[BlueLancer]

"...that amount of beef and vegetables could probably feed a village somewhere in this world."

And how is it going to get there?

When I was young, the saying was, "Eat your broccoli, eat your beets; don't you know that there are starving kids in India?"

My response to that was, "Well, if you get me a box, I'll ship it to them."

Now, if the restaurant had gone to some little village and taken all of their beef and vegetables to make this, then you'd have a point. But, since it wasn't theirs in the first place and the ingredients belonged to the restaurant, what right did the people of your hypothetical little village have to it?

[buccaneer81]

Spot on!

[dfwgator]

My response to that was, "Well, if you get me a box, I'll ship it to them."

I tried that once, when I was a kid....I don't remember anything right after that.

[Hot Tabasco]

what right did the people of your hypothetical little village have to it?

I never claimed they did....reread my post.