The third time is not the charm at “Raider Rose,” but then again it really is.
Erin Lee and I recently went on our third food-lunking adventure only to discover we had likely become the antithesis of Robin Hood and his merry men. Instead of finding dumpstered items in their typically nondescript garbage bags, we found items in bags labeled “donations.”
In a moment confusion and incredulity we decided to take the loot and vowed to learn more about whether or not these items were truly being donated. We reasoned that at 11:43 am it was a fair bet that these items would go to waste, and that no one in fact was going to pick them up.
This was five days ago, and since then Erin has had an enlightening talk with a staff member at Raider Rose. It turns out there are philanthropic deals worked out where items such as flowers and foodstuffs get donated to churches and other establishments. Erin’s discovery, however, proved we were bastards stealing from the poor.
With a new light shed on our combating foodwaste endeavor, it appears I will be retiring from dumpster diving. (Though, I may check in from time to time to learn more about the donation process.) Despite personally losing a treasure trove of delectable food items, I am happy to concede that this third trek to the dumpsters was actually quite positive and made me very excited for the plight of the American wo/man. Besting the idiocy intrinsic in our sue-happy nation, Raider Rose has found a way to circumvent litigious shenanigans and give a good portion of its food waste to those in need.
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