True dat.......
When I was “between residences” for awhile, I learned the fine art of dumpster diving.
McDonalds used to throw out their food after 10 minutes on the shelf, but they would segregate it from the regular garbage to get a count on it for inventory control.
Then, when full, it could go into the dumpster. Once you found that bag, you were in like flint.
I remember some hard times in the late 80’s (we might have been the only ones) when the local donut shop owner was a friend, we KNEW exactly when the bag of unsold donuts was going to be brought out. (of course if we were early we could get them in boxes inside the shop).
My dad worked at the landfill, Dr. Pepper had a promotion where 1 in 6 soda’s had a lid that said “Free Dr. Pepper”... bags of those lids ended up at the ... landfill... he was able to procure one of them once... heh... it was cheating but we were in the soda for a good while.