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Dumpster Diving
a pack of wolves:
You're not risking infectious diseases by eating food out of a bin, well not unless you can't tell fresh food from something that's gone off at least. I've done it a lot in the past and I plan to do it far more in the future. I've never thought of it as guiltily making myself suffer to compensate, to me it's a way of getting free stuff that's going to waste otherwise and it's usually a lot of fun too. It's amazing what you find in bins and skips, a lot of the people I know can't pass a skip without having a good rummage. I know people who've found laptops, bicycles, fridges... you can get all kinds of things. My personal favourite find was a copy of Spike Milligan's 'The Bed Sitting Room'. As for the economic argument, personally I couldn't care less about the profits of supermarkets and I see no reason why I should give them my money if I can just take the food for free.
Eat the doughnuts.
Elizzybeth:
I was referring to all the saliva-transmitted diseases, given that a lot of dumpster food is half-nibbled at. Of course, you also risk such diseases any time you shake hands with someone who bites their nails, or kiss someone, or go around licking your neighbors' doorknobs.
Darkbluerabbit:
Dumpster diving can be done for survival, or it can be done for social reasons. There's actually a whole "Freegan" movement that advocates removing oneself from the economy as much as possible. Some of the ideas are pretty cool, like the punks who came up with "Food, not Bombs," a group that asks grocery stores for unwanted food, which they prepare and serve to people who might go hungry.
There's a lot more information about it at Freegan.info.
A lot of it is basically voluntary hobodom. They advocate squatting, dumpster diving, and hitchhiking.
SeanBateman:
Freegans are idiots. Ruyi is not an idiot.
Ruyi I eat a lot of free food. I used to go into restraunts(fuck why can I never spell that fucking word) and just eat food that people had left behind after their meals. My basic principle is that anything that doesn't have a bite out of it is fair game, although I made exceptions for super delicious stuff and ate them from the other side.
I got thrown out of a lot of eateries because I was "gross."
You should really just go ahead and eat whatever you feel like, I guess? I think that dumpster diving is a pretty dumb thing to do, just because it is trashy and you can be smarter about it. There is a health food store in the town I live in now that gives away all of their non-saleable goods every saturday! If you go, you can just meet with them and get a whole mess of food and you don't have to go into a dumpster. A lot of bakeries and other places will also just give you food if you go in towards closing and ask them if they have anything they're going to throw away that they wouldn't mind giving you.
Dumpster diving proper is really just for freegans and others who want to feel self-righteous about how they eat their food. But then again, I guess you do go to Berkeley.
a pack of wolves:
You don't have an issue with eating free food but you think freegans are idiots... go on then, I'm intrigued, explain to me why I'm thick just because I'll eat a bagel from a skip.
--- Quote from: Darkbluerabbit on 15 Mar 2008, 16:03 ---A lot of it is basically voluntary hobodom. They advocate squatting, dumpster diving, and hitchhiking.
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There's a big difference between squatting and being a hobo. A lot of the squats I know are pretty nice and the people in them aim to stay as long as they can, they don't to be moved along and be itinerant although unfortunately this is usually what happens (not just for them but for the community, my Dad's very concerned because they've evicted the squatters next door to him which leaves the building empty).
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