The Scandalous Waste Of Food!!

[Muldoon]

'Tree huggers' are more likely to be interested in NOT wasting food (through BB dates or anything else) than someone who doesn't care about the environment.

You must have some issues to try to cast the blame that way.

 

Ok Cyclone, I retract my generalisation of tree huggers. Maybe lefty, nimby, health and safety freaks would better suffice ?

and the blacks and immigrants ... (just for Mr Moran)

[MrMoran]

Ok Cyclone, I retract my generalisation of tree huggers. Maybe lefty, nimby, health and safety freaks would better suffice ?

 

You forgot to blame the blacks and immigrants.

[Muldoon]

Before I threw the towel in and retired all my working life was in the food industry namely baking manufacturing,at first as a wholesale driver salesman and for the last 15yrs as a HGV 1 delivery driver.As a salesman you had to be very keen on waste management as your weekly wages were docked a percentage after a certain total,over the years I came to hate wasting anything!.When I started as a HGV driver we delivered to the mega giant wharehouses of Tesco ,Sainsburys,Asda,Morrisons,Brake Bros etc. all over the country.As I came onto the loading areas of these companies you would notice pallets put to one side sometimes up to a dozen mostly fruit or veg,oranges,cucumbers,lettuce and such.On enquiring what was wrong with them it was[Rejected cause the oranges were not a uniform size]or the same for cucumbers or the potatoes were too dirty,I used to see tons and tons of good fresh food thrown into skips on a daily basis a scandal in my eyes I,m sure most housewives couldn,t care less about a bit of dirt on a spud or different shaped fruit,the firm delivering stood the loss not the Tesco,s of this world.Another source of waste was the firm I worked for,they had state of the art computers to work out ingredients and baking times for all products but day after day they over produced pallets at a time.It was all fresh but it was date stamped so into the skip,the rotation system in the freezers was not worked right so every week we delivered 20 tons of out of date produce to pig food processers in Barnsley,although some ended up at HM prisons .Nobody seemed to give a monkeys a bloody scandal what do Forum members say??:rant:

 

You ought to have seen the skips full of food thrown away by Greencore at Manton. I once asked if I could take some home and was told if I take anything out of the skips I would be looking for a new job

[Cyclone]

Ok Cyclone, I retract my generalisation of tree huggers. Maybe lefty, nimby, health and safety freaks would better suffice ?

and the blacks and immigrants ... (just for Mr Moran)

 

Lefty as in socialist? I'm not sure how political persuasion would affect the treatment of BB dates.

 

I don't think it's even safety freaks, it's just people who've never thought about it. My other half would throw something out because it past it's BB date. She doesn't now, simply because I made her think about what she was doing.