In NYC, I think all leftovers have to be tossed or you would be fined. I was raised not to waste food - I was taught it was a sin. We weren’t allowed to make Easter eggs because it wasted food that could have gone to hungry people. So it has always infuriated me to see the waste due to these crazy health regulations.
I was, too-it was sinful because in Africa, people starved every day-we should be grateful to have food to eat. I grew up on a ranch-you didn’t take a helping of something at the table unless you were going to eat it-otherwise you got lectured if it went into the bucket with the chicken feed. Being Hispanic, we didn’t do Easter eggs, but cascarones, and the raw contents of the punctured shells were whipped up and served as scrambled eggs the next morning for breakfast, like it or not-no wasted...