Then there was prepared food both restaurants and retail. Food sent back, trashed. Past it's prepared time, trashed. Burger prepared wrong, trashed and so on.
I used to hate to see those rotisserie chickens get trashed. We employees would have ate them. Bakery items out of date, but still good, trashed.
These are but a few examples. You could feed a hungry community with the food we trashed on a daily and weekly basis. But then, if someone got sick, real or not, we would have been sued for untold amounts of money. Wasn't worth the risk.
True story. Sams club donated rotisserie chickens to a homeless shelter. Someone claimed they got sick (ambulance chaser behind this). No more chicken. Trash it.
It amazes me how much food we have in USA. Where I live, we have about seven grocery stores in county. Every one is full. So much food. Who is buying this food? How do the stores make money?? So many people work in the food business.
“White folks greed runs a world in need....”
Any restaurant you enter serves you a meal with likely a side of vegetables and/or starches. In presentation and in the intent of the patron, it is already presumed that the main course is the key portion of the meal and is thus the portion of the meal the patron *wanted* principally to eat. It’s really is no surprise then that the patron leaves to discard the portion of the meal that was considered an add-on - typically vegetables and starches.
It really takes little imagination to figure that out.
"Whole communities" can buy their own damn food.
You've confused us with some communist hellhole... And NO I don't want grocery store selling garbage. AND the homeless? Those who are mentally ill should be institutionalized. That would be the kindest choice.
The drug addicts and lazy? Let them get food stamps or jobs or whatever. Feeding people garbage in not the 'incentive' we want in a capitalist country.
Michele's menu?