Comments on: Replate your Leftovers http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/06/25/replate-your-leftovers/ a good girl's notebook of her culinary world Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:56:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Wasted Food » Blog Archive » Scrounging Around http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/06/25/replate-your-leftovers/comment-page-1/#comment-65080 Wasted Food » Blog Archive » Scrounging Around Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:23:33 +0000 http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/06/25/replate-your-leftovers/#comment-65080 [...] fellow students’ leftovers. The school of about 1,500 undergrads has a tradition where “scroungers” scrape together a meal from what paying students don’t [...] [...] fellow students’ leftovers. The school of about 1,500 undergrads has a tradition where “scroungers” scrape together a meal from what paying students don’t [...]

]]> By: Jonathan http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/06/25/replate-your-leftovers/comment-page-1/#comment-56358 Jonathan Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:23:51 +0000 http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/06/25/replate-your-leftovers/#comment-56358 Replate certainly is interesting. I don't think it's all that effective, but it forces people to consider how much food they waste and whether someone else could put it to better use. Reed College scrounging sounds like a better scheme for utilizing food that might otherwise go to waste. I'd love to hear more about this practice... You're dead on with your comment about the stigma surrounding eating others' leftovers. That's one norm that's hard to break. But as a result, we waste so much good food. Replate certainly is interesting. I don’t think it’s all that effective, but it forces people to consider how much food they waste and whether someone else could put it to better use.

Reed College scrounging sounds like a better scheme for utilizing food that might otherwise go to waste. I’d love to hear more about this practice…

You’re dead on with your comment about the stigma surrounding eating others’ leftovers. That’s one norm that’s hard to break. But as a result, we waste so much good food.

]]> By: Lynn D. http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/06/25/replate-your-leftovers/comment-page-1/#comment-38375 Lynn D. Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:15:58 +0000 http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/06/25/replate-your-leftovers/#comment-38375 Over twenty years ago, my husband and I went to a Portland Ethiopian restaurant with another couple. When we sat down the previous patrons plates had not yet been removed. They clearly had not been so enamored of Ethiopian food. When no one came promptly to clear the plates everyone but me started scooping up injera and stew into their mouths. I only refrained because I was pregnant with our son who graduated from Reed last year. The last two years without a meal plan, he did a lot of scrounging. <blockquote>Ah funny coincidence that! --McAuliflower</blockquote> Over twenty years ago, my husband and I went to a Portland Ethiopian restaurant with another couple. When we sat down the previous patrons plates had not yet been removed. They clearly had not been so enamored of Ethiopian food. When no one came promptly to clear the plates everyone but me started scooping up injera and stew into their mouths. I only refrained because I was pregnant with our son who graduated from Reed last year. The last two years without a meal plan, he did a lot of scrounging.

Ah funny coincidence that!

–McAuliflower

]]> By: kas http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/06/25/replate-your-leftovers/comment-page-1/#comment-38330 kas Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:56:38 +0000 http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/06/25/replate-your-leftovers/#comment-38330 It's a great idea, scrounging, I think the reason why it isn't more widely accepted by the general populice though is because of the germ scare. Everyone is so afraid of... well, cooties... just my observation. It's especially noticable amoung the younger parents. Thanks for blogging about it! It’s a great idea, scrounging, I think the reason why it isn’t more widely accepted by the general populice though is because of the germ scare. Everyone is so afraid of… well, cooties… just my observation. It’s especially noticable amoung the younger parents. Thanks for blogging about it!

]]> By: Da5id http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/06/25/replate-your-leftovers/comment-page-1/#comment-38329 Da5id Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:35:00 +0000 http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/06/25/replate-your-leftovers/#comment-38329 It happens a lot in the corporate world. Executives have a meeting catered with all kinds of goodies. When they abandon the meeting, the "scavengers" come and take some of the food before the catering staff get around to carting it off. <blockquote> Yeah, we do that at work too. Also with lunch leftovers. --McAuliflower</blockquote> It happens a lot in the corporate world. Executives have a meeting catered with all kinds of goodies. When they abandon the meeting, the “scavengers” come and take some of the food before the catering staff get around to carting it off.

Yeah, we do that at work too. Also with lunch leftovers.

–McAuliflower

]]> By: Hillary http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/06/25/replate-your-leftovers/comment-page-1/#comment-38239 Hillary Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:04:14 +0000 http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2007/06/25/replate-your-leftovers/#comment-38239 Thanks for passing this along! Way to be an activist. I might blog about this too. Thanks for passing this along! Way to be an activist. I might blog about this too.

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