If you are going to be picky about it then maybe you don't deserve charity.

Tell them for me to shut up and take what they can get or they will get nothing.

Then fark em. I give what I can.

The other option is buy your own dam food.

//cream of toast?!

Beets. Every time I worked the Food Bank, it was always someone's out of date ramen noodles, out-of-date soups, things that even Big Lots would throw away, and more often than the dreaded Limas: Beets.

I'm sorry, but there are not enough homeless Rus in Florida to eat that many nasty-ass beets. Beets are like a turd that grows in the ground. No one wants your canned red turds; leave them rotting in your own damned pantry.

And when you volunteer in front of an entire crowd to work at the food bank for the "social karma", be warned: I WILL call you out on it publicly when you never actually bother to show up and help. Fark you worthless liars, people need help, not your pretensions at caring for social status. Assholes.

Just gave some expired pumpkin to my mom so she could feed it to her rat dog as a laxative. Veterinarian recommended!

/My tax dollars cover the homeless

As a foodbank client at several low points in my wretched life,
I gotta ask: "wtf is up with all the pumpkin pie filling?" They always have it.
Not just post-thanksgiving, but year round. I ain't complaining mind you.
Around 20 years ago they gave my girlfriend an entire flat of it (12 tins I think)
We ate delicious pies for a month!

There's a kid in some third world country eating ants off a stick right now.

Another thing is do not get the old expired crap out of your stuff and donte it either. They are not interested in your 2006 can of mushroom soup. The foodbaks do not check the dates and someone coudl get sick off of it. I got a food bag only to find out some of the cans were dangerously out of date. Come on people how would you like to recieve that?

/ill take yer punpkin...mmmm pumpkin bread!

I swear there was a time when people would be embarrassed by complaining about free food they got from a charity. And I'm not that old.

thespindrifter: Beets. Every time I worked the Food Bank, it was always someone's out of date ramen noodles, out-of-date soups, things that even Big Lots would throw away, and more often than the dreaded Limas: Beets.

I'm sorry, but there are not enough homeless Rus in Florida to eat that many nasty-ass beets. Beets are like a turd that grows in the ground. No one wants your canned red turds; leave them rotting in your own damned pantry.

And when you volunteer in front of an entire crowd to work at the food bank for the "social karma", be warned: I WILL call you out on it publicly when you never actually bother to show up and help. Fark you worthless liars, people need help, not your pretensions at caring for social status. Assholes.

I like beets.

Let's go ahead and complain more about how FS recipients buy nothing but Coke and Doritos with their food stamps. Most people in that position don't *want* the healthier fare.

Oh.
My.
God.

You're hungry but you're watching what you eat? Good ol' USA, where even our hungry turned down free handouts.


And for the record, ramen noodles contain pretty much ZERO sodium...it's that little salt bomb you pour on top that holds the sodium.

sexy-fetus: There's a kid in some third world country eating ants off a stick right now.

So donate a stick today.

Why not? It tasted just fine 12 years ago!

During the Boy Scouts' annual food drive my troop likes to see who can find the oldest donation as measured by the expiration date. Last year we had something, a can of soup I think, that expired in October of 1993 and was older than our oldest scout.

No one cares attention span of a retarded fruit fly, be happy you got something or starve.

attention span of a retarded fruit fly: I got a food bag only to find out some of the cans were dangerously out of date.

So you checked the expiration date yourself? Without a volunteer helping you or anything?

CSB Alert

Uwsed to workw tih Ex-husband at a newspaper, where he was the city editor. Around the holidays, there was an 'adopt-a-family' charity where people/businesses could adopt a family for christmas and give them food and gifts, etc. So, Ex gets a call from a woman who wanted to complain about 'them 'doptin families.' He was gracious enough to put her on speakerphone so the rest of us in the newsroom could hear what he determined (rightfully so) would be an entertaining conversation.

So, Ms. 'doptin family was quite upset that the charity she received was, apparently, not up to snuff. I listened to her gripe about her kids didn't like the toys, and her food box had too many boxes of Raisin Bran.' After her rant, he pointedly asked her 'So...let me be clear here: You've received a charitible gift, and you want to complain that you don't like the charity you asked for, and received?' She reiterated that the toys were not what her kids wanted, and for the gadillionth time, made it clear that the Raisin Bran was less than the extra's she wanted. His reply, 'Well, ma'am...you know it does have two scoops?' The entire newsroom busted out, and she sadly realized her plight would not make the papers.

/biatching about charity you get...not cool.

Is fancy feat high in sodium? I didn't read the label before I ripped it off and donated the can

The most recent food drive I participated in provided a list of specific food items to buy and bring in. I think I prefer that method, because you know the food bank is getting what they actually need; there's no guesswork involved.

attention span of a retarded fruit fly: Another thing is do not get the old expired crap out of your stuff and donte it either. They are not interested in your 2006 can of mushroom soup. The foodbaks do not check the dates and someone coudl get sick off of it. I got a food bag only to find out some of the cans were dangerously out of date. Come on people how would you like to recieve that?

/ill take yer punpkin...mmmm pumpkin bread!

"Best by dates" and "Sell by dates" on food have absolutely nothing to do with safety, quality or nutrition. They are there to encourage people to toss out perfectly good, safe food and buy more.

http://www.stilltasty.com/

attention span of a retarded fruit fly: Another thing is do not get the old expired crap out of your stuff and donte it either. They are not interested in your 2006 can of mushroom soup. The foodbaks do not check the dates and someone coudl get sick off of it. I got a food bag only to find out some of the cans were dangerously out of date. Come on people how would you like to recieve that?

/ill take yer punpkin...mmmm pumpkin bread!

It's not an expiration date, it's a "best by" date. Canned goods do last for years just fine, especially with modern canning techniques. If it smells okay and the can is undamaged, feel free to dig into that can of soup.

Now your out of date medicine is another matter, especially since most people store their medicines in the bathroom, which is the worst place for them (constant changes in humidity and temperature).

/I like beets.

ramen noodles have an expiration date?!?!!?

not for nuthin but the nasty ass food donations we got in the 80s keep me from getting into the situations my parents got into (heroin, domestic violence, etc) that led to being so poor that we had to accept other people's scraps in the first place.

i remember getting simple black/white labelled cans marked "pork", the most god awful powdered milk (not that there is a good kind but this was terrible), block of cheese and i think some beans. we never thought to complain about it but dam if that didnt make me focus on my education and future.

if having to survive on that many beets doesnt encourage you to get bootstrappy then nothing will.......and im not even a bootstrap advocate but im just saying.

thespindrifter:

And when you volunteer in front of an entire crowd to work at the food bank for the "social karma", be warned: I WILL call you out on it publicly when you never actually bother to show up and help. Fark you worthless liars, people need help, not your pretensions at caring for social status. Assholes.

My girlfriend volunteers at a non-profit that cooks for people with terminal illnesses. Well around the holidays, uppity rich snob biatches show up to "help out". Every time it turns into nothing more than a photo-shoot and publicity stunt so they can feel better amount themselves. My girlfriend says they are completely useless, don't even know how to use a knife. Everyone there would rather not have them show up at all, but they can't afford to piss them off.

paygun: attention span of a retarded fruit fly: I got a food bag only to find out some of the cans were dangerously out of date.

So you checked the expiration date yourself? Without a volunteer helping you or anything?

Many food banks have limited storage space and limited volunteer time. Donating expired items consumes these limited resources.

Jack Black 62: attention span of a retarded fruit fly: Another thing is do not get the old expired crap out of your stuff and donte it either. They are not interested in your 2006 can of mushroom soup. The foodbaks do not check the dates and someone coudl get sick off of it. I got a food bag only to find out some of the cans were dangerously out of date. Come on people how would you like to recieve that?

/ill take yer punpkin...mmmm pumpkin bread!

Expiration dates on canned food is a scam. Canned foods can last 15-20 years or more.

I have some really old cans of tomatoes that I'm working on using up. I haven't got sick yet.
Also, beetroot is great on hamburgers and salads.
Way back when I drove a bus we had a food drive during which you didn't have to pay the fare if you donated a can of food. Everyone went and bought 20 cent cans of tomato paste. Hardly got any real food.

In many cases it's not what the charity recipients want, but what the charity workers who appoint themselves spokesperson for the recipients say the recipients don't want.

A few years ago during the aftermath of a series of large tornadoes my Mother-in-law volunteered to help a major charity sort donated clothing. She was told to discard anything that was not new with tags. She told us they threw away dumpsters full of as-new clothing, things that were far nicer than she had been able to give her own children in the day, because they had been worn a couple of times. The lead worker -not a volunteer, but a well-paid staffer- said that it was an insult to offer these people who had lost everything anything that wasn't brand new.

If it had been me, I would have been happy to have a coat. The one I wore today is far from brand new.

My dad had a friend who wouldn't eat rice because he never saw rice in person until he was an adult. That guy was young in the sixties, and rice is no problem now that there's a Taco Bell in every town, but I bet a lot of the stuff I eat would result in some poor mother scratching her head, and then when she figured out how to make it, having to deal with a bunch of crying children who were miserable because all they had to eat was something "weird." Do they really want quinoa, brown rice, lentils (you wouldn't believe how many people don't know what lentils are even if they've eaten them in pilafs and other dishes at restaurants before,) or tempeh? Not to mention the produce. Fennel anyone? Brussels sprouts? I know a lot of people hate any kind of non-white bread with a vengeance, too.

Look at what people like to eat. They don't choose healthy foods. They don't like what I have in my pantry, at least the stuff that I actually eat. Hell yes I would donate the canned green beans in my pantry, if they weren't eight years old. If they're the kind of thing they'd serve at Luby's, they're probably what poor people want. (Yes, canned food goes bad. I learned by personal experience. Check the date before donating.)

If I was donating for people who weren't poor, I'd donate brown rice, lentils, and bouillon cubes. A well-seasoned dish of rice and lentils goes a long way towards making a small meal feel satisfying. I worry they'd get thrown out, though.

We were preparing foodstuffs to donate via our kids' school for the holidays one year. My wife endeavored to make it a 'teaching moment' for our 1st grade youngest. She asked said daughter what would be good to donate. Candy, suggested my daughter. Don't you think that regular food would be better, asks my wife.

"Why, Mama," says my youngest, "Are poor people not allowed to have candy?"

We have made it a practice to include a fresh box of After 8 mints along with anything else we manage to donate every year since.

Donate paper products, toilet paper, tampons paper towels etc. Laundry detergent is also need all the time!

As a farker who regularly donates to a couple local foodbanks, I just want you all to know I'm a better person than you.

//Is it wrong to have a fathead for helping out? Don't care. I will continue to help out in my small way and I will continue to pat myself on the back for it.

Feel guilty about donating those nasty canned yams now.


/if the can ain't bloated
\\itt's still good

MDGeist: Tell them for me to shut up and take what they can get or they will get nothing.

Ok. You to shut up! Wait...what did you just ask for in frontier gibberish?

Diogenes: Jack Black 62: Expiration dates on canned food is a scam. Canned foods can last 15-20 years or more.

My mother had a can of pineapple that exploded brown ooze all over her pantry that would like have a word with you.

If it's evolved the ability to speak, it's probably not safe to eat anymore.