Even if it were true, the fact that this was the best response she could come up with shows how below-average she is.
That people are commenting here by laughing against her as being out of touch and had no idea of food deserts, the 'great ketchup shortage' that was caused by the need to ramp up supply chains with Covid and other related issues, which have been discussed here in multiple threads, or the general poverty in rural areas that might make it far less likely for these places to even get packages of ketchup, and to respond after mocking her mercilessly as 'stupid' or 'out of touch' with "oh, maybe it is true after all" shows how below-average many of the commenters in this thread have been.
Smug arrogance based on ignorance only shows the stupidity of the commenter. Obviously there is no point in apologizing to Swearingin, but, as a suggestion, how about actually learning about the facts of the situation before making stupid and ignorant comments?
I'm sorry for the minor insults in these comments, but there are few things that anger me more than smug and stupid cynicism.
It's a nonsense poverty fetishism comment.
West Virginia isn't some sprawling wasteland. Even in the rural parts, there are many little towns, which have grocery stores and diners, which have ketchup packets. Unless you live in a ski resort, there's nowhere in West Virginia where you're not <20 minutes from the nearest McDonalds, of which there are also dozens in the state.
People think West Virginia is just a bunch of hillbillies living up in the Appalachian mountains. The Appalachians don't even go through WV. They're primarily in western Virginia and WV only has the western foothills.
Don't libsplain WV to us.
