Stand your ground, Andrea!

I applaud her for standing on principle. It should be a choice for vendors to participate or not in the EBT programm. If we are a tolerant scociety the we should tolerate her views too.

There needs to be much better controls around this ridiculous "food stamp" issue. People should not be able to have the ease of a debit card from the governement to buy whatever they want!!! To include long taxi drives (and yes, whoopie pies) to ANY store!! HUH?? What is wrong with this country!! HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A FOOD PANTRY?? Go get your healthy FOOD their and end this massive tax payer waste!!!! It's just not fair to those NOT on "food" stamps...the common middle class citizen is racking up major credit card debt (in these tough economic times) buying legitimate food for their family....NOT alcohol, tatoos, taxt rides, candy, soda, pastries...etc. etc!!! Thanks Andrea Taber!! You're the best!!!

I support you Andrea in your thoughts as to why you are not accepting EBT cards for your products. Thank you from one taxpayer to another. I would also put out there that you are probably not the only vendor at this farmer's market that are selling "luxury" items, yet you are the only one to put a proper perspective on EBT cards.

Way to go Andrea!! Hang in there!

I fully support you and your position on this EBT matter. It is absolutely disgusting how much this system is constantly abused. I am inspired to see you standing alone for your beliefs and principles. I live in central New Hampshire and no where near where your treats are being sold. But I am going way out of my way to make some purchases of your pastries to show my support. I wish you continued success.

For a couple years I was a cashier in a Philadelphia grocery store. I was always amazed by the people paying with ebt that would treat me like trash and use their card for crab legs, or buy 30 dollars worth of sushi for a single meal. There are people that actually NEED food stamps, and they should be able to purchase quality, healthy food with them. Soda, dessert, and snack food should not even be an option. Thank you for having a strong voice and standing by your beliefs.

The farmer's market management is dead-wrong in trying to force Andrea Tabor to accept EBT for payment. Also, there must be other vendors at that same farmer's market who are selling expensive, luxury-type foods/desserts who should grow a "backbone" and follow Ms. Tabor's lead. How many different ways are there to express the fact that TAXPAYERS are paying for these food programs which are to be used by needy folks who otherwise would have no food to eat. When I see someone using their EBT/SNAP to buy filet mignon or gourmet dessert, I can't help but think this person has somehow cheated the system and gotten their EBT/SNAP illegally. Andrea Tabor, you have high principals we should all aspire to!!

It is heartbreaking how different the comments here are from those in Plymouth. I understand that ANdrea is doing business in Walpole and she has customer all over. But her position is exactly like the position of Nazi in Poland during the WWII. They rationed food and not allowed lower races of Slaves and Jews to get real coffee or tea. There was chicory and apple peel instead.
I cannot believe that I am reading what I read above.
Should Andrea go to Republican National Convention as a personification of Republican soul? Its sort of a heart, and is kind of a brain? A hero?
NO, Andrea Tabor doesn't sell humble pies, she sells hard to swallow and impossible to digest pieces of patronizing arrogance. It seems that they change those who eat them the same way a little piece of ice thrown by Snow Queen changed Hans. Gretchen, where are you?
Maria Hrabowski

I'm a full time working Mom who has to work in order to provide my children with the food they eat every day. Basic food...not filet mignon, sushi, etc. I'm not part of the EBT/SNAP program...but I do applaud it...for those who truly need it. It's not that I don't want to share my (taxpayer) money with the less fortunate, but there has to be a line drawn as to where and how that money is spent. Most weeks I cannot afford to buy a gourmet pie for my home, it's not fair that the money I contribute should be spent on it by somebody else to enjoy. Sure, everyone deserves a treat, and when these people get back on their feet and out of the program, they can enjoy all the filets, sushi and pies they want. I work really hard for my money and when I have a few extra bucks (rarely) I may buy a "treat" such as a pie....but it's not purchased until then.

Maria, your comparison is way out of line...food isn't rationed. There are plenty of options for good, healthy, nutrional food. If you think that people in the program deserve to eat expensive pies, then by all means, buy it for them.

Good for Ms Taber for taking a stand. She is absolutely on point. There are plenty of pies (think Table Top), that are affordable and are of good quality, for those receiving government assistance when the need arises to "treat" your family to something special. Taxpayers money should not be spent on "luxuries" instead of essentials

If you can buy the ingredients to make pie, then why can't you buy a pie at a store? I can see the issue when it comes to true luxury items such as liquor, butts, etc....but pie? I think this is rediculous and very "Nazi like".

I hope Ms taber feels the same way about the fat cats in this Contry the ones that screw taxpayers of billions of dollars and live a lavash lifestyle on the back of hard working Americans those kind of people will get a red carpet treatment from Ms taber I doubt jesus would be able to shop at Ms taber store .