Wasted food

One of my first jobs was washing dishes in a local steakhouse that also served spaghetti. It seemed to me most of the spaghetti dishes I had to wash still had a lot of spaghetti left on them. One day I tried some of their spaghetti for my lunch break. Well.. Their spaghetti was-a, not's-so-good.. :apthy:
 

Those donut shops throw out all the donuts left at the end of the day.

There was one place that was allowing a good samaritan to come in and take them to a food bank. He did that for a whole year.

No longer. They have stopped the practice.
 
I was just communicating with a FB friend. She said that her family ate out on New Year's eve and the server brought such large portions, it made her daughter (a 20-something) sick just to look at that big pile of food so she couldn't eat any of it. Have people just psyched themselves into eating much less these days, especially young people? Probably a leaf of lettuce and a tomato wedge would have satisfied her.
 

When I was a kid the starving children were in China.

Deb - I agree that wasted food is a problem. The last number I saw (don't remember where) is that about 40% of US food is lost/wasted/uneaten after it leaves the farm. Shameful.
 
I have to admit that I've been grossed out by the restaurant trend to plate all of the food in a pile that resembles a dogs dinner.

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My grandson works in a higher end grocery store. People wouldn't believe the tonnage of food that grocery stores throw away.

Leaving a fair-sized portion of spaghetti or a piece of steak on a plate in a restaurant is nothing compared to the boat loads of food wasted by the stores. Speaking of boats, ever see the tons of food spewed out into the sea by cruise ships every day?

My grandson's store won't mark down a dented can or a torn label - they would rather throw it out than project a less than high-end image.

They can't take dated items to a food-bank because -
1- the store doesn't trust that the employees might bring it home rather than deliver it. God forbid someone might benefit.
2- that area doesn't actually have a food-bank. The nearest one is too far for lazy food bank volunteers to drive to the store.
3- people have tried to sue food banks saying they were made ill by out-dated food.
 
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