I was in line at the grocery store in Portland. A very large Somali woman was at the register. Almost ALL the Somali women in that area were fat, and they all had a lot of kids. As far as I could tell, they all used EBT and WIC.
When the cashier scanned her very large bag of bulk rice, the Somali woman changed her mind and said, “I don’t want it.”
The cashier, looking concerned, said, “Are you sure? It will have to be thrown away.”
The cashier seemed to assume that the waste of so much food would bother the large Somali woman, just as it did her. She was wrong.
The Somali woman wasn’t even the slightest bit concerned about the waste. She apathetically shrugged her shoulders and repeated, “I don’t want it.”
Incidentally, it was because of the Somalis, and their kids, that I stopped buying anything bulk at that store; I’d seen how they stick their hands into the food, return food to the bin and sneeze over the food.
The first thing I thought was that she knew it would be thrown away and she would be back at the store later getting the bag of rice out of the dumpster. These people learn how to work the system very quickly.