Mythopoeika
I am a meat popsicle
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Asda deli counter.Where can I get bear meat?
I used to live close to a large waitrose, we'd get some fairly luxury ingredients when skipping.taking veg from supermarket skips to wash and cook
Fruit and veg fair enough, supermarket waste is obscene, we could get whole sacks of potatoes but I'd draw the line at lobster or any sea food or other perishable food for that matter .. and how does he know a person hadn't slipped drugs into one of those mostly drunk bottles of wine? .. or thrown up, had one last swig and then chucked it in the bin? .. his use of using lobster shells to boil down to make a sea food broth for the tuna is inspired though.I used to live close to a large waitrose, we'd get some fairly luxury ingredients when skipping.
We used to get big bits of gammon with a £30+ RRP - suprisingly easy to get sick of.Fruit and veg fair enough, supermarket waste is obscene, we could get whole sacks of potatoes but I'd draw the line at lobster or any sea food or other perishable food for that matter
I wonder why supermarkets started locking their skips? .. perhaps well off customers were complaining or someone became ill and was cheeky enough to try and sue?We used to get big bits of gammon with a £30+ RRP - suprisingly easy to get sick of.
Because if you can take food for free from the rubbish, why would you buy it?I wonder why supermarkets started locking their skips? .. perhaps well off customers were complaining or someone became ill and was cheeky enough to try and sue?
I wonder why supermarkets started locking their skips? .. perhaps well off customers were complaining or someone became ill and was cheeky enough to try and sue?
It seems like a no-brainer, but the 'problem' for supermarkets is that their margins are quite thin and any system that allows staff to mark food down for charity/colleagues/bargain hunters is immediately gamed by those who will nick anything (there's always a few). So straight away, some will mark stuff down at just the right time to enable them to collect it themselves as they finish their shift, or get a pal to do it or even mark down stuff which isn't 'out of date'.https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...pping-food-waste-supermarkets-dumpster-diving
In recent years some supermarkets have been giving away stuff to homeless charities, etc rather than binning it. My local one gives away all the unsold bread to a local horse charity.
It's obscene that food is thrown away because of "use by dates" when the food is perfectly fine to eat. Same with medications. Most solid pills last for years after the expiry date.
It seems like a no-brainer, but the 'problem' for supermarkets is that their margins are quite thin and any system that allows staff to mark food down for charity/colleagues/bargain hunters is immediately gamed by those who will nick anything (there's always a few). So straight away, some will mark stuff down at just the right time to enable them to collect it themselves as they finish their shift, or get a pal to do it or even mark down stuff which isn't 'out of date'.
If the door was opened on sending large amounts of food, fit for human consumption, to charitable institutions, some despicable low-lifes will figure out a way to intercept it and sell it for personal gain, or 'mark down' stuff for a charitable institution, for a backhander.
The supermarkets are often stuck between doing a good thing and letting some folk screw over their colleagues* or doing a good thing and implementing systems which cost them more money.
*Tesco, for example, give staff bonuses to all staff which are dependent on many things including profit of the store and 'shrinkage' which covers all 'vanished' stock including theft of goods. If someone nicks from Tesco, telling themselves it's a victim-less crime, they are literally stealing the bonus from the regular shop floor staff, whether they're on the same staff or some thieving low-life.
I watched Esther Rantzen (That's Life) get into a paddy over Supermarket policy of unwrapping cheese pieces, cutting off the hard edges and repackaging the soft bit with a new sell-by date. The horror was that these smaller, cheaper cheese were usually bought by Pensioners.
A Supermarket spokesperson tried in vain to explain that the cheese was fine, the sell-by date applied to the packaging (not the content) and the alternative was to throw good food away.
Surplus food cannot be just be given to charitable Institutions. Practically all Schools, Prisons, Hospitals, Universities and many Elderly Residence Homes are legally required to use an Approved Catering Service Company - I think there are two Suppliers in this country running everything.
Some companies do this, for example Pret a Manger give their sandwiches to the homeless after closing time.If the door was opened on sending large amounts of food, fit for human consumption, to charitable institutions, some despicable low-lifes will figure out a way to intercept it and sell it for personal gain, or 'mark down' stuff for a charitable institution, for a backhander.
Self-cannibalism?A quarter of a century ago when I attended NCT classes we were all urged to demand our placenta from the midwife and blend it up to make a pate, which we were to eat. I did not do this but a friend did, she was completely into this sort of thing. She assured me that it tasted great.
Helsinki, Finland. My wife and I spent a few days there back in June of this year. It's bloody expensive though, with the cans of 100% bear meat selling for around 20 Euro. The pate' was cheaper at only around 12 Euro. I did ask about where it came from and was told it's the result of government culling programs. Supposedly it's an acquired taste too. At those prices I wasn't tempted enough to find out.Where can I get bear meat?
Easy to find out! I can imagine it being nice, an OXO cube is basically concentrated umami and an orange is nice, so why not?One of the hosts of the Radio Scotland programme Off the Ball has occasionally waxed lyrical about how nice half an orange with an oxo cube sprinkled over it tastes...
Has anyone actually tried this?
Some companies do this, for example Pret a Manger give their sandwiches to the homeless after closing time.