Stamps

That avatar......come on, show us more u sexy bastid

 

It's not that fruit or vegetables aren't available, it's that there is an abundance of fast food eateries, Crown Chickens and Chinese stores in the inner city. If you go to White neighborhoods, you don't find the volume that I see in my neighborhood. It's about businesses targeting their customers. Or the customers target the businesses. Many people choose the path of least resistance when it comes to food choices. A dollar buys you a pink slime burger, or a bag of apples. What do you think many will choose to buy?

Buy a cup of coffee? Or buy a can of coffee and make your own? You won't catch me in DD anymore unless I have a free coupon. Hell yes I'm buying the "makes 32 cups" can. :smt045

Another example ..SAVE-A-LOT had a 15 pound sack of potatoes for $3.99...one MacDonald's Large Fries costs $3.19. Both are accessible within 2 blocks of each other. Which would be the better economical and healthful choice? That's right, I have the sack in my kitchen.

It's about a shifting of a mindset - when you really challenge people on their economical food choices, (myself included) you'll find that a lot of it is based in excuses and not in fact.

 

We'll just have to disagree. The two urban poor areas I am most familiar with other than Miami (St. Louis and Chicago) have large swaths of the community that are not served by grocery stores selling fresh fruits and vegetables. They're called 'food deserts' and much of North St. Louis and the West Side of Chicago fall into this category. It was not my intent to be disingenuous and I attempted to make that clear by my statements that I was ONLY talking about the urban areas with which I was familiar. In fact, Miami was a surprise because many of the islander communities have local markets (like Little Haiti) that actually do have fresh produce, substandard in quality compared to Publix, but fresh nevertheless. It is the first city I have encountered that did have such access, albeit limited in scope. And the food trucks and the contractual arrangements you mentioned are non-existent in the areas I have lived. Again, I am not familiar with the upper East Coast or the Tri-State area, but only with the Midwest and Florida.

 

Its not just mindset or if it is just mindset then its price driven mindset. I actually took what you said into account today when I was in Yonkers. If you look up Yonkers,NY its one of the biggest cities in the state I think fourth in NY after Buffalo, NYC, and Syracuse. Most of the hood areas are about a good 15 to 20 minute walk from the two major supermarkets in the area. The bodagas are much closer. You literally have one on almost every block. Also keep in mind the low income people use public transportation and will choose what's most accessible as well as what's cheapest. I think for more middle class people not eating healthy is filled with excuses but when you're really poor its more about survival and what's easiest.

 

I can vouch for what you say of St Louis. Huge areas that are under-served of necessities.

 

What you just said there, that little last bit.

When you have the MEaNS not doing it is filled with excuse.
When you don't, well, not doing it is not a choice.

That goes without saying that those who have never actually been there won't ever get that concept.

*rolls eyes*

 

Lolz!!!! The amount of men who go round here shirtless is nearly as high as the men here go topless in my local supermarket

 

exactly.....hey booker ...you dont see the moon barking back at the dogs do you