College Student Runs Dumpster Diving Cafe with ‘Recycled’ Food

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College Student Runs Dumpster Diving Cafe with ‘Recycled’ Food


 
Tufts University student Maximus Thaler has taken frugality to a whole new level by opening up a “freegan” cafe in his apartment that operates on donations and exchanged services rather than price tags. The twist? All food served in the cafe is pulled directly from the trash.

Thaler and other members of The Gleaner’s Kitchen (a Tufts cooperative living house) make nighttime trips to garbage cans and dumpsters throughout the Boston area in search of discarded (but still edible) food to serve in their home-based cafe. Thaler acknowledges that the entire enterprise exists “in a grey area of legality” but insists that he is providing a necessary service to his community, “I eat better out of a dumpster than most Tufts students will ever be able to afford.”

We’ll be honest: If you can get past the ick factor of dumpster diving, that’s a lot of good-looking free food. And we are all about free food. Props to Thaler for replacing the typical college student cheap dinner of ramen noodles with something environmentally sustainable and delicious. Oh, yum!

http://foodbeast.com/content/2013/03/31/college-student-creates-dumpster-diving-cafe/

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10022593943

Wonder of the department of health has caught wind of this. You can bet when they do the DUmmies will be crying about it.

dkf (31,778 posts)
1. Ick. I was prepared to change my initial reaction but no, I still am grossed out.

Alenne (1,884 posts)
2. I think the biggest ick factor is all of that discarded food.

That is so extremely wasteful.

The reason that so much food is thrown away is because of regulations.
In other words the government that the DUmmies want to be in control of everything forces grocery stores, restaurants, and so forth to throw this food away.

wundermaus (1,396 posts)
6. There is no doubt in my mind...

There are many millions of people around the world who would (by not starving to death) be grateful to eat all the edible food we throw away just in this country.
We as an decadent society fail humanity as we continue to waste and squander our resources with boundless greed and selfishness.
We should not be appalled by students dumpster diving to get decent nutrition, we should be outraged by a calloused society that starves millions of people around the world to death.
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/23/165774988/npr-the-ugly-truth-about-food-waste-in-america

Once again DUmmy when that food is thrown away they are complying with government regulations.

[Chris_]

When mommy and daddy are paying $40-50,000+ a year for your tuition, whining about excess seems a bit tacky.

[DumbAss Tanker]

He'll get his ass sued off, sooner or later.

[Chris_]

He'll get his ass sued off, sooner or later.

If the Health Department doesn't get to him first.

[Freeper]

He'll get his ass sued off, sooner or later.

Considering his clientele is a bunch of DUmmies you better believe he is gonna get sued the first time one of them "freegans" gets sick.

 

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Dear God, please let there be an "April Fools!" at the end of this article.