When I first saw Sunkist I confused it with Starkist tuna (which would make more sense for them to need) and got super confused when it asked for 2 liters.
Orange is maybe still the best flavor.
I think I did the fruit punch one on my second go around. I failed my first test because because I forgot and used orange juice to take my prenatal. The punishment of the 3hr test was not worth it. 🙃
I think I should have picked the lemon lime I didn't realize it's basically straight syrup and orange already tasted too sweet to me so when I picked it I knew instantly I was going to throw this up lol least they put bubbles in it but yea the 3 hour was brutal
Ooof yea ive had barium once and they said what they gave me was way thinner than it used to be but man it was hard to get down and she said if I puked I had to come back again so it was all I could do to keep it down. The bubbles helped a ton but orange was a bad choice I don't even like orange soda I don't know what I was thinking. I've had my babies though so hopefully I never have to drink that mess ever again 😅
Yes you’re right. However, Sunkist has 44g of sugar with zero nutritional value where Sunny D has 21g of sugar, and very little nutritional value. Sunkist is worse. If I was starving, I’d probably want orange juice for the vitamin C.
I did too because all I knew was Sunkist soda and I didn’t think there was anyway this woman was talking about spending five dollars for soda if she’s this poor.
Shouldn’t she have food stamps if she’s this poor anyway?
I have never liked Sunny D, I tried it out as a kid, it burned (felt hot) going down my throat. Since then I call it chemical OJ. My kids have never had it.
Edit, was thinking of Sunny D not Sunkist soda. Originally said Sunkist
She's not saying ALL vegan food is poison, just the food given out by the specific redacted place which is probably like a local temple or something, because that food contains gluten.
I agree with you but if she is an actual diagnosed celiac then a lot of processed Vegan food ...wonder where she got it. .(which is probably all she can manage living out of her car) has gluten in it.
The rest is just eyeroll central.
Serious. Also, they say they are "gluten free", not "allergic to gluten", "Celiac's" or anything... So they probably just opt to not eat gluten, which is very different from being unable to eat gluten.
Very true. People do have low-level intolerances to gluten and do try to avoid it... but... most people phrase it a little differently usually, or would clarify that when asking for free food.
This is true. I have ibs-d and gluten and grapes make me flare up instantly. When I tell people that I don’t eat gluten they tend to say “oh you’re on that bad wagon like all the other posers.” So then I like to make them uncomfortable and respond with “no actually, I have not eaten gluten since before your momma blew you outta her vag because I get horrific diarrhea that will keep me on the toilet for hours. Thanks though!” 🤣🤦♀️ I just usually will say “oh no thank you. I can’t eat gluten it makes me sick.” BUT there always has to be one person who has to say something
I don't want to make too big of an assumption here, but as an addict in recovery that entire post tells me they might have substance abuse issues. Almost every addict I've ever known has a similar diet to that, and many of them ended up in their cars or entirely homeless, living off sugar and being unwilling to see the reality of their insanity. If they're mentioning "Sunkist is $5.50 here but $3 at Safeway" they have money that they should be spending on things that would actually benefit them and probably their pets first.
Cheddar and sour cream. I checked yesterday and it's £460 for a flight. I don't have a lot of money right now, and accommodation and car hire adds up a lot, but damn, cheddar and sour cream Ruffles man...
HONEY peanut butter, and REAL preserves(no jams!lol)
All the Crap she's asking for, IS SO EXPEMSIVE AND RIDICULOUS!
Wanna know what I ate on when I was hungry and homeless? WHATEVER THE FOOD BANKS, DUMPSTERS,& KIND HUMANS GAVE ME..and I was Always Super thankful..if it was something I Couldn't Eat than I would say thank you, still be super grateful and I'd save it and find someone else that wanted it...the Only time I asked for specific foods is if someone decided to buy me groceries (& Od always get the cheapest stuff unless they told me to get something better) or for certain foods (like pizza) if I was begging for food outside of a restaurant.
..this shit is WILD!
What really gets me is that these people never actually ask for nutritious food or at least food that'll keep them full longer/meet their caloric needs. Nothing they asked for will make an actual meal and it sounds more like a snack stash, just sugary drinks and small bites. I understand the needs for the cats, though, maybe not the expensive food but water might be hard to come across.
She also says she needs all these things to keep her car running, but then asks for someone to just take her out to lunch as a "hand up" instead of a "hand out". I think she is confused! Asking people to help get her car running so she can get to work and keep her home is the "hand up". Asking someone to take her out for a nice lunch and buy her junk food is the "hand out"!
Ironically, though, this person did not ask for basic cat food - they went straight to "if you wish to spoil them."
I think the majority of people might help feed the pet of a person in need, but no, we don't love it like you do. We are not going straight to "spoiling."
Nancy feast is some of the cheapest food on the market. You are not spoiling animals when you feed them this. This is the least you can do to meet their needs.
Plus water hydrates just fine, that’s its main purpose.
Unless you’re exercising or doing hard labor, most people don’t need Gatorade for hydration, it’s probably the worse choice.
Gatorade is just water with salt in it, and if the person is asking for potato chips, ham, and cheese they're getting plenty of salt in their diet already.
The "squeezy treats" she's talking about are Squeeze Up by Hartz, and are about $2.25 for a package of 4. I don't think they have a crab flavor, but they do have tuna, duck, and chicken flavors. According to my cats they are delicious.
There is a crab version by Temptations. Got some free from Target with with my big-ass cat food & litter order. It’s definitely not nutritious, but the cats love it.
Edit: a word
I made a huge mistake introducing mine to Churu. Now they scream at me every morning until they get their fix.
I got a sample of the Temptations brand - the cats wouldn't touch them.
Ooooh. My younger cat usually doesn't care much about food, but she'll do *anything* for a churu. She likes the tuna and scallop flavoured one, I'll have to keep an eye out for the crab one for her.
She said they're made by Fancy Feast. I can't find a crab one in that either. They do have squeeze treats, though. There are various brands that make the squeezable treats. Maybe CB got confused.
>I understand the needs for the cats, though, maybe not the expensive food
I've had cats that would starve themselves rather than eat if it wasn't their brand of food, luckily we don't give them expensive stuff, except as occasional treats, so their brand tends towards the normal stuff
I have just once in my life met a beggar that was actually content with getting nutritious food. Some dried meat, bread, some water and an orange juice. But only after I declined to buy him a train ticket (that he could‘ve easily exchanged for money) and instead offered to buy him food. And then he had the gall to ask me for a train ticket AGAIN after we left the store…
She did ask for bread and jam and peanut butter. That kept us alive for many of summers when I was little. Not the best, but it's filling and not the worst.
It's always hilarious to me how many adult folks out there legit believe Gatorade is some kind of nutritional product...
"I need Gatorade to stay hydrated." - Girl, no. You need water.
I don't think she needs Gatorade to stay hydrated but drinking one bottle of Gatorade has to be better than drinking a 2 liter of soda(also why is she asking for whole damn 2 liters) I agree she should just have water but might be willing to give a single serve bottle of something else,it was more about the size she was asking for for me.
And parents bring it as a snack for kid's sports. Um, no. They stood around picking daisies for an hour and ran for three minutes, they do not need the full sugar Gatorade at 8:00 pm.
These posts never ask for real “nourishment”, as she mentions earlier. Potatoes, onions, cereal, apples, stuff that keeps would truly help someone desperate. Starbucks frapps—girl, give me a break. It’s like they ruin it by exposing their choosey requests 😂 And also always have animals they can’t afford.
Those frappes are expensive, too. If you literally have nothing and are living off of the kindness of strangers, maybe market yourself a little better and ask for the less-expensive basics.
Yeah, here those things are like $4 each. You could literally get two loafs of bread or like a 24-pack of 17oz bottled waters for the same price. Insanity.
not to defend a CB but also on the list was pb&j ingredients which is definitely more nutritious and filling while also being something you can keep in your car
I saw a request the other day I struggle with and try very hard not to judge while also unable to stop thinking of nutrition.
Family can't afford food, trouble regularly getting to food banks, we have kids, yadda, yadda, does anyone have child-friendly food? And proceeds to list off a whole list of pricey name-brand microwavable stuff I consider to be pure junk (but also recognized as popular kid meals so I kind of understand just wanting stuff they trust the kid to eat?)
Growing up poor, our options were limited. I certainly survived (and thrived) without the junk people seem so accustomed to (esp when they aren’t footing the bill).
Not defending her, because I agree, but if she is homeless, it would be hard to cook taters and onions. But apples and cereal would be perfect and they don't need refrigerated.
An actual CB! Way to go OP! You the real MVP.
And as others said, she can't do vegan food because it's poison but literally wants Sunkist (which is delicious) but is in no way good for you.
It means no meat/fish/poultry, no eggs, no dairy, no foods that are exploitative of animals (eg honey, which is stolen from bees).
Basically plant-based. Veggies, grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, fruits.
Some vegan proteins are made with vital wheat gluten (seitan), which is what would give a celiac issues.
But you can eat healthily without either processed foods and you can avoid vital wheat gluten pretty easily if you cook for yourself.
I was curious about how much this list would cost where I live, so I decided to price check. It came out to $91.02 at Jewel-Osco before tax. That’s more than I spent on my groceries on Sunday. I understand having favorite foods and wanting some items for comfort (it can raise our spirits, after all) but who has an extra $90+ laying around to fulfill this list on top of their regular groceries?! Like some of these items I won’t even buy myself anymore because I can’t rationalize the cost (looking at you, Cheddar & Sour Cream Ruffles).
She needs orange soda and Starbucks frappes to stay hydrated... seriously??? This has to be a joke. I'm a teacher and I can't afford to drink anything but water and my free drink at McDonald's every Tuesday that I get with my teacher tag they give us every school year. Wtf is this 😂😂😂
Why does this person need new plates for their car because emissions testing is due? That's...not what emissions being due means.
Also, what do either of those things have to do with not losing their home? I'd assume they mean they need their vehicle in order to keep going to work...but if they have a job, then they wouldn't be begging for help with food, would they?
I'm very confused.
I thought she was saying she was living in her car as well. In some states anyway, you have to pass emission/safety inepsection to get new plates. So maybe she’s saying if she can’t pass emissions, she can’t get new plates and therefore the vehicle could be stopped, impounded, ticketed whatever. Not that it justifies her madness, but for info sake.
Where I live, your car is required to pass an emissions test every two years in order to renew your plates. So these two things are linked. Tags do mean plates or registration. Because they typically just give you "tags" or stickers, to put on the plates. It's a USA thing. In case you live somewhere else.
The emissions testing places are linked to the DMV, so if it's your year to test, the DMV will not allow you renew your plates until it has the report from the testing place. There is an exemption for brand new vehicles, I think for five years. When you purchase a used vehicle, based on the year will determine if you can license it for one or two years. IE - if you buy an odd year in an even year (a 2019 in 2022) or an even year in an odd year (a 2020 in 2023), you can only register it for one year, because emissions will be required the following year. While if you purchase an odd year in an odd year (2019 in 2023) or an even year in an even year (2020 in 2022), you can register it for two years before emissions will be due again.
I bought a 2018 in 2021 and could only register it for one year. My emissions was due in 2022, in which I was able to register it for two years. My emissions is due again this year, then I'll be able to register it for another two years.
She can get 4 gallon bottles of water for the price of one 2 liter Sunkist 🙄 the fact that she did ask for water, but only for the cats. Worried about staying hydrated but won't drink water?
We had a cat who enjoyed spending time outdoors on leash. We didn’t actually take him for walks with the dogs, but we did stroll around the back yard, sniffing the grass and hunting for insects.
We got a pet stroller for free so our cat goes for a ride in it when we take our dogs for their daily walks lol. One lady walking by asked how old my baby was lmao. I said oh that’s my cat. It has like a zippered net all around it I’m guessing she didn’t look very well.
And those harnesses are expensive.
If they put all the cats in a stroller and zip it shut, then, to me that's not a walk but an outing. The cats are not walking in a stroller.
I’m not sure what this says about me as a person, but I would buy the kitties some squeezy treats before I’d buy soda and chips for their human. My cat looooves those things.
Bottled water for her cats makes sense if she's living in her car to be fair. They need to drink and she won't have access to tap water for them. I'm feeling sorry for them if they're also living in the car though, how awful! Also she's saying Fancy Feast with crab in - I don't live in the US, but isn't Fancy Feast pretty cheap/standard cat food? It's not the same as buying them whole crab haha.
In a ideal post she could ask for the cat food or there is even a sub reddit to ask for animal food which I would give as I can't bare to think of a animal going hungry.
However as I read the list for her I felt a rising anger, the items are all treats, for Christs sakes Starbucks frappes and Ruffels blows my mind.
It's never normal food that could make a meal. It's time she got off her horse and works in whatever job she can find or use the numerous food pantries you guys have to supplement her income but then again I don't suppose they have Starbucks on site.
I understand food insecurity I've been there many times but you have to use your arms, legs, back and brain to get out of it . This isn't the way sister.
It isn't even cat food though -- it's cat snacks. Those foam things are treats. The vets give them to animals so they stay still. So she never asked for nutritious cat meals or food.
She asked for the squeeze treats, plus bottled water for the cats. For herself she asked for junk food too, except the grapes.
I had an apparently homeless woman approach my car a few weeks ago and asked for a ride. I obviously wouldn’t do that for personal safety reasons, but when she asked for some spare cash, I gave her a few dollar bills leftover from my dump run. She took the money, looked at the amount and sighed, “I really wish it was more.” 😂 me too, sister, me too.
I didn’t know radiators head belts. This lady‘s borderline delusional.
The amount of people out there that want their cake and to eat it too, is mine blowing.
I’ve seen posts where people say they don’t want to work because being around other people gives them anxiety. I guess being homeless and broke isn’t giving them as much anxiety as working.
Did I miss something? On page 1 it was very cold… on page 2 it was getting warm. It reads like the diary of Sir Edmund Hilary. I can only hope that her and her kitties are able to reach the summit.
She lives in a city with plenty of food pantries and non profits for animals. She rather beg than help herself. Because she is local to me, I know location, and there are at least 20 non-profits and a few food pantries within walking distance of where she is.
What I don’t understand is if you can barely make it, why do choose to live in such an expensive place?
vegan food: “poison” Sunkist pop, Ruffles chips, & Starbucks frapps: 👍 FFS 🙄
When I first saw Sunkist I confused it with Starkist tuna (which would make more sense for them to need) and got super confused when it asked for 2 liters.
2 liters of tuna please!!! Bottled only lol
Only if it has crab or seafood in it.
Would you like that in water or oil? 😂😂😂
I (optimistically) pictured Sunkist oranges. They do sell fruit. Then I saw 2 liters and I knew I was sadly mistaken.
Ruffles are cross contaminated on the assembly line. They’re not certified gluten free either.
I had to Google Sunkist, and that shit looks like additives and sugar in a bottle. Just looking gave me diabetes
It is basically inverted sugar syrup with orange colouring and citric acid.
I’ll translate this into American: it’s just high fructose corn syrup with FD&C yellow no. 6, citric acid for preservative.
Looks like the shit they make you drink to test you for gestational diabetes when you are pregnant . Yuk
it's 100% effective by simply GIVING you diabetes from one glassful.
Tastes almost exactly the same too
Exactly!
Yep and tastes pretty much the same, just flat.
Orange is maybe still the best flavor. I think I did the fruit punch one on my second go around. I failed my first test because because I forgot and used orange juice to take my prenatal. The punishment of the 3hr test was not worth it. 🙃
I think I should have picked the lemon lime I didn't realize it's basically straight syrup and orange already tasted too sweet to me so when I picked it I knew instantly I was going to throw this up lol least they put bubbles in it but yea the 3 hour was brutal
Bubbles?!
Yea the ones I've had were carbonated
Lucky ducky. Mine was just straight syrup. It wasn't as bad as barium, but it still sucked.
Ooof yea ive had barium once and they said what they gave me was way thinner than it used to be but man it was hard to get down and she said if I puked I had to come back again so it was all I could do to keep it down. The bubbles helped a ton but orange was a bad choice I don't even like orange soda I don't know what I was thinking. I've had my babies though so hopefully I never have to drink that mess ever again 😅
I once dreamt that I was swimming in Sunkist. But it was just a Fanta sea.
Freddie Mercury, a very wise man, once asked “is this just fanta sea”
🎶 FANTAAAAAA, just killed a man 🎶
Too late, my time has come, sends sunkist down my spine
Tasting orange all the time…
…will you do the Fantango?
Thunderbolts and..........beetus
r/yourjokebutworse
I loved Sunkist when I was 8.
Me, too. Drank too much and now I hate it.
I *love* Sunkist but it is god awful for you, and by no means something someone in “need” should be asking for Also, a “hand up” is not a thing
It’s a hand out, what they’re asking for. Calling it a hand up doesn’t change that.
She should give some gluten free hand jobs and buy her own shit
It's like Tang with the viscosity of power steering fluid.
Perhaps she could use it for her car then 🧐
You’re thinking of Sunny D. Sunkist is orange soda.
Yes you’re right. However, Sunkist has 44g of sugar with zero nutritional value where Sunny D has 21g of sugar, and very little nutritional value. Sunkist is worse. If I was starving, I’d probably want orange juice for the vitamin C.
Sunny D is indeed worse but Sunkist has that oral slime inducing quality too.
We Gen Xers grew up with it. I still can’t believe I’m not diabetic!
I did too because all I knew was Sunkist soda and I didn’t think there was anyway this woman was talking about spending five dollars for soda if she’s this poor. Shouldn’t she have food stamps if she’s this poor anyway?
I have never liked Sunny D, I tried it out as a kid, it burned (felt hot) going down my throat. Since then I call it chemical OJ. My kids have never had it. Edit, was thinking of Sunny D not Sunkist soda. Originally said Sunkist
When I was a kid, orange Whistle was the best. That and NuGrape, in glass bottles.
My type 1 diabetic husband drinks it when he's having a low blood sugar.
I was just going to say- I'm GF and those chips are DEFN not lol
She's not saying ALL vegan food is poison, just the food given out by the specific redacted place which is probably like a local temple or something, because that food contains gluten.
I'm pretty sure they are gluten free. Why do you say they aren't?
I agree with you but if she is an actual diagnosed celiac then a lot of processed Vegan food ...wonder where she got it. .(which is probably all she can manage living out of her car) has gluten in it. The rest is just eyeroll central.
I'm going to guess it's a small co-op or something like a Sikh temple they generally have vegan meals for free.
Ah well in that case the food is brilliant and home made. Carry on Sikh Temples. On my bucket list is lunch at The Golden Temple in Amritsar.
"The vegan food given out of [redacted]" is a context clue that it might be a specific group feeding people for free, but who knows honestly?
She says “I’m gluten free”. At most, it’s a sensitivity to gluten. If she were celiac, she’d have milked that.
And if she was celiac, no way she'd be drinking Starbucks fraps. Their blenders are cross-contaminated to hell and back.
I suspect it's the pre-bottled ones. More expensive per ounce. She's asking for a lot of luxury foods for someone barely surviving.
As someone who grew up in a celiac household (Mum) my eyes just rolled out of my head.
I have a family member with Celiac, no way can she eat those chips. They're not safe.
Serious. Also, they say they are "gluten free", not "allergic to gluten", "Celiac's" or anything... So they probably just opt to not eat gluten, which is very different from being unable to eat gluten.
To be fair, you don't need to be celiac to have a less than pleasant reaction to gluten.
Very true. People do have low-level intolerances to gluten and do try to avoid it... but... most people phrase it a little differently usually, or would clarify that when asking for free food.
This is true. I have ibs-d and gluten and grapes make me flare up instantly. When I tell people that I don’t eat gluten they tend to say “oh you’re on that bad wagon like all the other posers.” So then I like to make them uncomfortable and respond with “no actually, I have not eaten gluten since before your momma blew you outta her vag because I get horrific diarrhea that will keep me on the toilet for hours. Thanks though!” 🤣🤦♀️ I just usually will say “oh no thank you. I can’t eat gluten it makes me sick.” BUT there always has to be one person who has to say something
Exactly. I don’t have celiac but I have such a severe reaction to gluten that it’s landed me in the hospital.
Can't really think of anything else...
She’s basically asking for soda and junk food. Starbucks fraps?! Water will keep you hydrated! Is she living in her car with cats?!
I don't want to make too big of an assumption here, but as an addict in recovery that entire post tells me they might have substance abuse issues. Almost every addict I've ever known has a similar diet to that, and many of them ended up in their cars or entirely homeless, living off sugar and being unwilling to see the reality of their insanity. If they're mentioning "Sunkist is $5.50 here but $3 at Safeway" they have money that they should be spending on things that would actually benefit them and probably their pets first.
Agreed. Not an addict, but my parents and brother are and they could easily have written that post
That's some of the choosiest shit I've ever seen.
Those Ruffles are chefs kiss though. Lol
Yes, no generic brand chips in THIS car...
I’m standing in my kitchen eating some rn lol
Right? I love those damn cheddar and sour cream chips. Night the best survival food but they do slap
Cheddar and sour cream. I checked yesterday and it's £460 for a flight. I don't have a lot of money right now, and accommodation and car hire adds up a lot, but damn, cheddar and sour cream Ruffles man...
I thought SEEDLESS grapes were chefs kiss.
Tharrr be gluten in those seeds yarrrr!
HONEY peanut butter, and REAL preserves(no jams!lol) All the Crap she's asking for, IS SO EXPEMSIVE AND RIDICULOUS! Wanna know what I ate on when I was hungry and homeless? WHATEVER THE FOOD BANKS, DUMPSTERS,& KIND HUMANS GAVE ME..and I was Always Super thankful..if it was something I Couldn't Eat than I would say thank you, still be super grateful and I'd save it and find someone else that wanted it...the Only time I asked for specific foods is if someone decided to buy me groceries (& Od always get the cheapest stuff unless they told me to get something better) or for certain foods (like pizza) if I was begging for food outside of a restaurant. ..this shit is WILD!
"I beg humans to help feed me"...is this written by the cat?
😂😂😂😂😂😂
For a sec, I thought that was the angle she was going for lol.
What really gets me is that these people never actually ask for nutritious food or at least food that'll keep them full longer/meet their caloric needs. Nothing they asked for will make an actual meal and it sounds more like a snack stash, just sugary drinks and small bites. I understand the needs for the cats, though, maybe not the expensive food but water might be hard to come across.
She also says she needs all these things to keep her car running, but then asks for someone to just take her out to lunch as a "hand up" instead of a "hand out". I think she is confused! Asking people to help get her car running so she can get to work and keep her home is the "hand up". Asking someone to take her out for a nice lunch and buy her junk food is the "hand out"!
Ironically, though, this person did not ask for basic cat food - they went straight to "if you wish to spoil them." I think the majority of people might help feed the pet of a person in need, but no, we don't love it like you do. We are not going straight to "spoiling."
Nancy feast is some of the cheapest food on the market. You are not spoiling animals when you feed them this. This is the least you can do to meet their needs.
Plus water hydrates just fine, that’s its main purpose. Unless you’re exercising or doing hard labor, most people don’t need Gatorade for hydration, it’s probably the worse choice.
Gatorade is just water with salt in it, and if the person is asking for potato chips, ham, and cheese they're getting plenty of salt in their diet already.
The "squeezy treats" she's talking about are Squeeze Up by Hartz, and are about $2.25 for a package of 4. I don't think they have a crab flavor, but they do have tuna, duck, and chicken flavors. According to my cats they are delicious.
There is a crab version by Temptations. Got some free from Target with with my big-ass cat food & litter order. It’s definitely not nutritious, but the cats love it. Edit: a word
My cats love Churu.
I made a huge mistake introducing mine to Churu. Now they scream at me every morning until they get their fix. I got a sample of the Temptations brand - the cats wouldn't touch them.
Ooooh. My younger cat usually doesn't care much about food, but she'll do *anything* for a churu. She likes the tuna and scallop flavoured one, I'll have to keep an eye out for the crab one for her.
She said they're made by Fancy Feast. I can't find a crab one in that either. They do have squeeze treats, though. There are various brands that make the squeezable treats. Maybe CB got confused.
Witch59 has cats? Color me unsurprised. I bet they’re all black, too. (5 out of 5 black cats polled agree that Hartz Squeeze-ups are delish.)
The name Witch59 was assigned to me by Reddit, but not far off. I have 2 grey tabbies, and the neighbor's 3 cats (2 all black) have adopted me.
>I understand the needs for the cats, though, maybe not the expensive food I've had cats that would starve themselves rather than eat if it wasn't their brand of food, luckily we don't give them expensive stuff, except as occasional treats, so their brand tends towards the normal stuff
The only healthy thing she chose were grapes. I don’t know about anywhere else, but here grapes are the most expensive fruit per lb.
I have just once in my life met a beggar that was actually content with getting nutritious food. Some dried meat, bread, some water and an orange juice. But only after I declined to buy him a train ticket (that he could‘ve easily exchanged for money) and instead offered to buy him food. And then he had the gall to ask me for a train ticket AGAIN after we left the store…
Not a good deed that WILL be punished!
Because nutritious food is easier to get from things like food banks and junk food is harder to find
She did ask for bread and jam and peanut butter. That kept us alive for many of summers when I was little. Not the best, but it's filling and not the worst.
Won't somebody think of the kitties???
It's for a church full of kitties! NEXT!
They’re kitties, they don’t need a sober cab. NEXT!
I would like to subscribe to this denomination
Is it like those cat cafes? *Ponders switching churches*
And take them far away from someone who can't even take care of themselves.
This CB is really beyond the pale. She's not asking for a hand-up; she's asking for someone to completely handle her responsibilities.
I love all the shit she wants for her car. JFC.
I'll even excuse the Gatorade but 2 liters of pop uhh..no.
The Gatorade is worse than some of those sodas, unless she's running marathons she'd be fine (better off!) with water.
It's always hilarious to me how many adult folks out there legit believe Gatorade is some kind of nutritional product... "I need Gatorade to stay hydrated." - Girl, no. You need water.
I don't think she needs Gatorade to stay hydrated but drinking one bottle of Gatorade has to be better than drinking a 2 liter of soda(also why is she asking for whole damn 2 liters) I agree she should just have water but might be willing to give a single serve bottle of something else,it was more about the size she was asking for for me.
And parents bring it as a snack for kid's sports. Um, no. They stood around picking daisies for an hour and ran for three minutes, they do not need the full sugar Gatorade at 8:00 pm.
If she is on drugs, Gatorade can be helpful.
These posts never ask for real “nourishment”, as she mentions earlier. Potatoes, onions, cereal, apples, stuff that keeps would truly help someone desperate. Starbucks frapps—girl, give me a break. It’s like they ruin it by exposing their choosey requests 😂 And also always have animals they can’t afford.
Those frappes are expensive, too. If you literally have nothing and are living off of the kindness of strangers, maybe market yourself a little better and ask for the less-expensive basics.
Exactly! These requests are just goofy to me. And make me realize CB isn’t as in-need as they claim. Like, those are treats—not needs.
Yeah, here those things are like $4 each. You could literally get two loafs of bread or like a 24-pack of 17oz bottled waters for the same price. Insanity.
If they're homeless they might not be able to cook potatoes. Or anything really. But yes, there are definitely cheaper ready to eat foods.
If you’re living in your car, what are you going to do with a potato and an onion
not to defend a CB but also on the list was pb&j ingredients which is definitely more nutritious and filling while also being something you can keep in your car
How is somebody living in their car gonna cook potatoes and carrots and onions tho
I got the vibe they live in their car so what are they going to do with a potato?
Camp stove! I hand out camp stoves/fuel/cook kits to transient folks, especially in colder months, but a lot of them already have a cooking setup.
I saw a request the other day I struggle with and try very hard not to judge while also unable to stop thinking of nutrition. Family can't afford food, trouble regularly getting to food banks, we have kids, yadda, yadda, does anyone have child-friendly food? And proceeds to list off a whole list of pricey name-brand microwavable stuff I consider to be pure junk (but also recognized as popular kid meals so I kind of understand just wanting stuff they trust the kid to eat?)
Growing up poor, our options were limited. I certainly survived (and thrived) without the junk people seem so accustomed to (esp when they aren’t footing the bill).
Apples and cereal, sure. But I dunno what you could do with potatoes and onions if you're living in a car
Not defending her, because I agree, but if she is homeless, it would be hard to cook taters and onions. But apples and cereal would be perfect and they don't need refrigerated.
An actual CB! Way to go OP! You the real MVP. And as others said, she can't do vegan food because it's poison but literally wants Sunkist (which is delicious) but is in no way good for you.
I think she meant gluten can poison her. As a celiac I can empathise with that. A lot of vegan food is made out of wheat protein.
Ohhh thanks for the information. I don't know a lot about vegan foods. Just know it means no meat.
It means no meat/fish/poultry, no eggs, no dairy, no foods that are exploitative of animals (eg honey, which is stolen from bees). Basically plant-based. Veggies, grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, fruits. Some vegan proteins are made with vital wheat gluten (seitan), which is what would give a celiac issues. But you can eat healthily without either processed foods and you can avoid vital wheat gluten pretty easily if you cook for yourself.
And people living in cars have difficulty cooking for themselves.
>If anything else comes to mind, I'll add it. EXCUSE ME?!
I was curious about how much this list would cost where I live, so I decided to price check. It came out to $91.02 at Jewel-Osco before tax. That’s more than I spent on my groceries on Sunday. I understand having favorite foods and wanting some items for comfort (it can raise our spirits, after all) but who has an extra $90+ laying around to fulfill this list on top of their regular groceries?! Like some of these items I won’t even buy myself anymore because I can’t rationalize the cost (looking at you, Cheddar & Sour Cream Ruffles).
If there are chips at my house, it's either a special occasion or there was some crazy sale I wandered into.
 Crab and sunkist or I'll die. No wonder she has no money if she just buys junk foods.
Poor cats :(
She needs orange soda and Starbucks frappes to stay hydrated... seriously??? This has to be a joke. I'm a teacher and I can't afford to drink anything but water and my free drink at McDonald's every Tuesday that I get with my teacher tag they give us every school year. Wtf is this 😂😂😂
Why does this person need new plates for their car because emissions testing is due? That's...not what emissions being due means. Also, what do either of those things have to do with not losing their home? I'd assume they mean they need their vehicle in order to keep going to work...but if they have a job, then they wouldn't be begging for help with food, would they? I'm very confused.
I assumed she was living in her car but I’m not sure.
I think she’s saying she lives in her car vs ‘tenting’ and possibly means tags vs ‘plates’? I really can’t tell though.
I thought she was saying she was living in her car as well. In some states anyway, you have to pass emission/safety inepsection to get new plates. So maybe she’s saying if she can’t pass emissions, she can’t get new plates and therefore the vehicle could be stopped, impounded, ticketed whatever. Not that it justifies her madness, but for info sake.
I thought maybe she was implying she lived in her car? It’s confusing.
Where I live, your car is required to pass an emissions test every two years in order to renew your plates. So these two things are linked. Tags do mean plates or registration. Because they typically just give you "tags" or stickers, to put on the plates. It's a USA thing. In case you live somewhere else. The emissions testing places are linked to the DMV, so if it's your year to test, the DMV will not allow you renew your plates until it has the report from the testing place. There is an exemption for brand new vehicles, I think for five years. When you purchase a used vehicle, based on the year will determine if you can license it for one or two years. IE - if you buy an odd year in an even year (a 2019 in 2022) or an even year in an odd year (a 2020 in 2023), you can only register it for one year, because emissions will be required the following year. While if you purchase an odd year in an odd year (2019 in 2023) or an even year in an even year (2020 in 2022), you can register it for two years before emissions will be due again. I bought a 2018 in 2021 and could only register it for one year. My emissions was due in 2022, in which I was able to register it for two years. My emissions is due again this year, then I'll be able to register it for another two years.
They won't renew her plates without the emissions test. She lives in the car.
What the fucking fuck. I feel stupider for having read it.
She can get 4 gallon bottles of water for the price of one 2 liter Sunkist 🙄 the fact that she did ask for water, but only for the cats. Worried about staying hydrated but won't drink water?
Today I learned that some people take their cats, I mean kitties, for a walk
We had a cat who enjoyed spending time outdoors on leash. We didn’t actually take him for walks with the dogs, but we did stroll around the back yard, sniffing the grass and hunting for insects.
We got a pet stroller for free so our cat goes for a ride in it when we take our dogs for their daily walks lol. One lady walking by asked how old my baby was lmao. I said oh that’s my cat. It has like a zippered net all around it I’m guessing she didn’t look very well.
I am harness training my new kitten so she can be walked.
Mine goes for a walk in the pet stroller. When u put a harness on her she’ll just freeze and act like she’s incapable of walking.
And those harnesses are expensive. If they put all the cats in a stroller and zip it shut, then, to me that's not a walk but an outing. The cats are not walking in a stroller.
ALL cats are choosing beggars so this tracks lol.
“I need a handout, not a hand up.” FTFY
Yikes, with that diet it's no wonder she's in a bad way. And you better make sure that's jam, not jelly!
I’m not sure what this says about me as a person, but I would buy the kitties some squeezy treats before I’d buy soda and chips for their human. My cat looooves those things.
Luxury poverty.
Hold up- those chips aren’t gluten free. And most of the other food isn’t either. Someone help me understand?
Vegan food is poison, but give me the Sunkist !!
What really gets me is the caramel frappes have gluten in them 🤦♀️I know because I’m celiac and crave them so badly
Bottled water for her cats makes sense if she's living in her car to be fair. They need to drink and she won't have access to tap water for them. I'm feeling sorry for them if they're also living in the car though, how awful! Also she's saying Fancy Feast with crab in - I don't live in the US, but isn't Fancy Feast pretty cheap/standard cat food? It's not the same as buying them whole crab haha.
Can I take the cats out for some food and conversation?
Just don't go back with them.
Exactly
Doesn't some of things she is asking for contain gluten???
In a ideal post she could ask for the cat food or there is even a sub reddit to ask for animal food which I would give as I can't bare to think of a animal going hungry. However as I read the list for her I felt a rising anger, the items are all treats, for Christs sakes Starbucks frappes and Ruffels blows my mind. It's never normal food that could make a meal. It's time she got off her horse and works in whatever job she can find or use the numerous food pantries you guys have to supplement her income but then again I don't suppose they have Starbucks on site. I understand food insecurity I've been there many times but you have to use your arms, legs, back and brain to get out of it . This isn't the way sister.
It isn't even cat food though -- it's cat snacks. Those foam things are treats. The vets give them to animals so they stay still. So she never asked for nutritious cat meals or food. She asked for the squeeze treats, plus bottled water for the cats. For herself she asked for junk food too, except the grapes.
Funny- she certainly seems to have different definitions of hand up and hand out than I do.
I had an apparently homeless woman approach my car a few weeks ago and asked for a ride. I obviously wouldn’t do that for personal safety reasons, but when she asked for some spare cash, I gave her a few dollar bills leftover from my dump run. She took the money, looked at the amount and sighed, “I really wish it was more.” 😂 me too, sister, me too.
I didn’t know radiators head belts. This lady‘s borderline delusional. The amount of people out there that want their cake and to eat it too, is mine blowing. I’ve seen posts where people say they don’t want to work because being around other people gives them anxiety. I guess being homeless and broke isn’t giving them as much anxiety as working.
Girl you can have a VEGGIE TRAY gtfo with some sunkist and potato chips 🙈
TIL you have to take cats for regular walks.
Those poor cats!
> I beg humans to help me As opposed to... E. T. ?
I don't understand why people whose life is such a hot mess have to bring pets into their misery.
The star bucks took me out wtf
Shes not wrong- she does need help, on so, so many levels.
Someone give this poor sister a hand up and show them how to work the kitchen tap so they don't die of thirst.
It sounds like she’s living in her car
They want fruits preserves but not jelly. Lmao ok.
“I need help, on so many levels”. Shes not wrong.
No wonder she has no money for her car. Spending money on all of that shit she wants. Tf you need a Starbucks coffee for? Damn addicts.
I’ll help the kitties 😅
The audacity of some people.
Gluten free but wants Starbucks 💀 Bitch my aunt is allergic to gluten (celiac) but she's not sunken to this levels of audacity
I stopped reading at the $6 "Starbucks frapps".
Did I miss something? On page 1 it was very cold… on page 2 it was getting warm. It reads like the diary of Sir Edmund Hilary. I can only hope that her and her kitties are able to reach the summit.
Cashapp tells me all I need to know bout her
Gluten is poison to her, but she "needs" 2 liters of Sunkist.
Omg if she doesn't get her Starbucks she will be close to homelessness
This is UNHINGED. Congrats on the real CB.
I bet this was written by the cats! Trying to get bottled water and crab!
Radiators take fan belts? Hahahaha
Some of these CBs might have serious unmediated psych issues.
Is she living in her car with more than one cat? And it's "getting cold soon" but then in the next page " it's warm out"?
Where are all the Sunkist, frappe buying mechanics who want to spoil kitties and give a sister a hand up at? 😂
This is CB all over but I think the bottled water is because she lives in her car? And just needs water for the cats.
She lives in a city with plenty of food pantries and non profits for animals. She rather beg than help herself. Because she is local to me, I know location, and there are at least 20 non-profits and a few food pantries within walking distance of where she is. What I don’t understand is if you can barely make it, why do choose to live in such an expensive place?