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lotsmoreorcs - 2015-07-24

Remember Gotham you FLUSH it i FLAUNT it!


SolRo - 2015-07-24

The fact that any not perfect/slightly wilted lettuce in this country isn't mandatorily turned into kimchee is a crime in of itself.


memedumpster - 2015-07-24

Kimchee is really great, I agree. Korean home cooking is some of my absolute favorite food.


infinite zest - 2015-07-24

My best friend in elementary school was Korean and I too love Kim Chee but it was hard to find outside of the home. When I tried to make it myself it turned out horribly, nothing like his mom's. But there was this place in Milwaukee across from where I worked that I kept wanting to try so I went in there one day. The waitress and staff were really shy and acting weird and nervous and I wasn't sure why, but they kept bringing me more free appetizers and it was the best bibembap I ever had.

Anyway, I was confused but thought I'd go back again. The manager came out to apologize to me because the staff thought I was K-Pop Singer Rain! Upon looking him up I wish I was but that's what I think of when I think of Korean food.


Old_Zircon - 2015-07-24

Kimchi made out of lettuce? I guess it's probably possible, but why?


memedumpster - 2015-07-24

Oh man, that's a good point. SolRo might have just trolled we of the 'chee love.


Rodents of Unusual Size - 2015-07-24

I've never had lettuce in kimchi...cabbage is the main ingredient. Cabbage and radish in delightful goopy wonderousness.


EvilHomer - 2015-07-24

Maybe Russians make kimchi with lettuce?


memedumpster - 2015-07-24

God dammit, that was depressing.


Rodents of Unusual Size - 2015-07-24

I have to say that I'm really ashamed of this country and watching this made me viscerally angry.

Like, really angry. Hunger is a sin. I truly believe that if a politician stands in the way of people getting food they are committing a crime against both man and God.

That having been said, they are beginning to get the idea that all this food should go to homeless shelters and the poor. Because if the government doesn't get it together and organize this shit, it makes us look really bad. Oh wait, the US doesn't care about that. China is right to shame us. I mean that, over in Asia they are incredibly proud of their food production being able to cover the needs of their population and we just kind of go "meh" when those statistics come up.


gmol - 2015-07-24

I don't think he's gotten to the root of the issue, if you want to talk about food waste you have to look at animal agriculture.


Gmork - 2015-07-24

As much as I love beef - the water requirements to raise a cow vs a chicken or literally any other non-bovine creature from youth to adulthood is staggeringly high. Plants take almost nothing by comparison (with a few water-hungry exceptions).

My stance is that beef should be more expensive and less abundant.

It's utterly delicious - so why ruin it by ruining the cow's life? You create substandard bland meat tainted by a lifetime of cortisol running through its system.

Happier cows are tastier cows.


baleen - 2015-07-24

what is poetv the john oliver network now all the sudden


baleen - 2015-07-24

But really in Seattle we are required to put our food waste in a yard waste bin. At first I was skeptical as this stuff is probably just in a giant mound somewhere where it is releasing methane and feeding rats, but now I see the essential logic of it. Because I am required to separate my food waste from my other waste and put it in a separate bin, I am much more aware of the food I waste. I am way, way below the national average at this point. I've become hyperaware of the ingredients in my fridge, even more so than I used to be.


infinite zest - 2015-07-24

Heh.. it's only relevant because it's on the front page but I like how the whole episode is in order out of sheer coincidence. They're a good company (and I'm sure they'll soon be making their way to Seattle soon) but New Seasons Market employees just left food out for Freegans. And it's not the sort of dumpster diver image it sounds like: somebody just laid out all the stuff that was about to go bad in sanitary containers like milk crates. Nobody stole the milk crates either! It was kinda beautiful but they can't do that anymore, especially now that they've gotten so big.

I did the same thing with beer cans. I lived in a house that probably went through 4 cases of beer a night (to be fair it was a big house, but a lot of those emptys were mine) so I just left them out for a woman with a little kid who collected cans. I'm no economist but I don't see much of a difference.


infinite zest - 2015-07-24

Speaking of composting, the place I work out of (it's just an apartment) requires everybody to compost by literally throwing it into a garden up on the 5th floor. So anything that's not meat or bones just goes right into the ground. Worms eat it and trees grow, etc. but I dunno if I think that's such a good idea. Even a tree growing up there seems like a bad idea down the line, since there's not a lot of load bearing up on that balcony.


baleen - 2015-07-25

Throwing shit on the ground is not composting, but if it's just a giant unused plot I guess it's better than sending it to landfill..


infinite zest - 2015-07-25

They change the compost rules here so much down here it's hard to know what to think. Like, everybody tosses cigarette butts on the ground around here and doesn't think about it but they're all caught up in what happens to zest and shit like that.


Binro the Heretic - 2015-07-24

Of course, whenever you give free food to poor people, asshole conservatives compare them to stray animals.

Look up Andre Bauer. (not to be confused with Andre Braugher)


memedumpster - 2015-07-24

Conservatives must be killed and eaten. They should be a part of a well balanced diet. Humans are a 250,000 year old species, and our few thousand year old experiment in not eating each other is failing. When a significant portion of your population is starving, the fatted ass must be slain and eaten, its entrails burnt as a sacrifice to God. It's nature's way.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091205000132AAJ 0wOr


Rodents of Unusual Size - 2015-07-24

But can the strength of the rich become ours if we eat their hearts?


Binro the Heretic - 2015-07-24

Do they have hearts?


SolRo - 2015-07-24

Think the livers of the rich would be be equivalent duck liver?


SolRo - 2015-07-24

Actually, with how much they get massaged, maybe they're like Kobe beef


TeenerTot - 2015-07-24

I wish there was a place I could by the "number 2" produce at a discount.


Sanest Man Alive - 2015-07-25

I don't care how it happens but get these vids linked:
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=119936


Bort - 2015-07-25

This is why I have a tremendous amount of trouble mocking Freegans. My parents grew up in the Great Depression, and they instilled in me an ethic to not waste food.

I've ranted about this before, but I am frustrated by a number of poor people around me who habitually waste vast amounts of food, then run out of funds by the fourth week of the month. One of the kids was over the other week, and he asked for a Toaster Strudel for breakfast, took one bite out of it, decided he was done, and threw the rest out. Or was about to anyway, but I made him stop and find one of his kin who wanted it. (I'm not advocating Toaster Strudel as an advisable breakfast BTW, but it is one that no kid can object to on grounds of taste.)

Needs a "Grimace ejaculate" tag.


infinite zest - 2015-07-25

Done! But now somebody needs to link it, somehow.. but searching for it on YT brings up some interesting things including a Red Hot Chili Peppers documentary! I mean, I was never a big RHCP fan or anything..

Good on you for doing that! I think it's natural for kids to do that but the earlier they learn the better. It didn't really sink in with me until sometime in my teens when my parents were putting my older brother through Yale. Even though there were scholarships and I was definitely raised upper middle class, the penny pinching was obvious in the household. Things like a Papa Aldos Pizza would pretty much be breakfast, lunch and dinner and, well I wanted Captain Crunch! And I wanted this and I wanted that! I was too old to throw a conniption fit but kind of just figured it out for myself that food is something that should not go to waste.

I've never been technically a Freegan but all through college I'd just get the day-old bread from the sandwich shop for 50 cents; they'd throw it out but I had at least 50 cents (most of the time) so I couldn't just take it in good conscience when I knew there were others who might not be able to afford it. And I can still taste that goddamn bread. Lived off it alone for a whole summer while giving plasma until I found a job.


infinite zest - 2015-07-25

God.. Papa Aldos.. my age is showing :)


Bort - 2015-07-25

What gets me is the parents don't seem to know, mind, and/or care that a huge chunk of their food is going to waste. Really, guys? You're the ones who don't have grocery money come the 25th; perhaps if you didn't let your family waste a third of your food you'd make it through the month. You cannot possibly not understand this.

We find ourselves saying to the kids, "in this house we don't waste food", as if it's some peculiar old world custom that we should feel a little embarrassed about. Well, hopefully a little exposure to that rule will put it in their heads as a reasonable expectation.


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