Americans bought 12% less soda under new SNAP restrictions

Americans bought 12% less soda under new SNAP restrictions(statnews.com)

8 points by elo2000 26 days ago | 7 comments

I read that Americans used to drink milk. Whole milk.

Maybe Make America Drink Milk Again.

iAMkenough 26 days ago | |

I agree. Replace every bar in America with a raw milk bar.

anovikov 26 days ago |

Which only suggests that SNAP recipients drank just as much soda as Americans in general, because 12% of population are on SNAP. And it also suggests that they were not all that addicted to it since when it stopped being free, they stopped buying it.

fuzzfactor 26 days ago | |

Quite logical, however there is a possibility that major consumers merely stopped buying the ones not containing caffeine, so the addictions component may not be as clear as it could be.

iAMkenough 26 days ago | |

I’d like to see how many self-proclaimed coffee addicts would drop their addiction if coffee became too expensive to budget for.

RiverCrochet 26 days ago | |

- If you can buy sugar on SNAP you can just make Kool-Aid, with 2 or 3 cups of sugar per gallon instead of one if that's your taste. Or you can get the powdered tea or lemonade and make super sweet tea/lemonade. Maybe it's slightly healthier.

- At my local Wal-mart, across from the soda aisle is the juice aisle. There's some "healthy" juices like apple, and grape, but also Hawaiian Punch, Sunny D, and their generic equivalents. These are basically high fructose corn syrup with a few flavorings and dyes. These might still be SNAP eligible since they're juices and not soda.

tstrimple 26 days ago | | |

> make super sweet tea/lemonade. Maybe it's slightly healthier.

Not the way my family in Oklahoma made sweet tea. Basically so much sugar that the tea has to stay warm or it precipitates out. It's disgusting.