[ExI] News Flash!

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of Tara Maya via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] News Flash!

 

>…I worked at a Homeless Shelter for a while, and we had the same problem all the time.

 

>…As a worker there, *I* was allowed to take home the "toss away" food. I just ate that instead of shopping. It was more than enough to keep me alive for a year. I never once died of food poisoning. Or had any problem with the food. 

 

>…Even I didn't try to eat the ten year old cans of cranberry, however. We must have had a million of those.

 

>…Tara Maya

 

 

 

 

 

Tara a long time ago (in our galaxy but still a long time ago) I walked past a grocery store dumpster and saw them discarding dented and past sell-by cans.  They would rip the labels off so there was no knowing what it was.  I thought that a terrible waste of unidentified food, so I jumped in there and liberated a few of these discards.  There was nothing at all wrong with the food.  

 

I returned the next day, ready to repeat but the two guys who lived there politely informed me that this is their dumpster and their homeless.  So anyone jumping in there is committing the equivalent of breaking into their homeless.  But they, feeling the need, would sell me cans, 10 cents for the standard #2s, 25 cents for the quart cans, so I bought plenty of their cans, reassuring myself that was helping them too, for they felt the need.  The neeeeed for weeeeed…

 

So those two fellers were back there all summer (this was at U of Washington in Seattle.) I devoured perhaps half my calories from mystery cans.  Hey, I stayed alive, never starved to death the whole time, and neither did the two mystery can merchants out back.  In retrospect that might have been the healthiest diet in my life, for it was a wide variety of food.  Can’t say I enjoyed living that way, but hey, grinding poverty is comfortable and sexy, said no one ever.

 

spike

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