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i know. and what's worse bro, is when a supermarket realises that it's skips are providing a source of food for down-and-outs, homeless, the dispossessed, poverty-liners or -for whatever reason- plain hungry and skint, they'll happily deliberately ruin perfectly edible food with bleach, deturgents, etc. just so as no-one gets summat for nowt.markfiend wrote:Dig the freegan thing.
It's fcuking horrifying the amount of food gets thrown away. I think I read that up to 35% of food bought in the UK winds up in the bin.
I'll pass on the cider but Starbucks sandwiches look so nice but are way expensive. Used to do dumpster-diving with my brother in the early 1980's but I'd be up for free sandwiches if I knew the right spoteastmidswhizzkid wrote:munching my way through about £40 worth of starbucks sandwiches and cakes which i liberated freegan-style from their bin about ten seconds after they got chucked in it. all stil in date till today (so a couple of days in the fridge still) and full of such fillings as prawns, salmon, and roast chicken. i hate waste.#
not to mention washing it down with ice-cold cider bought with the £10 i just found.
Don't know how it works in the industry in the UK, but I worked for a natural foods co-op here in Seattle (PCC) for a number of years. When refrigeration breaks down, they have insurance to cover the losses. I suspect that larger organisations would have something similar, and that said insurance might prohibit them from distributing it. (If it's ruined, people shouldn't be eating it - if it isn't ruined, the insurance shouldn't have to pay for it. I don't agree with this entirely, but I understand how it works...)eastmidswhizzkid wrote:...we found a tesco bin a couple of weeks ago where a store freezer must have gone down. there was literally thousands of pounds worth of frozen food which they hadn't even thought twice about dumping.
PCC would never want anything they thought was in any way 'bad' to be consumed, because their philosophy is all about the 'wholesomeness' of their foods (e.g. they tell you to store your cooking oil in the fridgeand i'd bet that wasted food from supermarkets is tax-deductable already -why draw attention to a surplus situation which would only give them more to do if it was recognised properly.
Another one for you:eastmidswhizzkid wrote:fuck it mark-gimme five minutes with the people responsible for those sorts of decisions man....
nothing i couldn't have guessed, tbh, but still...The Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS) coordinated a doner dragnet in which operatives from 76 councils across Blighty examined 494 post-pub pitta-wrapped pabula. If your heart can stand it, the shock results were: The average kebab contains 98 per cent of daily salt, nearly 1000 calories (half a woman’s daily food intake) and 148 per cent of daily saturated fat.
And that's just the average kebab.
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Tests also showed that in 15 per cent of cases beef was found in the kebab, but not declared on the label. In fact, 35 per cent of the labels listed different meat species than that actually contained in the kebab. Alarmingly, six kebabs tested positive for pork when it had not been declared as an ingredient, of which two were claimed as Halal.
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"right-on" would explain why their prices are twice those of other chains...markfiend wrote:Another one for you:eastmidswhizzkid wrote:fuck it mark-gimme five minutes with the people responsible for those sorts of decisions man....
A mate used to busk outside our local Co-op. I say used to; the management kept trying to move him on. One day he got jumped by a group of w@nkers, nicked his money and smashed his guitar while staff from the Co-op stood by and did fcuk-all.
Now obviously I'm not saying that the Co-op encouraged this, but you've got to wonder.
And this is the Co-op -- supposedly the most "right-on" supermarket brand!