Comments on: Do you pocket like it’s hot?

By: Gross

Gross — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:46:31 +0000

Unbleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Ham Water Added Ground and Formed, Natural Smoke Flavor Added (Cured with Water, Sugar, Salt, Sodium Phosphates, Natural Smoke Flavor, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite), Part Skim Mozzarella Cheese with Modified Food Starch (Part Skim Mozzarella Cheese [Pasteurized Milk, Cultures, Salt, Enzymes], Modified Food Starch, Potassium Chloride, Flavors, Annatto), Seasoning (Palm Oil, Maltodextrin, Corn Syrup Solids, Wheat Flour, Salt, Cheddar Cheese [Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes], Sodium Caseinate, Artificial Color [Titanium Dioxide, Yellow 6 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Yellow 5, Yellow 6], Dipotassium Phosphate, Lactic Acid, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Buttermilk Powder, Calcium Lactate, Reduced Lactose Whey, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Butter [Cream, Salt], Whey, Disodium Phosphate, Disodium Guanylate, Disodium Inosinate, Whey Protein Concentrate, Sodium Citrate), Contains 2% or Less of: Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Palm Oil (with Soy Lecithin, Artificial Flavor, Beta Carotene), Modified Food Starch, Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil (with Soy Lecithin, Citric Acid as Preservative), Seasoning (Toasted Bread Crumbs [Wheat Flour, Sugar, Yeast, Soybean Oil, Salt], Cheddar Cheese [Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes], Salt, Whey, Dextrose, Dehydrated Onion, Natural Flavor, Soybean Oil, Garlic Powder, Reduced Lactose Whey, Disodium Phosphate, Citric Acid, Lactic Acid, Disodium Inosinate & Guanylate, Spice, Blue Cheese [Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes], Extractives of Paprika & Annatto), Dough Conditioner (Calcium Sulfate, Distilled Monoglycerides, Salt, L-Cysteine Hydrochloride, Garlic Powder, Tricalcium Phosphate, Enzymes, Ascorbic Acid, Citric Acid, BHT), Dried Egg Yolks, Salt, Yeast, Dried Whey, Soy Flour, Dried Egg Whites.

A Hot Pocket thief is a brave soldier jumping on a nutritional grenade. Buy some ham, cheese, veggies and pita bread and do your body a favor.

By: Wilma Jo

Wilma Jo — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:36:40 +0000

IMHO, if you are eating hot pockets, life is not being too good to you. They always made me sick at my stomach every time I ever tried them. The last thing these folks need is hearing about how they shouldn’t waste their EBT on them. Just my opinion.

By: Wilma Jo

Wilma Jo — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:32:58 +0000

I’ve never gotten the food theives, whether co-workers or roommates. What do they think, elves come in and eat the food? We know someone here did it. It was Colonel Mustard in the library!

By: Nope

Nope — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:40:25 +0000

For fucks sake, just fill a hotpocket with nails or screws and look for the burning microwave/person being loaded into an ambulance…

By: Tasha

Tasha — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:31:55 +0000

Not that I’m advocating a booby-trapped lunch, exactly, but there was a pretty significant thieving problem at one place I worked at (the employee fridge was hidden away in a back corner of the warehouse and the thief apparently had a really good appetite). I will say that a small group of victims made up of blue-collar, healthy, creative men who worked hard for their food money and wanted their lunches got together and made a very special lunch. There was nothing obviously wrong with it. But it was stolen and sufficient time passed to safely assume that it had been consumed. Then, and only then, did they make a point of making sure that everyone heard exactly what they had done to the food. To my knowledge, no one ever lost a single item out of that refrigerator again. And, honestly, it really didn’t matter that no one ever knew who the thief was. He knew exactly who he was.

By: Tasha

Tasha — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:03:40 +0000

Who’s to say that he eats that way often? Maybe it was a special treat that he allows himself very rarely. Or maybe since he apparently works, goes to school, and is paying his own living expenses and tuition, with the exception of his food budget or a portion thereof, and is clearly a productive member of society (who will probably end up earning more than I do), he figures he is entitled to keep packing his lunch simple. For all any of us know, he is extremely frugal with the rest of what he is qualified to receive. And as I mentioned before, Hot Pockets here are on sale all the time for three 2-packs for five dollars, which is potentially six lunches, especially if you throw in a piece of fruit or something. How dare he???

By: Tasha

Tasha — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:56:27 +0000

http://boingboing.net/2008/09/16/sandwich-bag-has-fak.html

By: Tasha

Tasha — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:54:53 +0000

Yes, someone who earns a wage, pays his own living expenses and tuition, and attends school should clearly not be spending any of the food stamps for which he qualifies on 3/$5 packages of convenience food to have at work or school. He should also be diligent enough to prepare every meal from scratch. He deserved to have his food stolen.

By: mike_f

mike_f — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:00:35 +0000

The same people who say a poor pregnant woman should not be allowed the luxury of buying $2 hot pockets with food stamps are probably the ones who are OK with millionary bonuses paid with bailout (state) money.

By: ChibiOkamiko

ChibiOkamiko — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 02:12:06 +0000

I haven’t had a problem with a food theif at work, but in High School, my lunch got stolen daily for about a week. So I packed a special lunch, red pepper mixed in the peanut butter sandwich, salt in the oreo frosting, and finally, I poked a hole in the bottom of a capri sun, emptied it out and refilled it with cinnamon oil, then resealed it . . . My lunch never got stolen again.

By: redheadwglasses

redheadwglasses — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:00:00 +0000

That’s not legal, Jami. THe only cash you can get back when you use foodstamps has to be 99 cents or less. The cashier who did that helped commit fraud.

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:36:24 +0000

I have had this same problem but had to laugh at a couple of these responses. Normally when someone eats my food, although I hate it, I keep to myself and don’t let it bother me too much.

By: nope

nope — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:47:09 +0000

that… probably didn’t happen.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/grapes.asp

By: Jami

Jami — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:39:24 +0000

You know what, as long as the people are using their food stamps to buy stuff to actually eat, then it’s really no one’s business.

Recently one of our friends was behind someone who was using food stamps. What this woman did was buy a single grape and ask for $24 cash back. Yes, you can do that with food stamps. She then took the money and left the grape. And according to the cashier not only do people do that all the time, if the grape costs more than 2 cents their throw a hissy fit.

You can imagine where the money they get back gets used for.

So you know what? Let them buy Hot Pockets with their food stamps and otherwise mind your own business. It’s the ones who cheat the system that we should worry about. Not someone who’s actually using it for food.