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The adventures of Dumpster Diving!
- Thread starter CosmicPanda
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Exactly. its a fucking shame how much still perfectly usable food is thrown away every day. People like OP arent idiots who eat raw flesh out of the trash, that sealed jerky, if not over its time, will be perfectly fine.
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I work as a security guard at a pharmacy the manager put it all in ONE bag Next to the dumpster at the store I work at securing. It was only outside for like 3 hours at 35 degrees Fahrenheit. All of the jerky expires next month. I work at cvs as a security guard where this was thrown in their dumpster.
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This. I'm actually surprised at the deluge of negative reactions here. Are you all unaware how much damn food is thrown away for no good reason? It's a huge mess.
It's definitely not for everyone, and sometimes it's too much for me too, but the amounts of perfectly fine food I've found is ridiculous. I did this a TON in Norway and we feasted like kings AND saved so much money.
In Germany there's a growing food sharing initiative that aims to save this food before it reaches the dumpster by having trusted people collect it from supermarkets and stuff and distribute it among the community.
Lots of weird knee jerk reactions in here I didn't quite expect from ERA tbh.
There was book set of CS Lewis, Lion, Witch and Wardrobe that I saw in a shared dumpster as I was taking out my garbage. No regrets grabbing that.
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no not the same person but that's funny i was influenced by that post on the old place. I just happen to dumpster dive on Saturday.
Been dumpsterdiving many times. It is not like you are diving through rotten vegetables or stuff like this. Usually (at least where I did) they used special boxes where they put the food, it was not thrown together with the other trash from the supermarket. You had yoghurts just a day above expiration, bread and everything which was perfectly fine. None was rotten and most were in the original package and in good shape. People seem to think something must be wrong if the food is thrown away. Well it is: most of it is expired by one or two days. But all of it was still fine. People need to understand that the experation date is the recommended time span to eat the product. It does not mean that it iturns to poison, the day it expires.
The only problem I see with it is the legality. It is illegal to dumpster dive in Germany, because it is still the property of the supermarket. And as far as I know they get paid for the recycling, so they do not want you to do it.
I think it is a shame that perfectly fine goods are thrown away. In my case the supermarket at one time knew people were dumpster diving at their place and threw open shampoo bottles and other stuff like ketchup on top of the dumpster goods so that it was to disgusting to get the food out of it.
Could easily reduce my grocery spending by half at that time, what a shame. If it was possible I would still do it, even if I am not a student anymore and get paid well. Just out of principle.
The only problem I see with it is the legality. It is illegal to dumpster dive in Germany, because it is still the property of the supermarket. And as far as I know they get paid for the recycling, so they do not want you to do it.
I think it is a shame that perfectly fine goods are thrown away. In my case the supermarket at one time knew people were dumpster diving at their place and threw open shampoo bottles and other stuff like ketchup on top of the dumpster goods so that it was to disgusting to get the food out of it.
Could easily reduce my grocery spending by half at that time, what a shame. If it was possible I would still do it, even if I am not a student anymore and get paid well. Just out of principle.
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1. Weird knee jerk reactions are an ERA specialty
2. Sealed or not I'm not pulling food that is suppose to be non perishable out of a dumpster and eating it. I don't want to find out what went wrong for them to go "Yeah get rid of that."
Which means losing money and having perfectly edible food go to waste?
I swear supermarkets have caused such a disconnect between the stuff we buy and where it comes from/where it ends up.
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i have ate like 5 of them since Saturday and food poison symptoms occur within 48 hours at the most. I feel fine, if anyone wants me to post a video or a gif of me eating it tell me to do so in this thread.
Usually it's past the "best before" date and that's it. I feel like you're putting too much trust into the people deciding what gets tossed and what not.
And there's a reason it's called (or should be called) "best before" and not "eat it before this day or die" date.
What went wrong with it is that it reached the arbitrary date on the package saying they can no longer sell it which is always months before the food is actually bad.
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I know right the store i work at throws away tons of food like chocolate, chips and cookies at even expired yet. But its funny some of the food has been recalled like case of water.
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Ok here is a pic for proof and a video of me eating the jerky.
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and the video
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Dave Jones of EEVblog knows how to dumpster dive .........
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOlSehNtuHv4mYeqvnxCJNjwMVvpDkv8
Ok here is a pic for proof and a video of me eating the jerky.
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and the video
RIP
If you're not homeless... why? Why sell your dignity for some free garbo? Just act normal in your life, ffs.
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Looks like evidence you'd find at a murder scene.
At the Smart & Final I used to work at, the opposite was usually true.
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Looks like evidence you'd find at a murder scene.
At the Smart & Final I used to work at, the opposite was usually true.
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Honestly, if it was any food other than beef jerky I'd prolly be more upset. That good shit is expensive
I had a step-uncle that did this. He found a discarded & sealed box of a Tone Loc album. He gave everyone a copy for a Christmas gift.
:X God no. We throw away food sometimes because the dog got into it, or it fell on the floor. I could maybe understand prepackaged food being okay, but who knows what happened to open and exposed food found in the garbage.
Ok here is a pic for proof and a video of me eating the jerky.
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and the video
It was nice knowing you dude.
What's more important. Saving money on some shitty food, or your self-worth?
Not dumpster diving, but my friend's neighborhood growing up used to have a communal bulk trash night. People would get together and go scavenging through other people's stuff for anything they could find. One year we found a PC that just needed a little fixing, and a bunch of D&D books with minis.
