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Originally Posted by mrvette
Talking about food charity distributins....a neighbor for some 23 years has been involved in that free food charity centers for a LONG time now....
SO this AM, he took off in his pickup to go help at the distribution center/church oriented group he been involved with for decades.....
and almost NO ONE showed up!!!!!
SO all the food that was not picked up for FREE, was having to be distributed to the workers.......including HIM.....
and it was such a ridiculous amount.......try a dozen LARGE bags of delicious grapes, about a dozen or better burgers, a length of frozen ham slices almost a foot long, frozen of course.....plus about 30 lbs of canned goods.....
and that was MY share of the load outta the back of his truck.....today.....
now he has volunteered many times and was called today because of heavy expected load......
and NO SHOW.......draw your own conclusions......   |
After the fires and evacuations here in recent years, food banks were overwhelmed with donations, most from food establishments like restaurants and grocery stores who had their businesses disrupted and had to unload perishable food. The food banks were practically begging for people to come get the stuff, as they only had so much refrigeration space available.
Same thing is happening now to some extent. My next door neighbor goes to the food banks (I don't) and since he's vegetarian he gave me all the meat products. There was a pork sirloin roast, some frozen packages of beef stew and two 1.5 lb cans of cooked ground pork. It's all institutional food, you can tell by the labeling. It's interesting to see how much restaurant food that you think they do such a great job of preparing actually comes to them pretty much almost ready to serve.
The first few days after the shutdown started, there were about 50 cars lined up at the food bank near me. This week no one in line but a few cars coming in one at a time.