Grey Poupon is not fancy mustard. You can buy that shit in any grocery store, it was developed by food scientists and is mass produced in giant semi-automated factories. It's also not particularly expensive. If you can only afford yellow mustard but not Grey Poupon you shouldn't be buying any mustard because your budget is way too tight to be paying for condiments you can get free in a fast food restaurant.
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The only reason people think it’s fancy is because of some dumb commercials made in the 80s.
Those weren't from the '90s? Am I so old that I'm now conflating these decades?
Yes, and I'm sorry. I'm also right there with you.
Also, don't forget to take your medication this evening.
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They were referenced in Wayne's World in 1992 and I'm guessing that they were at least a couple of years old by then.
Yup, you're right. I was actually pulling up to people in traffic and asking them this in '92. Because I thought it was hilarious.
It still is, but it used to be, too
They existed in the 90s too. They really milked that shit
Also some ad campaigns just lasted forever hell some just updated the commercials on occasion. You can now hear the Empire Carpet jingle.
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Then came Mentos...
I always remember it from Biker Mice from Mars. And I’m not American 🤣
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Excuse me, those commercials from the 80s are a very important piece of early millennial culture.
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That is some perspective.
It reminds me of another conversation starter about wealth inequality. Where do poor people buy their bed sheets? The answers are usually Walmart or Salvation Army. Where do middle class people buy sheets? Nordstroms or some other department store. Where do rich people buy sheets? They don’t. They have people for that.
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This is just a totally brain dead take. Maybe the SNAP recipient likes brown mustard and prioritizes it. And you don’t care that much so you don’t prioritize it. If it mattered to you, you would budget to get fancy mustard.
If you really do feel you can’t afford fancy mustard, you shouldn’t be mad at the person who earns food assistance and then uses it to buy fancy mustard, you should be mad that you aren’t making enough to afford fancy mustard.
It’s also like $4 to get a bottle of Gray Poupon, absolutely ridiculous to be trying to whip people into a frenzy over that to begin with.
This is not the first time Republicans threw an absolute shit fit over negligibly more expensive mustard...
...while blowing hundreds or even thousands of dollars on red hats and overpriced campaign souvenirs.
Because in their minds, these people should be suffering more. Government food assistance should take the form of gruel, if it exists at all.
Edit: Oh I just realized what you were referencing lol
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Yeah, it’s not like SNAP users get a discount on “fancy” mustard, they just get use their government-given food money to buy whatever kind of food they want instead of the government policing how they are allowed to use their food money.
Oh the government absolutely polices how they're allowed to use the money.
This is just a totally brain dead take.
Well yeah, they're complaining about people who receive SNAP benefits, so that's a given.
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Theres the rub. The working class and poor have been indoctrinated to believe that they are their own enemies, and the puppet masters that orchestrated all of this class warfare are the rich to keep us busy from chopping their heads off.
The poor aren’t our enemies. They are the frogs boiling in water that the rich use to determine what they can do to everyone else.
Or just get off the Nazi platform entirely. Seems pretty simple.
Consider that this person is the type to be actively funding the Nazi platform.
Yes the people with blue checkmarks are funding Nazis, but the dude pointing out the cost of mustard could also just fucking leave that shithole and leave it to rot. Same with anyone else left on there that doesn’t want to support Nazis.
Just fucking leave the platform.
Kill off whitepeopletwitter already.
It's so weird seeing that sunshine account when our local sunshine lemming is the opposite.
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Imagine being the kind of ghoul that thinks if people need assistance, that assistance should be the absolute bottom of the barrel lest someone who didn't need the assistance chose to not spend the money they have the freedom to decide how to spend.
Life isn't zero sum.
If you want fancier mustard and you're not on food stamps, just spend one of the extra dollars you must have to cause that. It's not gonna run out
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It's not even just that, they believe that people on government assistance need to be constantly shamed and humiliated, otherwise they will never have the motivation to pull themselves out of poverty.
I had an argument with a big-L "Libertarian" acquaintance who straight up admitted that he would rather pay more in taxes to implement new stricter oversight and systems to restrict what people spend their WIC/SNAP benefits on than endure the possibility that someone might buy a bag of Doritos with said assistance. The cherry on top was him--again, a "Libertarian"--claiming it would be to ensure they are making healthy, state-approved, food choices.
The thing that annoys me the most is that some countries having a percentage of people unemployed is literally a feature not a bug
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Life isn’t zero sum.
That is the crux of it. They believe it is. Wholeheartedly. It's part of their core being at this point. If someone is receiving something, they must be losing something in return. It's their tax money.
They're incapable of making the mental connection that corporations and the rich aren't paying anywhere near even a fair share of taxes that could entirely pay for those programs to apply to every citizen, including themselves. And the media preys on that to further pit themselves against their fellow citizens because it's all owned by those same rich assholes.
And even if it was zero sum, they still wouldn't grasp who's getting the plus for their minus.
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I like generic yellow mustard. What the fuck is "Sunshine" complaining about?
They're complaining about "welfare queens", a common anti-poor trope. I doubt they even care about mustard.
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This is what I like about universal basic income. This argument no longer exists.
I was on unemployment one time and had to decide between staying on unemployment and accepting a job where I barely made any more money after gas.
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Well that's just some old fashioned engagement farming if I ever saw
I've encountered people like this. They absolutely loathe when someone points out that what they said was wrong
They're only one mustard. It's spelled penis backwards and it's made in the beautiful small town of Põltsamaa.
If any mustard enthusiasts are reading this, I strongly recommend you prepare your nostrils and try this. It's amazing.
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