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Ex Trader Joe's president to open store selling expired food
Orlando Sentinel ^ | 1/27/14 | Adrienne Cutway

Posted on 01/27/2014 8:17:08 AM PST by traderrob6

The former president of grocery store chain Trader Joe's is hoping to make healthy food more accessible to the working poor by opening a store and restaurant that sells expired food, according to Fox News.

Doug Rauch's endeavor is called The Daily Table and will open in Dorchester, Mass. come May.

The food sold and prepared at the store will only be items that are deemed unsellable by other grocery stores. That includes items that are past their sell by date and items in damaged packaging, the TV station reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: expired; food; grocery; rotten
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To: traderrob6; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
Mmmmmmm... expired food!


81 posted on 01/27/2014 10:59:19 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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To: Revolting cat!

82 posted on 01/27/2014 11:00:46 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Little Bill

Have never been to Stab’n Kill very often. My family was in Cedar Grove/Neponset for 50+ years. Still a decent place to grow up, even though a lot of Southie types bring their white trash ways with them.


83 posted on 01/27/2014 11:02:50 AM PST by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: 9YearLurker

it depends what’s in the meds, if there’s anything that will go bad. many last well after expiration. some lose some potency over time but do not go bad.


84 posted on 01/27/2014 11:06:24 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: jiggyboy
Maybe I should do a copy write. The place will be over run by the Elephant crowd from Maine, beware of the Fat Bottomed Women. If I was on the Booze Commission in NH I would open a State Liquor store there.

I will Post a link to the song.

85 posted on 01/27/2014 11:07:49 AM PST by Little Bill
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To: jiggyboy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4l0WZ-xhL8

This is dedicated to Lebanon Main.

86 posted on 01/27/2014 11:16:30 AM PST by Little Bill
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To: Salamander; shibumi; Resolute Conservative; TheOldLady; cripplecreek
My experience with old McDonald's cheeseburgers is quite different.

On the way home, Sunday afternoon, from Scouting trips, we often eat fast food. If we're in a hurry, we eat in the cars/vans.

A Scout I'll call Alex - because his name is Alex - rewrapped and tucked 3/4 of a cheeseburger in the map pocket behind the passenger's seat of my car.

In about ten days, I had to do a thorough inspection of my car because the odor had been becoming unbearable for a couple of days.

Maybe it was the bacteria from his mouth, but the remaining 3/4 cheeseburger was quite fuzzy and green.

87 posted on 01/27/2014 11:45:43 AM PST by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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To: Salamander

I rebag my bulk dry goods into brown paper lunch bags inside of gallon freezer bags and give them a several week trip through the 0C deep freeze.

Have had no issues wrt bugs since I started that.

YMMV.


88 posted on 01/27/2014 11:51:56 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: jiggyboy

“Are you and Joe brothers?”

What do you mean?


89 posted on 01/27/2014 12:20:27 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Marko413
"I welcome Trader Joe's offering this option."

Don't go running to TJ's to find the option. It's the ex-president of TJ's that's opening a new store selling expired food.....under a different name, of course. It'll have no connection with Trader's.

Leni

90 posted on 01/27/2014 12:53:05 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: traderrob6

You’re traderrob and it’s a story about Trader Joe!


91 posted on 01/27/2014 2:04:29 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Resolute Conservative
Do Twinkies expire?

Apparently, they outlast the company that makes them.

-PJ

92 posted on 01/27/2014 2:06:35 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: jiggyboy

Gotcha, sorry a bit slow on the uptake.


93 posted on 01/27/2014 2:20:02 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Henderson

“I bet you will see more working middle class families at this store than the poor.”

My experience with many poor people is that they are poor because they feel entitled to the best of everything.

My experience with the middle class and the lower upper class is that they are not poor because they economise and it does not hurt their feelings to not have the best clothes, car or house or eat expired food.


94 posted on 01/27/2014 3:02:42 PM PST by staytrue
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To: Revolting cat!

Puts hair on your chest!


95 posted on 01/28/2014 12:14:32 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: traderrob6; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Feel free to add you own pictures of expired food!

Combined PING! and DANG!


96 posted on 01/28/2014 12:25:26 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: 9YearLurker

The process of determining real degradation in medicines is too long and expensive. Therefore, the drug companies check them for a period and, if they’re good, put that period of effectiveness on them. But you can’t depend on their having a longer life. Some expired drugs will kill you.


97 posted on 01/28/2014 3:39:13 PM PST by jammer
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To: PapaBear3625

I buy my meat that way and just bring it home and freeze it until ready to use.

Something I recall from my Mom with canned goods. No dents, no dings, no bulges, and no leaks. Long before we had sell-by dates people learned to tell good from dangerously bad.

• Best if used by and use-by date: With emphasis on the best qualifier in this term, it means the product should retain maximum freshness, flavor and texture if used by this date. It is not a purchase-by or safety date. Beyond this date, the product begins to deteriorate, although it may still be edible.

• Expiration date: If you haven’t used the product by this date, toss it out. Other dating terms are used as a basic guideline, but this one means what it says.

• Sell-by or pull-by date: This date is used by manufacturers to tell grocers when to remove their product from the shelves, but there is generally still some leeway for home usage. For example, milk often has a sell-by date, but the milk will usually still be good for at least a week beyond that date if properly refrigerated.

• Guaranteed fresh: This date is often used for perishable baked goods. Beyond this date, freshness is no longer guaranteed although it may still be edible.
http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/aa102102a.htm


98 posted on 01/28/2014 3:49:16 PM PST by EBH ( The Day of the Patriot has arrived.)
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To: jammer

I think they sell more drugs if they have a short expiration date.


99 posted on 01/28/2014 6:18:17 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: traderrob6; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So? Bring it on; I’ve eaten food from cans that expired 5 or more years ago, made tuna fish salad with maynaise that was about 3 yrs. expired.. Those dates mean nothing, the manufacturer puts them on, it’s not regulated by the fda... they’re not talking about perishable food here like meat and fish, mostly canned and maybe bread-stuff that’s a couple days past. There are stores by me that sell deserts, chips, etc. that are passed their due date...

Food expired? Don’t be so quick to toss it
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/health/sell-by-dates-waste-food/

FLPC Director on Today Show Talking about Food Waste Report
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/foodpolicyinitiative/2013/10/09/flpc-director-on-today-show-talking-about-food-waste-report/

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/foodpolicyinitiative/2013/09/18/the-dating-gameharvard-flpc-and-nrdc-publish-comprehensive-report-on-food-waste/

Watch the Video on the Today Show
http://www.today.com/news/confusing-sell-dates-food-may-be-costing-you-money-8C11339499

http://beforeitsnews.com/survival/2013/04/canned-food-expiration-date-myth-2471302.html

Canned food can last 100 years
http://web.archive.org/web/20070509153848/http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/CONSUMER/CON00043.html


100 posted on 01/28/2014 7:37:17 PM PST by Coleus
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