Is it normal to use your food stamps to buy items to make wine?

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Since you can't buy booze with food stamps, and it's illegal to sell them for cash to buy booze, I buy fruits, juices and yeast and make my own hooch for free.

Before some idiot chimes in and thinks it's illegal to make wine at home, it's NOT, you can make 100 gallons per person over 21 in the household per year legally for personal use. It's only illegal to distill liquor, that's an entirely different, and additional, process. Nothing illegal about making wine.

I can't be the only person who does this, right? IIN? Sheer genius.

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  • jondoerandom
    11 years ago

    How about... getting a job? Just a random suggestions, but it's kinda funny the way people will excercise their creativity just to avoid working.

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    • iEatZombies_
      11 years ago

      Food stamps aren't just for "lazy bums". Most people on food stamps are disabled. Disabled people get pretty shafted.

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        I am sorry but I don't think that is true. Do you have data to back that up?

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        • iEatZombies_
          11 years ago

          Food stamps, or SNAP as it's now called, is available for the elderly, disabled, families with children, and the unemployed. The unemployed get SNAP, in many states, for a short length of time (usually 3 months) out of a few years (usually 3). The unemployed can get SNAP longer if they volunteer for a work program- unfortunately, they don't tell you how difficult it is to find these places that work with the state, also that would again ruin the unemployed statistic.

          So, my statistics may be slightly off in terms of who's disabled and on SNAP, but I promise you that most of those people who are on SNAP actually do make a source of earned income.

          Except for those lazy bastard children.

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          • [Old Memory]
            11 years ago

            I was just wondering because I am disabled (Paraplegia). I have never gotten any government benefits. The only people I know that do get food stamps are single (working or not) mothers. Not to say that there are not others.

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      • jondoerandom
        11 years ago

        oh yeah.. I didn't think about it. OP -if you're disabled, sorry about that. if you're a bum -get a job!

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        • iEatZombies_
          11 years ago

          There, that's better.
          =P

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  • Gena45
    11 years ago

    I guess you can use them whatever way you want to, but food stamps are only given to people in need. So are you in need of food but instead using them for alcohol? Or are you really not in need but you just feel like misusing them when there are other people who really do need them? Either way it's messed up..

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    • Finding_Peace_In_A_Mad_World
      11 years ago

      My thoughts exactly!

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        And I agree with both of you. :)

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        • Finding_Peace_In_A_Mad_World
          11 years ago

          Hehe get it? ;D

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          • dappled
            11 years ago

            Bad girls. :P

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    • chewy
      11 years ago

      Where did you go?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      They give me so much $ and it's based on their own scale of income/# of family members so what can I do? It's more $ than I've ever spent on food in my life, it's an enormous amount. A few dollars for some fruit and juice to ferment isn't shit. I have a hard time spending all the $ in one month as it is!!

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      • anti-hero
        11 years ago

        You could buy extra food with the extra money and give it to a food bank. After you make your wine of course. Just a thought.

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      • Squambly+
        11 years ago

        Away that sucks. When my mom had food stamps but they gave her very little because she worked to much but she had to work a lot to pay the bills. They also didn't let us by healthy organic food.

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  • Cuntsiclestick
    11 years ago

    That actually sounds awesome so I'm going to say normal. Use your food stamps for whatever you want.

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  • howaminotmyself
    11 years ago

    I know people who have done it to make beer. Why not wine?

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    That's awesome! You should try to sell it.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      No way, that's illegal.

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      • Avant-Garde
        11 years ago

        It is?

        Since when is it illegal to make a wine brand and try to sell it?

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          11 years ago

          You have to have a license and be FDA inspected and be all official, I'm talking about home brew, you can't sell that, you can only make it for your own consumption.

          Kind of like tobacco, you can grow it and use it for yourself, but you have to have licenses and pay special taxes and be all official with that too if you want to sell it. If you got caught selling those types of things without being official, it's illegal because mostly of tax evasion, alcohol and tobacco are highly taxed and regulated, plus it's a health hazard since your 'facility' wouldn't be FDA inspected and up to code.

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  • Justsomejerk
    11 years ago

    Champion.

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  • NobodyKnows
    8 years ago

    I have worked in the convenience store industry for about three years now. Seeing the number of people who use food stamps to buy literally nothing but junk food, I see nothing abnormal about using them to buy items to make booze with either.

    A lot of times it aggravates me to see people abusing food stamps; in your case however, it's kind of hilarious, with a touch of badass, that you can make booze out of regular items.

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  • smallboobies:(
    10 years ago

    -_-

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  • myboyfriendsbitch
    11 years ago

    I've done it. Wine is good for you.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Just it taste good though, I mean dont you have to let it age for a certain amount of time or else it tastes like vinegar?

    I have had some home made wines that tasted like shit.

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    • Captain_Kegstand
      11 years ago

      My little brother makes wine (no food stamps involved)and if it is done right it is amazing. His first batch however came out so strong that we had to use it as a mixer.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      I find hard cider to be the best, I mix it up sometimes with pomegranate. I play around with it, try different berries and juices. Sometimes it's awful, well harsh-pungent rather, but it's usually good if you know what you're doing. Technically you can make 'wine' out of any vegetable matter, it's just fermented plant matter, yeast and sugars is all, what you use obviously gives it the flavor though. You could use onions and grass if you wanted.

      You find what you like and play with it, it's fun really.

      Vinegar is made in a similar way as wine, I won't go into details but if you make your wine wrong and it sours, then that's basically what vinegar is.

      If you distill wine, you get brandy or cognac.

      Other distilled spirits are made from things like corn, grain, potatoes, etc and is usually triple distilled to get a 40-50% alcohol content. The more times you distill the higher alcohol content. But, that's illegal to do at home!! (I do know how to do it though) All distilled alcohols are clear, they get their color from aging in barrels. Clear liquors are not aged, like 'silver' tequila, vodka, etc. Then again some just get coloring from food coloring or other additives.

      There IS one easy method of distilling, it's not really 'official' distilling, but it will still net you a higher alcohol content and you can do it with store-bought beer or wine or whatever. It's called 'freeze distilling'. Alcohol doesn't freeze, so you freeze the beer (not solid, but say halfway or so), then pour out the liquid, and you can repeat, until desired, and you will end up with one strong ass shot of beer.

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        That was a really interesting answer. Thank you.

        I really had little idea about any of that stuff, and I would love to be able to make my own home made wine one day.

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    Wow, there are laws about making your own alcohol where you are? That's nuts! Seriously, that is one of the most messed-up things I've ever heard. You need to move to a more tolerant country.

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  • NotFloydzie
    11 years ago

    I do that too. Usually I tell my mom to buy my goose and I make drinks. You're idea is better, though.

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