Minnesota food shelves add ingredients to adapt to diverse clientele
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
by
Maya Rao
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
3/25/2019 11:57:23 PM
On the days when women of East African descent come to the food shelf, the staff at Community Emergency Service knows to set out paper bags filled with sugar, flour and vegetable oil. Those are the first items that go in their carts. “We try to provide them a different type of food shelf,” said executive director Mike Lloyd.(Snip) The staples are used to make injera, a type of African bread, and other popular Somali dishes. Once or twice a month, East African-American residents in need come to load up on food that includes goat meat and chori beans,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/26/2019 12:07:52 AM (No. 12916)
When my late Dad was growing up in his home state, Wisconsin, Minnesota was full of Swedes...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cube 3/26/2019 12:08:24 AM (No. 12925)
When I was a child, and legally immigrated to the US, my mother told me to eat what was given to me at the public school whether I liked it or not.
Years later, I think it was on 60 Minutes, or another news type show, an african immigrant woman was screeching about her children requiring yams for their lunch.
I knew right then that it would be a bad thing to give in to those demands, but my concerns went unheeded.
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People do what you let them. Take in the bird feeder and cut off food assistance.
Take note: they took food that should be available for the elderly and unemployed.
I watched Latina women with 3-4 kids and pregnant again push ahead of senior citizens at a food bank. Back of the bus for you.
You have to see it to believe it.
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We´ve been making injera here in Austin for 15 years. It´s a type of fermented bread. When it comes to food the more the marrier.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 3/26/2019 12:21:27 AM (No. 12920)
They have taken over the cities in mn and VERY actively taking over the towns..
But.. at least we can pay for them with our enormous taxes
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pilot222 3/26/2019 12:21:42 AM (No. 12914)
Soon cater chefs will be sent to the ghetto to prepare special meals for the Beloved illegal immigrant. Who besides me thinks we are losing our minds and money
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Axeman 3/26/2019 12:33:23 AM (No. 12927)
"Once a month"
???
!!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
emmajustin 3/26/2019 12:46:31 AM (No. 12931)
Just add bacon!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Vesicant 3/26/2019 12:54:04 AM (No. 12913)
Tex-Mex, absolutely, but Min-Som? Yeah, no.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
valinva 3/26/2019 12:57:39 AM (No. 12922)
Those in need? Who vets whether they are really in need or whether they are just taking advantage of availability of free stuff? I volunteered to help at a local food bank monthly food give away once. They came before the start of the give away driving better cars than mine. They pulled out their lawn chairs and sat around smoking cigarettes and socializing with old friends they had not seen since the last give away the month before. There were a very few who seemed truly grateful and even somewhat embarrassed to be taking the food but to the 95% who were regulars I got the impression they were expert in taking advantage of using the system both public and private.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree 3/26/2019 1:39:11 AM (No. 12917)
Somali dietary ingredients? Oh, like bushmeat (monkey with fur burned off) bats, insects and millipedes, captive enemy parts, etc.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JL80863 3/26/2019 1:47:19 AM (No. 12924)
I´m so glad to learn they are adapting and are thankful for this nation´s generosity.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Geoman 3/26/2019 2:12:35 AM (No. 12923)
FTA: "East African-American residents in need..."
We now have modifiers added to the hyphenated Americans. What about hyphenated modifiers?
South-Central African-American residents? LA already has those.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/26/2019 3:34:31 AM (No. 12926)
They are not East African-Americans, they are Somalis and will always be Somalis at their own choosing. I hope they are supplied with dead rats and snakes along with the baking supplies. I love paying for the food of people who hate me.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
varkdriver 3/26/2019 6:41:44 AM (No. 12928)
A story like this really gets my goat.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Saryden 3/26/2019 7:12:47 AM (No. 12930)
It has become taxation without representation as the means of future American children are stolen to pay for all this largesse. Send them home now.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
binar 3/26/2019 7:42:31 AM (No. 12921)
South-Central African-American RESIDENTS.
Does that mean they are not citizens and we can send them back?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/26/2019 10:17:51 AM (No. 12915)
Are they slitting the throats of goats and letting them bleed out behind the building so that Somalis can have their halal meat?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
jacksin5 3/26/2019 11:13:21 AM (No. 12919)
Sell the Food Stamps, then raid the pantries.
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Instead of ensuring that immigrants would not become a public burden, we set aside our own genuinely needy populations and instead actively seek the poorest of the poor from across the globe and provide them with amenities tailored to their special palettes. What a country!