/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13129228
Midwest

The term was coined in the UK to describe the state of produce availability in their suburbs, particularly in Scotland.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1123946/

>>13129228
There's plenty of grocery stores around the location in that image: https://www.google.com/maps/search/grocery+store/@34.0240616,-118.2797471,15z/
What a misleading photograph.

>>13129233
>midwest
>no farmer's market
Are you retarded?

>>13129228
No, a food desert is where there are no grocery stores and if you are lucky the closest thing you have to a grocery store is a convenience store so you don't have access to fresh fruits/vegetables and non-deli meat. They are found in rural areas and the inner city.

>>13129228
That definition was dreamt up by left coast liberals.

Thanks walmart

>>13129308
Walmart is a grocery store.

>>13129269
>Midwest
>Farm anything but corn & tobacco
>Get Tornadoed
>Muh superiority

>>13129326
I'm pretty sure tobacco is not farmed in the Midwest.

>>13129332
Anything east of the Rockies is irrelevant and dragging the important part of the country down

>>13129290
I lived in a major west coast city and the one area news articles said was a "food desert" was literally a 20 minute walk/5 minute bike ride to the grocery store

>>13129343
America would be better off without the West coast and Hawaii.

>>13129326
Pretty sure you've never lived there, just been watching sensationalized news.

It's terrible here though. Please don't move here, warn your family and friends about it.

>>13129355
Agreed. Let the entire west coast separate from the union (including Alaska) and let the rest of you inbred fucktards starve. Enjoy your livestock-grade corn, retards

>>13129367
I have been there. Nothing but flat for miles.
>Chemicals in this product are known to to cause cancer in the state of California
This is actually a warning to to keep you inbreds out of my state.

>>13129369
You realize the geographical majority of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California hate you authoritarian urbanites, right?

We'd be better off making Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, and Sacramento autonomous zones to give the West Coast states a fighting chance to avoid the failing infrastructure, rampant drug use, and literal human shit covered streets that are the hallmark of "progressive" cities.

>>13129228
>no grocery stores
That makes no fucking sense. Everywhere has grocery stores. If there's a McDonalds in your town, there's a grocery store.
I live in a small town and have always found this term condescending. In high school they said our town was in a food desert. When in reality it's fucking surrounded on all sides by farms, ranches, and the ocean.

>>13129468
Just send the homeless back to the flyovers (bc they've been dumping them here for years) and all will be fixed. We need those cities for tourist, hipster and Hollywood income and the inland farm regions for food income. Hawaii, Cali, Alaska, Oregon, Wash and Las Vegas as a collective would be the most powerful country in the world.

>>13129473
It's a phrase used by people that like to shit on anyone that eats at McDonald's but actually never cooks themselves.

>>13129269
the reason why the midwest only grows low value row crops is because it is terrible for growing anything else.

I watched a documentary on food deserts, specifically complaining about the influx of dollar stores.

I personally don't see a problem with them. They said oh I don't have access to fresh fruits and vegetables so I'm fat and diseased, but the dollar stores has canned vegetables, sometimes frozen as well, and a variety of things to eat that would help maintain a balanced diet.

The main thing I would say the dollar store doesn't have is fresh meat.

>>13129595
Dude fresh food isn't hyped for no reason. Canned and frozen shit not only tastes worse but has less nutrients.

>>13129473
The only places that it actually sort of applies to correctly are inner city shitholes where there's nothing but 7/11s and fast food joints for miles because no grocery stores can stay open since they run on extremely tight margins and can't afford the security they need in those areas, and dying suburbs on the outskirts of cities that used to have one but it closed because everyone is moving away.

>>13129613
Frozen stuff is 95% as good for you as fresh, and basically just as tasty if you use it for cooking. Canned is normally pretty bland, but modern flash frozen veggies are almost good enough to be worth eating raw after you thaw them.

>>13129228
>no grocery stores
Literally happens nowhere

>>13129228
Ya know what is actually depressing is the grocery stores on Indian reservations. They legit look like they're from a Fallout game, mostly empty shelves, trash everywhere and maybe a few cans of beans and bags of rice. Obviously a different story if it's one of the baller casino reservations.

>>13129473
There was a town close to me that was about to lose its only grocery store but it wasn't losing its McD's. It even got a dunkin donuts. I'm not sure if it currently has a grocery store.

>>13129584
You do realize the midwest is the region surrounding the great lakes and the midwest is not the great plains, right?

>>13129369
Alaska would want to stay. They support America because they are a red state. They aren't blue left coast communists.

This is a “food desert”.

>>13129473
>I have not seen or experienced this problem
>therefore this problem doesnt exist

Never chnge 4chanq6q

>>13129228
I eat McDonald's every day of my life

My IQ is 150 and I run a 40 minute 10k every other day

>>13129468
>You realize the geographical majority of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California hate you authoritarian urbanites, right?

Yeah and teenagers hate their parents but still live off their money.

>>13130390
And here you are, on 4chan with the rest of us

>>13129228
What the fuck where the hell would you travel where there are no grocery stores, but there are fast food places.

How far a distance away does it have to be to be a desert?

>>13129468
>geographical majority
Meaningless term conservatives started using just so they can call themselves the majority.

>>13129228
Food desert is an excuse sociologists came up with to explain why black people are so fucking fat

>>13129228
>have grocery stores
>cant help yourself from stealing from it constantly
>you and all your other urban friends steal from it constantly
>encourage others to steal because "its just an evil corporation and turn blind eye to others stealing
>store closes up because of lack of profits
>Wtf where my grocery stores go, how am i going to feed muh kiiieds, das racist!!!

>>13129369
>starve
You coastie states rely on the food coming from us. Good luck getting food when you're quarantined into your rat infested cities with no supplies coming from us.

>>13129228
No it definitely happens in your home country too, pajeet

>>13130753
And innocent whites get caught in the mess.

>>13130767
Innocent whites shouldn't be living among the urban subhumans anyway. You reap what you sow, and you should've left where you're at long before the grocery stores close up

>>13130773
You have no perspective of poverty. You're not a real person.

>>13130781
>no perspective of poverty
lmao my parents divorced when I was 2 and I grew up in a household where my Dad provided for me and my other 4 siblings by himself. I've had more shitty casseroles and canned meals than most people would care to admit, and even still we knew when it was time to leave town and go somewhere else.

>>13130708
1 mile in urban areas
10 miles in rural areas
My parents technically live in a food desert, they live in the country and have to drive 20 minutes to the closest town for supplies. Most people think of an urban hellscape situation, where no grocer in their right mind would set up a business due to the crime rate. This doesn’t stop democrats from blaming the problem on racism though.

>>13129369
> Implying californian jews aren't the only thing keeping corn subsidies in place

>>13129703
Coasties are retarded amalgamations of American culture that died out and now they simply approximate it through their TV screens, they hate the midwest because it's popular despite not being able to point it out on a map

>>13130790
Lmao just leave. Just do it, just have enough money and opportunity to leave. Just do it! Actually laughing out loud at this dumbass.

>>13130714
>geographical majority
Empty cornfields does not a majority make

>>13130813
>dude just stay in poverty your whole life
>dude just never save any money ever
>dude just stay in absolute poverty land despite quality of life getting worse and worse every day
Poorfags deserve to stay poor, especially if you never make decisions or moves to make yourself not poor.

>>13130826
Absolutely incredible. This fucking guy.

>>13129503
>>13129369
>>13130401
>>13130714
Coastie cope

>>13130828
>SO OUTRAGEOUS
>EVEN MORE OUTRAGEOUS
>IS ANYBODY ELSE OUTRAGED YET???
you reap what you sow
keep seething at the fact you make shitty decisions poorfag

I live in the 'inner city', food desert is bullshit, there's always a grocery store, literally just means theres three delis on the way to the store. If there are grocery stores five minutes from the Marcy Projects and anywhere in East New York than you know the term is political nonsense.

>>13130942
>East New York
anon, that’s the atlantic ocean

>>13129670
>Literally happens nowhere
Downtown Dallas over by Akard station about 5 years ago at least only had CVS / 7-11. They tried to open a small grocery store years before then but it closed down before I was living there.

>>13130757
Not everyone lives off a diet of HFCS and hog fat, Billy Bob.

>>13130969
Your meat/produce all comes from us too, but that's ok, you can eat fish and street poop if you want anon.

>>13130961
Not when you omit the preposition. L2English.

>>13130961
no

>>13129343
Fuck off coastiefag

>>13130984
Then why does all your produce in your flyover groceries come from CA or Mexico? I know you probably bypass that section and head straight to the processed hfcs sections, but waddle or scooter through and check it out next time.

>>13129263
Tryhard

>>13130984
California has a vibriant agricultural industry that's why they let their forests dry out and burn instead of using water to prevent the fires and why they are trying to turn sewage water into drinking water.

>>13130984
They actually have a lot of beef in California. I had to drive by the feed lots going from Riverside north to Stockton. Boy did it stink to high heavens. I believe it was on the same road we drove by Six Flags Magic Mountain but North of that maybe.

>NOOOOOOOOOOO I CAN'T JUST FINNA WALK FIVE MINUTES OR TAKE A VEHICLE TO GO SHOPPING THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!
these are the people forcing that flyover meme too

>>13131809
Let them burn.

>>13129318
Fuck you, kike!

>>13129228
These only happen in extremely diverse areas enriched by the lack of white people. What happens is, the grocery stores are driven away by thefts and the rape and murder of employees, without any profit motive businesses close up shop.

The solution is to cancel WIC, EBT, and all other forms of cash and food payment subsidy programs, and use Trump’s welfare box plan.

>>13131861
It happens in very white areas but they live in very rural regions like Appalachia.

>>13131876
Those areas have grocery stores and farms and farmer’s markets though.

It’s the burned our urban hellscapes inhabited by blacks which have nothing but 7-11.

A food desert only exists in relation to individuals (or households). It isn't defined as a geographical area. Two people can live right next door, but if one has a access to a car and the other doesn't, then only one of them is in a food desert.

>>13129369
seething tranny

>>13131906
No, there are white areas too sparsely populated and not affluent enough for grocery stores which aren't surrounded by farms and farmers' markets are mostly a yuppy thing. I don't know why yuppies keep thinking everyone out in the sticks has farmers' markets. Most farms in America produce cattle feed. They don't even produce food for humans.

>>13131376
They don't lol where do you get your information

>>13131906
Tons of rural areas do not have farmers markets lmao. Not sure why 4chan assumes because huge monocrop corporate farms exist everywhere in flyover that small time farms exist as well.

>>13129381
>He lives in California
HAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>13129584
We grow the soy that you so crave. Be nice to us or we will withhold and then what will you do? You will lose your will to live.

Imagine coasties without their soy. They already live in 3rd world conditions with rationed water and scheduled blackouts. Take soy away and total collapse would be imminent.

>>13129228
it's just a made up term for people too damned lazy to take the bus across town

>>13131908
Then it's meaningless to apply the term geographically and the very phrasing of "food desert" is inaccurate.

>>13132085
More pertinently, farmers markets are highly seasonal and for most of the country simply cannot exist year round.

Beyond the talk the proclivities of certain urban folk, high density urban areas don't work with the concept of a supermarket at all. Square footage is simply too valuable for the large amount of space, particularly the empty space, required for a traditional supermarket. Places like Dollar General are making massive inroads because of the economic issues with large stores, to the point that advocates are having to redefine "food desert" in terms of purely non-canned, non-frozen foods because their old definitions no longer apply. And given Dollar General's push into expanded grocery options and fresh produce, in 10 years "food desert" is probably going to have a twisted, labyrinthine definition.

>>13132219
>high density urban areas don't work with the concept of a supermarket at all
It must be odd for you that it works in all of Yurop

>>13132077
Dude, get your oxygen tank refilled so you don't live in fantasyland. Oops, I forgot, you're in a red state that denies medical care to sick people. Now I understand your animas.

>>13132290
Nice answer

>live in literal desert
>Accuse people from the most bountiful land of living in food desert
What did he mean by this? Is this that soiboy ironic humor I've heard about

>>13132257
You realize that the average Aldi is 1/4th the square footage of the average US supermarket, and 1/10th the footage of a Wal-Mart supercenter?

>>13132053
>No, there are white areas too sparsely populated and not affluent enough for grocery stores

> No, there are white areas too sparsely populated and not affluent enough for grocery stores

Sure, if you’re out in the boonies of Nowhereville Nebraska, the nearest grocery store is going to be an hour away and there sure as hell isn’t going to be any 5-star restaurants around but those areas aren’t “food deserts”, which are located in run-down shithole inner city ghettos where the outrageous crime rate has driven almost all the business out, leaving only convenience stores and a few fast food joints.

>>13132441
I understand. You only heard of it in regard to the inner city but ever since they went on this food desert kick in the media they have referred to both rural areas and ghettos as having food deserts.

>>13132441
>no grocery stores within a 1 hour drive aren't food deserts
Well, Cletus, Sally Sue and Billy Bob would like a word with you as soon as they come down off their meth and fentanyl binge.

>>13129263
The picture is meant to lead you into thinking about the type of foods available to people in a food desert. Seems like it leads just fine.

The rural south is like that wherever the fuck you go for hundreds of miles on end.

>>13129228
It doesn’t even happen in America, I think it’s just bullshit fed by the media and spread by the left as these things go

>>13132927
That’s def not true, the entire eastern half of the us is ridiculously developed, if it would occur anywhere it would be in the west (not the midwest or more east as it should really be called) but not the coasts, and those states are actually where you move for cheaper grocery stores.

>>13129584
That explains why you were born, your mum pumped out the least common denominater.

>>13132950
I have taken a few trips from Poughkeepsie, NY to Williamsburg, Virginia for vacation over the years. When you get down South it really becomes no man's land and I wasn't even in what people call the true South. You go north of Poughkeepsie or west across the Hudson River it gets pretty rural as well.

Also many places in New England are sparsely populated.

>>13129228
I have family who live in a place like that
>population less than 50k people
>1 supermarket (no chain) no grocery stores
>1 pizza place, 2 restaurants, 1 fancy place that makes literally everything and is huge as fuck, like scary big, that place is a fucking factory
>both are judges
>make a ton of money
>constantly coming here to unload to ton of cash in stupid shit because they are bored
>sent their oldest kid to college, couldn't handle it, pissed his pants and went back home

>>13132991
It's a good time to see the fall leaves up here, best with a girlfriend.

>>13133009
My hometown has less than 10k people and manages to support 2 grocery stores, a Wal-Mart, 4 Dollar Generals, 8 fast food places, about a dozen other restaurants, and a bar. What kind of suburban commuter shithole do they live in?

>>13133077
Let me guess. You live near a city, major roads go through your community, or they are close by.

>>13133109
I bet he lives in the south where farms are nearby and food isn’t hard to find like in the urban desert of yankeeville

>>13133119
They even allow you to go up on the farm and pluck your own produce because that's just how the South works. You can even bring your own pail and squirt as much fresh, raw milk as you like.

>>13133009
Name the town so everyone can disprove your bullshit in 30 seconds

>>13129228
>Does food desert happens only in America?
Wtf? Do yuropoors not even have cake? Holy shit.

>>13133181
The wackos call it pudding. They call everything pudding over there.

>>13133172
Weinerville because it is obvious you want to touch my weiner. Should I draw you a roadmap to my house too?

>>13133194
Yeah let me find the one virgin in a town of 50k so I can send you pizzas and guy fawkes masks

Lying nigger

>>13129332
Go farm your tobacco, midwesterner

>>13133226
I'm pretty sure it is farmed in the Carolinas and maybe Georgia.

>>13133236
It is. You are arguing with a retard, pay him no mind.

>>13133168
You jest, but pretty much all produce farms will have a either a stand or a section set aside for people to pick their own if they're on a major road.

>>13129228
>Retards do a study about food desert
>Look at a map of my city
>Location of the cheap supermarket is in deep bad color(tm)
>Look at methodology
>"If you're poor you live in a food desert access to food doesn't matter"
Thank you mister Silverstein.

>>13133226
>The states of North Carolina, Georgia, and Kentucky combine to account for almost eighty percent of tobacco production in the United States.
Ohio was all the way down at number 8. Even Pennsylvania produced more tobacco.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/states-leading-the-way-in-us-tobacco-production.html

>>13129473
>>13129663
This. I went to west Virginia once and the center of this hillbilly town was a dollar general. Its mostly in remote or rural places and where they're is a lot of poverty. Canned veggies are ass, and depending I doubt think DG would carry much frozen selection.

>>13133297
West virginia has farmland and you can easily buy food from the side of the road or at the farmhouse itself.

>>13133297
DG is looking to heavily expand it's frozen food and fresh produce capacity.

>>13133311
You just go up to the farmhouse door, knock politely, give them a "Howdy y'all." with a firm handshake, ask kindly "May I trouble you for some corn?", hold out your straw hat, and they'll give you a hatful and maybe the boysenberry pie cooling on the window sill for your good manners.
>t. just southern stuff

>>13133236
>>13133247
>>13133296
Looks like all that tobacco has rotted your brain. Go die of mouth cancer you stupid hillbillies

>>13132991
>Also many places in New England are sparsely populated.
You have no idea what this means. Any wilderness in the east amounts to a day hike.

>>13133311
Nice cope but you're fooling no one. Now get back to manufacturing your meth in your single wide while pretending coal mining will come back, lol!

>>13133356
Fuck off

>>13133364
There is only one Midwestern state in the top 8 and it produces less than a Mid-Atlantic state not known for tobacco. Plus it is 3 southern states that produce most of the tobacco anyway.

>>13133372
I’m not even from west virginia, retard

>>13133386
And while you are there on the farm paying your courtesy call they'll let you pick a bail of cotton for your evening gown on those chilly 80 degree nights. What sweethearts.

>>13133356
Some people have stands (pickup truck bed trailers) in their yards closest to the road with surplus produce I guess because they don't can things. They write the prices and leave a jar to be used on the honor system. This is what it's like where white people are.

>>13133425
You go to a farm. You pay them for food. How hard is that to understand? Are you so retarded that it simply doesn’t count as real food to you unless it’s wrapped in plastic with a barcode sticker attached?

>>13130807
>Percussion complex
I travel a lot for work and every bar I go to that isnt on the coast has a bunch of yokels ENDLESSLY talking shit about whatever nearest coast city there is. It's pathetic.

>>13133450
Those cities sure do shit up the place don't they....

>>13133450
>>percussion complex

What is that, some drum store?

>>13133297
You should see Mississippi. Once you leave the northern counties which are basically Memphis suburbia there are no groceries until you hit Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg and the coast. Rural food deserts are a serious issue, but the attention goes to the inner cities.

>>13131828
>subconsciously excluding Tornado Alley because of ingrained child-like fear of one destroying your mobile home and rusted out cj5 rolling chassis.

>>13133458
>>13133463
lol sorry got autocorrected from "persecution"

>>13133450
What does the city actually have over the country? It’s full of filthy poor people either living off the waste or striving not to, it’s only good if you’re one of the few who gets to laugh gleefully above it all. You gotta admit I basically just described hell.

>thinks factory farmed garbage is quality because the factory farm is local
Midwestern local produce and meat = walmart quality

>>13133478
for
>>13129269
>2

>>13133464
You could just say you've never actually left the highway and be done with it.

>>13133450
>Things that never happened

>>13133467
Cope

>>13133474
Well you're thinking of it in hillbilly terms. In your mind you're thinking "what aspects of the country are in the city" which is very few. Just like the answer of "what aspects of the city are in the rural country" which is also very few.

When I lived in a rural area it's very free but very boring. I would ride my dirtbike up a trail and go shooting a bit. My uncle had a ranch we would go drink at and watch him fall of his horse that he'd been training dressage. Shooting bows, fishing less than 10 min away depending what you're trying to catch. All great, but gets boring after 10 years and you end up in a rut.

When I lived in the city life was essentially a paradise but you're trapped. Got invited to fancy dinners, met a lot of very intelligent people at the top of their trade. Get to play with HUGE numbers at work (I designed industrial equipment). After work my friends and I would go to theme parks or go mountain biking on the trails down to the beach. And to top it off, incredibly hot girls are just looking for that sugar daddy so you get to fuck chicks you normally would never have a chance with. But in the end you're stuck essentially as a domesticated animal.

It's too different animals. And I should also add this is all just in California. humboldt to Orange County.

>>13133519
You'll see when you're old enough to drink kiddo.

>>13129381
>meddling Californian cancer cells other people inbreds
When is the big one going to come and break most of California into the ocean so that you faggots will die off?

>>13133550
Why would you lie on the net like this?

>>13133566
Well considering I made a post and the only responses are in meme form solidly support that you guys are kids.

>>13133508
Wrong. Where's a grocery in Panola County?

>>13133559
Opinions are only valid from #1.

:)

>>13133574
>Everything I don't like is a meme

>>13133574
Meme responses are all you deserve though. Talk of coasties is not nearly as common as you claim. Maybe if some gay marriage or mexican or transsexual or hipster subject came up, but other than that not often.

>>13133598
States don't have gdp's.

>>13133613
I agree. Red states dont have GDP's. They need to learn to pay the rent.

>>13133607
sure

>>13133593
There is a Wal-Mart, Piggly Wiggly, and Kroger in Batesville.

>>13133620
California now receives $1.12 dollars in federal benefits for every $1 it pays in federal taxes.

>>13131381
Yes we know you're a tryhard

>>13133598
Flyovers literally BTFO!

>>13133723
this statistic means literally nothing unless you're comparing multiple states, don't be a dishonest cunt.

>>13133825
Cope.

>>13129228

>FOOD DESERT

what the fuck is a farmers market

>>13134196
a collection of stalls where local gardeners and cow owners trade milk for tomatoes

>>13129473
>In high school they said our town was in a food desert. When in reality it's fucking surrounded on all sides by farms, ranches, and the ocean.
So basically you don't understand the term and are angry because people treat you like the idiot you are? Cool.

>>13129468
They realize it yes, and yet continue to let them leech off the liberal states and continue to let the electoral system favor rural voters over urban ones. You would be wise to keep that in mind. Liberal states can buy cucumbers from wherever they like, Missisippi and every other buttfuck nowhere state will have nowhere to turn to leech money from except Texas, and we all know how much you people "hate" welfare, so good luck getting shit from them without liberals to foot the bill.

>>13130773
This.

>>13130781
My ancestors walked from New York to Missouri. Walked.

>>13130828
You seem like a really stupid poverty poorfag retard

>>13134890
Hello I am a poverty anon.

The US of A is pretty much designed to fuck over anyone who doesn't have the support of another person or a family and finds themself caught in deep poverty. While this is mostly an issue for niggers and keeps them at the bottom, the average person caught at rock bottom will be trapped for a very long time if someone doesnt help pull them up.

T. Working 60 hours a week at a factory and still cant afford a place to stay

Flyovers; yes, they really are this stupid

>>13133450
it's "persecution complex" you avocado latte drinking faggot

>>13129343
Just tell us when you’re seceding.
We’re waiting. .

>>13135293
coastie roasties: they really are this obsessed
like can someone explain to my canadian ass why west coasters are some of the absolute worst, most pretentious cunts on the planet? east coasters aren't this smug unless they're from new york -- and even then, they'll take the L from time to time
but you west coast cunts? british columbians can get bad sometimes, but the second you cross down into the states, there's this overwhelming, unwarranted smugness that immediately hits you. why the fuck do you people pride yourselves on being obnoxious as shit to everyone and anyone when your quality of life is just as shit as the rest of north america? are you really acting superior because of shitty avocado and asian fusion restaurants?

>>13134196
It is suppose to be a place where farmers sell directly their produce but it just ends up being a newer fad started by yuppies who buy from former yuppies turned hippies selling the produce from their gardens.

>>13135303
Nothing wrong with being smug when you're actually superior.

>>13135303
Never back down. Never give up. Life is a knife fight and you must fight. Fight for freedom. Fight for love. Fight for religious insanity. Never let them get the better. Every impulse should be screaming FIGHT but Canada has no will left. They have left the fight for extinction.

>>13132991
>I’ve been everywhere
>I’ve been up to Poughkeepsie, down to Jersey, across the Hudson and even out to Montauk once!
Better listen to what he says. This guy’s a world traveler.

>>13135465
The point was the east coast is so developed there can't be food deserts but much of the east coast is pretty empty.

>>13135303
the constant smoke has damaged their brains

>>13135332
>cali
>superior to anyone
yeah, maybe in terms of wildfires per year

>>13135412
is this because we invented pineapple pizza? I'm very sorry we did that
also very sorry we elected trudeau once again. i didn't vote for him

>>13135513
based wildfires anon

>>13135257
Time to get some marketable skills.
Learn to use a computer and some software.
They pay IT $20+ an hour to install software and change passwords.

>>13135526
Pineapple pizza is decent but you claiming it as your invention is like Americans claiming invention of the fortune cookie.

>>13135535
There is definitely no job like that where I live.

>>13130781
>you're not a real person
lmao, am I a Russian bot too?

>>13130835
>dude, just stop being poor!

>>13133598
>California
>number 1
just because the state has a bunch of people doesn't mean that its not less prosperous than North Dakota

>>13135538
huh? pineapple pizza is literally a canadian invention though
and americans DID invent the fortune cookie??? i don't understand your point

>>13133598
>using this chart to brag when you can't even outpace new york in terms of size:perfomance ratio
again, why the fuck do californians act like this? you realize asian fusion was already a thing from actual asian before you? that Mexicans own avocados, not you?

>>13129269
a lot of those towns have grocery stores with healthy food, they're just more than a mile from some residents who don't have access to transportation

also farmers markets are typically 1 or 2 days a week and only during warm months, which doesn't help if you don't have a car.

>>13129352
for a lardass that's a lot

>>13135667
usually not in large towns either you have to drive a bit to a small town to find a good one.
>>13129367
yes the midwest is terrible never come here. never ever.

>>13132441

When I was in LA I went to a pizza hut and they had bulletproof glass too lol

>>13135571
What’s up with North Dakota? Oil money and very few people?

>>13135657
Greek immigrants in Canada invented the pineapple pizza and Chinese immigrants in America invented the fortune cookie.

>>13135750
and that makes it genuine Greek food or genuine Chinese food? double huh???

>>13135485
Food deserts don’t exist anyway. It came about because one local politician tried to force supermarkets into staying in her district where they're losing money because it was an election year, she’d been doing a shitty job, and her being black wasn’t an election winner anymore.

The classic “food desert” in the argument was always Detroit. But then it was revealed that either nobody actually lives in the places where there are no supermarkets, or there are multiple grocery stores between the neighborhoods where poor people live and the places where they actually work, so they’re not inconvenient. It’s a complete nonissue.

>>13136058
>The classic “food desert” in the argument was always Detroit
Again I must reiterate the term was coined to describe Scottish suburbs.

>>13135744
Yes. Bakken Oil Shale royalties turned otherwise cash poor dirt farmers into billionaires.

>>13130835
Everyone I know who started poor and got rich just got lucky. If you're poor and unlucky doesn't matter what you do lol

>>13129228
only in the ghetto

>>13136066
>Cummins and Macintyre report that a resident of public housing in western Scotland supposedly coined the more specific phrase "food desert" in the early 1990s. The phrase was first officially used in a 1995 document from a policy working group on the Low Income Project Team of the UK's Nutrition Task Force.
So food desert came from a liberal shithole outside of America and we have the British to thank. Nothing good comes from Britain. Why haven't we nuked it yet? Now we are getting Prince Harry's family moving here. Just great.

>>13132878
Food deserts aren’t real

>>13137615
Are there places you can't get fresh meat and produce? Yes, there are.

>>13136993
America has done great things for Britain and Britons.
Winston Churchill, for one, was the son of an American mother. Perhaps they can save the Royal Family from being completely cucked like the rest of their country.

>>13137742
So no fresh meat and veggies=no quality food at all?
Nice false equivalence.

>>13135683
hehe yeah never come here. *smirks at le libcucks before hugging corn, applebees, aging population, complete absence of culture*

>>13137615
They absolutely are. They're most commonly found in large cities (where there might be lots of convenience stores but no grocery stores) or rural areas with no nearby grocery stores.

Just because you don't understand something, doesn't mean it isn't real.

>>13137817
Neither of those things exist

>>13129473
until a Walmart move in a decade ago, my closest grocery store was 25 mins away down the highway. that's too far, especially if you have to walk.

Every town I've ever seen in America has a grocery store within 5 miles. This is a liberal delusion thought up because something something racism

>>13137905
"Neither" what, shit-for-brains? Grocery stores and convenience stores? Or big cities and rural areas?

Are you having a stroke? Do you need us to call your caretaker to get you back to your assisted living facility?

>>13137777
What a waste.

>>13137770
Winston Churchill was a war criminal

>>13137927
Oh wow, you've seen every city, town, and rural area in the US? And had time to map the food resources in each area? That's amazing, but pic related.

>>13137817
It’s not that we’re too dumb to understand. It's that there’s nothing there TO understand. The term is intentionally misleading.
The conditions described by It have nothing to do with the absence of food that it implies. It’s just another shitty loaded term that presupposes pushing a bullshit agenda that doesn’t do anything and solves even less.

>>13133467
What's the deal with californian's fear of tornados? Every single one I've met is somehow under the impression that tornados are the deadliest natural disaster there is. They're really not that bad, you just hang out in the root cellar until it misses you. Earthquakes are way more dangerous.

>>13137971
Shut up lib

>>13137935
Find me cities with no grocery stores retard.

>>13137777
What decent quality food is there without fresh produce and meat?

>>13130347
No that I opportunity. Great place or a new farm.

>>13138057
You are implying that frozen and canned foods are not nutritious. And you are wrong.

I dont wanna be a poltard but we all know the reason why food deserts exist

>>13138378
It doesn't even have to be racial my man, white trash are just as unlikely to shop regularly at a grocery store. That's why dollar stores are exploding in rural areas, they all buy their shitty food from there.

>>13135541
Then move. What have you got to lose?

>>13129691
Because those child raping savages steal from them any chance they get.

>>13137952
“I will not preside over the dissolution of the empire” Winston Churchill

>>13129468
>geographical majority
What the fuck is that even supposed to mean?

>>13137927
That's just false.

>>13130743
I mean, you're not wrong

>>13140102
The left packed their cities with illegals to have a near majority but yet most of the country is occupied by conservatives.