The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which manages the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) also known as food stamps, tightened the restrictions on selling hot food in October 2017, and disqualified 43 stores in the Baltimore area from accepting food stamps in the past few months, The Baltimore Sun reported. Seafood-specific shops that don’t sell other items would necessarily be disqualified from accepting food stamps, and the new rule makes it clear stores that “primarily sell seafood, pizza, and other food products cold and then offer to heat or cook these products on the premises are operating as restaurants, not retail food stores.” Any seafood sold in exchange for food stamps would also have to be sold cold, as “hot food and any food sold for on-premises consumption” is…