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But most just liked to mock ... whichever (R) president was in the WH when that bit of administrative weirdness happened.

Food stamps--WIC, SNAP, whatever the program was--did not cover "condiments." Ketchup was a condiment. Therefore, if you wanted ketchup on whatever people put ketchup on (hot dogs, hamburgers, french fries ....) you had to have non-government $. Vegetables, though, could be paid for with federal 'income'. So it was a vegetable. (It never made it into nutrition guidelines as a vegetable, by the way.)