Has this stupid m’fer ever hung around a shopping mall and seen so many fat, twelve-year old boys with flabby guts and breasts? On average more food of all kinds gets wasted and tossed in the garbage than eaten.
I work at a sushi bar in Arlington, near the sports stadia. (Traffic flows, roadblocks are such a nightmare on game-days, I sometimes arrive late for the dinner-rush)
A lot of our customers are Amish, especially on the weekend.
It is a rather expensive place; it was even declared "Best Sushi in Arlington" once, by some local newspaper epicure/critic.
I'm quite sure the weekend customers stop by the grocery store just before coming here, to make a withdrawal from their LoneStar card—Texas doesn't have EBT-ATMs.
It's either that, or they deal in various kinds of dope—a lot of them have that look...one of them even sets up a small store-front selling sundries, candy, soda, &c. in the men's bathroom.
The resultant waste is such that the head chef doesn't even need to make me dinner on Friday or Saturday—there's enough reject sushi for myself! (That is, the food that I pick off just before I wash the plates; it's still good, no health risks there, for the most part)
Sometimes, when the plates come around to me, they are still full—the food completely untouched.
This is precisely why I rail hard against AFDC/TANF/direct cash welfare benefit transfers. It's mostly one big, colossal waste of OUR taxes.
While I hate the idea of redistributive welfare programmes, I only tolerate their LIMITED existence until such time we can get the churches, charities, &c. to get off their collective duff, and actually HELP the poor...
sarc (If you haven't figured out by now that I'm the lone bus-boy on the weekend, you have a few problems :-P) /sarc
I'm American all the way through—but I write English like a Brit—don't judge me. :-)
Now that I've got that rant off my chest, back to our regularly scheduled programming...