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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Can you even buy a Snickers on WIC? I thought it had super strict rules about what you can purchase, like you can buy 2% milk, but not skim. As it is done in my state, no you cannot buy a snickers. Sometimes people needed help with food that was unfamiliar (peanut butter, canned tuna) or easy to mix up (a quart of milk and a quart of cream were almost the same color carton at my store) but you can't buy things that aren't spelled out on the check.
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I looked up the WIC program for NY and it seems pretty reasonable, is available in multiple languages, and even has a pictorial guide to approved foods available: http://www.health.ny.gov/publications/4099/ Much better than I would have expected, and pretty detailed. For example, here are the yogurt guidelines: "Exactly 32-ounce container OR any combination of sizes that adds up to exactly 32 ounces. Any brand: Plain, Plain Greek, Organic Plain, Organic Plain Greek KOSHER YOGURT if printed on your WIC check NOT ALLOWED: Flavored (such as vanilla, fruit), mix-in ingredients, drinkable/squeezable yogurt, frozen yogurt" ...what's non-kosher yogurt?
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:...what's non-kosher yogurt? A lot of yogurts you can buy in the American grocery store have gelatin in them. That makes them non-kosher.
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InediblePenguin posted:A lot of yogurts you can buy in the American grocery store have gelatin in them. That makes them non-kosher. Oh, I had no idea! Thanks for the info.
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I think it's mostly the low-fat ones (you can't get yogurt below 130 calories per serving on its own, so it gets bulked out with gelatin to get it down to 100 calories per serving) and the ones with fruit in them (so the fruit will suspend better), which are already explicitly disallowed by NYS WIC anyway, but  It's something to be aware of if a person's keeping kosher, anyway.
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Dec 19, 2016 00:11
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So now we have a small pastry tag god bless this insane mess of threads
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:what the actual loving gently caress its ok, its just a jar of dried food.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:So now we have a small pastry tag Courtesy of Phthisis 
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Holy poo poo I love it so much. The small pastry saga is one of only a couple things I've seen on these forums that I tell people about in real life.
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Is it possible to have multiple tags?
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:what the actual loving gently caress UHT is what you buy to make sure you never run out of actual milk and thus would be in danger of having to use it.
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Sakurazuka posted:UHT is what you buy to make sure you never run out of actual milk and thus would be in danger of having to use it. As a kid and part of a 4 person household, my mom did a weekly grocery shopping, and 6-8 liters of UHT milk from Aldi was the standard. Shelf-stable milk isn't terrible, but I did learn to appreciate fresh milk later.
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mng posted:As a kid and part of a 4 person household, my mom did a weekly grocery shopping, and 6-8 liters of UHT milk from Aldi was the standard. Shelf-stable milk isn't terrible, but I did learn to appreciate fresh milk later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBwwcU2c3u4
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Sakurazuka posted:UHT is what you buy to make sure you never run out of actual milk and thus would be in danger of having to use it. That is EXACTLY what happened. In high school, I went to visit my best friend when he was living in France and he gave me a whole glass of the stuff as a joke. Little fucker.     
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Sakurazuka posted:UHT is what you buy to make sure you never run out of actual milk and thus would be in danger of having to use it. We live in China, there is only UHT milk.
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that's not the kind of gray color I'm looking for in my food
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Sakurazuka posted:UHT is what you buy to make sure you never run out of actual milk and thus would be in danger of having to use it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhjGXCk-RVU
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Grand Fromage posted:We live in China, there is only UHT milk. There's the normal kind, it's probably just highly contaminated. With lead and death and fire and Communism. or something.
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Grand Fromage posted:We live in China, there is only UHT milk. Same in Japan. It doesn't even taste that different imo, maybe the stuff in the states is just poo poo?
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bike tory posted:Same in Japan. It doesn't even taste that different imo, maybe the stuff in the states is just poo poo? It's a matter of personal taste. Some people can't tell the difference, some people can. Some people can tell the difference but don't care about it. I'll put UHT in tea, but not on breakfast cereal.
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I dunno about UHT but I did recently try some lactose-free milk. Claimed to be fat free, tasted... pretty much like 2%? Ish? But it had the thickness of whole milk. Disconcerting but not overtly terrible, i award 2.5 louis pasteurs out of 5.
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I tried UHT milk for the first time and I was confused about how plain it was. I expected it to taste like it was burnt milk?? Powdered milk is what sucks imo
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It tastes "wrong" to me, I can't really explain it. It's not the right texture, or it's too sweet, maybe? I don't know. It really hosed my coffee. I've been awake for 31 hours now, though, so my memory might be failing me. e: Is it only North Americans that grow up drinking big glasses of milk? One of the charming aspects of my obvious foodie upbringing was not having potable water in our house and drinking milk almost exclusively, since buying bottled water is so wasteful.
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I still like drinking milk, and every once in a while some goon claims it's only appropriate for children and I laugh at his idiocy
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Dec 19, 2016 10:37
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Sorry but milk by itself is gross and should only be consumed either as an ingredient or as a base for a drink. Unrelated, a soy latte, while also an abomination, is hot bean water in hot bean water.
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Dec 19, 2016 11:27
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nah, milk's p. good. a top five beverage, easy.
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Megabound posted:Unrelated, a soy latte, while also an abomination, is hot bean water in hot bean water. This unironically blew my mind.
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Dec 19, 2016 11:48
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Is it only North Americans that grow up drinking big glasses of milk?
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Yeah, milk and peanut butter are basically like the karmic reward we get for enduring the blights of HFCS and bland mayonnaise
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Megabound posted:Sorry but milk by itself is gross and should only be consumed either as an ingredient or as a base for a drink. Basically a really thin two-bean soup.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:It tastes "wrong" to me, I can't really explain it. It's not the right texture, or it's too sweet, maybe? I don't know. It really hosed my coffee. I've been awake for 31 hours now, though, so my memory might be failing me. Where'd you live in North America that the water wasn't drinkable from the tap?
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Pretty sure Scandinavians drink a shitload of milk, too.
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Pirate Radar posted:Where'd you live in North America that the water wasn't drinkable from the tap? Aside from recent disasters like in Flint, MI, a lot of places in the US have technically potable but lovely-tasting water. Florida, for example, has downright undrinkable water out of the tap. It may even be hazardous to drink FL water in some places.
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Pirate Radar posted:Where'd you live in North America that the water wasn't drinkable from the tap?
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Tumblr of scotch posted:There's a fair number of places where it's not potable without filtering at the very least, particularly out in the sticks. I know when I lived in Florida I had to filter it, twice, because it had so much rust in it that even in town (such as it was), businesses' sprinklers tended to permanently stain sidewalks red. Yeah. I live in Maine, i.e. not giant-rear end swamp, so my tap water is great. But I recently took a trip to Florida and the locals told us "don't drink the water." When one of the folks I was travelling with said, "It's ok. I don't mind weird tasting water," one of the local folks clarified, "No. Don't drink the water. It'll make you sick."
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I don't know exactly, as I was really young when we lived in that house, but my guess is that the soil was high in lead? We got our water from an artesian well. I think. Again, I don't really remember; it might have also just been something my mom was paranoid about, or maybe we had old plumbing and she was afraid of lead contamination from there? All I know was that I was not allowed to drink from the tap. The tapwater in my hometown is really hard and smells of sulfur, anyways.
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Davoren posted:What the hell, America? NO. WATER. RULES. https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/694550461366538240 
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bike tory posted:Same in Japan. It doesn't even taste that different imo, maybe the stuff in the states is just poo poo?  Here's a list of countries that are most into UHT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-temperature_processing#Worldwide_use That being said, though, Mexico isn't on that list, and I've seen shelves upon shelves of UHT milk in supermarkets there.
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