Celebrity chef spends week on food stamp budget

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This week chef Mario -- Ali is eating on the equivalent of a food stamp budget about a dollar fifty per meal.

As a way to protest -- -- -- budget cuts to the benefits program.

Said -- restaurant tour quote.

We hopefully are pretending or being like a bunch of -- say oh yeah this is how you can do it that we can grind our own notes.

That's exactly how it sounds.

Terry does is make you want to slap them around.

I didn't know who Vitale was nobody I don't.

-- I was I -- potential at a basketball no you know I don't.

-- -- the thing is this is actually proving exactly our point which most of us agree to proposals that I did -- if you wait for government.

It's that feeds you you'll start yet I think food -- folks if you if you're often stamps and -- need and you're probably also trying to get a job and works of the -- doing the food stamps.

Did the food stamps and Witten got a job so where he probably.

A lot better that's a very very good point thank you you're welcome -- -- -- -- -- be a better idea for ended donate some food from -- -- -- -- Restaurants that for a lot -- -- food stamps at their posh restaurant that cat you know and and you have to be the creative -- -- -- -- come up with us not him not a not a big restaurant entrepreneur more.

I had a really great point but I forgot -- -- get through it that's all right Jamie.

How does this help people on -- stance he slumming it on peanut butter and -- doesn't he wanted to help people that are actually -- -- to -- what he does well which is sort success around restaurants and -- -- people that would actually help some people get out of poverty which I would suggest I do when criticism he kind of knocked me to the pasta with miss us but at least -- -- -- Yeah that milieu we got 45 cents today so is this really a challenge -- actual -- yet.

And -- yeah.

I.

All I know.

I know about Mario the tally is that he had a -- close friends with how bright both of them will mention that on the various interviews.

I don't know why we insisted on using footage of comic book guy in the Simpson.

We were talking about a completely different person that is a good point yeah I -- car producers.

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