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>>24312389 (cont'd)
Oh yeah, eggs, too. And lots more that I'm forgetting.

So anyway, you can calculate the value if you want. Let's call it $4 per pound for the meat (remember, bacon was $8/lb at the grocery store during this mess because of the meatpacking plants shutting down), so you're looking at close to $150 just for that. The $25 gift card was literally "go buy whatever you want" at a Dollar General store; you could easily resell it if you wanted to. Bell peppers were $1.50 each at the store, so $9 just for those. Potatoes would have been $5 for that bag.

I doubt very much that you could have gotten all that crap in a store for under $300. And they just loaded it into my car trunk without me even having to touch it because OMFG BEERFLU MIGHT KILL US ALL.

Meanwhile, my mother is literally a multimillionaire. Not joking, not LARPing. She's old and she wanted her goddamned free food.

And we could have done it twice more -- the one I missed, and another big handout just before I left. She didn't want it the next time around just because we still hadn't eaten half the stuff from the month before. We had to throw away about a third of the fresh vegetables because we just couldn't eat them before they started to rot. She gave away some of the meat to her friends.

Our usage patterns are such that there's no fucking way we could ever have gone through that much meat. Could've used more eggs, though.

Anyway, so much for "third world" and "only thirty dollars". FFS, the gift card alone was $25 in free money.