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15 Jun 2012, 12:35 am

snapcap wrote:
Well, why not? It's just going to go to waste.

I wouldn't want to pay for expired food. If they were giving it away for free then maybe I'd eat it depending on what it was but I wouldn't necessarily want to buy it.



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15 Jun 2012, 12:07 pm

Where I live the food pantries give out food that is past the date.

I've known people before that worked at various fast food places (like KFC or Dunkin Donuts) that said how they threw out a lot of edible food at the end of the day. There are plenty of poor people that would have been grateful to have that food even if some might have been a little stale.



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15 Jun 2012, 12:22 pm

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Oh pleas the South does just fine with out Unions.


Have you ever worked in a Union? Or know the first thing ABOUT Unions?

With your anti-Union stance you might like to consider working as hired labour on a farm during harvest season. If it's anything in the states like it is up here, it'll be one step above slave labour. Get a taste of what you support.


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15 Jun 2012, 1:23 pm

I think people are slightly misunderstanding this story.

The situation was that the cafeteria was selling in-date food to students and out-of-date food to staff.

The union complained that staff were being sold out-of-date food and the cafeteria disagreed saying it was perfectly fine to eat and a waste to throw away.

The ruling is that the cafeteria can only sell in date food to anyone, but it can give away the out-of-date food to the staff for free, or bin it.

The staff were not complaining and trying to get free food, they were disgruntled about a cafeteria charging them full price for a waste product.



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15 Jun 2012, 1:58 pm

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I think people are slightly misunderstanding this story.

The situation was that the cafeteria was selling in-date food to students and out-of-date food to staff.

The union complained that staff were being sold out-of-date food and the cafeteria disagreed saying it was perfectly fine to eat and a waste to throw away.

The ruling is that the cafeteria can only sell in date food to anyone, but it can give away the out-of-date food to the staff for free, or bin it.

The staff were not complaining and trying to get free food, they were disgruntled about a cafeteria charging them full price for a waste product.


Good point.

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15 Jun 2012, 2:39 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
DC wrote:
I think people are slightly misunderstanding this story.

The situation was that the cafeteria was selling in-date food to students and out-of-date food to staff.

The union complained that staff were being sold out-of-date food and the cafeteria disagreed saying it was perfectly fine to eat and a waste to throw away.

The ruling is that the cafeteria can only sell in date food to anyone, but it can give away the out-of-date food to the staff for free, or bin it.

The staff were not complaining and trying to get free food, they were disgruntled about a cafeteria charging them full price for a waste product.


Good point.

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...and, without a Union, they would still have to pay full price for the waste product. Now, they can stuff themselves with an all-you-can-eat buffet of waste products, for free!



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15 Jun 2012, 2:45 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
DC wrote:
I think people are slightly misunderstanding this story.

The situation was that the cafeteria was selling in-date food to students and out-of-date food to staff.

The union complained that staff were being sold out-of-date food and the cafeteria disagreed saying it was perfectly fine to eat and a waste to throw away.

The ruling is that the cafeteria can only sell in date food to anyone, but it can give away the out-of-date food to the staff for free, or bin it.

The staff were not complaining and trying to get free food, they were disgruntled about a cafeteria charging them full price for a waste product.


Good point.

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...and, without a Union, they would still have to pay full price for the waste product. Now, they can stuff themselves with an all-you-can-eat buffet of waste products, for free!


Funny, when I was working that pots and pans washer job at the commons of Gonzaga years ago, we got to eat all the uneaten food we wanted for free, once it returned from the breakfast/lunch/dinner line. Then again, I live in Washington state. Things a bit more progressive here, I think.

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15 Jun 2012, 3:29 pm

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True but their might not be many people willing to eat expired food.


when i read expired in this story i read expired as in the burger from mcdonalds that gets remmoved if it sits on the heater pad for x amount of minutes, or the waste at the end of the day.
i would still eat it if i were hungry thats for sure.


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15 Jun 2012, 4:16 pm

Would there be an uproar if expired food was sent to starving people?


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15 Jun 2012, 7:10 pm

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Joker wrote:
True but their might not be many people willing to eat expired food.


when i read expired in this story i read expired as in the burger from mcdonalds that gets remmoved if it sits on the heater pad for x amount of minutes, or the waste at the end of the day.
i would still eat it if i were hungry thats for sure.


Years ago, a friend and I had gotten drunk with a guy we knew from school. This guy took us out to where he regularly got dinner each night. It was the dumpster behind McDonald's, which was full of burgers tossed out after hours. As I was drunk out of my skull, I didn't care I was eating food out of the garbage.

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15 Jun 2012, 7:19 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Oodain wrote:
Joker wrote:
True but their might not be many people willing to eat expired food.


when i read expired in this story i read expired as in the burger from mcdonalds that gets remmoved if it sits on the heater pad for x amount of minutes, or the waste at the end of the day.
i would still eat it if i were hungry thats for sure.


Years ago, a friend and I had gotten drunk with a guy we knew from school. This guy took us out to where he regularly got dinner each night. It was the dumpster behind McDonald's, which was full of burgers tossed out after hours. As I was drunk out of my skull, I didn't care I was eating food out of the garbage.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t36jwyVncmQ[/youtube]

I've done similar things before. Not that I had to, and I wasn't intoxicated either.


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15 Jun 2012, 7:24 pm

snapcap wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Oodain wrote:
Joker wrote:
True but their might not be many people willing to eat expired food.


when i read expired in this story i read expired as in the burger from mcdonalds that gets remmoved if it sits on the heater pad for x amount of minutes, or the waste at the end of the day.
i would still eat it if i were hungry thats for sure.


Years ago, a friend and I had gotten drunk with a guy we knew from school. This guy took us out to where he regularly got dinner each night. It was the dumpster behind McDonald's, which was full of burgers tossed out after hours. As I was drunk out of my skull, I didn't care I was eating food out of the garbage.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t36jwyVncmQ[/youtube]

I've done similar things before. Not that I had to, and I wasn't intoxicated either.


I remember that episode very well. :lol:

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15 Jun 2012, 9:43 pm

Maybe that's where the Union members got the idea?



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16 Jun 2012, 6:07 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
DC wrote:
I think people are slightly misunderstanding this story.

The situation was that the cafeteria was selling in-date food to students and out-of-date food to staff.

The union complained that staff were being sold out-of-date food and the cafeteria disagreed saying it was perfectly fine to eat and a waste to throw away.

The ruling is that the cafeteria can only sell in date food to anyone, but it can give away the out-of-date food to the staff for free, or bin it.

The staff were not complaining and trying to get free food, they were disgruntled about a cafeteria charging them full price for a waste product.


Good point.

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...and, without a Union, they would still have to pay full price for the waste product. Now, they can stuff themselves with an all-you-can-eat buffet of waste products, for free!



I doubt it very much.
To protect their profit the cafeteria will simply throw away the old food and charge the staff full price for in date food.



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16 Jun 2012, 6:14 pm

Wow, American unions have really gone downhill. It was American unions who invented the weekend, for heaven's sake!



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16 Jun 2012, 6:53 pm

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Wow, American unions have really gone downhill. It was American unions who invented the weekend, for heaven's sake!


Sadly, the union movement isn't in its heyday these days. But when business starts taking away even more of workers rights and pay - with the help of their Republican and Conservadem shills in congress - people might wake up and turn to unions, again.

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