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Celebrate The Recovery By Buying Restaurant Garbage (And Yes: There's An App For That)
Zero Hedge ^
| May 7, 2014
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 05/07/2014 10:44:46 AM PDT by House Atreides
In a move reminiscent of the Victorian Age, when those "downstairs" lived off the scraps of those "upstairs", a new app 'PareUp' is set to revolutionize the way the increasingly poor and starving masses in America feed themselves. As HuffPo reports, in a country that wastes between 30 and 40 percent of its food, PareUp is a new app that aims to connect consumers to restaurants and food shops with excess food - enabling the impoverished to benefit from the excess greed of the well-to-do by buying their used and forgotten food scraps (at significant discounts of course). "Good food is a terrible thing to waste," boasts the app - and rightly so - but is it not a dismally sad reflection of a nation, that opines of its all time high stock prices as indicative of its cleanest dirty shirt status, that we need this service (and there's an app for that!)
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Can't wait to hear Limbaugh poke fun at this.
To: House Atreides
Dumpster Diving in the Digital Age.....................
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posted on
05/07/2014 10:45:58 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: House Atreides
Taken to the logical next step:
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posted on
05/07/2014 10:50:02 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: House Atreides
It is not a long journey from this to eating tree bark, grass, squirrels and rodents as is done in the People's Paradise of North Korea.
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posted on
05/07/2014 10:50:36 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: House Atreides
in a country that wastes between 30 and 40 percent of its food That's sad. My family is by nature thrifty, and I'd guess we waste less than 2% of our food. When bread starts to go stale or moldy (very rare), it gets toasted and turned into bread crumbs for cooking. Meat? That never sits long enough to go bad. Fresh fruit and vegetables get eaten before they rot, or bananas that are too brown become smoothies or banana bread. The idea of so much avoidable waste disgusts me.
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posted on
05/07/2014 10:51:07 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: Jeff Chandler
You neglected to have “Conservatives” painted above the door of the lower one and “Democrats/GOPe” above the door of the higher one.
To: House Atreides
enabling the impoverished to benefit from the excess greed of the well-to-do by buying their used and forgotten food scrapsOnly in some lib's mind is there no irony in the fact that these "impoverished" have smart phones. No doubt paid for by the excessively greedy well-to-do.
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posted on
05/07/2014 10:55:56 AM PDT
by
Hoffer Rand
(Bear His image. Bring His message. Be the Church.)
To: Hoffer Rand
Only in some lib's mind is there no irony in the fact that these "impoverished" have smart phones.Don't they have 0bama phones????
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posted on
05/07/2014 10:58:14 AM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: FatherofFive
Only in some lib's mind is there no irony in the fact that these "impoverished" have smart phones. Don't they have 0bama phones????
CORRECT !!!
They can have one or the other but natural law dictates it can't be both.
An "Obama Smart Phone" is a contradiction in terms.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:08:51 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
To: House Atreides
last para about sums it all up
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:13:18 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: House Atreides
Careful, they might not appreciate it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jxph6zErgYI
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:15:58 AM PDT
by
theymakemesick
(Democrats Lie Cheat Steal Destroy. Period. They are a filthy stain on Life and Freedom)
To: House Atreides
Welcome to Obama’s Amerika.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:16:21 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: Pollster1
I try not to waste too. Sure helps on the outrageous food bill too.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:24:53 AM PDT
by
sheana
To: Hoffer Rand
“Only in some lib's mind is there no irony in the fact that these “impoverished” have smart phones. No doubt paid for by the excessively greedy well-to-do.”
Food and housing is far more expensive than smartphones.
Unlimited phone service is $50/month and a top of the line phone can be had for $30/month more.
You're not eating decent food in a city for less than $20/day and getting housing for much less than $1000/month
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posted on
05/07/2014 12:15:53 PM PDT
by
varyouga
To: sheana
Yup. Last night's leftovers are today's lunch. Oftentimes - especially anything with strong flavors like Italian food, or jamabalaya (one of my specialties) - it's better left over the next day.
It would be nice if I had enough money to worry about wasting food. On my budget, I just worry about NOT wasting it.
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posted on
05/07/2014 12:16:34 PM PDT
by
wbill
To: House Atreides
It’s humorous, but with the massive amounts offered as EBT, hardly necessary...
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posted on
05/07/2014 12:18:19 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraiaq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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